Nintendo pays tribute to Princess Peach with a set of appropriately colored Joy-Cons. On Tuesday, the company aware on X (Twitter) that a set of pastel pink Joy-Con controllers will be released along with Princess Peach: Show time! March 22nd.
The pair will be sold for a limited time at the Nintendo Store and at “select retailers.” Although the company hasn't specified how much they will cost, $80 (the standard price for the Joy-Con pair) is probably a safe bet.
Nintendo already sells a pastel pink left Joy-Con, combined with a pastel yellow one as part of a batch released last summer. So if we're being technical, the all-original part of Peach's long-awaited tribute appears to be half of a controller. Engadget reached out to Nintendo to ask if the pastel pink shade on Peach's outfit is identical to the pink/yellow combo, as it appears in the promotional images below. We will update this article if we receive a response.
Of course, the themed Joy-Cons are simply the undercard of the main event of Princess Peach: Show time! The pseudo-platform, announced during September's Nintendo Direct, has the perpetual damsel in distress taking heroic center stage in a story about saving a theater (the Village type, not the Barbenheimer type) of the villain Grape and the Sour Bunch.
Peach can wield a ribbon-like weapon similar to a whip, lent to her by the theater's guardian, a floating star named Stella. (She may play a similar role to Cappy in Super Mario Odyssey and Prince Florian in Super Mario Wonder). Peach can also take advantage of his quick-change theatrical abilities to transform into a ninja, swordsman, detective, baker, cowgirl, and Kung-Fu artist, giving the frequent McGuffin in Mario stories fun power-ups to counter those of Mario's mustachioed boyfriend. he.
Princess Peach: Show time! is available for make an order now from Nintendo and Amazon. This and the pair of pastel pink Joy-Cons will arrive on March 22. You can check out the latest trailer for the game below.
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