The PS5 has arrived to IGN and for now we can show you the box it came in. Check out the gallery below for a look at the PS5's box. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=ps5-box-pictures&captions=true"] You can see it with a Switch, you can see it with a PSP that has a UMD copy of Hitch. You can see it next to a cat, but unfortunately we do not have it near a hat. There's also a banana to compare, but if you want more, do not despair. We also placed an orb nearby, which you'll like if you think Jak and Daxter is fly. We also compare the box to a PS4, but you'll have to wait to see any more. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/10/21/ps5s-launch-lineup-and-ui-beyond-episode-671"] But in the meantime, be sure to check out IGN's weekly PlayStation show, Podcast Beyond, which this week took a look at the PS5 launch lineup and UI reveal, and you can also watch our weekly deep-dive into all next-gen news with Next-Gen Console Watch. You can also be sure to take a look at both the PS5 and Xbox Series X launch lineups, the biggest gamechangers from the PS5 UI reveal, and every game so far confirmed for PS5. [poilib element="accentDivider"]

The PS5 has arrived to IGN and for now we can show you the box it came in. Check out the gallery below for a look at the PS5's box. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=ps5-box-pictures&captions=true"] You can see it with a Switch, you can see it with a PSP that has a UMD copy of Hitch. You can see it next to a cat, but unfortunately we do not have it near a hat. There's also a banana to compare, but if you want more, do not despair. We also placed an orb nearby, which you'll like if you think Jak and Daxter is fly. We also compare the box to a PS4, but you'll have to wait to see any more. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/10/21/ps5s-launch-lineup-and-ui-beyond-episode-671"] But in the meantime, be sure to check out IGN's weekly PlayStation show, Podcast Beyond, which this week took a look at the PS5 launch lineup and UI reveal, and you can also watch our weekly deep-dive into all next-gen news with Next-Gen Console Watch. You can also be sure to take a look at both the PS5 and Xbox Series X launch lineups, the biggest gamechangers from the PS5 UI reveal, and every game so far confirmed for PS5. [poilib element="accentDivider"]

The movement to #EndSARS in Nigeria has been amplified following protests to end the police brutality by SARS – the country's Special Anti-Robbery Squad. The protests recently turned violent by SARS officers with Amnesty International confirming on Twitter that they have, "received credible but disturbing evidence of excessive use of force" against protestors. According to The New York Times, SARS was originally created in 1984 in response to violent crimes in Nigeria, however, the organization evolved into a corrupt unit in the early nineties. Below are resources to help the movement to #EndSARS.

Diasporans Against SARS

https://www.gofundme.com/f/4ppyfs-diasporans-against-sars The Diasporans Against SARS are activists who are dispersing funds to on-ground organizations in Nigeria. "This Gofundme campaign is in support of the multiple victims on ground, suffering from the aftermath of protests, violence, looting, across the nation. This fundraiser also serves as a bridge for those who are unable to contribute directly to the cause. Proceeds will be distributed to verified and vetted grassroots organizations, such as LifeBank , Feminist Co , Kokun Foundation  and others, that are dedicated to meeting the needs of the protesters and the movement. A full transparency report, including where we received donations from and proof of fund deposited to said organizations, will be shared with all donors via email and publicly on our social media accounts."

Feminist Coalition

https://donatebtc.feministcoalition2020.com/ The Feminist Coalition is an organization that strives for equality among women in Nigeria. "The feminist coalition is a group of young Nigerian feminists formed in July 2020 with a mission to champion equality for women in Nigerian society with a core focus on education, financial freedom and representation in public office. We have a vision for a Nigeria where equality for all people is a reality in our laws and everyday lives." They were the main leader of donations for #EndSARS but have recently stopped receiving donations. Their statement can be read here: https://feministcoalition2020.com/statement-oct-22/

End SARS Carrd.co

https://endsars.carrd.co/ Relevant information regarding the #EndSARS movement is on this reference card, including about the movement and donation links. IGN will be updating this article with any new ways to donate. 

