At a presentation unveiling the Nintendo Switch 2, longtime Nintendo producer Kouichi Kawamoto revealed that at one point, he considered calling the

My Switch 2 hands-on started with a one-on-one race playing in TV mode. The Joy-Cons 2 felt a lot more comfortable in Nintendo’s new Joy-Con grip as I was selecting my character. In addition to Mario Kart World’s full lineup of playable characters, there were also plenty of variations of them in different outfits to choose from.

It’s a brilliant, clever addition. Metroid is one demo, but Nintendo has other implementations, and so do third parties - including full-on mouse pointer implementation in the Switch 2 version of Civilization 7. That makes that instantly the best console version of that game, by the way - chalk up a win there.