{"id":59082,"date":"2025-04-29T02:54:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T02:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/59082\/"},"modified":"2025-04-29T02:54:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T02:54:10","slug":"psa-beware-of-fake-switch-joy-con-charging-grips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/59082\/","title":{"rendered":"PSA: Beware Of Fake Switch Joy-Con Charging Grips"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"PSA: Beware Of Fake Switch Joy-Con Charging Grips 1\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/376eb0db3f5d6\/psa-beware-of-fake-switch-joy-con-charging-grips-1.large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/psa-beware-of-fake-switch-joy-con-charging-grips-1.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"540\" alt=\"PSA: Beware Of Fake Switch Joy-Con Charging Grips 1\"\/><\/a>Image: Damien McFerran \/ Nintendo Life<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/guides\/where-to-pre-order-nintendo-switch-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nintendo Switch 2<\/a> may be on the horizon, but millions of original Switch consoles remain in active use\u2014and that means there&#8217;s still demand for accessories such as the Joy-Con Charging Grip.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly, picking up one of these accessories comes with some serious risks; examples of counterfeit grips have been reported online. Along with the obvious potential dangers that fake and unregulated electronics bring with them, it would seem that these products often arrive in a completely non-functional state.<\/p>\n<p>This issue has been brought to our attention through modder and electronics expert <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/jeffqchen\">Jeff Chen<\/a>, who has, so far, come across two fake Charging Grips. The first one refused to work despite having Nintendo&#8217;s logo on it.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" align=\"center\"><p>Holy shit, fake Switch charging grip\ud83e\udee0 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vu0peIQtxO\">pic.twitter.com\/vu0peIQtxO<\/a>\u2014 Jeff Chen (@jeffqchen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jeffqchen\/status\/1912975287907713098?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 17, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The second, purchased via Amazon, appeared to be functional and would charge the attached Joy-Con, but a teardown reveals that the PCB is missing most of its components. Chen also reports that, when plugged into a PC, it wasn&#8217;t recognised as a USB controller\u2014another telltale sign of a fake.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" align=\"center\"><p>Holy crap. This one from Amazon is also a counterfeit. It charges but the PCB is missing most of its components and won\u2019t appear as a USB device\ud83e\udd26\ud83c\udffb\u200d\u2642\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WkbIKyNu83\">pic.twitter.com\/WkbIKyNu83<\/a>\u2014 Jeff Chen (@jeffqchen) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jeffqchen\/status\/1916305435692339438?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">April 27, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You&#8217;d assume that such shoddy imitations would be sold at a low price, but Chen says that the second Charging Grip didn&#8217;t come cheap, which is why he believed it to be a legitimate item.<\/p>\n<p>As always, we&#8217;d advise exercising caution when picking up one of these accessories on sites like eBay or Amazon; the product you are buying might not be precisely what it seems.<\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image: Damien McFerran \/ Nintendo Life The Nintendo Switch 2 may be on the horizon, but millions of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59083,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[23234,12,123,30813,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-59082","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-accessories","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-nintendo-switch","11":"tag-psa","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114418998794275785","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59082","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=59082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}