About a month ago, rumors began circulating that the Switch 2's new Joy-Cons might function like a computer mouse by gliding across a flat surface – especially after we saw the controllers sliding and drifting (no,

The strongest evidence so far that Nintendo's new console will let you use Joy-Cons as a computer mouse as well as a charging dock.

Interestingly, the patent also seems to conceive of a mouse mode for a more traditional controller. While the design of the device is rudimentary and still split in two like a Joy-Con, it is clearly one-half of a traditional gamepad with an optical sensor on the inside surface.