The Switch 2’s Joy-Con charging grip has two extra buttons

The Nintendo Switch 2 Pro Controller isn’t the lone caller Nintendo gamepad getting 2 backmost buttons: the Joy-Con 2 Charging Grip has the further buttons arsenic well, according to Nintendo’s online listing for the controller.

Like the Pro Controller, the caller backmost buttons are GL and GR that tin beryllium remapped to different buttons, the listing says. However, the Switch 2’s Charging Grip, astatine $34.99, is cheaper than the Pro Controller, which costs $79.99, truthful the grip is simply a much affordable mode to effort retired those caller buttons.

However, arsenic with the archetypal Switch’s charging grip, this caller grip lone charges your Joy-Con portion it’s plugged in. “Attach the Joy-Con 2 controllers to the Joy-Con 2 charging grip to usage arsenic a classic-style controller – oregon a useful charging presumption with the included USB-C charging cable,” the listing says.

I privation the caller charging grip had an included battery. But the quality to complaint the Joy-Con portion playing and usage the caller backmost buttons does marque it a measurement up from the basal Joy-Con 2 grip included with the Switch 2. (Though the backmost buttons bash look rather small.)

The Joy-Con 2 Charging Grip is scheduled to motorboat connected June 5th alongside the Nintendo Switch 2. Nintendo has delayed preorders for the console successful the US and Canada and hasn’t yet said erstwhile they’ll spell unrecorded successful those countries.