Nintendo has revealed the primary variant Pleasure-Con controllers for the Change 2 and so they’re not as colourful as some may need hoped. Nonetheless principally all graphite black, the brand new Pleasure-Con sport delicate traces of lily purple and mint inexperienced and arrive subsequent month for $100.
The brand new choices ship on February 12, the identical day as Mario Tennis Fever, although they don’t appear to have any apparent thematic overlap with the Change 2 sports activities sport or its colours. Like the prevailing orange and blue Pleasure-Con, the colours are restricted to the inset across the thumbsticks and the perimeters the place they join magnetically to the console. For anybody enjoying in handheld mode, most of what’s “new” about these variants received’t even be seen more often than not.
As you take pleasure in #MarioTennisFever, you’ll even have the chance to offer your #NintendoSwitch2 a brand new look!
The primary new coloured Pleasure-Con 2 controllers—Mild Purple and Mild Inexperienced—additionally arrive Feb 12.
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Is it a giant shock that Nintendo is, a minimum of for now, sticking with the extra subtle, much less whimsical sensibility of the prevailing Change 2 Pleasure-Con? Not completely. Nevertheless it’s undoubtedly a bit deflating for anybody who’s been ready for one thing cool to come back alongside earlier than upgrading to a second pair of controllers. You’d get as a lot distinction out of sticking different-colored nubs on the thumbsticks (which you must do anyway as a result of the bottom ones are not any good).
The primary 12 months of the Change 1 noticed a number of new, full-color variants ship alongside video games like Arms and Splatoon 2. They have been vibrant, thrilling, and enjoyable. One in every of my favourite issues from that console period is now having a drawer full of various coloured Pleasure-Con that appears like somebody dumped out a field of outsized crayons. Possibly we’ll get to these finally. For now, followers must accept “Pleasure-Con™ 2 (L)/(R) Mild Purple / Mild Inexperienced.”
