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		lucretian on Jan 16, 2025 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Nintendo announces the Switch 2 [video] > * The controllers have a custom port to connect, and a little magnet-looking thing next to it the thing next to the port looks like an optical sensor to me.

VikingCoder on Jan 16, 2025 | [–]

You're probably right.

https://imgur.com/9OBN31C

At first I thought it was a dimpled magnet. Now it looks more like a lens covering a projector and another covering the receiver.

xnx on Jan 16, 2025 | [–]

I think that's for the mouse feature.

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