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Motion-sensing DS on the way?
Ben Parfitt August 7, 12:51pm
Nintendo patent for movement-sensitive handheld console unearthed
Following the tremendous success of its once mocked and now reverenced motion-sensing Wii console, it has emerged that Nintendo has filed a patent for a motion-sensing handheld console, CVG reports.
Filed only a few months ago on March 30th, the patent reads: The housing [console] 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.
Technically, this sounds much like the Wii Remote and is able to sense tilt, movement and impact, and the amount of any force that is applied.
Though the picture depicts a GBA-like device, this is more than likely for illustration purposes. The DS has been such a huge success for the firm that whatever form its next handheld takes, it is sure to follow the Dual Screen's heritage.
Nintendo has dabbled in the area of motion-sensing handheld titles before with the likes of Game Boy Colour title Kirby Tilt 'n' Tumble and the quite sublime WarioWare Twisted on game Boy Advance both titles that CVG interestingly points out were banned in the UK owing to their use of mercury in the motion sensing device.
Nintendo Pateents Motion Sensor Handheld
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