If the Nintendo Switch 2 was officially announcedIt was difficult to feel that it wasn’t just more of it. Didn’t it feel like a new Nintendo device at all? But the spectators with eagle eyes have taken up something else-it turns out that it is the first console manufacturer to build a mouse directly into the standard controller.
At about 1:01 in the announcement trailerYou can see what looks like an optical sensor that is on the side of one of the Joy-Con controllers of the Switch 2 (or whatever they are called), and only a few seconds later slide the same two controllers along a desk on their Page as if they are used like mice.
The moment followed weeks of rumor And supposed leaksBut nothing concrete had appeared … until now.
In a patent Nintendo submitted on August 1st last year and published on February 6th, Nintendo describes a “input device” that looks and sounds a Switch 2 Joy-Con (that’s how I call it now)). His page and contains a “sensor for the mouse operation”. After all, Nintendo’s Switch 2 doesn’t seem to be that boring.
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In a diagram contained with the patent, a hand seems to use the Joy-Con’s shoulder and trigger buttons as mouse buttons and possibly use the thumb as a hedgehog. A button seems to be missing from the end of the last month in the Joy-Con in the diagram, the mysterious new C-button in the Switch 2 supporter, but apart from that, everything seems to be presented exactly as expected.
Technically speaking, Nintendo is not the first to have this idea. A similar function, albeit with a little more chunkier implementation, is already available on the available Lenovo Legion GoWith the “FPS mode of this device”. Since Nintendo gives mouse control of the entire user base, developers will probably feel much more comfortable to support the control scheme.
What could a mouse mean in switch 2? Well, to aim at natural PC ports and easier when shooting games. But I have a little more theory.
I think Nintendo wants to bring to the television for the first time since the virtual console of the Wii U DS games. The Company Recently added Game Boy Advance Games In an improved stage of the Switch -Online library, but with a mouse, Nintendo could also easily bring DS games into the Switch 2. Yes, technically speaking, the movement controls of the Joy-Con could imitate a touchscreen pen to a certain degree, but a mouse delivers much easier to get the speed and precision for DS classics such as how The world ends with youWhich has never been really well translated into other systems (despite several attempts by Square Enix). After all, there will be a good official method for playing these games, in which the old DS Lite (or, yes, 3ds) does not actually break out.
But even if I am crazy and the mouse for certain games only an optional control function, it is fun to imagine a future in which the Nintendo Switch has better support for shooters than the Xbox.
