Switch 2 Joy-Cons can be able to anticipate the next step of the player

Summary

Nintendo Switch 2 Controllers can predict players' movements based on the submission of the patent.
The patent describes the finger movement system to predict the player's inputs.
Switch 2 gets the correct revelation in April and potentially reveals new controller functions.

Joy-Con controllers used by the upcoming Nintendo Switch 2 The console could have a technology that predicts the next step of the player. Information comes from the submission of the Nintendo patent published on January 23 with reference to potential technology that could be incorporated into the Nintendo Switch 2 interface.

Nintendo Switch had a good run. The Nintendo Hybrid/Nintendo Game Machine, which was launched more than seven years ago, is the main console of the current generation. In fact, Switch has recently become the best -selling console of all time in the US and overcame the lifelong sales numbers PlayStation 2. Now Nintendo is preparing to hand over the new generation of hardware, concisely called Nintendo Switch 2. However, other questions about the console capabilities persist, to which it could be answered in the upcoming direct set of Nintendo on April 2.

What to expect from Nintendo Switch 2 Direct in April

Nintendo Switch 2 will be the subject of direct Nintendo Direct in April and the original switch can keep the key to the content of this presentation.

Some of these questions will undoubtedly be dealt with by console controllers that seem to be packed up a number of new features, including Joy-Con, originally designed for the first Nintendo switch, such as magnetic connection. One such feature could be a system for predicting future player inputs. The patent application submitted by Nintendo in August 2024 and published on January 23 describes the system that follows the position and direction of the player's finger when it is close to the buttons, with the potential to predict another player input.

Nintendo patent patents system for watching and predicting player inputs

According to a patent application that contains little more than the systemic diagram Details about the logic of the mechanism, Nintendo describes the system that follows the player's finger when he contacts the buttons on the controller. When the finger of the player moves to press other buttons in the order, the system can then automatically perform future inputs based on the order of the buttons that the player contacted or pressed. In other words, the system, as described, may record the movement patterns of the players to the driver and then perform actions based on predicting their further input. This could exterminate operations for certain things, such as selection of bids or even in a game such as offensive sequences. Predictive systems have been working in games for years, and similar attempts to use the logic of playing a game to “guess” a player input that are supported by systems such as Rollback Netcode in combat games.

It should be noted that the patent application is just an attempt to patent an idea or mechanism, not an indicator that the technology has been created or even deployed. So, the missing confirmation of Nintendo itself, no one can say whether the system is a patented system in switch 2, the original switch or any real Nintendo hardware. This means that patent applications reveal what engineers and designers Nintendo are thinking about, for example, how newspapers can work in the future Animal crossing game. Whether these systems make it real products is another matter.