Newly-published Nintendo patents show that the company has been exploring a version of its Joy-Con controllers that can work like a computer mouse ... be placed on a surface and operated like a mouse.

About a month ago, rumors began circulating that the Switch 2's new Joy-Cons might function like a computer mouse by gliding across a flat surface – especially after we saw the controllers sliding and ...

If we had to judge by the included diagrams, the trigger and bumper on each controller would act as the mouse click. Multiple ...

Microsoft updated its Mobile Mouse and gave it a nice modern refresh – thus the name. It certainly looks like it ... you do spend a lot of time on the computer. While we haven't started testing ...

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But a pair of new patents strongly suggests that a rumored feature -- using a Joy-Con controller like a computer mouse -- could be coming in the Switch 2 after all. The two new patents ...

might be the first console maker to build a mouse right into its default controller. At about 1:01 into the announcement trailer, you can see what looks like an optical sensor pop up on the side ...

When the Nintendo Switch 2 was officially unveiled, the teaser showed its Joy-Con controllers being slid on a horizontal surface like a computer mouse. Since then ... as well as having one being used ...

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The patent paperwork for the Nintendo Switch 2 and its JoyCons may have just confirmed the theory of the console having a computer mouse-like control option. Shared widely by @Wario64 on Twitter/X ...

In it, the pair of Joy-Cons briefly raced each other across a hard surface Tron-bike style, trailing their wrist straps like ...