Have You Seen The Hidden Message Inside Your Switch Pro Controller?

I just love it when Nintendo leaves little things like that.

Nintendo is something special, they seem to do what they do with so much passion.

Wow, I'm actually surprised by Nintendo!

They're changing, they're really listening. Still a ways to go though.

It's a secret to everybody...but not anymore!

Was a bit tricky to see but found it. Thats pretty cool!

At first I thought it said THX2ALLCONSOLEPEASANTS!

Good thing it doesn't.

I still really resent that they put a bittering agent on the game cards, which just made LITERALLY EVERY SINGLE PERSON IN POSSESSION OF A SWITCH GAME RUB IT ALL OVER THEIR TOUNGES AND SALIVA.

There are also scum who are doing drop tests and hitting Switches with water jets just because they can, and for the YouTube views.

S*** like that really, IMMENSELY, gets way under my skin. There could have been people who bought pre-owned games and didn't have to worry that somebody had previously eaten that card, or there could have been one or two Switches left for some child's birthday or that guy who REALLY wanted to give one a good home, but got taken instead by the cancer of the world that destroys amazing things for YouTube views and likes and subscriptions.

I've said it before, I'll say it once more. I really, hate, people. Immensely.

^ ^ ^ This guy knows what I'm talking about. ^ ^ ^

That's really cool. I do want to get pro controller, but not badly enough to pay full price. I will get a pro controller when there is a sale, unless new colors of joy cons come out first.

Anyway, I never would have looked at the controller, good detective work.

@ProjectCafe
The drop tests are useful for people who want to gauge how durable the device is.

The people who smash it in front of the other waiting in line tho. Pure cancer.

So awesome! Glad I purchased one!!

@ProjectCafe With all the buying consoles and electronics to do that stuff, I just have to laugh at them, is all. Hey, it's not me that just smashed 300 bucks on the concrete to try to prove a stupid little point. Ain't affecting me at all, I just fell sorry for them, honestly.

Nintendo will make more consoles and game cards and everything for the people who want them. Those people are hurting no one but themselves by breaking the things they spent money on.

@ProjectCafe
I know, right?! I would much rather have a kid or two die from choking, or have people who have sunk hundreds of hours into a game lose their card to a dog, than to have to worry about wiping down my preowned Switch game with a tissue!

Nice little easter egg.

wow, that's pretty crazy and cool

Just looked at mine and that made me so happy! Also, getting the controller for £35 made me even happier. It's a great controller and will be awesome for Splatoon!

@SLIGEACH_EIRE You beat me to it!

That is pretty neat. I would have never found that though.

It's little things like this that make me crack a genuine smile, and it could only come from one company.

It's the Nintendo Difference...

I've just checked mine, got it day one at midnight and I don't have the message, maybe the UK missed out on this

@antdickens

Sorry...

I am very happy with the pro controller, feels really good.

@Megas

Liked. You show those dumb puppies who's boss.

@ProjectCafe Okay, this is bothering me, because I've tried so many times to post YouTube vids in my comments, but it only ever appears as a link. How are you doing it?

@Kayfios

Here's the link, right? -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5uik5fgIaI

What you want to do, is take out everything before the "youtube". ---> youtube.com/watch?v=f5uik5fgIaI <--- Now you have this.

Now, get rid of the ".com/watch?v=", and in its place, you place a colon. Then, you end up with this. ---> youtube:f5uik5fgIaI

All you do after that, is add brackets to each end, like so: [ youtube:f5uik5fgIaI ]

Just take out the spaces in between the link and the brackets. Try it.

@popey1980 You might wanna check comment #19...

I guess @ProjectCafe isn't old enough to have rented 'grumble' videos in times of no love and had to open the case with washing up gloves.

Nice work, the controller manufacturer. Reminds me of the days when I'd always check near the label on vinyl LPs, to see if the sound engineer had scratched a message.

@Mii_duck

Your comment makes no sense and how old I am has nothing to do with what I think.

Wow, this is really net... even Sligeach didn't manage to poop all over this report. That's amazing.

I love Easter Eggs & am slightly jealous that I can't afford a launch window Switch. Maybe when I pick one up in a couple of months it'll be changed to "fuWrWerU?".

Makes me feel like my man crush on Nintendo is requited....

