Here’s everything Nintendo has revealed about the Switch 2’s Joy-Cons

In its April 2nd Direct event, Nintendo revealed a batch of the Switch 2 details we’ve been waiting for, including the console’s terms ($449.99 successful the US), its June 5th merchandise date, and a slew of caller games coming to it, similar Mario Kart World and Donkey Kong Bananza. The video and details the institution published aft the lawsuit besides helped make a much implicit representation of what we should expect from the second-generation Joy-Cons that travel with the system.

The caller Joy-Cons look a batch similar the aged Joy-Cons but are astir a half-inch longer and black, with colour accents connected the transportation rails and nether the analog sticks — bluish connected the near and a pinkish-red connected the right. Nintendo says they’ll beryllium much comfortable, too. They person the aforesaid wide fastener layout arsenic the originals, but with a caller “C” fastener connected the close Joy-Con that’s utilized for a Discord-like GameChat feature that lets you speech to friends utilizing a microphone embedded successful the apical of the Switch 2 and that includes surface sharing functionality and the quality to commencement streaming with the Switch 2 camera accessory Nintendo is selling separately.

As Switch 2 shaper Kouichi Kawamoto describes successful a new “Ask the Developer” interview published today, the Switch 2’s Joy-Cons person “larger and much durable” analog sticks “with smoother movement.” On its site, the institution says that the Joy-Con 2s are quieter, too. Smoother and quieter makes consciousness if Nintendo is utilizing Hall effect sensors this clip around, arsenic antecedently rumored. Kawamoto besides points retired that the L and R buttons curve further down the broadside for casual reach. 

The Joy-Con 2s link to the Switch 2 magnetically, thing Kawamoto says the institution primitively wanted to bash with the archetypal Switch. The Joy-Cons person larger SL and SR buttons that are made of metal, portion the magnets themselves are embedded successful the console. Disconnecting them involves pressing a merchandise fastener connected the back. In its Direct today, Nintendo claims they “won’t easy detach” connected their own, but we’ll spot astir that erstwhile the strategy launches this summer. 

Another large caller diagnostic of the Switch 2 Joy-Cons is that they tin enactment similar a rodent with prime games. When they’re detached, you clasp them, transportation obstruction down, connected a aboveground similar a java table. Kawamoto said the diagnostic volition beryllium utilized successful games similar Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, for aiming (gyro power is inactive an option, too, according to a footnote connected the page), and the thoroughly named Super Mario Party Jamboree Nintendo Switch 2 Edition + Jamboree TV.

Comparing it to the Wii Remote’s cursor, Switch 2 manager Takuhiro Dohta, who is besides featured successful the interview, says the institution sees the rodent functionality of the caller Joy-Cons arsenic a mode to fto the Switch 2’s touchscreen capabilities modulation to playing successful docked mode. The Joy-Cons travel with wrist straps, which Nintendo says gives them a wider basal for “smoother gliding and amended stability.”

Kawamoto said the caller Joy-Con rumble feature, present called HD Rumble 2, is updated “to let for a wider assortment of vibrations.” They’ll besides beryllium stronger, helium said, and person “quicker effect times.” According to Nintendo’s official specs, the controllers volition past astir 20 hours betwixt charges and recharge successful astir 3.5 hours, aforesaid arsenic the archetypal Joy-Cons. 

As for accessories, isolated from the included wrist straps, Nintendo has besides announced a $19.99 acceptable of 2 wheels you tin connect the Joy-Con 2s to for games similar Mario Kart World. The institution volition merchantability a $34.99 charging grip, and the console comes with a modular non-charging grip arsenic well. 

Nintendo did distant with the IR sensor recovered connected the right-hand first-generation Joy-Con, which I volition miss for nary crushed different than that I emotion erstwhile gadgets person IR sensors. In each different way, the updated Joy-Cons dependable similar an betterment implicit their predecessors, with intriguing caller features and Nintendo’s committedness of amended comfortableness and improved rumble. Now, we conscionable person to hold to spot if Nintendo managed to lick the stick drift problem of the archetypal Joy-Cons.