Among the many adjustments to the Switch 2 Pleasure-Con charging grip and Professional Controller is the addition of GL and GR buttons, that are on the underside of the handles. Nintendo has just lately shared that gamers can customise these buttons to map to particular actions on a per-game foundation.
In an outline posted on the Nintendo At the moment app, the corporate defined that the brand new buttons are absolutely mappable by the participant. Which means they’ll tackle the function of every other button on the controller. Furthermore, these mappings could be set for every recreation, that means that you will have the power to arrange game-specific controller settings.
Button mappings could be set from the short settings menu, opened by holding down the Residence button from inside a recreation. Any mappings will probably be saved robotically and persist throughout gameplay periods.
The GL/GR buttons are solely accessible on the brand new Pleasure-Con 2 charging grip and the Professional Controller, each of that are offered individually from the Switch 2 console. The charging grip will run you $40, whereas the Professional Controller prices $84.
The Switch 2, in the meantime, launches on June 5, however preorders are nonetheless broadly unavailable in the USA. If you happen to managed to snag a preorder, check out all the Switch 2 video games which are confirmed and rumored to this point. The console prices $450–a substantial improve over the unique Switch–which Nintendo has acknowledged could suppress early adoption. As well as, whereas the Switch 2 seems on face to be fairly just like its predecessor, Nintendo claims that it has constructed the {hardware} from the bottom up.