Here’s a cute controller to go with your cute Switch Lite

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8bitdo Lite Photo: 8bitdo

If you just picked up a Nintendo Switch Lite and are looking for a suitably adorable controller to match, 8BitDo has just the thing. Today, the company announced the appropriately named 8BitDo Lite, a rectangular gamepad that emulates the look of the Switch Lite so precisely that you might confuse it for a first-party Nintendo product. It’s available in yellow and teal — sorry, gray Switch Lite owners — and features largely the same buttons and functionality as the built-in controls, except with a pair of D-pads in place of the joysticks.

Now, you might be asking why you’d need an extra for a device designed specifically for portable gaming. The most likely answer is for multiplayer play; if you want to get in some impromptu games of M...

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source https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2019/9/27/20886831/8bitdo-lite-nintendo-switch-controller-multiplayer

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