Belkin's New Switch 2 Charging Grip Keeps Your Battery Charged

Belkin has released a caller mode to support your Switch 2 charged: the Charging Grip for Nintendo Switch 2. The grip, which is simply a small similar a Dbrand Killswitch lawsuit but with a 10,000mAh artillery battalion that snaps onto the backmost and plugs into the Switch 2's apical USB-C port, costs $100 and is disposable present connected Dbrand's website.

Belkin's caller Charging Grip comes successful 4 pieces. There are 2 molded, textured grips that hug the Switch 2's Joy-Con 2 controllers, a integrative ammunition that snaps astir the apical and bottommost of the Switch 2's assemblage portion leaving abstraction for the console's assorted vents, ports, and kickstand. Then, there's the artillery itself, which magnetizes to the backmost of the lawsuit and has a tiny USB-C cablegram tucked into it, that you tin fold retired erstwhile you request to complaint your Switch 2. The artillery features a tiny show for charging percentage, a fastener to crook the show on, and a USB-C larboard for recharging it.

Belkin says the artillery volition complaint the Switch 2 "up to 1.5 times" earlier it's exhausted. The institution says the aforesaid of the Switch 2 Charging Case that I reviewed past twelvemonth and recovered to beryllium an fantabulous Switch 2 accessory successful my reappraisal past year, though it really gave my Switch 2 astir 2 afloat charges (a uncommon lawsuit of a institution seemingly underselling, alternatively than overselling, a product's capability).

In summation to the caller Charging Grip, Belkin has besides released a $50 Travel Bag for Nintendo Switch 2, a sling-style container that accomodates the Switch 2 – Charging Grip – successful a padded compartment with a hook-and-loop strap to support it successful place, arsenic good arsenic a crippled paper slot for up to 10 carnal Switch and Switch 2 games, assorted pockets for different accessories, and capable abstraction for you to transportation a Switch 2 Pro Controller. The strap is adjustable, and the container besides features a grip connected 1 end, if you'd alternatively heft it astir that way.

Both products travel successful 3 colorways, black, lavender, and olive, each of which are disposable present connected Belkin's website. For the cautious buyers retired there: I'm successful the mediate of investigating the Belkin Switch 2 Charging Grip, truthful look retired for my reappraisal connected IGN soon.

Wes is simply a freelance writer (Freelance Wes, they telephone him) who has covered technology, gaming, and amusement steadily since 2020 astatine Gizmodo, Tom's Hardware, Hardcore Gamer, and astir recently, The Verge. Inside of him determination are 2 wolves: 1 that thinks it wouldn't beryllium truthful atrocious to commencement collecting crippled consoles again, and the different who besides thinks this, but much strongly.