So many of our burning questions leading up to last week’s Switch 2 Nintendo Direct have been answered at this point, but what about those Hall effects sticks? We have now seen the new Mario Kart World and Donkey Kong Bananza, we have details on the console’s battery life, and we know how the Switch 2 Edition game upgrades will work (for the most part). But we still don’t know when pre-orders will go live in the U.S. after Nintendo cancelled the April 9 kick-off date, and there were still questions up in the air as to whether or not Nintendo was leveraging Hall effect technology on the new Switch 2 controllers…until now.
The SWitch 2 Joy-Con do not have Hall effect sticks
In a recent interview, Nintendo of America has now confirmed that there is no Hall effect action in the new Switch Joy-Con.
The folks at NintendoLife recently had a chance to interview Nintendo of America’s Nate Bihldorff, who has now confirmed that, while Nintendo has been hard at work to course correct the issues its controllers faced last generation with stick drift, it is not implementing Hall effect sticks on the Switch 2 Joy-Con controllers.
Bihldorff said “the Joy-Con 2’s controllers have been designed from the ground up, continuing by saying they are “not Hall Effect sticks, but they feel really good.”
Does the new Nintendo Switch 2 Pro Controller have Hall effect sticks and triggers?
It doesn’t sound like it no. While there has been no specific confirmation from Nintendo that the new Switch 2 Pro Controller doesn’t have Hall effect sticks, one would imagine if Bihldorff was that quick to specifically state the Joy-Con don’t, he would have been equally as quick to specifically say the Pro controller does, if it did.
But in the recent interview he seemed to say everything but:
So, I like both, but that Pro Controller, for some reason the first time I grabbed it, I was like, “this feels like a GameCube controller.” I was a GameCube guy. Something about it felt so familiar, but the stick on that especially. I tried to spend a lot of time making sure that it was quiet. I don’t know if you tried really whacking the stick around but it really is [quiet].
Nintendo ran into more than its fair share of criticism over stick drift with the current Joy-Con, legal trouble included, and while it is certainly far too soon to say for sure it will have the same issues on Switch 2, let’s just hope it has done something to mitigate the problem this time around.
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