The movement to #EndSARS in Nigeria has been amplified following protests to end the police brutality by SARS – the country's Special Anti-Robbery Squad. The protests recently turned violent by SARS officers with Amnesty International confirming on Twitter that they have, "received credible but disturbing evidence of excessive use of force" against protestors. According to The New York Times, SARS was originally created in 1984 in response to violent crimes in Nigeria, however, the organization evolved into a corrupt unit in the early nineties. Below are resources to help the movement to #EndSARS.

Diasporans Against SARS

https://www.gofundme.com/f/4ppyfs-diasporans-against-sars The Diasporans Against SARS are activists who are dispersing funds to on-ground organizations in Nigeria. "This Gofundme campaign is in support of the multiple victims on ground, suffering from the aftermath of protests, violence, looting, across the nation. This fundraiser also serves as a bridge for those who are unable to contribute directly to the cause. Proceeds will be distributed to verified and vetted grassroots organizations, such as LifeBank , Feminist Co , Kokun Foundation  and others, that are dedicated to meeting the needs of the protesters and the movement. A full transparency report, including where we received donations from and proof of fund deposited to said organizations, will be shared with all donors via email and publicly on our social media accounts."

Feminist Coalition

https://donatebtc.feministcoalition2020.com/ The Feminist Coalition is an organization that strives for equality among women in Nigeria. "The feminist coalition is a group of young Nigerian feminists formed in July 2020 with a mission to champion equality for women in Nigerian society with a core focus on education, financial freedom and representation in public office. We have a vision for a Nigeria where equality for all people is a reality in our laws and everyday lives." They were the main leader of donations for #EndSARS but have recently stopped receiving donations. Their statement can be read here: https://feministcoalition2020.com/statement-oct-22/

End SARS Carrd.co

https://endsars.carrd.co/ Relevant information regarding the #EndSARS movement is on this reference card, including about the movement and donation links. IGN will be updating this article with any new ways to donate. 

The Coalition's Gears 5 has been a recurring example of Xbox Series X's graphical capabilities, but The Coalition isn't just improving the already impressive visuals of Gears 5 for the console launch. When Gears 5 makes its way to Xbox Series X and Series S on November 10, it'll get a big campaign and multiplayer content update to go with it. IGN chatted with members of The Coalition to get a detailed look at what's coming with Gears 5's New Game+, the big multiplayer update, the development process of the visual upgrades, and a tease of what's coming next to Gears 5. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/10/23/gears-5-xbox-series-xs-update-trailer"]

Gears 5 Campaign New Game+ Details

To put it simply, Gears 5's New Game+ is a more customizable experience coming to all versions of Gears 5 that won't need to be unlocked regardless of where you're playing. Here's a rundown of the new features you'll find for the campaign on November 10:

• Two new difficulty modes (Ironman and Inconceivable)
• Character Skins for Kait, Del, and JD
• Weapon Skins
• Jack upgrades carry over
• Mutators (Big head mode, etc)
• New achievements

Zoë Curnoe, principal lead producer of Gears 5, told IGN that Inconceivable is one level of difficulty higher than what Gears 5 originally included, but Iron Man is a special challenge. "If you're familiar with that in games like XCOM, [which] maybe is the best example where you don't want to die ever -- you're trying to play through with one life [in Ironman mode]. That's really challenging and that's where bringing over your OP Jack is going to help you get through that. Or certainly playing through co-op if you're both in Ironman, that would be a really fun thing to challenge as well. So we certainly loved the couch co-op challenges for Gears," Curnoe said. Then, as for skins, Curnoe said you'll be able to use any you've unlocked. The one anyone will be able to use, though, is a special skin for Marcus Fenix.

