You’ll have the ability to use a USB mouse with the Nintendo Switch 2 in no less than one recreation, as a Koei Tecmo developer commentary video for the upcoming Nobunaga’s Ambition: Awakening Complete Edition revealed this week. That’s nice information in case your wrists, like mine, began preemptively cramping the primary time you noticed video of somebody tipping a Joy-Con 2 controller on its edge for mouse mode.
While demonstrating the sport’s use of the Joy-Con 2 as a mouse, producer Michi Ryu stops and plugs in a USB mouse. The Switch 2 shows a message that claims a mouse has been linked, and he continues to play with each a mouse and his left Joy-Con 2, switching between them seamlessly, the identical method you’ll have the ability to trip between gyro and mouse management in Metroid Prime 4: Beyond.
As VideoGamesChronicle notes, the unique Switch had mouse and keyboard help, although just some video games took benefit, just like the Nightdive-developed Turok port. (If you personal that recreation and by no means seen the “Mouse” choice in its enter settings, go plug in a USB mouse and keyboard and check out it out — you received’t need to return.)
This time round, Nintendo is embracing mouse help extra. For occasion, the corporate printed a video to its Nintendo Today app earlier this month, exhibiting that while you put a Joy-Con 2 on its edge for mouse mode, an onscreen pointer seems for navigating the system’s menu.
So does the Nobunaga’s Ambition video, imply a normal mouse works interchangeably with a Joy-Con 2 controller anyplace the place mouse management is supported? I positive hope so, however we don’t know that but. And Nintendo didn’t instantly reply to The Verge’s e-mail asking if that was the case.
