Details about the Nintendo Switch 2 features appeared to have been confirmed via patents, including magnetic Joy-Cons and mouse functionality.
Prepare to drag your Joy-Con Newly-published patents from Nintendo have seemingly confirmed a bunch of Switch 2 features, including how the Joy-Cons attach to the console. The Nintendo Switch 2 might have been officially revealed but we still know very little about the console itself, aside from its bigger size, backwards compatibility, and colour scheme.
‘The game controller is detachably mounted to a body device that has a recess,’ it reads, ‘that comprises a first magnet and a second magnet at the bottom of the recess, and that can execute game processing.’ The patent also clarifies how the Joy-Cons won’t easily slip off during use, describing two buttons which are to be ‘pressed by the user’ on the ‘top surface of the protrusion’, adding: ‘The first button is attracted to the first magnet by a magnetic force.
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