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Nintendo patent explains Switch 2 Joy-Cons’ “mouse operation” mode | Users can access thumbsticks, shoulder buttons while sliding Joy-Cons on a flat surface.
Users can access thumbsticks, shoulder buttons while sliding Joy-Cons on a flat surface.
It also goes to great lengths to explain how the shoulder buttons wrap around the curved top corner of the controller and thus are "easy to press" by pushing either downward or closer to horizontally with a finger. Intriguingly, the patent suggests that the mouse mode might work when the controller is hovering up to 1 cm above the flat surface being used, which would put it at the higher end of usable lift-off distances used in PC gaming mice. For instance, the patent makes no mention of the stabilizing mounts that were shown clicking onto the edge of the Joy-Con before a mouse-like sliding section of the hardware's first-glimpse trailer last month.
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