Mouse controls are one of the Switch 2’s big new features. Optical sensors allow the upgraded Joy-Con controllers to aim and navigate on the console as if you were playing on a PC. But the Switch 2 is also a portable console. Mostly people arenāt playing it at a desk. Donāt worry, Nintendo says, the mouse controls work great on your pant leg too!
āUsually the table is quite far away from where youāre sitting on the sofa, so it generally depends on the material, but weāve made adjustments so that you can control the mouse on your pants,ā Nintendo producer Kouichi Kawamoto confirmed during a Q&A roundtable held yesterday, Gamesradar reports. He explained that the functionality arose out of his love of PC gaming, but the team had to make sure the feature worked across more potential scenarios.
Drag X Drive was one of the new internally-developed games Nintendo showed off during this weekās Switch 2 Direct. It utilizes the mouse controls and motion controls to play wheelchair basketball, with players moving each Joy-Con on its side to simulate spinning the wheels on the chair. Itās currently set to release sometime this summer.
āI donāt know if youāve had the chance to play this, but Drag X Drive, you can play it by using the mouse controller on your pants,ā Kawamoto added. āThere were some people on the development team, [for whom] that was their preferred way of playing the game.ā
As someone who has tried to play even conventional real-time strategy games with a mouse on jeans, thatās great to hear. I assume it will work equally well on the sofa cushion next to you. A number of Switch 2 games will make use of the mouse controls, including Metroid Prime 4 for aiming. Civilization 7, which is getting a launch-day Switch 2 upgrade, is another.
