Are you sure? I tried, expected a mouse pointer to appear on screen, but it didn’t. I used the same adapter I use to connect my mouse to my Android phone.
Edit: Just tried again, both top and bottom ports, the USB-C to A adapter plus bluetooth mouse dongle work fine in my phone, but not in the Switch. This is using a Logitech M650. I don’t think it can do it guys.
I haven’t tried connecting by bluetooth directly but I doubt that will work either. Using the Joycon as a mouse is pretty limited also - I can quite happily run my M650 over my belly and at any angle to control things, but the Joycon doesn’t convert to a mouse unless it is horizontal. The find controllers page also doesn’t really imply a mouse can be connected, just that you can use a Joycon in mouse mode.
It works. I tested it with a Logitech G305 dongle. For some stupid reason it doesn’t work in the home menu, only the joy con does. But in games that support mouse control it works. I tried it in Hogwarts Legacy
Yeah it’s definitely a different class of device. Did you see the mouse connected in any way, like as a controller, or did it just work in the right context (ie in game)?
I wonder if they did it out of some abundance of caution for security, out of fear that some 3rd party controller might find a way to hack the device.
Fair. That’s got me wondering, perhaps if you’re in a game with Joycon mouse support it might lock into mouse mode. One thing that annoys me about using a Joycon as a mouse is that you have to have it on a horizontal surface - I like using a mouse on all sorts of weird things and at different angles (eg curved sofa arms or my belly) and the Joycon doesn’t work for this in UI menus.
Are you sure? I tried, expected a mouse pointer to appear on screen, but it didn’t. I used the same adapter I use to connect my mouse to my Android phone.
Edit: Just tried again, both top and bottom ports, the USB-C to A adapter plus bluetooth mouse dongle work fine in my phone, but not in the Switch. This is using a Logitech M650. I don’t think it can do it guys.
I haven’t tried connecting by bluetooth directly but I doubt that will work either. Using the Joycon as a mouse is pretty limited also - I can quite happily run my M650 over my belly and at any angle to control things, but the Joycon doesn’t convert to a mouse unless it is horizontal. The find controllers page also doesn’t really imply a mouse can be connected, just that you can use a Joycon in mouse mode.
It works. I tested it with a Logitech G305 dongle. For some stupid reason it doesn’t work in the home menu, only the joy con does. But in games that support mouse control it works. I tried it in Hogwarts Legacy
Yeah it’s definitely a different class of device. Did you see the mouse connected in any way, like as a controller, or did it just work in the right context (ie in game)?
I wonder if they did it out of some abundance of caution for security, out of fear that some 3rd party controller might find a way to hack the device.
No, the system doesn’t tell you in any way that a mouse is connected, but when you move it in a supported game it just works
Fair. That’s got me wondering, perhaps if you’re in a game with Joycon mouse support it might lock into mouse mode. One thing that annoys me about using a Joycon as a mouse is that you have to have it on a horizontal surface - I like using a mouse on all sorts of weird things and at different angles (eg curved sofa arms or my belly) and the Joycon doesn’t work for this in UI menus.
The mouse support works in games that support it, but won’t work for system UI stuff.
Yeah, meanwhile the Joycon works in system UI, so you would think a regular mouse would also.