Turtle Beach Announces Suite of Switch 2 Controllers, Cases, and Headphones

Turtle Beach has announced a full slew of officially licensed Nintendo Switch 2 accessories are connected their mode starting successful November. That includes two, three, oregon six caller controllers, depending connected however you privation to number them, arsenic good arsenic immoderate caller cases for transporting your caller Switch 2.

Let's speech controllers first. They travel successful 3 ocular styles – called Afterglow, Afterglow Wave, and Rematch – each with wired and wireless versions. Generally, though, you tin deliberation of these arsenic beauteous overmuch the aforesaid controller, with immoderate flimsy diagnostic differences betwixt the wired and wireless versions.

If you're not a instrumentality of Turtle Beach's accustomed chunky, 1990s-third-party look, the bully quality is that these outpouring distant from a PDP-branded lineup of archetypal Switch controllers, debuted earlier Turtle Beach's acquisition of PDP past year. In different words, they're shaped a batch much similar Nintendo's comparatively unassuming Switch 2 Pro controller than immoderate the Mad Catz is going connected here, and adjacent than a batch of different third-party Switch 2 controllers.

That doesn't mean Turtle Beach's caller Switch 2 controllers deficiency flair! The translucent Afterglow has customizable RGBs lighting it from within, portion the Afterglow Wave has its ain customized RGB lighting that shines done wavy lines that carve done its opaque black, blue, purple, oregon achromatic integrative shell. If you hap to deliberation RGBs are conscionable a pointless extravagance, the Turtle Beach Rematch Wireless Controller for the Switch 2 comes lone successful black, with agleam reddish rings astir its joysticks.

Each of these controllers features Tunneling Magnetoresistance (TMR) sticks – the different large drift-resistant attack too hallway effects – up to 30 feet of wireless scope and arsenic overmuch arsenic 20 hours of play clip connected a charge. They each person mappable backmost buttons, question controls, and a GameChat button. The wired versions, which volition outgo $29.99 each, volition lose question power but gain a 3.5mm audio jack that you could usage for GameChat purposes. It's not wide whether immoderate of these tin really aftermath a sleeping Nintendo Switch 2, but for the terms – $64.99 for wireless and $29.99 for wired – they dependable similar they'll beryllium nice, cheaper subordinate 2 options erstwhile the Rematch launches archetypal connected November 24th. (The remainder volition trickle retired betwixt precocious November and January adjacent year.)

Turtle Beach besides introduced immoderate caller Switch 2 cases, similar a $19.99 PlayTrek Slim Case successful achromatic that hugs the Switch 2 and looks a batch similar the Tomtoc 1 that IGN tested and loved earlier this year. It besides released a slightly-less-compact $24.99 PlayTrek Travel Case, which you tin bargain present successful achromatic oregon white. And connected November 12th, the institution volition rotation retired a 2-in-1 case, comprised of a travel-style Switch 2 case, and a larger bucket-style 1 that the institution says tin clasp your dock, powerfulness adapter, 2 other Joy-Cons, and a modular wireless gamepad. (Although I'm funny if I tin cram successful that Virtual Boy accessory I'm going to bargain arsenic soon arsenic I perchance can.)

Turtle Beach's caller Switch 2 Airlite Fit Wired Gaming Headsets.

Finally, Turtle Beach released a caller Airlite Fit Wired Gaming Headset for the Switch 2. These closed-back, over-ear headphones person 40mm drivers, a 3.8ft, 3.5mm audio cable, and an integrated headset mic that you tin flip up to mute. The institution says they're noise-isolating, but don't confuse that with progressive noise-cancellation – these conscionable tamp down sound with their receptor cushions. Still, they could beryllium nice, and they're not terribly pricey astatine $27.99. If you don't already person a bully gaming headset, they mightiness beryllium worthy a shot.

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.