Patent application hints a portable Wii
Well, well, what do we have here? Looking at the images below (click for full image) may not reveal a whole lot to the uninitiated, but buried within the techie script and the blueprints is a very interesting concept. What we’re looking at could be the groundwork for a portable version of the Nintendo Wii game console.
Sounds far-fetched? For now, perhaps. The fact of the matter is that this patent features a game system in a handheld casing with motion-sensing capabilities. It has X, Y and Z buttons and seems to indicate W-Fi connectivity. If that doesn’t sound like a Wii, we don’t know what does. In verbatim, an excerpt from the patent reads:
A game system includes a housing to be held by a player. The housing 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. These sensor and switch detect at least one of an amount (e.g. tilt amount, movement amount, impact amount or the like) and a direction (e.g. tilt direction, movement direction, impact direction or the like) of a change applied to the housing. A simulation program provides simulation such that a state of a game space is changed related to at least one of the amount and direction of the change applied to the housing.
We hope you were able to decipher the fancy talk. In any case, this is a prospect that we’ll be keeping a very close eye on. What do you think? Are we ready for a handheld Wii?
Via US Patent & Trademark Office
Well, well, what do we have here? Looking at the images below (click for full image) may not reveal a whole lot to the uninitiated, but buried within the techie script and the blueprints is a very interesting concept. What we’re looking at could be the groundwork for a portable version of the Nintendo Wii game console.
Sounds far-fetched? For now, perhaps. The fact of the matter is that this patent features a game system in a handheld casing with motion-sensing capabilities. It has X, Y and Z buttons and seems to indicate W-Fi connectivity. If that doesn’t sound like a Wii, we don’t know what does. In verbatim, an excerpt from the patent reads:
A game system includes a housing to be held by a player. The housing 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. These sensor and switch detect at least one of an amount (e.g. tilt amount, movement amount, impact amount or the like) and a direction (e.g. tilt direction, movement direction, impact direction or the like) of a change applied to the housing. A simulation program provides simulation such that a state of a game space is changed related to at least one of the amount and direction of the change applied to the housing.
We hope you were able to decipher the fancy talk. In any case, this is a prospect that we’ll be keeping a very close eye on. What do you think? Are we ready for a handheld Wii?
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