{"id":876,"date":"2025-04-22T10:15:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T10:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/?p=876"},"modified":"2025-04-22T16:08:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T16:08:03","slug":"tired-of-pro-controller-charge-times-the-switch-2-model-is-a-huge-step-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/22\/tired-of-pro-controller-charge-times-the-switch-2-model-is-a-huge-step-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Tired Of Pro Controller Charge Times? The Switch 2 Model Is A Huge Step Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Guilty as charged.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For all the Switch 1 Pro Controller&#8217;s good points (and there are a lot of them), it can take its sweet time getting to a full charge. Fortunately, the Switch 2 Pro Controller seems to be speeding things along in this department.<\/p>\n<p>Nintendo has revealed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendo.com\/au\/hardware\/nintendo-switch-2\/tech-specs\/\">technical specifications<\/a> for the upcoming console&#8217;s official controller, claiming that it will take approximately 3.5 hours for a full charge \u2014 when charged with the right cables, of course. For comparison&#8217;s sake, the original Pro Controller took almost twice as long for a full charge, with Nintendo estimating a whopping six hours to take it to 100%.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/04\/tired-of-pro-controller-charge-times-the-switch-2-model-is-a-huge-step-up\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guilty as charged. For all the Switch 1 Pro Controller&#8217;s good points (and there are a lot of them), it can take its sweet time getting to a full charge. Fortunately, the Switch 2 Pro Controller seems to be speeding things along in this department. Nintendo has revealed the technical specifications for the upcoming console&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":878,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":877,"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions\/877"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}