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Patent application hints a portable Wii

Posted Aug 6, 2007 at 3:21PM EST by QJ Staff

Listed in: Wii Tags: motion-sensing, patent, Verbatim
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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.

Wii portable - Image 1 Wii portable - Image 2  


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



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# ....Guest 2007-08-06 16:26
who would want that, you would look like an idiot if you play it. Stupidest idea ever

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# wheres disc slot?Guest 2007-08-06 16:34
if it is it would have a disc slot

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# Not Wii....Guest 2007-08-06 17:37
Hand held gamecube!





i know the shapes dont look the same, but DS doesnt look like an N64 now does it!? (perspective coming from graphics wise.)

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# HmmmGuest 2007-08-06 19:35
This looks really suspicious...It is possible for company to patent ideas with intentions never to use them and only for the sole purpose of throwing people off. I'm not saying this is one of those, but it could be.

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# nokiaGuest 2007-08-06 21:13
nokia has a phone with montion sensors as well. i know it's not a "gaming" device, but there may be some patent fights...



btw, works quite well, it's an interesting concept. i played some games and i didn't feel like an idiot as firefoxx on top is saying.

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# wtf?Guest 2007-08-06 21:21
Right 1st off, that reporter sucks. Where ever he did maths, he should do it again, coz it doesnt say ANYTHING about X, Y and Z buttons. Those are the axis on which motion is detected, retard. 2ndly, I rekon this is quite a good idea, it will definately beat the next sony handheld, *c0z t3h D$ pWnz* coz sony seem to fail in every more/less every single format they came up with.

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# Surely this is just stupidGuest 2007-08-07 03:38
A handheld that you wave a round.... how would you see the screen if the whol edevice is moving? ummmmmm STUPID!!!!

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# in public?Guest 2007-08-07 06:04
People play handheld game when they don't have access to TV etc. Who would wave their game console like idiot in public? I won't.

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# No Sixaxis PSP?CHUCKINGROCKSATSPACESHIPS 2007-08-07 07:02
Does that mean that Sony can't revise their PSP with motion sensing capabilities do to copyright infringement?

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# I think that....Koru-Kun 2007-08-07 08:17
The main cause for commotion among gamers should be the directional force feedback (this is something I've been wanting in game systems for a long time now). The tilt features shouldn't be stressed... because it moves the screen as well (meaning it'll be hard to implement properly) and we don't want people tilting the handheld around while trying to keep sight of the screen, because:



1.) It'll make you look like a fool

2.) You'll be losing your balance if you get too into the game

3.) It'll make you feel like a fool when you fall down

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# No...Guest 2007-08-07 14:55
If that were the case, Sony coludn't have made a 3D portable device, and MS couldn't have made a game console...patents aren't THAT general in purpose, and aren't intended to create monopolies.

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# waaaaaaaaaGuest 2007-08-08 04:46
Gameboy tilt?

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# GOATSEGuest 2007-08-11 17:25
I LICK FECES AND EAT IT AND ***** GAY PEOPLE

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