The same company that once taunted Nintendo lawyers has created an alternative to the newly announced Joy-Con 2 controller colours.
We are shocked that peripheral maker dbrand is still going as a company, considering they’ve repeatedly gone out of their way to upset Sony and Nintendo, with their unofficial accessories and antagonistic comments.
From rude messages aimed at Nintendo’s lawyers to PlayStation faceplates that already got them sued once by Sony, they don’t seem to fear other companies at all, and so far they’ve not been given any real reason to.
This time they’re back to annoy Nintendo, who yesterday announced two new colours of Joy-Con for the Switch 2. That’s the first time they’ve been available in anything but the default colours but fans were upset that the colour changes are only minor and barely noticeable when the console is in handheld mode.
The colour scheme is exactly the same as the default Joy-Cons, so it’s hard to understand what anyone expected, but dbrand has gone ahead and announced an alternative that is a different colour for the whole Joy-Con.
Nintendo’s Joy-Con’s aren’t available as a colour pair, but instead a ‘light purple’ left controller and a ‘light green’ right one. There’ll be out on February 12 and cost £74.99, the same as the standard colours.
It all seems a very harmless new option, especially as it’s not any more expensive than the originals, and is no doubt the vanguard of a new range of colours and variants that we’ll begin to see over the coming months and years.
To dbrand though, the whole situation has been like a red rag to a bull and just a day later they’ve announced new controller skins that are the exact same colour but go across the whole Joy-Con.
‘Nintendo decided to release new Switch 2 Joy-Con colorways, but once again opted to only show hints of colour beneath the thumbsticks,’ reads dbrands’ description.
‘Naturally, we’ve painstakingly colour-matched those purple and green accents and applied them to the entire surface of the Joy-Con. As per usual, dbrand does what Nintendon’t.’
The other text on their site is even more weirdly aggressive, mocking potential customers over their weight and potential baldness. You’d think there’d be a better outlet for such anarchic passion but apparently making unofficial console peripherals is their everything.
For what it’s worth, they also have a number of other skins, some of which are actually quite nice, like the fake transparent one.
Differently coloured Joy-Cons are likely to be a prelude to limited edition consoles of various types, which Nintendo generally starts to introduce in the second year of a new console, so don’t be surprised if each new big name game from now on gets one.
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What big name games Nintendo has planned for 2026 is a bit of a mystery though, as even those we do know about, like FromSoftware’s The Duskbloods, don’t have a date and are likely prone to delays.
There’s speculation there might be a Nintendo Direct in February, as there was during most of the Switch 1’s lifetime, but so far they’ve not announced anything. Instead, the first showcase of the year will be Xbox’s Developer Direct at the end of January.
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