PowerA's Switch 2 Controller Gets a Wireless Version With Motion Control

The Nintendo Switch 2 is inactive a spot of a godforsaken erstwhile it comes to third-party wireless controllers, but that godforsaken is conscionable a small little sparse present with PowerA's announcement of a wireless mentation of its officially-licensed Advantage controller for the console. And it looks similar it's the aforesaid controller successful astir each way, for amended oregon worse, arsenic its wired sibling that IGN reviewed successful June.

First, the differences. Obviously, it's wireless – PowerA says this controller volition get up to 30 hours of playtime connected a charge. The institution besides added question controls, this clip around. Around the back, it's missing the Audio button, but inactive has 1 labeled "PRGM" for remapping the 2 AGR buttons it sits between. At $69.99, the caller wireless Advantage controller costs rather a spot much than its $39.99 wired predecessor, but it's besides a just spot cheaper than Nintendo's $89.99 first-party Switch 2 Pro Controller.

Returning features see Hall Effect joysticks and those mappable backmost buttons. The controller besides inactive comes with a generous 10 feet of USB-C cable, should you privation to play wired. And similar the wired version, this officially-licensed controller comes successful 3 options: black, a pinkish "Mario and Friends" one, and a "Pokémon: Mega Evolution" one.

Also returning are a mates of trade-offs, 1 being that this controller has nary haptic feedback, HD Rumble oregon otherwise. The different is immoderate beauteous unhinged fastener placement. The modular ABXY buttons, d-pad, and joysticks are wherever you'd expect them to be, but for immoderate unholy reason, PowerA decided that the positive and minus, home, surface capture, and GameChat buttons should each beryllium arsenic a enactment of identical rectangles astatine the bottommost of the controller's face. The archetypal happening I thought connected seeing it was that there's nary mode I would person a 100 percent occurrence complaint astatine tapping the location fastener erstwhile I privation to, and the IGN reappraisal of the PowerA Advantage Switch 2 controller definite seems to backmost that up. Oh well?

The PowerA Advantage Wireless Switch 2 controller is compatible with the Switch 2 and archetypal Switch consoles. It's disposable successful preorder present from PowerA's website oregon Amazon, and shipping aboriginal this month, according to PowerA's announcement, though erstwhile I went done the checkout process connected the PowerA site, it gave maine vessel dates arsenic aboriginal arsenic adjacent week.

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.