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Belkin's $100 Switch 2 Grip Adds Battery Life and Better Ergonomics

A 10,000mAh magnetic battery pack and redesigned Joy-Con handles promise three to four extra hours of Switch 2 playtime for $99.99.

Belkin has a new $99.99 Charging Grip for the Switch 2 that attaches a 10,000mAh battery to the back of Nintendo's handheld and replaces the standard Joy-Con handles with nonslip alternatives.

The magnetic battery pack sticks to the rear of the Switch 2 and is rated for three to four extra hours of playtime, depending on what you're running. The grip itself gives the Joy-Con controllers more substantial, nonslip handles designed to reduce fatigue on longer sessions. It ships now in black, lilac, and olive green. Worth flagging: the magnets are for attachment only, as the Switch 2 does not support magnetic charging natively, so the battery routes power through the console's standard port.

Nintendo has not announced its own extended-battery grip for the Switch 2, which leaves room for exactly this kind of third-party product. A $99.99 grip is a direct argument that the console's base battery life is a real enough problem that owners will pay to extend it.

At that price, Belkin is asking you to spend roughly what a replacement Joy-Con pair costs, on a battery pack that also happens to improve your grip. Whether that math works depends almost entirely on how far you stray from an outlet.

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