I will leave the forum forever if there is a new gamepad for their next home console. It will NEVER happen... ever. Maybe BC with Wii-U's gamepad but there is no way in HELL they will ever make that mistake again.

With all of this rumours becoming reality i see a hright future for nintendo

Using external device as a chat interface...

You can chat with friends, manage friends list, buy games, etc on Xbox One via Smartglass, and do the same things on PlayStation 4 using the PlayStation companion app, feel free to show me a nintendo "twist" here.

Both Xbox One and PlayStation 4 have three power modes, On, Suspend and Standby, the "external apparatus via a network" is just "communicating with a server", when in Suspend network functions still work for downloading updates and games, when in Standby the network functionality is turned off too, again feel free to show me a nintendo "twist" here.

Fact of the matter is, if Microsoft or Sony were applying for patents on things that the WiiU or 3DS does, the Nintendo crowd would be having a field day pulling up the usual "sony / microsoft copies!" images, but since it's Nintendo, the one that's supposed to be the innovative one, it gets a free pass.

Mind you, when it comes from a site that posts something like this as "news" - http://nintendoenthusiast.com/news/rumor-sony-starting-campaign-damage-wii-u/ the source being a mind numbingly idiotic fanboy called Tilmen who has, on multiple occasions been shown to be completely full of shit - it pretty much says it all.

I am very skeptical that you can patent such things. You might be taking a unique approach to something that already exists but that doesn't make it patentable. In order for a new twist on an existing technology or function to be patentable you've got to be able to show that what you're doing is not a reasonably obvious extension of what's already out there. What I read in the OP does not appear to meet that criteria. But there might be more detail which does show how this is a really left field approach that no one would come up with except for the brilliant creative minds at Nintendo. I'm a very hard sell when it comes to new patents on things that already exist. I pretty much dismiss the validity of all Apple's touchscreen functionality patents because as soon as touch screen tech was invented (and patented, which was not by Apple) eveything they ended up patenting (like swipe to unlock and pinch to zoom) is a reasonably obvious extension of the tech.

The patent system is out of control, IMO, with patents of highly dubious merit being submitted and, it seems, getting through because patent offices don't have the resourcing to properly assess each patent application. I can understand if Nintendo is submitting patents defensively, which is to say if they have a patent registered then patent trolls will have a harder time trying to extort money out of Nintendo. That's probably a fair defensive tactic, but it is merely a symptom of a patent system that needs serious reform.

I never said the main reason was power. I said a major reason was power. And it is. And it's installed base. It's both. And it's demographic. It's all three. And many more.

It's a complex issue and its stupid to blame just one thing, but its just as stupid to pretend its not partly one thing either. If the Wii U was on par with the other systems, it would have significantly more support. There's no argument against that, so yes. It is about the power. But it'd be stupid to think it was only about the power.

I can't tell if you're being serious.

I3LuEI3omI3eR said: I strongly believe Nintendo is making a Nintablet (Watch me get sued in a couple of months for saying this ) along with a docking mechanism for it to connect to TVs and for you to play you own software. Could be wrong about the Docking mech... but still sounds good, no?

I would seriously consider buying a Nintablet (Ha, ha you didn't copyright it but I have...right Nitnendo gimme money), if it dual booted with Android to run just like a normal tablet when you don't want to play nintendo games.

Its all coming together! Look forward to Sony copying it and unveiling it in 2018.

Not true at all, main reason why 3rd parties abandoned Wii U is terrible Wii U sales. People are forgeting that Wii U in their first year had games like Fifa, Batman, Call Of Duty, Assassins Creed, Need For Speed, Madden NFL, NBA 2K13, Mass Effect, Darksiders II, Sniper Elite, Resident Evil Revelations...but after terrible Wii U sales after launch, in 1st year all abandoned them.

Of course, not helped the facts that most of the 3rd parties are always selling worst on Nintendo platforms and that Wii U architecture isn't so simple for developing and porting games.

So basically for better 3rd party support than on Wii U, Nintendo needs to have better sales of hardware and as simple as possible architecture that allow 3rd parties easy porting games. I am pretty sure that NX will sell much better than Wii U and we already know that NX will using ARM or x86.

I think that is a point of this patents that already exist on market.