Batista Joins the Campaign

Batista, Dave Bautista's WWE persona, made his first appearance in Gears 5 multiplayer. After plenty of support and enthusiasm from Bautista and the community, Batista is getting his Gears 5 campaign debut as an optional skin for Marcus Fenix complete with a new voice over. "He had his fan campaign on Twitter, vying to be the star in the much talked about movie ideas and things like that, but this is a great way of delivering that to fans," Curnoe said. "And of course he was super excited to participate when they did the skin for multiplayer. I think doing this in the campaign was just a natural evolution to say, okay, well the fans and him have said they want Batista as Marcus, so let's actually make it happen." To feature Batista in the campaign, all players need to do is choose to equip the Batista skin for Marcus when starting a new game. Then, any instance you'd see Marcus, you'd instead see and hear Batista.

Operation 5 Brings Versus Changes

Gears 5's multiplayer has had a number of large updates called Operations since launch, and Operation 5 features a change that came directly from player feedback. "What we've really done there is try to make a lot of the game more accessible, not only for people coming back, but also the people that are new to the game. We've done things like separation of characters in classes, which were funny," Alex Grimbley, Gears 5 executive producer said. "When we first launched the game, certain characters were tied to certain classes, which was a really cool system for us and there were a lot of people that really liked that system. But if we thought about how we want to kind of move forward, just giving players more choice was one of our key things. Giving the players the choice to choose which class they want to apply to which character is I think really powerful." In past Operations The Coalition also introduced an earnable currency for the store, a new ranked system, and plenty of other maps and changes. Going forward, though, Grimbley said The Coalition has aspirations to make their Operations have stronger themes to tie any new content or maps together as an added bonus for fans of the franchise. They're also committed to developing more maps for each Operation. [poilib element="quoteBox" parameters="excerpt=But%20if%20we%20thought%20about%20how%20we%20want%20to%20kind%20of%20move%20forward%2C%20just%20giving%20players%20more%20choice%20was%20one%20of%20our%20key%20things."] On the tech side, multiplayer on Series X and Series S hits 120 FPS and supports cross-play between the Xbox One and PC. However, unlike how players on Xbox One were able to opt-out of queuing with PC players who'd likely have a framerate and other technical advantages, Xbox One players can't opt out of playing against others on Series S or Series X who will have similar advantages to PC players. Mike Rayner, studio technical director at The Coalition, isn't concerned about there being too much of a competitive advantage though. Even still, The Coalition did look at opportunities to improve Gears 5's performance on the Xbox One version. "We've actually worked on improving the latency response on both the base Xbox version, as well as the Xbox Series X and S. We look at it in terms of the internal latency of the game engine, how quickly we're responding to those inputs. Of course when we're running at a higher frame rate, yes, it's definitely going to be an even lower latency. In the PC space we've always had this. If you have a higher-end machine you can run it at higher frame rates. You can get the best hardware in the world, but ultimately it's player skill, that's ultimately going to dictate how well you're going to do," Rayner said.

Xbox Series X Visual Upgrades

As a game developed in the Unreal Engine, Rayner said the team effort of getting Gears 5 up and running on the Xbox Series X only took a short time to test, polish, and demo features on the Xbox Series X. "When we first showed that demo in March, at that time, we had already lit up a whole bunch of high spec, PC ultra spec features that we already support on the highest end [PC] hardware. We were able to light those up and turn those on and the [Xbox Series X] just sort of absorbed it and it. There were no performance issues. And then we went beyond that. I think even at that time, we didn't enable some of the new features we've added, like contact shadows and screen space global illumination, which really just increased the quality of the lighting and shadowing in the game. So yeah, that was about a two-week effort," Rayner said. Rayner said the speed of the Xbox Series X also enables a visual quality in an open-world, even when you're zooming past the details on, say, a skiff. "We have some open-world elements in our game where we're streaming high-res textures and, you know, we have geometry streaming in and out. And so what you see is you see the highest-quality version of the assets as you kind of fly around the world as fast as you can, whereas before, especially at some of the lower-spec hardware, like the base Xbox One, you might see a little bit of popping or text or popping. These types of things are just a non-issue. In the future I think you'll be able to see – not that I should talk too much about future stuff – you're going to see the types of open-world games that just simply wouldn't have been possible on earlier hardware." Another spot Rayner said players will notice a difference is in Gears 5's cinematics. They'll now run at 60 frames per second rather than 30 frames per second as they did originally. Rayner said this is just one of the many other visual upgrades they've been able to make on the hardware for a more seamless performance and a generally higher level of detail. Excluding the visual upgrades specific to the Xbox Series X, all content updates are planned for all versions of Gears 5. They'll also get a DLC expansion later this year, which you can read a little more about in IGN's announcement story. For more on all the games coming to the Xbox Series consoles, be sure to visit IGN's Xbox Series X guide. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Miranda Sanchez is the executive editor of guides at IGN. You can chat with her about video games and anime on Twitter.

