{"id":804,"date":"2025-04-03T14:45:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-03T14:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philfiddyment.com\/?p=804"},"modified":"2025-04-03T21:56:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-03T21:56:00","slug":"please-make-sure-youre-wearing-trousers-when-using-switch-2s-mouse-controls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/03\/please-make-sure-youre-wearing-trousers-when-using-switch-2s-mouse-controls\/","title":{"rendered":"Please Make Sure You&#039;re Wearing Trousers When Using Switch 2&#039;s Mouse Controls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bare skin is a no-no.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>As far as reveals go, yesterday&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/guides\/nintendo-switch-2-direct-april-2025-every-announcement-game-reveal-and-trailer\">Switch 2 Nintendo Direct<\/a> played it relatively safe. The system is an upgrade on the existing (and wildly successful) Switch console that has sold more than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/02\/nintendo-switch-hardware-sales-pass-150-million-with-ps2s-record-still-a-way-off\">150 million units worldwide<\/a>, with the biggest curveballs being video chat and the introduction of mouse-style controls via the updated Joy-Con controllers.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the Nintendo Life team are currently in New York and Paris testing out the new hardware (as you&#8217;ll know from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/previews\/first-impressions-nintendo-switch-2-wows-most-when-you-go-back-to-your-old-switch\">hands-on impressions pieces<\/a> we&#8217;ve been publishing today), but we thought it might be interesting to highlight one particular point in regards to the mouse controls, as spotted by <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/games\/642493\/nintendo-switch-mouse-controls-metroid-prime-4\">The Verge<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/04\/please-make-sure-youre-wearing-trousers-when-using-switch-2s-mouse-controls\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bare skin is a no-no. As far as reveals go, yesterday&#8217;s Switch 2 Nintendo Direct played it relatively safe. The system is an upgrade on the existing (and wildly successful) Switch console that has sold more than 150 million units worldwide, with the biggest curveballs being video chat and the introduction of mouse-style controls via [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":805,"href":"http:\/\/philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804\/revisions\/805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}