Well, ProjectCafe I'm making an assumption that you are a bit of a windowlicker and therefore assume everyone else is?

I can't say I have ever had the slightest interest in licking a cartridge.

I do however, know a little about food production factories, those lines that package sandwiches. Seriously, being concerned about old saliva on your cartridge is the least of your problems.

@ThanosReXXX ahhhh darn it, and he paid £30 less than me ☹️ Lol

This is super cool and makes me want one now. But the more I play with the JoyCon, the more I think I'll be just fine. They feel way better in hand than expected and I look forward to trying Street Fighter with them.

@popey1980 Obvious question maybe, but did you check the correct stick?

@ThanosReXXX yeah, checked both sticks all the way around. Must just be one of the unfortunate few I guess.

@popey1980 Aw, that's unfortunate. And now I have visions of seeing myself checking all the controllers in the store before I buy them and store clerks harassing me to "please don't take the controllers out of the boxes" because I really need one with that message on it....
EDIT:
Maybe you should check again: I've looked into it, and most people say that you need to pull the right stick straight down completely, and then shine a light on the opening, because the message itself is then reflected, so maybe it's just not visible enough in low or normal light.

Awesome.

So cool!
..I'm pretty happy with my Grip to be honest - but I'll certainly consider investing in a Pro when I download some 2D Nindie/VC titles

Don't a lot of products do this now? I remember my Zune had a message on it somewhere. Oh man, Zune...what happened to those, lol.

Cute! But what is with this trend of describing anything unpleasant as "cancer?"

Aw that's so cool!

@popey1980
I thought mine didn't have it, but it does, it's just super hard to see. You have to look at the rim facing up, but you have to tilt it and look in the light just right and you'll start noticing letters.

About to post mine didn't have it until I took another look and realized I just wasn't checking it right

@ProjectCafe Okay, so like this?

It looks to me like it was printed on the circuit board as an easter egg to anyone who opened up the controller (for repairs etc). It's just a coincidence that you can see it through the analog stick!

The full message was going to be: THX2ALLGAMEFANSFORBUYINGSUCHANEXPENSIVECONTROLLER

@ThanosReXXX
I think the Xbox One controller says "Hello from Seattle" or something like that hidden on it.

I prefer the little secret message in my SNES. "1CHIP-02". Sweet RGB. Thanks Nintendo.

Well-played, Nintendo.

I can't see it on mine. I can see something, but not read it. Photographer needs a bonus.

I hope they don't do it for the next batch. Make's launch one special.

@popey1980
Shine a light as you pull the right stick down you'll see it in the top of the rim. I got it cheap via Very, I was 'very' lucky, they had a new customer £30 off offer and little stock, use HotUKDeals all the time, they are great for discounts.

@Manjushri I first had that happen with my PS3, it's HDMI control. Much more common these days.

@ThanosReXXX yeah I've checked and mine does have it, you have to sort of look through the plastic to see it and I had to have my flash on to make it out, but it's definitely there!

@BrizzoUK managed to see it now 🙄😂 lol thought I was just unlucky

@JaxonH I was the same until someone on InstGramkindly pointed out how to see it lol I thought it was on the outer plastic ring lol

I just checked mine and it really is there!!! It just made spending $70 a little more worth it..... cries

@Haywired Interesting, didn't know that. Then again: I don't have an Xbox One, so I couldn't have possibly known in the first place. Never read about it either.

@popey1980 Good to hear, saves me the trouble of having to act out my vision...

I've got to see that in person. Getting too much play by kids right now though.

It's $10 more expensive than PS4 and cheaper official XBox One controller. Having wasted money on so many junk controllers in the past helps me feel better about it. That and how easy it is to use on Mac and PC. HD Rumble, NFC and gyro make it better than the Wii U pro controller but it feels better too.

Joy-Con in grip is pretty dinky for me but I don't worry about it when I have to use it only when I have the Pro controller alternative

Nintendo knows you're gonna open up their stuff regardless....

Very cool! Edit: It'd also be cool, if in a similar way, each controller contained a code for some e-Shop credit.

Warm fuzzies, what a cool little easter egg.

@ProjectCafe - That rant was lunacy. It might be a good idea to unplug and maybe take a long walk.

