{"id":94216,"date":"2025-05-12T02:22:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T02:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/94216\/"},"modified":"2025-05-12T02:22:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-12T02:22:11","slug":"psa-you-can-use-mouse-controls-on-the-switch-2-home-menu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/94216\/","title":{"rendered":"PSA: You Can Use Mouse Controls On The Switch 2 HOME Menu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Switch 2 Joy-Con\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/036dd2be444e8\/switch-2-joy-con.large.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/1747016529_503_switch-2-joy-con.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Switch 2 Joy-Con\"\/><\/a>Image: Zion Grassl \/ Nintendo Life<\/p>\n<p>One of the unique aspects of the Switch 2 is the fact the Joy-Con 2 can be used as mouse-like controllers to play games in a new way.<\/p>\n<p>In the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/mobile\/nintendo_today\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Nintendo Today!<\/a> app, the Japanese firm has now demonstrated how you&#8217;ll also be able to go beyond games and use this control option to navigate the Switch 2 HOME Menu.<\/p>\n<p>Just like in games, all you need to do is place the Joy-Con 2 controller on a flat surface with the attachment side facing down, and a cursor will then pop up on-screen. Nintendo further notes how you&#8217;ll also be able to use the control sticks when using mouse controls to scroll through menus.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" align=\"center\"><p>[Switch 2]<\/p>\n<p>You are able to use Joy-Con 2 mouse controls to navigate the HOME menu. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SxtRCJaeTx\">pic.twitter.com\/SxtRCJaeTx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 OatmealDome (@OatmealDome) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/OatmealDome\/status\/1921585144541892929?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">May 11, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Mouse Controls\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/1c0e2f32a41fc\/mouse-controls.large.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/mouse-controls.original.png\" width=\"900\" height=\"894\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Mouse Controls\"\/><\/a>Image: Nintendo Life<\/p>\n<p>And if you want to swap back to regular controls on your Joy-Con controller, it&#8217;s as simple as picking up the controller. Again, can see the original video demonstration of this on the Nintendo Today! mobile app.<\/p>\n<p>This mouse feature will work the same way in-game &#8211; allowing you to swap from mouse controls to more traditional movement or motion controls by putting down the controller on a flat surface with the attachment or picking it up.<\/p>\n<p>Do you think you&#8217;ll be making use of this feature on the Switch 2 on the HOME Menu or in-game? Let us know in the comments.<\/p>\n<dl>\n<dt>Related Games<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"first\">\n<\/dd>\n<dt>See Also<\/dt>\n<dd class=\"first\">\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<p class=\"avatar\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"img lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/1744183269_17_avatar.jpg\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Liam Doolan\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Liam is a news writer and reviewer across Hookshot Media. He&#8217;s been writing about games for more than 15 years and is a lifelong fan of Mario, Master Chief and many other iconic video game characters.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image: Zion Grassl \/ Nintendo Life One of the unique aspects of the Switch 2 is the fact&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94217,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[37679,128,270,30813,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-94216","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-joy-con","9":"tag-nintendo","10":"tag-nintendo-switch-2","11":"tag-psa","12":"tag-technology","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94216","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=94216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94216\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}