{"id":124299,"date":"2025-05-23T04:19:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-23T04:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/124299\/"},"modified":"2025-05-23T04:19:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T04:19:10","slug":"powera-reveals-its-new-switch-2-pro-controller-featuring-hall-effect-sticks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/124299\/","title":{"rendered":"PowerA Reveals Its New Switch 2 Pro Controller Featuring Hall Effect Sticks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"PowerA - Controller\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/18900edb78da4\/powera-controller.large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/powera-controller.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"562\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"PowerA - Controller\"\/><\/a>Image: PowerA<\/p>\n<p>The Switch generation has been a huge success for Nintendo, but one issue that&#8217;s been an ongoing problem for the hybrid system is stick drift. There were hopes the Switch 2&#8217;s controllers might combat this with Hall Effect sticks, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/04\/its-official-switch-2-joy-con-will-not-feature-hall-effect-sticks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">it seems not based on our chat with Nintendo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, it looks like third-party accessory manufacturers will be stepping up, starting with PowerA and its &#8216;Advantage Wired Controller&#8217;. This controller will be available for <strong>$39.99 USD<\/strong> in three different styles.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Hall Effect Modules &#8211; Contact-free magnetic sensors in the thumbsticks provide a more fluid pro-level feel and help with precision and longevity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Power A - Controller\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/c36e0499c6628\/power-a-controller.large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/power-a-controller.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"562\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Power A - Controller\"\/><\/a>Image: PowerA<\/p>\n<p>This officially licensed controller features not only hall effect modules, but also two mappable buttons on the back of the controller, a C button for quick access to GameChat features, on-board audio controls, a 3.5 mm stereo audio jack, and more.<\/p>\n<p>Images: PowerA<br \/>\nImages: PowerA<\/p>\n<p>One other thing to note is the fact this controller can only be used when attached to the Switch 2 dock and does not support HD rumble, IR camera, motion controls, or amiibo NFC.<\/p>\n<p>You can take a closer look at this controller and the three different styles on PowerA&#8217;s official website.<\/p>\n<p>Would you be interested in a controller like this for Switch 2? Let us know in the comments.<\/p>\n<dl>\n<dt>See Also<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"first\">\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<p class=\"avatar\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/1744183269_17_avatar.jpg\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Liam Doolan\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Liam is a news writer and reviewer across Hookshot Media. He&#8217;s been writing about games for more than 15 years and is a lifelong fan of many iconic video game characters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image: PowerA The Switch generation has been a huge success for Nintendo, but one issue that&#8217;s been an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[23234,290,55252,1421,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-124299","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-accessories","9":"tag-controllers","10":"tag-powera","11":"tag-switch-2","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114555228563011381","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}