Nintendo quietly confirmed the C button of Nintendo's Switch 2 today

Nintendo accidentally confirmed Switch 2The mysterious button is the “C” button, in the company's new promotional materials Nintendo Today App exist Google Play Store. Revealed to happen March 2025 Nintendo DirectNintendo also announced a virtual game card and displayed it Metroid Prime 4 again. Twitter and Bluesky user WARIO64 first discovered it and released a scaled version of the image to make viewing easier.

us Speculating on the nature of the mysterious button Soon after Nintendo reveals Switch 2 At the beginning of the year. At the time, it was just a blank square, located under the “Home” button on the correct Joy-Con. This is roughly the location of the invisible NFC detector on the original switch, the tool that scans Amiibo. Given that the Switch 2 is slightly larger than its predecessor, the NFC scanner still looks like there is room for it even with the mysterious “C” button.

Of course, we still don't know what the button is actually Do. The last Nintendo console for the Nintendo button is the Nintendo 64, which has four – four buttons, which is approximately “Abxy” on the current switch. Wario64's reply is full of suggestions on what “C” might stand for, and while most of them are lustful, it seems reasonable to fit: the cursor. If switch 2 lets the user Imitate the mouse with Joy-Conas Nintendo suggested in the console's “Reveal” trailer, maybe the “C” button tells Switch 2 that it can change how it registers Joy-Con input.

No matter what it does, we don't have a longer wait. Nintendo will host another direct dedicated to Switch 2 Game Release Plan April 2, 2025.