We might not have a web browser, but at least we have this

@Kayfios

You got it.

@Mii_duck

You speak in an entirely different dialect than I do. I have no idea what you're trying to get across.

@JubilifeRival

I never implied anything like that. A child dying is a far more important matter than idiots destroying tech for the popularity. I don't know where you got that.

You know, I'm starting to think that all the people who are getting offended over my comment are destroying tech for views, too.

Well, OF COURSE they're gonna feel a bit ruffled after I call them "scum" and "cancer", because they are if destroying new things for YouTube views is how they make a living. That's pathetic.

@ProjectCafe - Yep, just a bunch of tech smashers on this thread. Smashing tech all over the place. My copy of Zelda was practically free after I made $50 uploading a video of me smashing a copy of Stadium Games. It's totally rational to have more empathy for inanimate gaming hardware than fellow human beings.

Now how awesome is THAT?! Good one, Nintendo 😏

@bimmy-lee

Hey, the fellow human beings have made countless disasters, killed countless people, killed countless animals, driving them to extinction, leaving the Earth lands and waters dirty and with a toxic skyline, and make the world a cold, dark, place. Scusa for not loving to bits my fellow brethren humans, but they all kinda suck, especially the one calling me out for not being a representative of the human race. You can do that, I'll stick to what I do best.

By the way, you don't know what all these people do, you just joined this site a week ago. I've been here for nearly 4 years!

Hey, not my problem you really hate me.

Sorry, when did I ever sign up to be a rational, happy, healthy, love the world man!, human being? I'm gonna think and say whatever the hell I want, pal. Tough.

Now, to quote Fred Schneider: "Hippy be quiet!"

Wow, Great !
Thank you Nintendo for leaving this tiny message.

@ProjectCafe Lmao, the meltdown is real. You just don't understand the deep existentialist messages behind console smashing and microwaving. It teaches us to value what we have in life, because at any time, it could all be taken away by a swift swing of a mallet on the pavement, or by a high powered microwave to be turned into a melted, gooey monstrosity.

@ProjectCafe I think its in your best interest to seek some professional help.

@PlywoodStick

Look, the fact is, it really bothers me that somebody would go out of their way to destroy a perfectly good piece of equipment for a not very good reason, and I'm pretty sure people violently destroying a brand new gaming system for their own benefit don't have the brain size to teach us deep existentialist messages. I think you're drawing that conclusion on your own.

I don't know where you live, but where I live, I'm perfectly entitled to voicing my opinion. And if we live in a world where selfies are a thing, I'm pretty sure I can do that, especially when 12 people agree with me.

@freaksloan

Oh please, I'm not going to kill anybody. I think you need professional help if you don't think it's OK for me to say whatever the hell I think. Communist, much?

@ProjectCafe Think about it, though. If those innocent Nintendo Sandwitches didn't get pounded and... otherwise violated... you never would have come to fully realize the depths of your compassion for our electronic friends. To many people, it is just a thing, unworthy of true caring. But to you, and I, and probably everyone else here, it is something more. And it is only in the most trying times that it is revealed what caliber of mental fortitude we are truly made of.

@ProjectCafe Dude I literally wanted to grab those guys Switch and take it for myself if they were going to break it like that. I mean , I still need those 500$ to buy one..

@Malpais Then you'd be stealing it, which would be wrong. But if you didn't steal it, it would be destroyed without the intervention of others. Which is more wrong: theft, or indifference? There is no right answer. But we must choose.

@PlywoodStick With shame, I'd steal it and give it the treatment it deserves, not throwing it and see if it breaks. These guys have money to buy another one. Here in Mexico, the prices are the worst kind of insane. 10,000 pesos for the Switch (roughly 500$) and 1600 pesos (roughly 80$). Guess it's better to take one while it still works from some guys that are are destroying ones just for views and lols.

@PlywoodStick

But... They're getting destroyed.

If you know me, you know that hardware preservation is VERY important to me, even on the very first day of launch.

Even so, I look back at the Wii U, only selling 13m units, and see people like mcjuggernuggets totally OBLITERATING these devices for personal gain. They could have sold it to some kid to make his childhood, or passed it down to their children to make them happy. It hurts to know that the Wii U is an already fragile device, and now there are likely less than 10m of them out there, thanks to these crap wads.

