It Looks Like Rumors About the Switch 2’s ‘Mouse Mode’ Might Be True

When Nintendo Switch 2 was officially announcedIt was hard to feel that it was not just more. Without strange three -dimensional tricks and an absurd naming scheme, was it really felt by the new Nintendo device? But spectators with eagle eyes picked up something else-nintendo, it turns out that it may be the first creator of the console to integrate the mouse right into the default controller.

Approximately 1:01 In the ad adYou can see what looks like an optical sensor that appears on the side of one of the Joy-Con Switch 2 controllers (or as they ultimately call it), and in just a few seconds the same two controllers sliding on the table on their side, as if there were them Used as mice.

The moment followed hearing And The alleged leaksBut nothing surfaced … Until now.

IN patent Submitted on August 1 of last year and published on February 6, Nintendo describes the “Input device”, which looks and sounds very similar to its side and includes a “mouse sensor”. Finally, it seems that Switch 2 Nintendo may not be so boring.

Credit: Nintendo through the World Intellectual Property Organization

In the diagram included in the patent, the hand seems to use the buttons of the shoulder and the Joy-con trigger for the mouse and, possibly, using a finger as a scrolling wheel. It seems that the button is absent in the Joy-Con chart on the diagram, the mysterious new button C, visible in the Switch 2 trailer from the end of the last month, but, in addition, everything seems to be depicted in the same way as expected.

Technically, Nintendo is not the first to have this idea. A similar function, although with a slightly more difficult implementation, is already available on Lenovo Legion GOWith this FPS mode. But since Nintendo, giving mouse control of their entire user base, the developers will probably feel much more convenient, maintaining the control scheme.

So what can the mouse on the switch 2 mean? Well, more natural ports for PCs and an easier sight in shooting games, of course. But I have a little more theory.

I think Nintendo wants to bring DS Games to TV for the first time since the virtual console Wii U. Company Recently added Game Boy Advance Games At the updated level of the Switch online biblio, but the Nintendo mouse can easily deliver DS games to Switch 2. Yes, technically, the Joy -Con movement can to some extent simulate a sensory -screen stylus, but the mouse is much easier to provide speed and accuracy, necessary for the classics DS, like The world ends with youWhich has never been translated well into any other systems (despite numerous attempts from Square Enix). Finally, there will be a good official method for playing these games, which does not include the actual breakdown of the old DS Lite (or, yes, 3DS).

But even if I am mistaken, and the mouse simply becomes an additional control function for certain games, it is ridiculous to imagine the future where Nintendo Switch better supports shooters than Xbox.