Nintendo Switch 2's Joy-Con Controllers Officially Have Mouse Functionality — Here's What They Can Do

Ever since the Nintendo Switch 2 reveal, fans person been wildly speculating connected a tiny item from the trailer: the Joy-Cons. Specifically, their seeming usage arsenic rodent controllers, similar connected a PC, and the mode they moved successful the trailer. Now, we yet person authoritative confirmation arsenic to what they do: The Joy-Cons tin run successful "mouse mode," which volition let players to descent the Joy-Cons crossed level surfaces and usage the analog sticks to simulate a left-click and right-click akin to a modular mouse. Additionally, 2 Joy-Cons tin adjacent beryllium utilized successful rodent mode simultaneously with 1 successful each hand, oregon 1 successful modular mode with the different successful rodent mode. In different words, the crippled is your oyster.

Fans person been theorizing astir the Joy-Con rodent since we saw the uncover trailer, which had the Joy-Cons sliding astir conscionable similar PC mice. In an effort to get much information, we tried to inquire Firaxis, developer of Civilization 7, astir it, and got a precise cryptic reply successful response. Features similar this and the caller C fastener fueled speech astir the console implicit the past month, particularly arsenic a rebuttal to criticisms that the Nintendo Switch 2 was playing things "safe" compared to Nintendo's accustomed adventurous spirit.

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