Nintendo recently revealed the Nintendo Switch 2. We’re still waiting on details such as specifications, pricing, and availability, but we do know how it looks. One more detail has now been made public: a new mechanism for detaching the Joy-Con controllers.
Nintendo remains tight-lipped on many aspects of the Switch 2, but a short video snippet actually shows how the new Joy-Con design is detached from the Switch 2. As you probably know, the Joy-Cons now don’t use metal rails to slide on and off the controllers. Rather, they’re seemingly magnetic—you just snap them on.
Unlike the original Switch’s sliding mechanism, the Switch 2 appears to employ a trigger-like button on the back of each Joy-Con. This button, when pressed, seems to activate an internal mechanism that physically pushes the Joy-Con away from the console. The video snippet shows a small cylinder receding into the Joy-Con as it’s detached, which is probably what latches off the controller.
Looking at the design of the console itself, the triggers themselves are pretty small and have a decent distance/are located at a different angle from the regular controller triggers, to avoid users from accidentally pressing that down rather than the ZL/ZR triggers. Unfortunately, we don’t have any additional specifics about how the Joy-Cons actually attach to the Switch 2, or basically anything else about the console other than it has a new design and has backwards compatibility with Switch games.
It’s otherwise pretty similar to its predecessor, and Nintendo clearly played safe here, so this mechanism is actually one of the biggest (and only) noticeable improvements so far. A Nintendo Direct keynote on April 2 should clear a lot of this up and should hopefully also give us pricing and availability info.
Source: The Verge
