{"id":909,"date":"2025-04-21T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/?p=909"},"modified":"2025-04-22T16:08:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T16:08:04","slug":"the-switch-2s-new-magnetic-joy-con-originally-didnt-have-a-release-button","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/21\/the-switch-2s-new-magnetic-joy-con-originally-didnt-have-a-release-button\/","title":{"rendered":"The Switch 2&#039;s New Magnetic Joy-Con Originally Didn&#039;t Have A Release Button"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ready? Pull!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Before the Switch 2 was officially announced earlier this year, magnetic Joy-Con controllers were rumoured for quite a while. In fact, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/01\/switch-2s-magnetic-joy-con-connection-was-originally-an-idea-for-switch\">developers at Nintendo wanted to utilise magnets on the original Switch<\/a>, but the technology at the time meant that they wouldn&#8217;t be strong enough to gain the late Satoru Iwata&#8217;s approval.<\/p>\n<p>Thankfully, the technology is now right where we need it to be, and after going hands on with the Switch 2 recently, we can confidently confirm that attaching and removing the Joy-Con feels much more satisfying than the original console.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/04\/the-switch-2s-new-magnetic-joy-con-originally-didnt-have-a-release-button\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ready? Pull! Before the Switch 2 was officially announced earlier this year, magnetic Joy-Con controllers were rumoured for quite a while. In fact, developers at Nintendo wanted to utilise magnets on the original Switch, but the technology at the time meant that they wouldn&#8217;t be strong enough to gain the late Satoru Iwata&#8217;s approval. Thankfully, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":911,"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\/909"}],"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=909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":910,"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions\/910"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.tracywhitbread.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}