7 Nintendo Switch 2 Features You Might Have Missed

The authoritative uncover of Nintendo Switch 2 details has travel arsenic a flurry, and each the accusation astatine erstwhile tin beryllium beauteous hard to handle. Now that the particulate has settled, determination are a fewer things that are worthy knowing astir this console that were either glossed implicit successful the main video, oregon relegated to supplementary material.

There are inactive plentifulness of questions concerning Switch 2 hardware and bundle that stay unanswered for now, but I deliberation these features whitethorn person been overlooked by astir radical funny successful Nintendo's latest hybrid gaming system.

I hardly utilized my Switch Joy Cons successful single-con mode, but erstwhile you bash you person to descent that wrist-strap thingy connected truthful that the auxiliary SL and SR buttons are really usable.

If you privation to acceptable up an impromptu multiplayer crippled utilizing your Switch 2 successful desktop mode, you nary longer person to interest astir schlepping those wrist strap things around, due to the fact that the caller Joy Cons person large metallic buttons that are perfectly usable arsenic is.

While I don't cognize this for sure, I deliberation this is partially due to the fact that it helps with the magnetic attachment strategy the Switch 2 uses successful lieu of rails, but it's a win-win for convenience too, fixed the cons are bigger wide now. I enjoyed playing games similar Street Fighter II against radical I met portion travelling, truthful possibly these caller cons volition marque maine much anxious to usage this unsocial controller mode.

6 It Works With Your Existing Switch Controllers

The caller Joy Cons 2 and Pro Controller 2 person received important redesigns to marque them much durable and comfortable, but isolated from the caller "C" button, and other programmable backmost buttons connected the Pro Controller 2, they don't fundamentally person immoderate caller abilities compared to the originals. For example, Nintendo has sadly decided to skip analog triggers again this generation, which sucks for racing crippled fans similar myself!

The upside of this is that your archetypal Switch controllers volition each enactment with the Switch 2, truthful if you already person a Pro Controller, for example, you don't person to fork retired for a caller 1 if you don't privation to.

5 The Pro Controller Has a Headphone Jack

The archetypal Switch is casual to usage with wired headphones, since there's a jack close connected apical of the unit. However, erstwhile you've docked the aged Switch, getting headphone audio was tricky. The optimal solution was to usage a brace of headphones with proprietary USB audio, and simply plug the dongle into the dock. Alternatively you could usage your TV oregon the Switch's built-in Bluetooth, but some are inherently laggy successful my experience.

With the Switch 2 Pro Controller, determination is present a headphone jack connected the controller itself, which brings Nintendo successful enactment with Xbox and PlayStation. Presumably, this volition beryllium a lag-free proprietary solution arsenic well.

4 The Kickstand Has Infinite Angles

The kickstand connected the motorboat Switch was a large idea, but it was cheap, nasty, and wholly unreliable. With the OLED Switch Nintendo figured it out, and gave america a prime basal that could beryllium adjusted to immoderate space with zero hazard of it popping retired astatine a moment's notice.

The bully quality is that Nintendo has opted to spell for the amended plan successful the Switch 2, and we're getting a kickstand that tin beryllium freely acceptable successful immoderate position, which volition truly unfastened up the possibilities for tabletop play.

3 DLSS Technology

While everyone assumed that, fixed the Switch 2 uses an NVIDIA RTX GPU, it would enactment technologies similar DLSS and ray tracing, Nintendo itself made nary notation of this during immoderate of its Switch 2 announcements truthful far. However, NVIDIA confirmed this successful a blog post, which means determination is nary uncertainty that the Switch 2 has entree to the premier AI-upscaling exertion of the day.

That doesn't mean that each crippled connected the Switch 2 volition instrumentality DLSS, and arsenic of this penning there's nary confirmation of immoderate games utilizing this feature, but I would beryllium earnestly amazed if developers ignored DLSS connected the Switch 2 without a precise bully reason.

2 Performance and Quality Options successful Games

With the archetypal Switch, show horsepower wasn't abundant adjacent astatine launch, but with the Switch 2 immoderate motorboat titles volition springiness you the enactment betwixt a high-fidelity mode and a precocious framework complaint mode. The large 1 present is Metroid Prime 4, which offers 4K 60fps show oregon 1080p 120fps show erstwhile docked.

Given the 120Hz LCD sheet successful the Switch 2, you besides person the enactment of playing astatine higher framework rates successful immoderate games successful handheld mode, astatine the outgo of resolution.

While determination were a fistful of games connected the archetypal Switch (e.g. Fire Emblem Warriors) that offered akin mode toggles for 30fps and 60fps, this benignant of enactment has been exceedingly rare, and I expect to spot it often connected Switch 2. Particularly erstwhile it comes to "Switch 2 Edition" games that were primitively Switch titles.

1 You Can Use Any USB Camera

Anyone who saw the Switch 2 announcement video knows that there's an authoritative camera accessory for the caller chat functionality, and that there's astatine slightest 1 third-party enactment that looks similar a piranha works from Mario, but it turns retired you tin usage beauteous overmuch immoderate USB-C camera.

The Switch 2 includes a camera investigating utility truthful you tin cheque if a camera you already person works oregon not, truthful possibly clasp disconnected buying 1 until you've tried cameras that you already own.

The worldly from Nintendo specifically mentions USB-C cameras, but there's nary method crushed you can't conscionable usage a USB-C adapter with a USB-A camera, unless Nintendo has prevented this somehow. So adjacent if you lone ain USB-A cameras, it's inactive worthy waiting to spot if they enactment oregon not. It could prevention you rather a bit.

This isn't caller crushed for Nintendo, since connected the archetypal Switch you could usage a assortment of USB accessories, including USB audio dongles for wireless headphones. So the accessory ecosystem is not rather arsenic walled-off arsenic you mightiness imagine. I anticipation that, present we cognize astir the Switch 2 rodent features, we'll besides person the enactment of utilizing immoderate USB oregon Bluetooth rodent we like, but arsenic yet there's nary confirmation of this.

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I'm beauteous definite adjacent with each the accusation that's been released truthful far, determination are astir apt adjacent much neat features hidden distant successful Nintendo's latest console, but we'll person to hold and see.