It has been a month since we first heard rumors that the Swap 2’s new Pleasure-Cons could possibly be slid throughout a flat floor to perform like a pc mouse. Now, a newly revealed patent filed by Nintendo appears to substantiate that characteristic and describes the way it will work.
The worldwide patent was filed with the World Mental Property Group in January 2023, nevertheless it was only published on WIPO’s website on Thursday. The Japanese-language patent—whose illustrations match what we have seen of Swap 2 Pleasure-Con exactly—options an English summary describing “a sensor for mouse operation” that may “detect mirrored gentle from a detected floor, the sunshine altering by shifting over the detected floor…” very like any variety of optical laptop mice. Schematic drawings within the patent present how the sunshine supply and lightweight sensor are squeezed contained in the Pleasure-Con, with a built-in lens for guiding the sunshine to and from every.
A machine translation of the total textual content of the patent describes the controller as “a novel enter machine that can be utilized as a mouse and aside from a mouse.” In mouse mode, as described within the patent, the person cradles the outer fringe of the controller with their palm and locations the interior edge “on, for instance, a desk or the like.”
On this configuration, the person’s thumb can nonetheless entry the analog stick (which is now pointing horizontally) whereas the index and center fingers are positioned so the 2 shoulder buttons “will be operated as, for instance, a right-click button and a left-click button,” in response to the patent. The patent describes this configuration as “straightforward to carry” or “straightforward to grip.” It additionally goes to nice lengths to clarify how the shoulder buttons wrap across the curved high nook of the controller and thus are “straightforward to press” by pushing both downward or nearer to horizontally with a finger.