Nintendo Swap 2 Pleasure-Cons Will Characteristic Magnets and Mouse Performance, Patent Suggests

The Nintendo Swap 2 was revealed in January following a number of leaks concerning the hybrid console’s design and options. Whereas Nintendo stopped wanting detailing the performance and specs of the Swap 2, the first-look trailer confirmed a revamped Pleasure-Con connecting mechanism. A patent from the corporate printed Thursday suggests the brand new Pleasure-Cons will connect to the Nintendo Swap 2 physique through magnets, simply as earlier leaks had claimed.

Nintendo Swap 2 Pleasure-Cons to Characteristic Magnets

A Recreation Controller patent filed by Nintendo in August 2023 and printed Thursday particulars Pleasure-Con options, claiming the controller contains magnets. Whereas the patent doesn’t point out Swap 2, taking a look at diagrams we will presume it is for Pleasure-Cons that can include the Nintendo Swap successor.

“This sport controller is detachably mounted to a physique gadget that has a recess, that contains a primary magnet and a second magnet on the backside of the recess, and that may execute sport processing,” the summary of the patent reads.

Nintendo Swap 2 Pleasure-Cons include a revamped connecting mechanism
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Nintendo then additional particulars the mechanism of the Pleasure-Con, together with the protruding portion of the controller that attaches with the recess of the Swap 2 physique.

“The sport controller contains a primary enter unit, a protrusion, a primary button, and a second button. The primary enter unit is supplied on the entrance floor. The protrusion protrudes from a primary lateral floor, and extends within the longitudinal course of the primary lateral floor. The protrusion is configured to slot in the recess.

“The primary button and the second button are supplied within the longitudinal course within the prime floor of the protrusion. The primary button and the second button are to be pressed by a consumer. The primary button is interested in the primary magnet by a magnetic drive. The second button is interested in the second magnet by a magnetic drive.”

These particulars match with the mechanism depicted within the first-look trailer for the Nintendo Swap 2. Nintendo did not specify the modifications within the new design, however from the video, it is clear the rail system for connecting the Pleasure-Cons to the physique from the unique Swap has been ditched in favour of a snap-on mechanism.

The magnetic mechanism of the brand new Pleasure-Cons instructed within the patent and in Nintendo’s reveal has been rumoured and appeared in leaks earlier than. A report again in April 2024 had claimed the Swap 2 would include redesigned Pleasure-Cons that connect magnetically to the hand held console.

Pleasure-Cons Could Come With Mouse Performance

Moreover, diagrams current within the patent additionally level to the Pleasure-Con getting used like a mouse. The picture exhibits a consumer holding the Pleasure-Con face down, with two fingers resting on prime on the shoulder buttons and the thumb resting on the joystick, similar to how one would grip a mouse.

Nintendo, too, has hinted at a mouse performance for the brand new Pleasure-Cons. Within the first-look trailer for the Swap 2, the Pleasure-Cons may be seen sliding face down on a flat floor. These particulars haven’t been confirmed by the corporate.

A Swap 2-focussed Nintendo Direct presentation, nevertheless, is ready to happen on April 2, the place we may be taught extra concerning the hybrid console’s design, specs, and options. Nintendo may additionally showcase new video games coming to the gadget. The Nintendo Swap 2 will launch someday in 2025.