Diablo 4's Nintendo Switch 2 port will support Joy-Con 2 mouse controls at launch, Blizzard confirmed to Polygon after the outlet played the port at BlizzCon 2026.
The release is titled Diablo 4: Age of Hatred Collection and bundles the base game with its two expansions, Vessel of Hatred and Lord of Hatred. According to Polygon, it launched on Nintendo Switch 2 on September 14, the same day Diablo 4's Season of Hell's Legacy was scheduled to begin. That season is framed as a celebration of the Diablo series' 30th anniversary.
Switch 2 mouse controls work by resting the flat end of a Joy-Con 2 controller on a surface, which turns it into a cursor-style pointer. Polygon noted the feature is already used in games including Fortnite, Metroid Prime 4 Beyond and Sid Meier's Civilization 7, and said the support gives the Switch 2 version a control option that Diablo 4's other console versions do not have. The Joy-Con 2 controllers at the outlet's BlizzCon demo station were locked into the console in handheld mode, so Polygon was unable to test the mouse controls itself.
The BlizzCon demo
The BlizzCon build ran a Season of Hell's Legacy quest called A Journey Through The Past, set in a dungeon within the Furnace of Hate, in which players fight villains from earlier Diablo games, including Mephisto, the Lord of Hatred, and Belial, the Lord of Lies. Polygon reported that the same quest was playable on PC at the show, and that the Switch 2 port did not appear to include Nintendo-themed bonuses of the kind Diablo 3's Switch release carried.
On performance, Polygon said the port looked and ran less crisply in docked mode than the PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X versions, placing it closer to the PS4 and Xbox One releases, though it did not noticeably lag during boss fights and its loading times were fast. In handheld mode, the outlet said resolution and frame rate held steady even in busy encounters, with small in-game text the main drawback it identified.