Switch 2 Joy-Cons could be able to predict the player's next move

Summary

  • Nintendo Switch 2 Joy-Con controllers may include players' movements based on a patent depot.

  • The patent describes a system for monitoring the movement of the fingers to predict the player's inputs.

  • The Switch 2 will receive a correct presentation in April, potentially revealing new controller features.

Joy-Con controllers used by the next Switch 2 The console could have a technology in them which provides for a player's next move. The information comes from a Nintendo patent deposit published on January 23, referring to potential technologies that could be incorporated into the Nintendo Switch 2 interface.

The Nintendo switch had a good race. Launched more than seven years ago, the gaming machine for Palmari/Nintendo hybrid desktop is the main console of the current generation. In fact, the switch has recently become the best -selling console of all time in the United States, exceeding the life numbers of PlayStation 2 life. Now, Nintendo is preparing to pass the torch to a new generation of hardware, rightly called Nintendo Switch 2. After months of losses and voices, the company officially presented Switch 2 with a short trailer. Other questions remain about the console's skills, which could be answered in a nintendo direct set for April 2nd.

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Some of these questions undoubtedly deal with the console controllers, which seem to pack a series of new features, including the Joy-Con features originally intended for the first Nintendo Switch, such as magnetic attachment. One of these features could be a system to predict players' future inputs. A patent application presented by Nintendo in August 2024 and published on January 23 describes in detail a system that keeps track of the player's position and direction of the finger when the buttons approach, with the potential to predict the player's next input.

Nintendo patent system to trace and predict the player's inputs

According to the patent application, which has little more than a system flow diagram that details the logic of the mechanism, Nintendo describes a system that keeps track of the player's finger while contacting the buttons on a controller. When the player's finger moves to press other sequence buttons, the system can therefore automatically perform future inputs based on the order of the buttons that the player has contacted or pressed. In other words, the system as described can record the movement models of the players' fingers on the controller, then perform actions based on the forecast of their next input. This could smooth out operations for certain things, such as menus selections or even game actions as attack sequences. Predictive systems are working in games for years and similar attempts to use the game logic to “guess” the input systems of a player such as Rollback Netcode in combat games.

It should be noted that a patent application is simply an attempt to patent an idea or a mechanism, and not an indicator that the technology has been built or even distributed. Therefore, absent confirms by Nintendo himself, nobody can say if the patented system is in Switch 2, the original switch or any actual hardware that Nintendo has made. Having said that, the patent applications reveal what the engineers and designers of Nintendo think, as the newspapers could work in the future Crossing of animals game. The fact that these systems transform it or not into real products is a different question.

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Nintendo Switch 2

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2025

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