One of the demonstrations I am most excited to see soon (hopefully next month) is IR working WITH a secondary analog stick for a different control style. Show me a First or Third Person Shooter that allows the player to change view/control camera with the right analog stick while aiming (and ONLY aiming, not turning once across adjusted boundaries) is done via IR pointing. I've been wondering how good that could be since the Wii days, and now it seems we may have an opportunity to find out.
Except you don't have to do that. You can either buy three pro controllers or, if Nintendo puts them out, three pairs of Joy-Cons. Where is there any indication that you need to buy two Switches for 4 player gameplay?
[0168] The left controller 3 also includes a record button 37. As shown in FIG. 5, the record button 37 is provided on the primary surface of the housing 31, more specifically, in a lower right area of the primary surface. The record button 37 is a button for giving an instruction to save the image displayed on the display 12 of the main unit 2. For example, when a game image is displayed on the display 12, a user can press the record button 37 to save the game image that is displayed at the point in time when the button is pressed in a storage section of the main unit 2, for example.
Well, you'd think if that was possible on one Switch, the patents would confirm it, yeah? Ideally I'd like to be proven wrong.
Given the size of slot 24, my guess is they're aiming for MicroSD for the storage.
The VR attachment is something I was expecting, even if it won't be great. With the joycons having motion control you have the whole package in a pretty cheap form factor.
Pretty cool that the Joycons have more shoulder buttons than we thought.
For the lazy, is there a summary available of everything this confirms in layman's terms? Thank you.
Likely not.
That's just in theory, but the dock has no ethernet connection.
Probably you get and USB adaptor.
It was never going to have it. People were fools to even think it would.
The patents outright say that one Switch unit can detect up to four joycons controller.
The "mystery" button on the left Joy-Con is specifically referred to as the "record" button in the patents, so it's the share button as everyone has been saying forever.
This is everything I wanted. Record imply that it will be able to record video of gameplay, that's awesome.
Well, you'd think if that was possible on one Switch, the patents would confirm it, yeah? Ideally I'd like to be proven wrong.
Assuming devs don't just focus on the pro controller and ignore the joycons anyway.
Yeah, but a joycon controller isn't equivalent to one full controller - cool for casual play, but not for anything that relies on the full suite of buttons, a feature possible in the last bunch of Nintendo consoles.
It's not a unique part of the Switch's design nor is "four player split-screen gameplay" a patentable thing. Patents aren't press releases.
This also appears to confirm that at least 4 JoyCons can be paired to one Switch system. We haven't seen that yet.
[0517] Note that where three or more controllers are used, the information processing system can be used in various other modes, other than the modes of use shown in FIGS. 37(a) and 37(b). For example, the information processing system can be used in a mode in which a user uses a pair of left and right controllers while another user uses one controller. For example, a user can use a controller or controllers attached to the main unit 2 while another user uses a controller or controllers detached from the main unit 2.
It just says "image" though.
I don't get what's your concern exactly. The Switch unit can detect up to four joycons controller, and then you'll have to use pro controllers if you want to play with more people.
It just says "image" though.
This confirms:
- IR camera at the bottom of the right joycon
The "mystery" button on the left Joy-Con is specifically referred to as the "record" button in the patents, so it's the share button as everyone has been saying forever.
Phew, I got a 128gb ready.
And it seems like I'll have to buy an ethernet adapter on launch too.
Don't they just have 2 shoulder buttons each?
That specific paragraph only mentions taking screenshots.This is everything I wanted. Record imply that it will be able to record video of gameplay, that's awesome.
that makes senseVideo recording is something more related to the OS rather than hardware, so I can see why this patent doesn't specify that option
GIFS > videosWell, videos are series of image
Well, they have both the 'shoulder buttons' as understood in terms of the main Switch unit and controller grip, but also their own 'shoulder buttons' on the inside where they meet the tablet. Thus theoretically they have four 'shoulder buttons', though two would be incredibly awkward to use while playing.
Is there a led emitter in the patent like the wii sensor bar had?
I find that ir camera weird because and ir camera is not needed to aim at the screen.
Yeah, I'm just saying I thought the patent would showcase that sort of setup if it was possible, but maybe not. Just concerned we haven't seen that setup yet.
He was asking if ethernet as a whole was de-confirmed, and the patent does explicitly say a network connection can be made with the dock which is different than that with the handheld. An adapter may be needed, yes, but people were thinking they wouldn't even let you do that.
It has support for different connections when docked vs undocked, so it should support ethernet, although through a USB > ethernet adapter.
This confirms:
- Shoulder buttons on the connection portion of the joycons
- IR camera at the bottom of the right joycon
- Fan inside the tablet and dock EDIT: Nevermind, nothing in the patent explicitly says anything about a fan in the dock
- Downclock when in portable mode
- Possible to connect to a wired internet connection when docked
- 4 joycons usable on one Switch
- Different types of joycons (with D-pad, etc.)
- Possibly usable in a VR HMD
Probably more, but that's what I can think of now.
He was asking if ethernet as a whole was de-confirmed, and the patent does explicitly say a network connection can be made with the dock which is different than that with the handheld. An adapter may be needed, yes, but people were thinking they wouldn't even let you do that.
It has support for different connections when docked vs undocked, so it should support ethernet, although through a USB > ethernet adapter.
Honestly with the size of the tablet it seems unlikely, the size projections from the several views we seen both in the reveal and the tonight show put this very close to the size of an amazon fire 7. With one next to me currently I can tell you I wouldn't want this mounted on my headI think they've only patented the VR HMD just in case a third party wants to create an addon, then they need to pay a licensing fee. At least for the current Switch, VR makes no sense.
Possible VR cradled? Does this mean 1080p screen?
Also, like mentioned above, an IR pointer can't replace multi-touch adequately at all.
I don't see anything in the patent about any IR emitters, though the rumor is that the top of the Switch screen acts as an IR emitter when docked.
There's no camera on the Switch, is there?
There's no camera on the Switch, is there?
Talking about the shoulder buttons inside? If so yesAre shoulder buttons confirmed for the Joycons?
So does this IR sensor we'll need to have the docked system facing us in order to work properly? Particularly for things that use the right joycon as a pointer/aimer?
I hope not. My Switch was gonna be tucked away in my TV shelf.
Thats one massive post.
Did they file a patent for 14nm pascal architecture?