Nintendo Reveals New Pastel Color Joy-Con Bundles
gameranx.comNintendo has unveiled a new set of Joy-Con bundles in time for the summer season.
Kick off your summer in style with this new line of pastel Joy-Con controllers, available 6/30. Which color is your fave? #Nintendo pic.twitter.com/PFGHvstoN7
The theme for 2023 summer Joy-Cons is pastel colors. Starting this June 30, 2023, you can buy a bundle with either of these combinations, at $ 79.99 per bundle:
Left Pastel Purple, Right Pastel Green – store link
Left Pastel Pink, Right Pastel Yellow – store link
And if you were curious, yes. The limited edition Animal Crossing themed Nintendo Switch had a Left Pastel Green Joy-Con alongside a Right Pastel Blue Joy-Con. If you happen to have that special edition, you can pair two matching Pastel Green Joy-Cons.
That makes Pastel Green and Bright Red the only Joy-Cons with matching colors. It does make one wonder why Nintendo won’t sell these Joy-Cons with matching left-right colors for all the colors.
On one end, we can understand the line of thinking. Each Joy-Con is usable as a different controller, especially for multiplayer. It is practical to provide different colors so that players can identify which controller they have when they are playing multiplayer games.
But aesthetically, some players are definitely not satisfied with the asymmetrical color scheme Nintendo has tried to normalize. Furthermore, there are definitely a lot of Nintendo Switch owners who play by themselves, and only play multiplayer online if they do.
The Famicom had controllers labeled Player 1 and Player 2, so why wouldn’t this kind of theming work on left and right sided Joy-Cons? Players probably can’t avoid picking up Joy-Cons with the same colors anyway if they have been collecting them.
Maybe some fans
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