Topic: Nintendo Patents new peripheral...

[Hypershell]

I wonder if anyone knows how many patents are filed without ever seeing a finished product?

you mean like a Yoshi?

Thank you for killing any further innuendos that were popping up in my head.

[HyperSonicEXE]

Watching Nintendo push this [parasitic bomb] to the casuals because the Wii is printing money is just absolutely disheartening. I guess this is what we get for the Gamecube being so underwhelming last gen.

Actually, this resulted from a declining core audience and a part of a more internationally-focused marketing strategy to combat the PS3's and 360's numbers (which are only so large because they were immediately widely accepted in countries larger than Japan).

[Acid]

So does that mean Sony and Microsoft will copy the Wii in the next generation while Nintendo gets all the "hardcore" games back?

[Jericho]

I'd lol so hard if that happened and it probably will, but not to the effect people think it will. Also, this generation really really really makes me hate the classification of games as being casual or hardcore.

[Acid]

I hate those terms too.

[Solar]

Just because they made a patent doesn't mean they'll actually produce it.

Also, this generation really really really makes me hate the classification of games as being casual or hardcore.

I'm not even sure if this is better or worse than the whole kiddy vs mature crap that was before it.

[Gotham Ranger]

Also, this generation really really really makes me hate the classification of games as being casual or hardcore.

I rarely use the term hardcore in reference to gamers unless I'm talking about those unbelievably annoying, usually overweight, lispy god awful types. Tourneyfags, normally.

Until the Wii, I considered myself what a casual gamer is. I don't go out of my way to get games or consoles, I don't do tourneys, I don't try and play through mechanic abuse or frame perfection and I don't try and perfect every game I own. I simply just play what I enjoy. Nintendo's kinda killed that word, though.

[Kieran]

Claim to be semi-casual.  At the very least it should confuse people.

[Protoman Blues]

As outlined in Nintendo's patent filing, said device involves attaching motion-sensing controllers to an inflatable cushion or other sitting device. Giving the example of the Wii Remote and Nunchuk, Nintendo states that the accelerometers on the controllers would be able to sense a gamer's motion as he or she bounces on an inflatable cushion. In response, the game being played on the Wii would respond accordingly, mimicking the motion of a player riding an animal in-game.


Here's how the cushion might work.
Force feedback could also be incorporated into the device. Nintendo notes that the electronic, inflatable cushion could be outfitted with haptic feedback transmitters, which would vibrate in response to occurrences within the game. Taking it one step further, the patent also details a way in which the game could jostle the rider around to mimic a bumpy in-game ride.

So, if I'm reading this correctly, my Victory Buzz when I win in Brawl just got 50X more Victorious and Buzznificant? 

Package this with a Ridable Yoshi game, and I'm there!