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[DrROBschiz]

This seems to suggest a more advanced rumble feature, like the xbone trigger rumble but more advanced



Patents don't suggest final product looks in any way. Also see: 3D printed fake earlier this year.

Dont start playing me like a fiddle you hope giver!

 

[shandy706]

If those drawings did actually represent the handheld (throws up).

 

[Somnid]

First Prototype photo!!!! OMG!

Seriously, it's literally a slightly modified bottom half of an XL used to represent a handheld device with bottom mounted speakers.

 

[Disorientator]

Was thinking of posting about it last week, but though it wasn't worth it since it seems to revolve around the rumble/speakers setup.

 

[The_Lump]

Anyone else starting to really want a game featuring this guy?

 

[Skittzo0413]

Quoting for new page (and visibility):

Quoting myself from the other thread:





This patent application has nothing to do with a handheld console, screen in a console, a portable, or anything like that. It's only concerned with the interplay between the speakers and vibration.

Nothing to see here folks.

These drawings do not represent any sort of final product, just examples of how the vibration/speaker concept can be integrated into a product. Please do not assume the drawings imply anything about the NX.

Spoiler

I'm just talking to myself aren't I

 

[Eradicate]

We're talking about this, when we could be talking about this:

Anyone else starting to really want a game featuring this guy?

LOL!! I love this guy! I like in the one other patent where he's got a gun and is shooting dodongos!

 

[Bitch Pudding]

Surprise. Nintendo's secret is

Spoiler

they are building a phone

.

Now all they need to do is to implement Windows phone as OS and this thing will be selling like gangbusters. /S


Don't like it.

 

[Easy_D]

First Prototype photo!!!! OMG!

How did you find a picture of my XL???

 

[Skittzo0413]

We're talking about this, when we could be talking about this:

LOL!! I love this guy! I like in the one other patent where he's got a gun and is shooting dodongos!

Why haven't I seen that before? Is it about yoga/stretching/fitness instruction by using the video chat on the gamepad?

 

[phanphare]

Anyone else starting to really want a game featuring this guy?

yeah there's potential there for a 2D platformer with an art and animation style like cup head. I can already see that guy walking around bouncing his shoulders and doing his arms like those old school cartoons.

 

[Eolz]

When will people understand that patents are not to show how hardware will look bit how it works?
No need to put more analog sticks or screens as long as it is understandable and not linked to the new tech.

 

[Eradicate]

Why haven't I seen that before? Is it about yoga/stretching/fitness instruction by using the video chat on the gamepad?

Haha, it's bizarre because the pictures keep featuring the lady and her contortions! Here is the link (hope it works!): https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/detail.jsf?docId=US174286893 Or it's under US20160189411, if that helps!

It has something to do with the camera, but it is just crazy!

 

[Reversed]

We're talking about this, when we could be talking about this:

LOL!! I love this guy! I like in the one other patent where he's got a gun and is shooting dodongos!

There's a Simpsons image for this where Homer is taking a piss on a panda (?) suit?

 

[CentralScrutinizer]

Looks like Nintendo is going to make a handheld that looks like a phone (I guess like an iPod touch), runs android, and comes with a casing that makes it look like a traditional handheld.

That's a way to grab kids while also remaining true to the past. Honestly, I don't like it.

 

[Oersted]

When will people understand that patents are not to show how hardware will look bit how it works?
No need to put more analog sticks or screens as long as it is understandable and not linked to the new tech.

It does not help that OP only posted the images and zero description.

 

[Hermii]

Quoting for new page (and visibility):



These drawings do not represent any sort of final product, just examples of how the vibration/speaker concept can be integrated into a product. Please do not assume the drawings imply anything about the NX.

Spoiler

I'm just talking to myself aren't I

People point this out in every single patent thread, yet People always keep assuming the Pictures are whats patented.

 

[UnemployedVillain]

When will people learn patent drawings don't necessarily represent actual product designs? For fucks sake, I can't tell if some of you are being sarcastic or you're falling for this yet again

 

[Skittzo0413]

Haha, it's bizarre because the pictures keep featuring the lady and her contortions! Here is the link (hope it works!): https://patentscope.wipo.int/search/en/detail.jsf?docId=US174286893 Or it's under US20160189411, if that helps!

It has something to do with the camera, but it is just crazy!

Looks like it's about fitting yourself into the image boundary to do a proper stretch... Seems like Kinect or even Eye Toy can be prior art to that.

Looks like Nintendo is going to make a handheld that looks like a phone (I guess like an iPod touch), runs android, and comes with a casing that makes it look like a traditional handheld.

That's a way to grab kids while also remaining true to the past. Honestly, I don't like it.

Or, perhaps, it's a schematic drawing of one example of how two speakers and a vibration mechanism can be integrated into a video game device and examples of how those features can work together.

 

[CentralScrutinizer]

Looks like it's about fitting yourself into the image boundary to do a proper stretch... Seems like Kinect or even Eye Toy can be prior art to that.