They're scum. The lowest kind. I cannot express enough how much I hate these type of people. Notice how they all span around the same age, too.

Auuuuggghghhh.... My God....

@Malpais

Dude, IKR. You think that every time.

Just. Why.

@Malpais

Yus.

@Malpais There is no shame in doing what you think is right, when it is an act of preservation.

@PlywoodStick Exactly! If it is to preserve a piece of technology from people who poured their time and hearts into making the switch, I'd even build a shrine for it. (OK maybe I'm going a bit too far ahead, lol.) But really I want one and for me, saving money is darned hard .

@ProjectCafe - I don't think the amount of time we've had accounts is relevant. I've read this site for a long time. I would never say you can't have an opinion, but I can disagree with it, and I was just ribbing you a little bit on it. Clearly we've hit a nerve here with this whole tech smashing thing, and I don't like that the comment section on such a fun news article has devolved into madness, so I'm just slowly going to back away now. You've been playing yourself the entire time, and in a roundabout way; I was just trying to let you know.

@bimmy-lee

"I don't like that the comment section on such a fun news article has devolved into madness"

LOL.

You clearly haven't been here for very long, regardless of what you think.

@Malpais @PlywoodStick

Amen!

This is just one of the many little things that place Nintendo above the rest of the pack. Sure they care about money, but they do like seem to care about their fans and are passionate about what they do for a living.

@Angelic_Lapras_King Well I've watched two popular YouTube channels open up a Switch so far... one with a screwdriver, the other with a lump hammer. Both just as fun.

@popey1980 its there look in at an extreme angle with a bright torch. Took me a bit.

We love you too Ninty!

So that's why it costs 60 pounds.

Man i dont know why, but i like this alot, its a small thing but yeah great job Nintendo, i hope you guys stay around for a longggg time.
And i hope its not a goodbye message lol just kidding. I salute.

That's awesome. ^^ Didn't they also hide a message inside the NES mini somewhere?

I couldn't see it on my Pro Controller at first, but yeah, it's actually inside the thing and you need to shine a light on it. Very neat. ^^

They broke the fourth wall!!!

Yup I see it. Pretty cool!

I eventually found it, by shining a light at the right stick as others have already noted

No I haven't, because even though I went to a midnight launch, the Pro Controllers were all sold out by the time I got to the front of the line. No store has any left.

"pretty neat" considering MS did this already on the Xbox One controllers with their hidden message of "Hello from Seattle" under the batteries..

This is awesome! I wasn't a day one adopter, and am probably not going to be getting the system for a while but this is cool!

@ProjectCafe You said that you resented the bittering agent on the game card. That definitely implies that you would prefer that there was no bittering agent. So my comment was in response to your implication (whether you intended to imply that or not).

I had to look hard but its on mine. I'm in the US and bought from Gamestop when NL posted about them being available in February.

Something else I noticed: My Pro Controller is made in Germany. I think it may be the first OEM Nintendo hardware I own made there.

That's cool and unexpected!

Mine has the text! That's pretty difficult to see....it's amazing anyone actually managed to see it. It might have taken years, if ever for me to happen to notice that.

Pretty cool that they spent time and money thinking of how to do that though. I can't imagine MS doing something like that. Not even on the $150 Elite

Also, I have to say I love the feel of the Pro! It's a great controller. Need a little more time with it, but so far I like it better than DualShock 4 and not by a small amount. A little heavier than XBone controller so that's a negative (then again XBone fans lust for the Elite, and that thing weighs a LOT more than this, so I guess I should count my blessings.)

I can't decide which I like more, though, so far, in BotW, I've used all 4 control modes (griped joycon, ungripped joycon, ungripped joycon with the strap slip attached, and the Pro.) Pro my "technically" be my favorite and is probably better than gripped joycon, but side by side controls have their place. And even gripped joycon have the advantage of being feather-light in contrast.

Archery in BotW with side-by-side Joycons is hands down superior to any other control for archery though. Seriously, if you haven't tried it, try it. Pro controller can't hold a candle to it for the bow. But for general movement...I can't even decide my favorite.

I don't have it on mine:(

mine expectedly says "hey a****** good job at price gouging eartbound carts on ebay to piss off people at starmen.net"

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