The Nintendo Switch 2 sure seems to work just fine with a USB mouse

You’ll beryllium capable to usage a USB rodent with the Nintendo Switch 2 successful astatine slightest 1 game, arsenic a Koei Tecmo developer commentary video for the upcoming Nobunaga’s Ambition: Awakening Complete Edition revealed this week. That’s large quality if your wrists, similar mine, started preemptively cramping the archetypal clip you saw video of idiosyncratic tipping a Joy-Con 2 controller connected its borderline for rodent mode.

While demonstrating the game’s usage of the Joy-Con 2 arsenic a mouse, shaper Michi Ryu stops and plugs successful a USB mouse. The Switch 2 displays a connection that says a rodent has been connected, and helium continues to play with some a rodent and his near Joy-Con 2, switching betwixt them seamlessly, the aforesaid mode you’ll beryllium capable to spell backmost and distant betwixt gyro and rodent power in Metroid Prime 4: Beyond.

As VideoGamesChronicle notes, the archetypal Switch had rodent and keyboard support, though lone immoderate games took advantage, similar the Nightdive-developed Turok port. (If you ain that crippled and ne'er noticed the “Mouse” enactment successful its input settings, spell plug successful a USB rodent and keyboard and effort it retired — you won’t privation to spell back.)

This clip around, Nintendo is embracing rodent enactment more. For instance, the institution published a video to its Nintendo Today app earlier this month, showing that erstwhile you enactment a Joy-Con 2 connected its borderline for rodent mode, an onscreen pointer appears for navigating the system’s menu.

So does the Nobunaga’s Ambition video, mean a modular rodent works interchangeably with a Joy-Con 2 controller anyplace wherever rodent power is supported? I definite anticipation so, but we don’t cognize that yet. And Nintendo didn’t instantly respond to The Verge’s email asking if that was the case.