The Coalition's Gears 5 has been a recurring example of Xbox Series X's graphical capabilities, but The Coalition isn't just improving the already impressive visuals of Gears 5 for the console launch. When Gears 5 makes its way to Xbox Series X and Series S on November 10, it'll get a big campaign and multiplayer content update to go with it. IGN chatted with members of The Coalition to get a detailed look at what's coming with Gears 5's New Game+, the big multiplayer update, the development process of the visual upgrades, and a tease of what's coming next to Gears 5. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/10/23/gears-5-xbox-series-xs-update-trailer"]

Gears 5 Campaign New Game+ Details

To put it simply, Gears 5's New Game+ is a more customizable experience coming to all versions of Gears 5 that won't need to be unlocked regardless of where you're playing. Here's a rundown of the new features you'll find for the campaign on November 10:

• Two new difficulty modes (Ironman and Inconceivable)
• Character Skins for Kait, Del, and JD
• Weapon Skins
• Jack upgrades carry over
• Mutators (Big head mode, etc)
• New achievements

Zoë Curnoe, principal lead producer of Gears 5, told IGN that Inconceivable is one level of difficulty higher than what Gears 5 originally included, but Iron Man is a special challenge. "If you're familiar with that in games like XCOM, [which] maybe is the best example where you don't want to die ever -- you're trying to play through with one life [in Ironman mode]. That's really challenging and that's where bringing over your OP Jack is going to help you get through that. Or certainly playing through co-op if you're both in Ironman, that would be a really fun thing to challenge as well. So we certainly loved the couch co-op challenges for Gears," Curnoe said. Then, as for skins, Curnoe said you'll be able to use any you've unlocked. The one anyone will be able to use, though, is a special skin for Marcus Fenix.

Batista Joins the Campaign

Batista, Dave Bautista's WWE persona, made his first appearance in Gears 5 multiplayer. After plenty of support and enthusiasm from Bautista and the community, Batista is getting his Gears 5 campaign debut as an optional skin for Marcus Fenix complete with a new voice over. "He had his fan campaign on Twitter, vying to be the star in the much talked about movie ideas and things like that, but this is a great way of delivering that to fans," Curnoe said. "And of course he was super excited to participate when they did the skin for multiplayer. I think doing this in the campaign was just a natural evolution to say, okay, well the fans and him have said they want Batista as Marcus, so let's actually make it happen." To feature Batista in the campaign, all players need to do is choose to equip the Batista skin for Marcus when starting a new game. Then, any instance you'd see Marcus, you'd instead see and hear Batista.

