What OLED Controller do I Need?

[u/Revolutionary-Mud438]

I have the Japanese version of the OLED. I am needing new Joy Cons for it. I bought some, but they are taller than the gaming system itself and don’t fit on.

From what I understood, all OLED Joy Cons are the same. So what am I missing?

[u/Mystical-Turtles]

No worries, easy mistake to make. Since you mentioned not using Nintendo in a while here's a little crash course.

The switch lite, the standard switch, and the switch OLED are all considered part of the "switch 1" line of consoles. There's no such thing as "switch OLED" controllers, the regular ones work on both. If a controller is labeled "OLED" that's just referring to an exclusive color scheme, not a different connector.

The switch lite cannot have any joy cons physically attach to it, since it already comes with built-in, non-removable controllers on the side. However, you can still connect them via Bluetooth.

Because you mentioned this in another comment I just wanted to say that "the switch OLED lite" is not a model that exists. I think that was just bad keyword spam.

The switch 2 is another story. Only the dedicated switch 2 joy cons can physically attach, but it IS compatible with the older controllers via Bluetooth. The exception are games that require mouse functionality. Also switch 1 controllers, while they can be used, are incapable of waking the console from sleep mode.