These brand new GL and GR buttons sit in a neat spot that'll be handy for programming and remapping inputs - which they are confirmed to be able to do by Switch 2 designer Kouichi Kawamoto.

Even after Nintendo basically confirmed that the Switch 2 would incorporate mouse functionality right into its diminutive controllers, I erred on the side of skepticism. Could the Switch actually replicate one of the most universal ways people play games into their console in such a novel way?

To show off a combination of the two elements, today's Nintendo Direct had a golf game called Speed Golf, where players use the mouse and gyroscope to angle how they hit a golf ball. This is described as a tech demo in the presentation and that seems about right.