Nintendo Switch 2 Image in the Nintendo Today! App Confirms Mystery Joy-Con Button Is Indeed the C Button

Nintendo has confirmed the Nintendo Switch 2's mysterious caller Joy-Con fastener is so the C button, arsenic had been rumored.

Confirmation comes from the conscionable announced and released Nintendo Today! app, whose App Store and Google Play store listings see an representation that, erstwhile looked astatine closely, reveals the C connected the button.

The caller fastener was revealed alongside the Switch 2 earlier this year, but astatine the clip images of the caller Joy-Con did not see a missive connected the button. Prior reports indicated it was called the “C” button, and truthful it has proved.

The caller C fastener connected the Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con. Image credit: Nintendo.

There’s a large woody of speculation astir this button. Some suggest it whitethorn subordinate to “casting” the Switch 2 to a TV wirelessly, oregon surface sharing of immoderate kind. Others person wondered whether it’s the fastener to property successful bid to alteration the Joy-Con’s functionality, for illustration into rodent mode. There’s besides speculation that the fastener whitethorn subordinate to caller radical oregon dependable chat functionality.

Nintendo has announced a Switch 2 Direct for April 2, truthful hopefully we’ll find retired much then. Until then, here’s what we cognize for sure:

• Nintendo Switch 2 is retired successful 2025, astir apt not earlier June though if the hands-on lawsuit docket is thing to spell by.
• Nintendo Switch 2 is larger than the archetypal Switch, with larger Joy-Con that look similar they tin beryllium utilized arsenic a mouse.
• There are 2 USB-C ports connected Nintendo Switch 2, 1 astatine the apical and the different astatine the bottom. The archetypal Nintendo Switch had one.
• The Nintendo Switch 2 is backward compatible, and the uncover video confirms the Switch 2 plays some carnal and integer Nintendo Switch games, arsenic good arsenic Switch 2 exclusive games. Certain Nintendo Switch games whitethorn not beryllium supported connected oregon afloat compatible with Nintendo Switch 2, however.
• There’s a caller Mario Kart crippled for Nintendo Switch 2.

Meanwhile, Nintendo conscionable hosted a Direct focused connected the archetypal Switch (here’s everything announced). It was during this amusement that the Nintendo Today! App was announced.

Video crippled fable Shigeru Miyamoto spilled the beans connected the company’s latest quality propulsion arsenic a last-minute stinger during the showcase. This all-in-one telephone exertion comes with a assortment of perks for die-hard Nintendo fans to beryllium alert of.

This hub for each things Nintendo serves arsenic a regular calendar and quality instrumentality to drip provender accusation straight to players arsenic it happens. Miyamoto utilized the illustration that, aft the Nintendo Switch 2 Direct premieres adjacent week, fans volition beryllium capable to log into the Nintendo Today app to drawback each of the updates, with much quality arriving “daily” from there.

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