Operation 5 Brings Versus Changes

Gears 5's multiplayer has had a number of large updates called Operations since launch, and Operation 5 features a change that came directly from player feedback. "What we've really done there is try to make a lot of the game more accessible, not only for people coming back, but also the people that are new to the game. We've done things like separation of characters in classes, which were funny," Alex Grimbley, Gears 5 executive producer said. "When we first launched the game, certain characters were tied to certain classes, which was a really cool system for us and there were a lot of people that really liked that system. But if we thought about how we want to kind of move forward, just giving players more choice was one of our key things. Giving the players the choice to choose which class they want to apply to which character is I think really powerful." In past Operations The Coalition also introduced an earnable currency for the store, a new ranked system, and plenty of other maps and changes. Going forward, though, Grimbley said The Coalition has aspirations to make their Operations have stronger themes to tie any new content or maps together as an added bonus for fans of the franchise. They're also committed to developing more maps for each Operation. [poilib element="quoteBox" parameters="excerpt=But%20if%20we%20thought%20about%20how%20we%20want%20to%20kind%20of%20move%20forward%2C%20just%20giving%20players%20more%20choice%20was%20one%20of%20our%20key%20things."] On the tech side, multiplayer on Series X and Series S hits 120 FPS and supports cross-play between the Xbox One and PC. However, unlike how players on Xbox One were able to opt-out of queuing with PC players who'd likely have a framerate and other technical advantages, Xbox One players can't opt out of playing against others on Series S or Series X who will have similar advantages to PC players. Mike Rayner, studio technical director at The Coalition, isn't concerned about there being too much of a competitive advantage though. Even still, The Coalition did look at opportunities to improve Gears 5's performance on the Xbox One version. "We've actually worked on improving the latency response on both the base Xbox version, as well as the Xbox Series X and S. We look at it in terms of the internal latency of the game engine, how quickly we're responding to those inputs. Of course when we're running at a higher frame rate, yes, it's definitely going to be an even lower latency. In the PC space we've always had this. If you have a higher-end machine you can run it at higher frame rates. You can get the best hardware in the world, but ultimately it's player skill, that's ultimately going to dictate how well you're going to do," Rayner said.

Xbox Series X Visual Upgrades

As a game developed in the Unreal Engine, Rayner said the team effort of getting Gears 5 up and running on the Xbox Series X only took a short time to test, polish, and demo features on the Xbox Series X. "When we first showed that demo in March, at that time, we had already lit up a whole bunch of high spec, PC ultra spec features that we already support on the highest end [PC] hardware. We were able to light those up and turn those on and the [Xbox Series X] just sort of absorbed it and it. There were no performance issues. And then we went beyond that. I think even at that time, we didn't enable some of the new features we've added, like contact shadows and screen space global illumination, which really just increased the quality of the lighting and shadowing in the game. So yeah, that was about a two-week effort," Rayner said. Rayner said the speed of the Xbox Series X also enables a visual quality in an open-world, even when you're zooming past the details on, say, a skiff. "We have some open-world elements in our game where we're streaming high-res textures and, you know, we have geometry streaming in and out. And so what you see is you see the highest-quality version of the assets as you kind of fly around the world as fast as you can, whereas before, especially at some of the lower-spec hardware, like the base Xbox One, you might see a little bit of popping or text or popping. These types of things are just a non-issue. In the future I think you'll be able to see – not that I should talk too much about future stuff – you're going to see the types of open-world games that just simply wouldn't have been possible on earlier hardware." Another spot Rayner said players will notice a difference is in Gears 5's cinematics. They'll now run at 60 frames per second rather than 30 frames per second as they did originally. Rayner said this is just one of the many other visual upgrades they've been able to make on the hardware for a more seamless performance and a generally higher level of detail. Excluding the visual upgrades specific to the Xbox Series X, all content updates are planned for all versions of Gears 5. They'll also get a DLC expansion later this year, which you can read a little more about in IGN's announcement story. For more on all the games coming to the Xbox Series consoles, be sure to visit IGN's Xbox Series X guide. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Miranda Sanchez is the executive editor of guides at IGN. You can chat with her about video games and anime on Twitter.

