By Nick Pino
In somewhat unsurprising fashion, Nintendo hasn’t been the best source for information on its still-under wraps game console, the Nintendo NX.
Besides the company’s new president Tatsumi Kimishima saying that the system will be “something unique and different,” and not a successor to the Wii U or Nintendo 3DS, all we’ve had to work with in the past few months are small patent leaks. (If you might recall, we saw another similar patent that looked like a controller last month.)
Following on that trend, a user named Disorienter on the fansite NeoGAF discovered a new patent for what looks like the Nintendo NX’s controller.
Seen in the pictures above and below, the controller looks to be using motion and touch controls, similar to how you use a mobile phone. But the controller won’t be all touch-controlled, either. There appears to be two shoulder buttons, two thumbsticks and some form of card slot.
Where are the traditional A,B,X,Y buttons, you ask?
One theory floating around is that the controller’s touch screen will display contextual controls. So instead of pressing the ‘A’ button to jump, you might instead see a jump button on the …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Gaming
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