New Switch 2 patent confirms it: Nintendo is straight-up calling that Joy-Con thing a "mouse"

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It also seems to have dual-wield functionality

A Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con being used on its side
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One of the genuinely new features confirmed in the Switch 2 reveal was the Joy-Cons' ability to be used like a mouse, and in a newly public patent, Nintendo calls it exactly that.

In the Drawings tab of the patent's webpage, you can see a bunch of sketches of the Switch 2 and its new magnetically docking Joy-Cons. A handful of those show the Joy-Cons being used like you would a normal PC mouse, and in some cases, with one Joy-Con in each hand.

Jordan Gerblick
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