The Coalition is taking its shot at Gears 5 story DLC in December, Gears developers told IGN, and it'll be available on the Xbox One, PC, and Xbox Series consoles. "All I can say is December and the title is Hivebusters, so it might give you a little hint as to what that content might contain," said Zoe Curnoe, Gears 5 principal lead producer. "That'll be available on the new consoles as well, so it'll be optimized for those two." In Gears 5, the Hivebusters are a squad of three who never make an appearance in the campaign but instead star in the new mode Escape. Team Scorpio's Keegan, Lahni, and Mac are the default squad (though you can go in with one of your choosing) that infiltrate Swarm hives on what would be considered suicide missions to destory the enemy strongholds from the inside. Team Scorpio doesn't have much of an identity in Gears 5, though they do have an origin story in the Gears of War: Hivebusters comics. Other than an estimated playtime of 3-4 hours, Curnoe said more DLC details, including whether or not it'll cost anything, will be shared in early December. Members of The Coalition previously said they weren't interested in developing story DLC for Gears. Curnoe said the philosophy of the statement is still true in that they don't want to hold anything back when developing a campaign, but chose to develop the expansion after fan requests. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=the-complete-gears-of-war-timeline-so-far&captions=true"] Mike Rayner, studio technical director at The Coalition, also mentioned the story DLC will be the first Gears story reviewed, tuned, and polished on the Series X and Series S during the content's original development rather than upgrades made after. "So the things that we're doing with global illumination and constant mapping I think are a good example, and we've made sure that the content is really set up to take advantage of that," Ryaner said. "The ultra-res textures are now there and we can kind of tune them and make sure that they really show up in 4K resolution with the additional memory we have on these consoles and the ability to stream them in super fast." Gears 5 is also getting a campaign update with its New Game+ mode in November. Be sure to read about what that entails along with major multiplayer updates in IGN's interview with The Coalition, and for all the games coming to the Series X at launch, check out the IGN Series X launch guide. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=gears-5-new-game-and-xbox-series-x-screenshots&captions=true"] [poilib element="accentDivider"] Miranda Sanchez is the executive editor of guides at IGN. You can chat with her about video games and anime on Twitter.

The Coalition is taking its shot at Gears 5 story DLC in December, Gears developers told IGN, and it'll be available on the Xbox One, PC, and Xbox Series consoles. "All I can say is December and the title is Hivebusters, so it might give you a little hint as to what that content might contain," said Zoe Curnoe, Gears 5 principal lead producer. "That'll be available on the new consoles as well, so it'll be optimized for those two." In Gears 5, the Hivebusters are a squad of three who never make an appearance in the campaign but instead star in the new mode Escape. Team Scorpio's Keegan, Lahni, and Mac are the default squad (though you can go in with one of your choosing) that infiltrate Swarm hives on what would be considered suicide missions to destory the enemy strongholds from the inside. Team Scorpio doesn't have much of an identity in Gears 5, though they do have an origin story in the Gears of War: Hivebusters comics. Other than an estimated playtime of 3-4 hours, Curnoe said more DLC details, including whether or not it'll cost anything, will be shared in early December. Members of The Coalition previously said they weren't interested in developing story DLC for Gears. Curnoe said the philosophy of the statement is still true in that they don't want to hold anything back when developing a campaign, but chose to develop the expansion after fan requests. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=the-complete-gears-of-war-timeline-so-far&captions=true"] Mike Rayner, studio technical director at The Coalition, also mentioned the story DLC will be the first Gears story reviewed, tuned, and polished on the Series X and Series S during the content's original development rather than upgrades made after. "So the things that we're doing with global illumination and constant mapping I think are a good example, and we've made sure that the content is really set up to take advantage of that," Ryaner said. "The ultra-res textures are now there and we can kind of tune them and make sure that they really show up in 4K resolution with the additional memory we have on these consoles and the ability to stream them in super fast." Gears 5 is also getting a campaign update with its New Game+ mode in November. Be sure to read about what that entails along with major multiplayer updates in IGN's interview with The Coalition, and for all the games coming to the Series X at launch, check out the IGN Series X launch guide. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=gears-5-new-game-and-xbox-series-x-screenshots&captions=true"] [poilib element="accentDivider"] Miranda Sanchez is the executive editor of guides at IGN. You can chat with her about video games and anime on Twitter.

