Nintendo Designed A Playdate-like Crank For The Switch 2

Nintendo has eyed adding a Playdate-style crank to nan Switch 2, according to a precocious spotted patent from Nintendo Patents Watch. The hypothetical accessory would adhd search rotational activity to an existing container of Joy-Con 2 controller tricks that includes mobility and rodent controls.

Based connected nan patent application, nan crank accessory attaches to nan broadside of a Joy-Con 2 magnetically, not dissimilar nan controllers' wrist straps. Whichever crippled supports nan accessory tin usage nan Joy-Con 2's rodent sensor to way nan rotations of nan crank arsenic an input. Fishing games aliases games pinch dedicated sportfishing mini-games, for illustration Animal Crossing: New Horizons, seem for illustration nan evident contenders for an accessory for illustration this, but knowing Nintendo location are weirder possibilities, too.

Another patent imagines a akin setup being utilized for a clickable wheel. The patent illustrations looks for illustration a lighter, but nan accessory could conscionable arsenic easy beryllium utilized while dragging a Joy-Con 2 on a surface. It mightiness moreover adhd other guidance aliases clash to nan Switch 2's rodent controls.

Given that these are patent applications, there's nary guarantee Nintendo plans connected turning either of them into existent products. Still, they're a glimpse astatine nan Switch 2's untapped imaginable for supporting goofy accessories, thing that defined a bully information of nan Wii's lifespan.

The wildest Nintendo sewage pinch nan original Switch was Nintendo Labo, cardboard accessories that turned nan console into everything from a VR headset to a elemental sportfishing rod. A crank mightiness beryllium nan first of respective adventurous accessories for Nintendo's caller console.