Comments on: nintendo working on a motion sensing wii portable?

By: Ethan

Ethan — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 00:17:46 +0000

I think that this idea is great and that nintendo makes a wii portable.I love the wii.

By: Nic

Nic — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 04:35:21 +0000

I personaly think that they should either come up with a brand new idea for a handheld. Motion Sensing is for more of a TV experiance, which is why the Wii was such a big success. The DS was too because of touch. Think about a person moving a portable system not only would it ruin the viewing angle lyk stated earlier but it would just make the player look honestly messed up and would be a hassle if your on a mivng bus and your car turns right instead of left or your killin a boss and you miss a shot and die. They should improve the DS for example if they made a new system give it two screens again make one touch not two or it would be a hassle. Make the screens widescreen and maybe even hd 480p plus, gamecube/360 graphics, better quality if you flip it open ect. More media lyk video music pics ect. a os lyk the wii channels with an updatable online option. Backwards compatibility with gba or ds gb gbc or all. Finally much much much better battery life. Of couse they dont need to put all of these in but if they did for a resonable price $250 Canadian MAX (because in 3-6 years it might cost much less you never know) I’d definetly buy it . (250 might be alot but its not much more that the PSP at launch 200 I think)

By: easy rhino

easy rhino — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 21:38:33 +0000

if this idea really was patented in japan 6 years ago then nintendo must have some pretty awesome patents currently in the works. btw, this blog post is getting a lot of press so congratulations.

By: bitbunnys.de

bitbunnys.de — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 19:55:33 +0000

Bringt Nintendo das “Wii”-Feeling auf Handhelds?…

"Wii"-ähnliches Spielen in der S-Bahn, sprich ein portables Zockgerät, bei dem sich über Hand- und Armbewegungen die Protagonisten der Games steuern lassen?…

By: Steve

Steve — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 17:49:54 +0000

or a Nintendo Phone?

By: technabob

technabob — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 16:25:25 +0000

I never said this was “top secret”.

However, companies usually try to file patents as soon as they’ve got their ducks in a row on a particular technology. This is often years before they commercialize a product. That appears to be the case here (although it was filed in Japan quite some time ago.)

If they don’t file something fairly broad and vague early on, they usually wont get the patent granted to them. That’s because if they have an idea, then someone else implements it before the patent is filed, they’ll lose out on the basis of “Prior Art.”

By: calistan

calistan — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 15:26:24 +0000

Seriously, it’s an old patent. Search the Japanese patent office site. (www.ipdl.inpit.go.jp)

From that site: Initial application 4/10/1999, abstract filed 9/6/2000, published 26/6/2001, examined 27/12/2005, registered 1/9/2006. Patent number 3847058.

End of story, right? Like I said, you will never find info on a patent site regarding something that’s top secret, like a new console. It would be a recipe for industrial espionage. The patent sites are good for getting cool drawings and finding out about stuff that was never manufactured but that’s all.

To see just how many of these things are filed by Nintendo, go to uspto.gov and search for ‘nintendo’ under ‘assignee name’. Interesting reading but there are no secrets to be found

By: asterick

asterick — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 14:42:40 +0000

I agree on the pokemon mini, except that the console was well past it’s life-span before this patent was even created (March 2007). They might be doing a VMU\PocketStation style console\controller combination. Who knows at this point.

By: calistan

calistan — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 13:24:22 +0000

It sounds a bit like the Pokemon Mini. There’s a contact switch for shaking it on the Z axis.

The uspto site has some great stuff on it but you will never find a patent for a forthcoming videogame product on there. Things usually take ages to appear. Four or five years down the line you’ll still be seeing patents that refer to Wii.

By: technabob

technabob — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 12:51:31 +0000

I thought that “foreign applications” meant other patents that were relevant to the patent, but I think you’re right. Perhaps Nintendo patented this idea in Japan several years ago, and is now asserting this right in the U.S. too.

Still, it indicates their interest in the concept.

By: easy rhino

easy rhino — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 12:42:16 +0000

this is a U.S. patent application. under foreign data it says this was filed in Japan in 1999 and 2000.

By: Richard Lee

Richard Lee — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 10:09:06 +0000

This is a stupid idea, if your turning the device then your turning the viewing screen away from your field of vision.

By having to move the device and keep your eyes focused on it at the same time, I can easily imagine a number of people will start to feel quite sick and disorientated.