Switch 2 could have been officially revealed, but there is still much we don’t know about it. And while Nintendo stubbornly fixed until April, a newly superficial patent seems to confirm at least some previously reported details that the company has only caused.
Above all, we are talking about Joy-Cons here, and the first reports claimed the removable controllers of Switch 2 would include some new tricks that are not seen in those of the original console. That begins with magnets, with the joy-with Switch 2, it is rumored that they use magnets to unite the console instead of the delicate rail system used above.
Which leads us to the patent of the newly unearthed game controller of Nintendo, initially presented in August 2023 and published today. “This game controller is disassembled to a body device that has a recess,” he says, “which includes a first magnet and a second magnet at the bottom of the recess, and that can execute the processing of the game.”
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In addition, the patent offers an additional vision of how magnets have been implemented to avoid randomly falling to inconvenient intervals. “The first button and the second button are provided in the longitudinal direction on the upper surface of the bump,” writes Nintendo. “The first button and the second button must be pressured by a user. The first button is attracted to the first magnet by a magnetic force. The second button is attracted by the second magnet by a magnetic force.”
It is true that the inclusion of magnets is not a great revelation, the Switch 2 revelation trailer already suggested so much, but Nintendo has not made it official. And it is a similar story for the incorporated functionality of Joy-Con Mouse, another rumored feature for Switch 2. The January revelation trailer certainly gave credit to those previous reports, with him, with him, including a controller that slides suspiciously On his side, but, again, again, again. It is a characteristic that is not yet official.
However, back in the patent, and Nintendo has included a diagram of a correct joy-with that is used as a mouse. Its removable edge is mouth of a surface, while the user grabs it in the style of the mouse, a finger in the bumper, presumably to click on the entrance, and a thumb in the control bar. Other illustrations show a user of two double student teams, such as a kind of ninja that uses the mouse, while another shows that a Joy-Con Mouse unfolds in one hand and in standard training in the other. Flexibility is apparently key.
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It is, if nothing else, an interesting reminder that there is still much to learn about the new Nintendo console after a revelation that was light in almost everything. Beyond, that is, an overview of switch 2 switch, but more aesthetic, and a new Mario Kart that has achieved an illicit talk as wide as ‘could this open world be?’ Even ‘what the hell have they done with Donkey Kong?’
Unfortunately, there are no solid answers to the many questions we have about Switch 2 probably occur until Nintendo Direct of April, which hopefully will finally include the Renaissance of Captain Rainbow that we have all been waiting for. Until then, feel free to direct your gaze in another part of Eurogamer for a review of everything we currently know about Switch 2. You can probably add ‘almost definitely magnets’ and ‘mouse, huh?’ To that list now too.
