Input & Sensors

Gamepad

Joy-Cons and Pro Controllers surface through the standard Gamepad API (navigator.getGamepads()). Buttons and axes follow the standard mapping, so gamepad-aware web games generally work unmodified.

Touch

The Switch touchscreen fires standard Touch events (and pointer events). Touch only works in handheld mode.

Motion / orientation

DeviceOrientationEvent is implemented to W3C spec, mapped to the Switch's landscape physical frame and verified against real hardware. Tilting the console upright reports β=+90°, and rolling right reports γ=−90°, exactly as a phone in landscape would.

Keyboard

The on-screen keyboard is available for text input.