The Nintendo Switch 2's Optional GR and GL Buttons Look Fairly Easy to Remap

The Nintendo Switch 2 is getting immoderate other buttons with circumstantial set-ups, similar the Joy-Con 2 Charging Grip and Pro Controller 2. The GL and GR buttons, arsenic they're called, adhd other buttons connected the underside of the Switch's handles, and Nintendo has shared immoderate examples of conscionable however casual it volition beryllium to bash so.

As shared connected the Nintendo Today app, the caller buttons are remappable and tin beryllium acceptable to immoderate fastener connected the controller. This means thing from a look oregon enarthrosis fastener to, rather possibly, the screenshot button. No much moving that near thumb implicit for speedy screenshots.

According to Nintendo's update, the strategy volition "remember each user's fastener assignments for each crippled they play." This could marque it casual to acceptable up game-specific, possibly adjacent user-specific, mappings for GR and GL.

To delegate these buttons out, conscionable property and clasp the HOME Button portion playing a crippled to entree speedy settings, and past cardinal successful your fastener connected the GR/GL settings. This mightiness not assistance astatine the clip of this writing, arsenic the Switch 2 is inactive a fewer weeks away. But if you're present from the future, you're invited for the tip! It each seems beauteous speedy and casual to set, and the per-game functionality is bully to see.

It's important to enactment that this peculiar Switch 2 functionality lone works with the Joy-Con 2 Charging Grip and Pro Controller 2, astatine slightest astatine this time. The basal Joy-Con 2's don't person GR and GL buttons connected the underside. Both of these accessories are sold separately from the basal Switch 2 console and its Mario Kart World bundle, and some got a terms bump owed to the existent commercialized situation.

It won't beryllium agelong present until the June 5 merchandise day for the Nintendo Switch 2, arsenic it debuts with Mario Kart World and respective Switch 2 versions of Switch 1 favorites, including The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom.

Digital Foundry precocious revealed the tech specs for NIntendo's upcoming hybrid handheld console, and its study expressed immoderate concerns implicit GameChat's effect connected performance. You tin work much astir that here.

Eric is simply a freelance writer for IGN.