If you watched the Nintendo Switch 2 reveal video, you’ll have noticed what seemed like a ‘mouse’ mode for the Joy-Cons.
During the reveal trailer, there is a second the place a pair of indifferent Joy-Cons are lowered onto a floor, attachment facet down. They connect with a pair of connectors that appear to have comparatively flat bottoms, after which slide throughout the floor like a mouse on a mouse pad. If you look carefully, you’ll be able to even see one thing that appears like a slider pad on the underside of one of many connectors, main additional credence to the speculation.
Rumors had been flying within the lead-up to the Nintendo Switch 2 reveal that this might be doable as a consequence of a sensor on the within of the Joy-Cons much like the sensor on the underside of a pc mouse. But so far, Nintendo hasn’t formally confirmed that is true, nor what it could imply whether it is.
One of the primary upcoming video video games that got here to thoughts following the reveal was Firaxis’ Civilization 7. The 4X technique recreation is already confirmed as coming to the unique Switch, and it’ll no-doubt work on the Switch 2 through backward compatibility. But will there be a bespoke Switch 2 model that takes benefit of the brand new Joy-Con and allows you to play Civilization 7 as if you happen to had been utilizing a mouse?
IGN introduced up the Switch 2 reveal and that obvious mouse performance in a current interview with Civilization 7 lead designer Ed Beach and govt producer Dennis Shirk, and whereas Beach remained silent, Shirk provided a coy response that’s certain to spark much more hypothesis.
“It is unquestionably intriguing,” Shirk teased. “You at all times do some trade-offs when you must cope with pure console controls. And the announcement has some nice stuff in it. I really like what they’re doing with the controllers. It’s all very cool. That’s about all I can say about it by way of an opinion. I feel it appears to be like superior they usually’re not mistaken, so it could be cool for one thing like that.”
Of course Firaxis isn’t going to announce a Nintendo Switch 2 model of Civilization 7 — it’ll go away that to writer 2K Games. But with a Switch 2 Direct set for this April, maybe we’ll discover out both method quickly.
For all we do not learn about potential mouse help for the Switch 2 (in addition to what the mysterious new Joy-Con button does), we do know Nintendo’s next-gen console is popping out in 2025 (most likely between June and September) and there is a new Mario Kart within the works for it. You can make amends for all our Nintendo Switch 2 protection proper right here.
Wesley is the UK News Editor for IGN. Find him on Twitter at @wyp100. You can attain Wesley at wesley_yinpoole@ign.com or confidentially at wyp100@proton.me.
