When Nintendo first unveiled the Switch 2 final month, we (and everybody else) observed one thing peculiar concerning the new Pleasure-Con controllers. Now, some just lately unearthed patent filings roughly affirm all of the theories.
Particularly, there are actually publicly viewable patents for the Swap 2’s controllers that inform us what we already principally knew: You should use them like laptop mice. The patent submitting, which is basically in Japanese and thus will not be particularly informative to a local English speaker, contains at the least loads of drawings that explicitly showcase somebody utilizing the Pleasure-Con as a mouse.
It is nonetheless not fully clear what this characteristic shall be used for. One’s thoughts can simply wander to degree creation in Tremendous Mario Maker or home ornament in Animal Crossing as mechanics that might be enhanced by mouse performance, however these are simply two of Nintendo’s many first-party gaming properties.
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Nonetheless, apart from extra horsepower, these mouse options are (thus far) the one a part of the Swap 2 that appears actually distinct from the primary Swap. We’ll in all probability discover out extra when Nintendo holds its large Swap 2 reveal livestream on April 2 at 9 a.m. ET.
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