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# But I Like To Slide The Joy-Con
- URL: https://aftermath.site/but-i-like-to-slide-the-joy-con/
- Published: 2025-01-16T14:51:40.000Z
- Updated: 2025-10-27T17:09:40.000Z
- Author: Riley MacLeod
- Tags: Blog, Hardware, joy-con, nintendo, nintendo switch, nintendo switch 2, switch, switch 2, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-10-27 13:00

This morning, Nintendo[ finally](https://aftermath.site/nintendo-switch-2-leaks-rumors-reveal/) announced the Switch 2, or at least showed a console that looks a lot like everyone thought it would and set a Direct with more details for April. The hardware-minded among us are certainly rushing to analyze every frame of the trailer, but I am a simple man with a simple complaint: I still want to slide in the Joy-Con.

In the trailer above, you can see that instead of sliding the Joy-Con into place from the top of the console like the current Switch, they click in from the sides. [IGN](https://www.ign.com/articles/nintendo-switch-2-joy-con-reportedly-revealed-in-alleged-image-leak-and-internet-sleuths-are-trying-to-work-out-what-it-all-means?ref=aftermath.site) wrote of an alleged leak of the controllers back in January that “\[the\] new Joy-Con allegedly ditch the railed lock method used by the current Switch in favor of electromagnetic suction controllers,” though in the trailer there appears to be a connector.

We’ll know more about how and why this all works in April, but if you’ll allow me to engage in the internet-old tradition of complaining about things I don’t know much about, I don’t like it! I want to slide the Joy-Con. Is it the best connection system in the world? No. Some players have found that the rail [bends](https://www.reddit.com/r/NintendoSwitch/comments/rci8im/tips%5Fto%5Fprotect%5Fthe%5Fconsole%5Frails%5Ffrom%5Fbending/?ref=aftermath.site) or [wiggles](https://www.reddit.com/r/Switch/comments/q8zgrt/switch%5Foled%5Fjoycon%5Fwobble/?ref=aftermath.site), and it’s certainly not a seamless glide.

But still, sliding the Joy-Con in feels like the aesthetic heart of my experience of the Switch, a stance that’s backed up by the animation that opens every [Switch game](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKlRN2YpxRE&ref=aftermath.site) trailer of a Joy-Con sliding into place vertically. In those trailers, this is accompanied by the sharp “click” that’s triggered a Pavlovian response in me ever since the initial Switch reveal. In today’s trailer, that “click” is replaced by a rounder, somewhat echoey sound. Of course, neither of these are what the actual Joy-Con sound like, and the latter might just be an aesthetic choice for the trailer rather than a new “official” Switch sound.

This raises some obvious questions: Is Nintendo going to make a new animation? Are we going to get a new Switch sound? I will grudgingly say that change is good because that’s how therapists advise me to think about life, but aren’t we facing enough change these days? I like the little animation. I like the little click. I like to slide my Joy-Con into place like I’m dropping into a world-defining battle in the *Power Rangers* mech before I spend a whole evening giving people gifts in *Stardew Valley* when I should be doing something else.

Fine, fine–change *is* good, and hopefully the Switch 2 makes many much-needed improvements. While I like to slide the Joy-Con in to connect it, it can be a little annoying to detach; [The Verge](https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/16/24343722/switch-2-joy-cons-details-magnets-drift-nintendo?ref=aftermath.site) writes that it’s possible the new design will allow a button press to push the Joy-Con away from the console instead of clumsily sliding it back out, which sounds much nicer. There’s no mention in the trailer of fixes for Joy-Con drift, but I suppose I’m willing to sacrifice my beloved slide in exchange for a controller that reliably does what I want it to. There’s speculation that the Joy-Con can be [used like a computer mouse](https://www.eurogamer.net/nintendo-switch-2-trailer-appears-to-confirm-joy-con-mouse-functionality?ref=aftermath.site), which is… I don’t know, cool I guess? Time marches forward, and things change, and perhaps a new generation will look at old Switch trailers with their slide animation with the same bafflement of my little nieces and nephews when I make a “hanging up the phone” gesture in front of them.

RIP, Joy-Con slide. I’ll miss you.