{"id":129274,"date":"2025-05-25T00:03:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-25T00:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/129274\/"},"modified":"2025-05-25T00:03:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-25T00:03:08","slug":"the-nintendo-switch-2-sure-seems-to-work-just-fine-with-a-usb-mouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/129274\/","title":{"rendered":"The Nintendo Switch 2 sure seems to work just fine with a USB mouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">You\u2019ll be able to use a USB mouse with the Nintendo Switch 2 in at least one game, as a Koei Tecmo <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CstlgmcDgy0&amp;t=623s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">developer commentary video<\/a> for the upcoming Nobunaga\u2019s Ambition: Awakening Complete Edition revealed this week. That\u2019s great news if your wrists, like mine, started preemptively cramping the first time you saw video of someone tipping a Joy-Con 2 controller on its edge for mouse mode.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">While demonstrating the game\u2019s use of the Joy-Con 2 as a mouse, producer Michi Ryu stops and plugs in a USB mouse. The Switch 2 displays a message that says a mouse has been connected, and he continues to play with both a mouse and his left Joy-Con 2, switching between them seamlessly, the same way you\u2019ll be able to go back and forth between gyro and mouse control <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/games\/642493\/nintendo-switch-mouse-controls-metroid-prime-4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in Metroid Prime 4: Beyond<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/news\/switch-2-supports-usb-mouse-controls-developer-reveals\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">VideoGamesChronicle notes<\/a>, the original Switch had mouse and keyboard support, though only some games took advantage, like the <a href=\"https:\/\/go.skimresources.com\/?id=1025X1701640&amp;xs=1&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nintendo.com%2Fus%2Fstore%2Fproducts%2Fturok-switch%2F\" rel=\"sponsored noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nightdive-developed Turok port<\/a>. (If you own that game and never noticed the \u201cMouse\u201d option in its input settings, go plug in a USB mouse and keyboard and try it out \u2014 you won\u2019t want to go back.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">This time around, Nintendo is embracing mouse support more. For instance, the company published a video to its Nintendo Today app earlier this month, showing that when you put a Joy-Con 2 on its edge for mouse mode, an onscreen pointer appears for navigating the system\u2019s menu.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">So does the Nobunaga\u2019s Ambition video, mean a standard mouse works interchangeably with a Joy-Con 2 controller anywhere where mouse control is supported? I sure hope so, but we don\u2019t know that yet. And Nintendo didn\u2019t immediately respond to The Verge\u2019s email asking if that was the case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You\u2019ll be able to use a USB mouse with the Nintendo Switch 2 in at least one game,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[77,1583,12,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-129274","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-gaming","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-technology","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}