>Three new Nintendo patent applications were published today, according to a thread on NeoGAF. The products seem to be a continuation of the handheld concept we saw earlier in the year. There seems to be more about the handheld’s hand/gesture tracking feature in more detail from two of the patents. The third one talks about attaching an accessory to the side of the portable device. The device uses the infrared camera to read the button presses instead of actually using any form of electrical connection between the two. In other words, the product would use the camera to detect pressed buttons, instead of electricity. We’ve included a gallery below with all the pictures of the patent products. If you want, feel free to check them out.
It's just the idea on a patent, they don't normally put complete designs on patents
Lucas Wright
>The device uses the infrared camera to read the button presses instead of actually using any form of electrical connection between the two
Is this the same technology used in the Circle pad Pro?
Camden Rodriguez
Does this confirm the Eurogamer thing? Cool
Alexander Morris
finally an etch a sketch peripheral dreams do come true
Hunter James
that looks unpossible to hold
Cameron Jenkins
The patent is just a general gist of what the thing is. It's not gonna look exactly like that.
Gabriel Cruz
Doesn't look like you could hold it too swell
Adam Cooper
NX confirmed for being a power rangers type machine.
Ryan Parker
the NX is years away if they're patenting it now
It's safe to buy a Wii U
Jace Rivera
they said it would launch in march, if anything they'll delay it to holiday 2017 at most
Zachary Thomas
The NX has been confirmed for 2017 and they patented months go, it's been published.
Andrew Mitchell
That's not how patenting works.
Grayson Cooper
no it actually disproves it.
EG said each breakable piece is a separate controler on it's own. This is an IR accessory attachable.
Aiden Lewis
So, combine this with their other recent patent for a platform that has extra processing power stored in a dock.
Connor Hernandez
>Here's your controller, bro.
Noah Long
>people still believe in the dock
there will be a handheld there will be a console both with be separate
the handheld with have an hdmi port the reason for attachable controllers is so the NX handheld is compatible with google play/phone apps that use OLED touchscreen.
Xavier Cooper
>it's real Welp, goodbye Nintendo, nice knowing you
Jaxson Carter
That's retarded, and you're even more retarded if you believe they'd seriously try to launch two standalone consoles at the same time.
Gavin Johnson
Wait a minute, does this confirm that the NX is a handheld?
Gavin Anderson
Not really. Companies patent things they don't use or don't immediately use all the time.
Carson Bell
>3DS >3DSXL >N3DS >N3DSXL
>Nintendo would never release mutiple form factors
Of course console and handheld wont launch at same time. E3 is there for a reason. You honestly think after Wii U, Nintendo would risk everything on one device and one revenue stream to make all of their money?
Isaac Watson
nintendo has soo many fucking patents. they basically patent any kind of fucking idea that randomly springs to their mind, like so many other companies, to make sure their competition doesn't do the same.
it's fucking nothing.
Liam Brooks
>a man with common sense on Sup Forums
truly a miracle to behold
Julian Morales
They already starting manufacturing NX, this isn't NX
Nicholas Williams
There wont be a console. Part of Nintendo's strategy is to get rid of having to deal with two seperate systems so they can develop more games for a single one.
Selling a $100/$300 tabletop console that plays the exact same cartridges a $200 handheld is retarded.
Eli Lee
You would think people would have learned after the last time.
Jayden Ross
Again, that's not how patents work.
Jace Morris
"However, I think that we no longer need this kind of effort under the current circumstances. In this perspective, while we are only going to be able to start this with the next system, it will become important for us to accurately take advantage of what we have done with the Wii U architecture. It of course does not mean that we are going to use exactly the same architecture as Wii U, but we are going to create a system that can absorb the Wii U architecture adequately. When this happens, home consoles and handheld devices will no longer be completely different, and they will become like brothers in a family of systems.
Still, I am not sure if the form factor (the size and configuration of the hardware) will be integrated. In contrast, the number of form factors might increase. Currently, we can only provide two form factors because if we had three or four different architectures, we would face serious shortages of software on every platform. To cite a specific case, Apple is able to release smart devices with various form factors one after another because there is one way of programming adopted by all platforms. Apple has a common platform called iOS. Another example is Android. Though there are various models, Android does not face software shortages because there is one common way of programming on the Android platform that works with various models. The point is, Nintendo platforms should be like those two examples. Whether we will ultimately need just one device will be determined by what consumers demand in the future, and that is not something we know at the moment. However, we are hoping to change and correct the situation in which we develop games for different platforms individually and sometimes disappoint consumers with game shortages as we attempt to move from one platform to another, and we believe that we will be able to deliver tangible results in the future."
.. Yes it is..? You patent things before you mass produce them
Nicholas Butler
>3DS >3DSXL >N3DS >N3DSXL >Nintendo would never release mutiple form factors This has so little to do with what he said I'm going to just pretend you didn't write it.
>You honestly think after Wii U, Nintendo would risk everything on one device and one revenue stream to make all of their money? If anything the Wii U would be an argument AGAINST keeping two consoles, since the 3DS sold perfectly well and the Wii U did terribly, and also splitting their effort on both consoles halved their much needed first party output.
Also they said that the NX is one thing, so if you think it's two separate pieces of hardware sold individually you're wrong out of the gate, and neither of the things you mentioned are original in any way, so them keeping it this hard under wraps would make precisely zero sense.
Landon Price
>there are still people who don't understand patent images
