Video: Do You Even Want A Professional Controller For The Change 2?

When Nintendo correctly revealed the Change 2 again in April, it additionally confirmed {that a} new Professional Controller can be accompanying the console as an non-obligatory peripheral.

Now, most of us right here have gone hands-on with the brand new controller in some unspecified time in the future or one other, however the beautiful Alex has spent fairly a little bit of time with the ruddy factor enjoying the likes of Mario Kart World and Nintendo Change 2 Welcome Tour. In his newest video, he has ol’ natter with Felix about whether or not or not the brand new Professional Controller is definitely a necessity.

Spoiler alert: it is supposedly not as huge of an improve as you would possibly suppose – at the least once you examine the distinction in high quality between the Pleasure-Con 1 and the Professional Controller 1. The Pleasure-Con for the Change 2 have been drastically improved over the primary console, and so leaping over to the Professional Controller would not, in response to Alex, really feel fairly as substantial.

As for my opinion, whereas I definitely do not imagine that any non-obligatory accent needs to be thought of a necessity, as such, I do nonetheless imagine the brand new Professional Controller to be a reasonably sizable improve over the usual Pleasure-Con. Heck, it is a sizable improve over the primary Professional Controller, regardless of the plain aesthetic similarities.

You have bought the brand new ‘GL’ and ‘GR’ buttons, for starters. Whereas many may not make use of those in any respect, the flexibility to map inputs to them on a per recreation foundation is just outstanding and should show fairly helpful within the coming years. Additionally, it is price holding in thoughts that when you do plan on merely carrying over your current Professional Controller, you will not have the ability to use it to get up the Change 2. A minor element, however one price mentioning.

Plus, y’know, these new analogue sticks really feel ridiculously good.

So yeah, we’re not all in settlement with this. Evidently, nevertheless, we’ll be offering out full verdict on the brand new Professional Controller sooner or later, so keep tuned.