Nintendo Switch has already been made into an adorable plush dog

You can play with Nintendo Switch at home, take it out to the park, bring it along to meet up with your friends… Clearly Nintendo is trying to evoke "dog" here, right? After seeing what the Joy-Con controllers look like when they're attached to the grip accessory, the internet quickly agreed that this was the case:

Nintendo Switch のコントローラがこういう犬っぽい何かに見えてしまう呪いにかかったのは自分だけだろうか・・(っ´ω`) pic.twitter.com/18jQOQB9tMOctober 20, 2016

Can't unsee the puppy ears... #NintendoSwitch pic.twitter.com/SAj3l5WpD5October 20, 2016

And AnnaTheRed, full-time "plushsmith" at Castle Crashers studio The Behemoth, set about rendering this adorable concept in huggable, tongue-lolling form.

I couldn't wait until March, so I made my own #NintendoSwitch. pic.twitter.com/0E7ceNFqyqOctober 24, 2016

Switch goes for a walk. (and you can still play a videogame with Switch while you're out whaaaa) #BestConsoleDogEver pic.twitter.com/csUquUu73LOctober 24, 2016

Switch on and off. pic.twitter.com/TOFknd5MVhOctober 24, 2016

I'm definitely going to think of a little wall-eyed doggie every time I see a Switch now. And I'm definitely going to feel unnerved the first time I pop off the sides of that pup's head so I can play with it on the go. This metaphor was bound to get weird at some point.

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I got a BA in journalism from Central Michigan University - though the best education I received there was from CM Life, its student-run newspaper. Long before that, I started pursuing my degree in video games by bugging my older brother to let me play Zelda on the Super Nintendo. I've previously been a news intern for GameSpot, a news writer for CVG, and was formerly a staff writer at GamesRadar+.