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Subscribe from just £3 Takes you closer to the games, movies and TV you love Try a single issue or save on a subscription Issues delivered straight to your door or device From£9.99View Summer Game Fest schedule 2025 New games 2025 Upcoming Switch 2 games Recommended reading Nintendo Switch 2 Before Nintendo even confirmed the Switch 2's mouse controls, Shovel Knight spin-off devs started making a co-op game with a cursed "Frankenstein Joy-Con 2 alternative" Nintendo Switch Switch 2 also supports USB mice "seamlessly," and a video with 500 views beat Nintendo to the punch on the hardware reveal I've been waiting for Nintendo Switch 2 Nintendo confirms that Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Cons will have mouse controls built-in Nintendo Switch 2 design – the biggest changes and features revealed so far Nintendo producer thought up the Switch 2's mouse controls while playing PC games, says you can "control the mouse on your pants" as usually the table is "quite far away" from the sofa Nintendo Switch 2 Nintendo hopes "having the freedom of mouse control" with the Switch 2 Joy-Con will help more PC developers "bring their games" to the new console Nintendo Switch 2 Metroid Prime 4: Beyond sold me on the Switch 2 mouse controls in a way that Civilization 7 and Mario Party Jamboree couldn't I never thought I'd have to issue a spoiler warning for the Switch 2 system menu, but Nintendo is already revealing hidden mouse control Easter eggs Dustin Bailey 28 May 2025 I thought Nintendo had given up on these kinds of "fun little details" When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. (Image credit: Nintendo) As we inch closer to the launch of Switch 2, Nintendo continues to provide tiny morsels of new information about the console via the Nintendo Today app's drip feed. This time, the company's reveal might actually be a spoiler, as it details a fun little Easter egg you might otherwise just stumble across on the system menu. "There are some fun little details in the 'How to Use Mouse Controls' section of the Controllers setting on the HOME Menu," the latest Nintendo Today post says, showing a help menu describing those mouse controls. This tutorial reconfirms that you can use mouse controls in the home menu or "in compatible software," and the latter is demonstrated through a fake screenshot of a game where you click balloons to pop them. Except it's not quite so fake after all. You may like Before Nintendo even confirmed the Switch 2's mouse controls, Shovel Knight spin-off devs started making a co-op game with a cursed "Frankenstein Joy-Con 2 alternative" Switch 2 also supports USB mice "seamlessly," and a video with 500 views beat Nintendo to the punch on the hardware reveal I've been waiting for Nintendo confirms that Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Cons will have mouse controls built-in "Click the icon on the instruction screen and a sound effect will play," the post continues. "Click on a balloon to pop it." That's it – you just click the balloons and they pop. It doesn't turn into a whole secret minigame or anything, but I'm still glad to see these kinds of details here. Nintendo's historically been known for packing a lot of personality into its UI design, but the Switch menu has always been pretty sterile, so it's nice to see Switch 2 lean in that direction a little more. Here are all the Switch 2 launch games that'll be landing next week. 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Before Nintendo even confirmed the Switch 2's mouse controls, Shovel Knight spin-off devs started making a co-op game with a cursed "Frankenstein Joy-Con 2 alternative" Switch 2 also supports USB mice "seamlessly," and a video with 500 views beat Nintendo to the punch on the hardware reveal I've been waiting for Nintendo confirms that Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Cons will have mouse controls built-in Nintendo Switch 2 design – the biggest changes and features revealed so far Nintendo producer thought up the Switch 2's mouse controls while playing PC games, says you can "control the mouse on your pants" as usually the table is "quite far away" from the sofa Nintendo hopes "having the freedom of mouse control" with the Switch 2 Joy-Con will help more PC developers "bring their games" to the new console Latest in Games Exec on former GTA 5 lead's new open-world game MindsEye says negative reactions have come from a "financed" and "concerted effort to trash the game and the studio" It's not looking good: Helldivers 2 players lost another Super Earth city, so now they've got reduced ammo and Stims – oh wait, they're back to normal and we've free napalm too Cyberpunk 2 has entered pre-production, as The Witcher 3 leaps above Super Mario Bros to sell 60 million copies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 publisher says GTA 6 and Rockstar can make ballooning AAA budgets and team sizes work, but "there's been a lot of irresponsible practices in the industry" from others who can't Switch N64 emulation is about to get a whole lot better, but only on Switch 2 because it takes the power of next-generation hardware to apply a basic CRT filter A Skyrim player has put their body on the line and proved High Hrothgar's 7,000 steps are actually just 3,600, but they still took 45 minutes to climb Latest in News Exec on former GTA 5 lead's new open-world game MindsEye says negative reactions have come from a "financed" and "concerted effort to trash the game and the studio" It's not looking good: Helldivers 2 players lost another Super Earth city, so now they've got reduced ammo and Stims – oh wait, they're back to normal and we've free napalm too Cyberpunk 2 has entered pre-production, as The Witcher 3 leaps above Super Mario Bros to sell 60 million copies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 publisher says GTA 6 and Rockstar can make ballooning AAA budgets and team sizes work, but "there's been a lot of irresponsible practices in the industry" from others who can't Switch N64 emulation is about to get a whole lot better, but only on Switch 2 because it takes the power of next-generation hardware to apply a basic CRT filter Game of Thrones creator George R.R. 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