Nintendo promises that Switch 2’s mouse feature works on your pants

Nintendo Switch 2’s brand new mouse mode will work well on your pants, according to the system’s producer.

During a press conference recently, Kouichi Kawamoto spoke about the new feature. He went as far as to say that for some members of the Drag x Drive development team, they preferred playing the game that way.

When asked about how the new mouse functionality for Nintendo Switch 2 came about, Kawamoto had this to say:

“So as I was playing PC games, the experience of playing is fun, it’s engaging, and I was thinking ‘what if we could bring this to the Nintendo Switch 2?’ So we brought it to the Nintendo Switch 2. But […] usually the table is quite far away from where you’re sitting on the sofa, so it generally depends on the material, but we’ve made adjustments so that you can control the mouse on your pants. And I don’t know if you’ve had the chance to play this, but Drag x Drive, you can play it by using the mouse controller on your pants. There were some people on the development team, [for whom] that was their preferred way of playing the game.”

Many games are looking to take advantage of the new mouse mode. Drag x Drive is Nintendo’s big game built around the feature, but it will also be present in Metroid Prime 4, Hogwarts Legacy, Borderlands 4, Civilization 7, and more.

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