Or, perhaps, it's a schematic drawing of one example of how two speakers and a vibration mechanism can be integrated into a video game device and examples of how those features can work togethe.

I guess the part that's throwing me off is then showing a small touch screen device that looks like a phone with no physical buttons.

 

[cartographer]

I guess the part that's throwing me off is then showing a small touch screen device that looks like a phone with no physical buttons.

The part that's throwing you off is trying to read anything into what the devices in these images look like.

 

[LambdaTeos]

When will people understand that patents are not to show how hardware will look bit how it works?
.

That would make sense... so... I dare to say: Never.

 

[Oersted]

Looks like Nintendo is going to make a handheld that looks like a phone (I guess like an iPod touch), runs android, and comes with a casing that makes it look like a traditional handheld.

That's a way to grab kids while also remaining true to the past. Honestly, I don't like it.

No. This patent gives us no hint about the design. This patent is not about the design.

 

[AquaWateria]

I honestly can't take Nintendo threads seriously anymore especially with GAF.

First with not putting description in the OP, click bait titles that are misleading, and etc.

I mean there have been good discussion and all but most of time its useless comments.

 

[CentralScrutinizer]

The part that's throwing you off is trying to read anything into what the devices in these images look like.

I'm not looking at the looks, I'm thinking about the function. Why patent one idea with physical buttons that clearly looks like a traditional handheld and then show a phone like touch screen only device. Really makes you wonder exactly what this is.

 

[Eradicate]

There's a Simpsons image for this where Homer is taking a piss on a panda (?) suit?

(That episode?)

Looks like it's about fitting yourself into the image boundary to do a proper stretch... Seems like Kinect or even Eye Toy can be prior art to that.

That's what it seems like! Do any of the Wii/Wii U Fit games have that in it? Maybe Just Dance? (I've never played any of those, but they seem like they'd have that type of feature of trying to match a body position.)

 

[Broken Joystick]

I honestly can't take Nintendo threads seriously anymore especially with GAF.

First with not putting description in the OP, click bait titles that are misleading, and etc.

I mean there have been good discussion and all but most of time its useless comments.

OP's source was ZhugeEX, so what do you expect

 

[Tal Shiar Agent]

The Game Boy Next.



I wish.

 

[AmyS]

Hmm that looks familiar.

Oh, no wonder.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1113452

Filed: 02/19/2015
Published: 09/17/2015

 

[Dark Cloud]

OK. Somebody who actually understands patents and what this means can you explain to me? Because all that's being done is misinformation from this is going to spread all over the internet AGAIN with people who don't know how to interpret parents, but instead look at the picture and just say "it's the NX with no buttons or it's tongue activated?!"

 

[LordRaptor]

Do any of the Wii/Wii U Fit games have that in it? Maybe Just Dance? (I've never played any of those, but they seem like they'd have that type of feature of trying to match a body position.)

Well, its not exactly a fitness game, but...

 

[cartographer]

I'm not looking at the looks, I'm thinking about the function. Why patent one idea with physical buttons that clearly looks like a traditional handheld and then show a phone like touch screen only device. Really makes you wonder exactly what this is.

There's no need to wonder. It's explained to you in this thread what the patent is.

Saying "it's not about the looks" and then trying to draw conclusions about the looks is sort of silly.

The buttons don't matter.

 

[AmyS]

It's all starting to come together now, I think.

 

[Plinko]

OK. Somebody who actually understands patents and what this means can you explain to me? Because all that's being done is misinformation from this is going to spread all over the internet AGAIN with people who don't know how to interpret parents, but instead look at the picture and just say "it's the NX with no buttons or it's tongue activated?!"

They already did on the first page.

 

[Skittzo0413]

I'm not looking at the looks, I'm thinking about the function. Why patent one idea with physical buttons that clearly looks like a traditional handheld and then show a phone like touch screen only device. Really makes you wonder exactly what this is.

The claims for this patent revolve specifically around the rumble and speakers.

Typically in patent applications the drawings are meant only to illustrate potential ways in which the inventive concept (rumble and speakers in this case) can be implemented into a product. Usually those drawings are intentionally simplified in order to be able to focus on that inventive concept, and therefore they leave out many other aspects of the final product so as not to cause confusion.

In this case a simple handheld device is all that's needed to illustrate this concept. It could very well be implemented into a standard console controller too, but if they used that as an illustrative example they would needlessly complicate the description, as they would have to discuss the connection and communication to the TV, they'd have to introduce a whole other console and describe that, and since the console and TV have nothing to do with the inventive concept, there is no reason to show those embodiments.

Edit:

They bring up one example with the touch screen to show how the speakers can create a jingle when you touch a certain area on the screen, and the button based example shows how the speakers can be activated upon a button press. Again, these are simple illustrative examples of how the speakers/rumble interplay can work, nothing more.

 

[Dark Cloud]

They already did on the first page.

Rumble and speakers? Meh.

