News > Nintendo Handheld Patent
August 7, 2007
Nintendo loves filing patents. The most recent one of note is this, a description that seems to combine the Wii-mote with the Game Boy:
“A game system includes a housing to be held by a player. The housing incorporates an XY-axis acceleration sensor to detect an acceleration in an X-axis and Y-axis direction and a Z-axis contact switch to detect an acceleration in a Z-axis direction. These sensor and switch detect at least one of an amount (e.g. tilt amount, movement amount, impact amount or the like) and a direction (e.g. tilt direction, movement direction, impact direction or the like) of a change applied to the housing. A simulation program provides simulation such that a state of a game space is changed related to at least one of the amount and direction of the change applied to the housing.”
Is this the next iteration of the DS? Is it a portable Wii? Take a look, and see what you think.
*Eddie R Inzauto - Senior Editor, GameWad.com
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