{"id":764168,"date":"2026-09-08T17:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T17:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/764168\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T17:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T17:44:10","slug":"the-zelda-40th-anniversary-switch-2-console-and-pro-controller-are-now-official-after-leaking-last-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/764168\/","title":{"rendered":"The Zelda 40th Anniversary Switch 2 console and Pro Controller are now official, after leaking last month"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nintendo has officially announced its limited edition Switch 2 console and Switch 2 Pro Controller based on The Legend of Zelda.<\/p>\n

As was leaked last month<\/a>, both the console and the controller are being released to mark the 40th anniversary of The Legend of Zelda<\/a>, rather than the upcoming remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Switch 2<\/a> console appears to have a Triforce design on the dock, as well as Joy-Con controllers with Triforce designs on them.<\/p>\n

The Pro Controller, meanwhile, has a similar Triforce design as well as green and black handles, similar to the black and white handles featured on the Tears of the Kingdom Pro Controller for Switch<\/a> 1, and the coloured handles featured on limited edition Splatoon<\/a> Pro Controllers.<\/p>\n

Both will be available on October 29, with a special version of the Pro Controller containing a display stand, which will be available exclusively in Nintendo<\/a> stores.<\/p>\n

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This is far from the first Nintendo system to be released with a Zelda theme \u2013 it\u2019s done this with almost all of its handhelds for more than two decades. Back in 2004, the company released a gold Game Boy Advance SP with a Triforce on the lid, bundled with a copy of The Legend of Zelda: The Minish Cap.<\/p>\n

After this, it released a gold DS Lite in 2006 for Phantom Hourglass, a black Zelda-themed 3DS in 2011 for the 25th anniversary, a gold and black Triforce 3DS XL for A Link Between Worlds, and a gold New 3DS XL for Majora\u2019s Mask 3D.<\/p>\n

In terms of consoles, it released a limited edition Wii U<\/a> console with a Zelda-themed GamePad, bundled with The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker HD. It also released a special Switch OLED<\/a> with a white Zelda-themed dock for Tears of the Kingdom, and a gold Switch Lite in 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nintendo has officially announced its limited edition Switch 2 console and Switch 2 Pro Controller based on The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":764169,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-764168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gb","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=764168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/764169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}