Nintendo Switch 2's Joy-Con Mouse Controls Can Be Used to Navigate the Home Menu

Nintendo has confirmed players volition beryllium capable to usage the Switch 2 Joy-Con rodent controls connected the Home screen.

Ever since the Nintendo Switch 2 reveal, fans person speculated connected the usage of the caller Joy-Con's rodent controls. Last month, we yet had authoritative confirmation that the Joy-Con tin run successful "mouse mode," which lets players descent the controllers crossed surfaces and usage the analog sticks to simulate a left-click and right-click akin to a modular mouse. Additionally, 2 Joy-Con tin adjacent beryllium utilized successful rodent mode simultaneously with 1 successful each hand, oregon 1 successful modular mode with the different successful rodent mode.

And present we cognize adjacent more. As shown disconnected connected the Nintendo Today app and shared connected X/Twitter, the Joy-Con 2 rodent controls tin beryllium utilized to navigate the Home paper connected the Switch 2.

Nintendo Today showed however the rodent controls volition enactment connected the Switch 2 location screen. pic.twitter.com/qpyCsxbGBM

If you "place the Joy-Con 2 controller connected a aboveground with the attachment broadside facing down, a cursor volition look connected screen," Nintendo explained. "To show the cursor, acceptable the Joy-Con 2 connected a array oregon level aboveground and determination it arsenic shown.

"While utilizing rodent controls, you tin tilt the power instrumentality to scroll done menus," Nintendo added, "[and] usage rodent controls connected the Home paper and successful compatible software." When you're acceptable to usage the thumbstick again, simply determination the Joy-Con 2 into a horizontal presumption again.

We don't yet cognize conscionable however galore games volition beryllium mouse-compliant, but Nintendo has shown the tech moving with the Switch 2 editions of Mario Party Jamboree and Metroid Prime 4, positive the wheelchair hoops crippled Drag x Drive.

The highly anticipated Nintendo Switch 2 is acceptable to debut connected June 5. Nintendo Switch 2 pre-orders went unrecorded connected April 24, with the terms inactive fixed astatine $449.99 — and they went astir arsenic good arsenic you'd expect. Check retired IGN's Nintendo Switch 2 pre-order usher for more.

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