Newly-published Nintendo patents present that the corporate has been exploring a model of its Pleasure-Con controllers that may work like a pc mouse, a function Nintendo has hinted will likely be coming to the Change 2. In its Change 2 teaser video final month, Nintendo confirmed two Pleasure-Con controllers sliding alongside the bottom, very similar to you’d transfer a mouse.
However mouse-like performance could not simply be restricted to Pleasure-Cons: the patents additionally present that Nintendo has explored including mouse-like performance to a break up controller with a bigger, extra traditionally-sized grip.
Photos in one patent present a Pleasure-Con being held horizontally, with the SR and SL buttons going through downward, and an individual’s thumbs on the management sticks. This appears to point that the optical sensor can be going through downward so to maintain and transfer the controller on a floor like a mouse.
One other picture exhibits the left Pleasure-Con getting used upright whereas the precise Pleasure-Con is used on this mouse mode — think about WASD, however together with your Change controllers. In a machine translation of the patent, which is in Japanese, the time period “mouse operation sensor” seems 28 instances, which means that there will likely be know-how contained in the controllers that makes them work like a mouse.
Mouse-like Pleasure-Con have been rumored for some time, however I’ve been questioning if or how that performance would translate to a extra customary controller. Primarily based on the patent drawings, Nintendo has designed a break up controller with extra conventional console grips, and it seems that no less than the precise facet of the controller may very well be positioned on a floor and operated like a mouse.
Another patent exhibits that these Pleasure-Con will have the ability to slot right into a wrist strap attachment that appears much like those for the unique Change. A machine translation of that patent consists of the phrase “magnet” 355 instances, which appears to point that the wrist strap might connect magnetically to the Pleasure-Con. I’m guessing that implies that the Pleasure-Con themselves might connect to the Change 2 console magnetically as properly, which has been rumored.
That second patent additionally exhibits what seems to be a controller dock of some sort the place the Pleasure-Con may be laid down and presumably charged.
Patents don’t all the time translate instantly into precise, delivery merchandise, so it’s doable that these are designs Nintendo explored however by no means pursued. However given the rumors round this tech, and Nintendo’s personal hints in the identical path, there’s a very good probability these supply an early take a look at how a number of the Change 2’s new options would possibly work.
Nintendo is ready to launch the Switch 2 someday in 2025. The corporate plans to disclose extra in regards to the console in a Change 2-focused Nintendo Direct on April 2nd and is making preparations to attempt to meet demand.