The new Joy-Cons look a lot like the old Joy-Cons but are about a half-inch longer and black, with color accents on the connection rails and under the analog sticks — blue on the left and a pinkish-red on the right.

One of the biggest unresolved issues to emerge from the recent Nintendo Switch 2 launch event has been cleared up, though the matter of Switch accessory compatibility isn’t totally straightforward. It felt slightly odd that Nintendo didn’t give even a cursory mention to the matter of original Switch accessory compatibility during yesterday’s lengthy Switch 2 Direct event.

The original Nintendo Switch's now iconic detachable Joy-Con controllers could have attached to the console magnetically like the Switch 2 Joy-Con 2s, but the idea was shelved during development after late Nintendo President Satoru Iwata was presented with a prototype.