Nintendo of America Senior Vice President of Product Development and Publishing Nate Bihldorff confirmed that the Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con 2 controllers will not have Hall Effect Sticks. Although the controllers don’t have Hall Effect sticks, Bihldorff notes that the sticks for Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con 2 controllers feel good, implying that improvements were made over the original Switch’s stick-drift latent Joy-Con sticks.
Bihldorff told Nintendo Life the following, “Well, the Joy-Con 2’s controllers have been designed from the ground up. They’re not Hall Effect sticks, but they feel really good.”
Bihldorff continued, “I like both [Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con 2 and Pro Controller], 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]. I’m thinking back to my Smash Brothers days, where you just whack it. [The Switch 2 Pro Controller] is one of the quietest controllers I’ve ever played.”
The Nintendo Switch 2 will launch on June 5, 2025, and a Nintendo Switch 2 Mario Kart World bundle will be also available at launch. Lastly, pricing and pre-order information for the Nintendo Switch 2 is not finalized due to the ongoing situation surrounding tariffs.
