Topic: Nintendo Patents new peripheral...

[Police Girl]

Nintendo's prime directive for this current console generation has been to broaden the ways in which Wii owners interact with their games. Beginning with the motion-sensing Wii Remote and Nunchuk, the Japanese company has since introduced a Balance Board, which has taken on the functionality of anything from a bathroom scale to a pair of skis, and a Vitality Sensor, which Nintendo announced at the 2009 Electronic Entertainment Expo.


An artist's representation of the device.
All that's fine and well for getting gamers to interact with their Wii in different ways, but as noted by Nintendo in a patent filing with the European Patent Office spotted by gaming site Siliconera, sometimes people just need to get on their horses and ride. Bemoaning the fact that most horse-riding simulations are often monstrous contraptions, Nintendo states that: "It would be desirable to provide an inexpensive, convenient way to realistically simulate, in the home, riding on horseback or on other animals."

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.

Nintendo's horseback riding simulator patent was initially filed with the European Patent Office on January 15, 2009, and was published on the organization's Web site in late July.

SOURCE: http://www.gamespot.com/news/6215071.html

I just don't know what to say....

[Night]

I do...


HORSEY!  

[Kit]

So do I have to hump the cushion thing?

[Gotham Ranger]

So do I have to hump the cushion thing?

Congratulations, you can now enjoy [tornado fang]ing a kirby

[Dr. Wily II]

Congratulations, you can now enjoy [tornado fang]ing a kirby

...
I have a very bad image in my head now. >_>;

[Kirby Pink]

Oh for the love of...next they are going to make Wii Clothes! For sunny and rain games! Or maybe beach ...*looks for SubTank*...okay...Beach Clothes.
I wonder how the ads for that would be.
"Girls and gals, now you can enjoy a day on the beach at home with Wii Beach Wear. Feel that sense of the beach as the game electronicly apply the beach sensation in your body"

*shudders*

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8u7px_GzWQ[/youtube]

[Irgendein]

I'm seriously having thoughts of getting rid of my Wii now I probably wouldn't though

[Kieran]

I'm sure they make pretty good doorstops at least, Irgendein.

[Jericho]

I saw this a while back and really wondered to myself what the hell Nintendo was trying to accomplish with it. This one is sooooo far out there.

[Satoryu]

looks better than the Roll n' Rocker, that's for sure. but then again, nothing's more fun than drinking Rolling Rock on the Roll n' Rocker.

[Police Girl]

looks better than the Roll n' Rocker, that's for sure. but then again, nothing's more fun than drinking Rolling Rock on the Roll n' Rocker.

Well, this is an official Nintendo peripheral and not some big hunk of plastic. But I still have it in my mind that its going to be used for way more than horseback riding, if you get my drift....

[Bag of Magic Food]

So do I have to hump the cushion thing?

Congratulations, you can now enjoy [tornado fang]ing a kirby

Or you could use it to play Humping Robot.

[Sapphire✧9]

I want Megaman Legends 3 for Wii. And a minigame to hump Roll. 

[Police Girl]

Someone, Quick! Make an Image of that! , but seriously... I thought it would be a fun joke... oh well...

[Night]

no

[Hypershell]

I can only assume somebody at Nintendo was listening a little too closely to the Raving Rabbids TV Party commercials.  But I think this can safely be filed under "crap patents that nobody intends to actually use".  How in blazes could anyone develop something strong and adjustable enough for all target audiences to sit on at a reasonable price point?  To say nothing of storage.

[Police Girl]

Nintendo states that: "It would be desirable to provide an inexpensive, convenient way to realistically simulate, in the home, riding on horseback or on other animals

riding on horseback or on other animals

other animals

I'm getting some REALLY odd thoughts in my head when I see this, I think "Riding on horseback" would've sufficed for an ending. Other animals might give people too many ideas.

Its a Vibrating Inflatable Seat, and thats all it will ever be to me...

[Rad Lionheart]

I didn't read the first post, but I get the idea.

[Satoryu]

other animals.

you mean like a Yoshi?

[tornado fang] YEAH.

[HyperSonicEXE]

I...I don't know what to say.

"Other animals" **** well better mean Yoshi's Safari 2, although it probably means pigs, etc. in the Zelda universe.

[Kit]

you mean like a Yoshi?

[tornado fang] YEAH.

SECONDED

[Gotham Ranger]

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.

[Kit]

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.

Yes I think that's exactly what happened.
Nintendo decided "Hey, we can't just put out for our hardcore fans anymore. LET'S PUT OUT TO EVERYONE."

[Gotham Ranger]

Don't get me wrong, I understand you need to make money, but there is so much friggen shovelware on the Wii and now dumb peripherals that its just.. Ugh.

[Rin]

Casualtendo at its finest. Truly, they are best of the best.

I want to remind everyone, that when that japanese Nintendo guy was talking on E3 about those casual shits, everyone was bored. Also, no one clapped when he finished.

CASUALTENDO!