Switches 2 patents, apparently confirming the rumors of mouse functionality

Nintendo has not revealed much about its upcoming Switches 2 consoles Ever since annoyed last month with a Discover the trailerleaving leaks and rumors to fill in the gaps. But a pair of new patents strongly suggests that the auditory function-using Joy-Con controller as a computer mouse-can come to Switch 2 at the end.

The two new patents, filed for the first time in August 2023 in Japan, both published on Thursday on the WIPO website, have many detailed drawings showing Switch 2 and its joys in different positions. Thehe patent Explains how a new joy-con controller is used as a mouse (translated by Japanese by Google Translate). Although it is not an official confirmation that Switch 2 will allow you to use your joys-Cons like Computer Mice, it shows how much Nintendo invests in the idea and is very likely to include it in the end console.

Several of the drawings of the first patent show Joy-Con with the inside, facing down, to use “placed on a desk or the like”, and a hand placed so that the fingers curved on the trigger buttons. There is even a reference to the use of other inputs when in mouse mode, like the thumb of joysticks, as seen in the image above. Although the type of ultra-clinical patent language, descriptions are details of how light enters a sensor on the inside of joy, probably as a modern optical computer mouse works.

Perhaps the most intriguing are other drawings showing one user two joys in mouse orientation at one time and another drawing showing a user working with one joy, usually with another in the mouse orientation. Previous rumors of this functionality suggest that it can make Switch 2 more suitable for game genres that require a mouse, such as a strategy and MOBA, but the possibility of Nintendo wants players who use two mice with joy at once the new console can to have some of the more (and foreign) control entrances with which the company is known by Minigames in 1-2 switch to Zany Creations in Nintendo theirS

Patent # 2: Magnets Joy-Con and a potential boot dock

Thehe Second patent Details of how the new joys are connected to the 2-and-and-the-rumor switch, it describes in detail how magnets support controllers connected to the console. Interestingly, the patent suggests that the magnets are in the console and draw to the buttons on the side of joy (which become buttons on the shoulder when the controller is held with two hands).

The drawings and descriptions detail things like how, when you hold a Joy-Con solo, one of the bumpers equipped with a strap slides on the new controller.

But the most exciting disclosure of this second patent is at the very end of the drawings: a loading stand or dock, which allows users to recharge up to two joys without having to attach them to the console. Patent details also suggest that the dock may have a wireless ability to connect to the controllers.

Since Nintendo did not release any information about the specifications when I entered Switch 2, these patents are the most official source of information about the new console we found. Nintendo plans to reveal the full revelation of the console In Nintendo Direct on April 2S

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