Nintendo announced today that it will permanently cut the price of a single Joy-Con controller in the US from $49.99 to $39.99. Announced in a tweet, Nintendo says that, starting November 9, the price of a single Joy-Con controller will be reduced by $10. The price of a Joy-Con pair package will remain the same at $79.99. At time of writing, the price cut has only been announced in the US and Japan.

Starting on 11/9, single #NintendoSwitch Joy-Con controllers will be available for purchase for $39.99. Choose from the left Joy-Con controller in Neon Blue, and the right Joy-Con controller in Neon Red. pic.twitter.com/wXW8BEssS7

— Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) October 23, 2020

As you can see in the tweet above, Nintendo only specifically mentions the Neon Blue left Joy-Con controller and the Neon Red right Joy-Con controller. It's unclear if Nintendo is just specifically advertising those two Joy-Con colors or if the company is saying that only those two colors are receiving the price cut. Our bet is on the latter considering the phrasing of Nintendo's tweet. IGN has reached out to Nintendo for further comment and will update this story accordingly when we hear back. After this new price cut is in place, the price of a single controller will align more equitably with the price of the dual pack. Before, it was $79.99 for the dual pack and $49.99 for a single controller, which gave the dual pack a roughly $20 discount over buying two individual Joy-Con. Following the price cut, buying the dual pack is practically the same price as buying two individual Joy-Con. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/05/11/joy-con-drift-is-still-a-huge-problem-3-years-later"] If you're looking for some extra savings on Nintendo controllers, Joy-Con and Pro controllers are currently $10 off on sale right now. If you're someone who's purchased multiple Joy-Con, there's a good chance you've run into the unfortuante phenomenon of Joy-Con drift. If you have, be sure to read Nintendo's formal apology for this unfortunate controller phenomenon. Here's how to fix Joy-Con drift if you're curious to repair your controller yourself. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Wesley LeBlanc is a freelance news writer and guide maker for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @LeBlancWes. 

Nintendo announced today that it will permanently cut the price of a single Joy-Con controller in the US from $49.99 to $39.99. Announced in a tweet, Nintendo says that, starting November 9, the price of a single Joy-Con controller will be reduced by $10. The price of a Joy-Con pair package will remain the same at $79.99. At time of writing, the price cut has only been announced in the US and Japan.

Starting on 11/9, single #NintendoSwitch Joy-Con controllers will be available for purchase for $39.99. Choose from the left Joy-Con controller in Neon Blue, and the right Joy-Con controller in Neon Red. pic.twitter.com/wXW8BEssS7

— Nintendo of America (@NintendoAmerica) October 23, 2020

As you can see in the tweet above, Nintendo only specifically mentions the Neon Blue left Joy-Con controller and the Neon Red right Joy-Con controller. It's unclear if Nintendo is just specifically advertising those two Joy-Con colors or if the company is saying that only those two colors are receiving the price cut. Our bet is on the latter considering the phrasing of Nintendo's tweet. IGN has reached out to Nintendo for further comment and will update this story accordingly when we hear back. After this new price cut is in place, the price of a single controller will align more equitably with the price of the dual pack. Before, it was $79.99 for the dual pack and $49.99 for a single controller, which gave the dual pack a roughly $20 discount over buying two individual Joy-Con. Following the price cut, buying the dual pack is practically the same price as buying two individual Joy-Con. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2020/05/11/joy-con-drift-is-still-a-huge-problem-3-years-later"] If you're looking for some extra savings on Nintendo controllers, Joy-Con and Pro controllers are currently $10 off on sale right now. If you're someone who's purchased multiple Joy-Con, there's a good chance you've run into the unfortuante phenomenon of Joy-Con drift. If you have, be sure to read Nintendo's formal apology for this unfortunate controller phenomenon. Here's how to fix Joy-Con drift if you're curious to repair your controller yourself. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Wesley LeBlanc is a freelance news writer and guide maker for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @LeBlancWes.