 

[CentralScrutinizer]

There's no need to wonder. It's explained to you in this thread what the patent is.

Saying "it's not about the looks" and then trying to draw conclusions about the looks is sort of silly.

The buttons don't matter.

You can walk away thinking whatever you want. I'm going to walk away wondering why the patent shows a phone like device. If the image doesn't matter, they could've easily shown a device with actual buttons in this patent, they chose to show something that looks like a phone.

You can say images don't matter, but the images are there for a reason. I'm not saying their next handheld will 100% take the form of a phone. But you can't rule out the possibility.

I don't get why you're being so defensive over this.

 

[PapaEmeritus]

I have to

 

[LambdaTeos]

You can walk away thinking whatever you want. I'm going to walk away wondering why the patent shows a phone like device. If the image doesn't matter, they could've easily shown a device with actual buttons in this patent, they chose to show something that looks like a phone.

You can say images don't matter, but the images are there for a reason. I'm not saying their next handheld will 100% take the form of a phone. But you can't rule out the possibility.

I don't get why you're being so defensive over this.

i would assume it's because every time a thread like this appears in GAF, people start going waaay tooo faaar.


like...waaaaaayy tooooooooo faaaarrr

If there was an image of a table, a simple, wooden table, in any of those pictures, there would be people thinking Nintendo would start selling tables...

(let's be honest, i Nintendo started selling tables, some people would buy them...)

 

[JCX]

Image from patent seems familiar....

I guess a 2d walking sim will be the NX's killer app.

 

[cartographer]

You can walk away thinking whatever you want. I'm going to walk away wondering why the patent shows a phone like device. If the image doesn't matter, they could've easily shown a device with actual buttons in this patent, they chose to show something that looks like a phone.

You can say images don't matter, but the images are there for a reason. I'm not saying their next handheld will 100% take the form of a phone. But you can't rule out the possibility.

I don't get why you're being so defensive over this.

Aren't you the one being defensive? Multiple people have explained this to you and you keep pushing back, ignoring what they tell you and repeating "but it looks like a phone."

Stop projecting. People are trying to help you understand.

 

[Skittzo0413]

You can walk away thinking whatever you want. I'm going to walk away wondering why the patent shows a phone like device. If the image doesn't matter, they could've easily shown a device with actual buttons in this patent, they chose to show something that looks like a phone.

You can say images don't matter, but the images are there for a reason. I'm not saying their next handheld will 100% take the form of a phone. But you can't rule out the possibility.

I don't get why you're being so defensive over this.

The images are there for a reason. They are intended to show the simplest application of the inventive concept. In this case a handheld with a screen is all that is needed to show:

1) The mechanical layout of the speakers and vibration mechanism.

2) The ability for the speakers and vibration to react to something on a screen.

3) The ability for the speakers and vibration to react to a user's input, whether it be a touch screen input or button input.

That is all. The images do not imply anything else whatsoever.

I work with patents for a living, please trust me on this.

 

[AmyS]

Now all Nintendo needs is the most badass processor on the planet to run all this shit.

Spoiler

it's too krazy

 

[LordRaptor]

You can walk away thinking whatever you want. I'm going to walk away wondering why the patent shows a phone like device. If the image doesn't matter, they could've easily shown a device with actual buttons in this patent, they chose to show something that looks like a phone.

The patent covers speakers + rumble specifically in a casing, not integrated into a device.
So an illustrative example of a phone looking device - which is its own device that does not have stereo speakers or rumble - can be put into a casing which does have those, and provide that functionality.

 

[Eradicate]

The Game Boy Next.



I wish.

You know...I think it'd be awesome if the NX came with a mobile unit that's basically an upgraded Game Boy Micro you can take around and do stuff with. Small enough that it doesn't take up pocket real estate, but throw in a touch screen and maybe another input or two. Give it an Android knock-off to play their new smartphone games (in case you don't have a smartphone) and other mini-titles (VMU-style) from NX games and amiibos.

Well, its not exactly a fitness game, but...

LOL!!!! How come I've never seen this before?! NX is just a Muscle March machine confirmed!

 

[Dreamwriter]

You can walk away thinking whatever you want. I'm going to walk away wondering why the patent shows a phone like device. If the image doesn't matter, they could've easily shown a device with actual buttons in this patent

Like the very first one posted?

Again you are making this about the looks, but they do not matter, the patent is about speakers and vibrations, not about a specific handheld device.

 

[TheHolyTurnip]

If there was an image of a table, a simple, wooden table, in any of those pictures, there would be people thinking Nintendo would start selling tables...

(let's be honest, i Nintendo started selling tables, some people would buy them...)

 

[Oersted]

It would be absolutely useless for Nintendo to reveal the design trough patents without patenting the design.

 

[10k]

Saw this in @KingAveryGames video two days ago.

Looks like a smartphone controller or something that won't be used for years.

 

[DXB-KNIGHT]

So could the second screen actually be your phone hooked to the controller?