http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/nintendo-patents-in-game-hint-system

Nintendo has patented Shigeru Miyamoto's built-in walkthrough system where the computer can take control of characters to show them the correct route through tricky parts of the game.

Installed from a disc or online through servers, this invention hopes to reduce frustrating and time consuming elements so that more people finish games.

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Looks like Nintendo is doing another great thing for hardcore audience Then again it's good they patented it becouse now other companies won't be able to use it.

Progress Quest. Now, that was an awesome game that plays itself.

WTF?

Most games are so easy these days I'm not sure this is needed.

There's a thread on this already

What the fuck!? Miyamoto has really lost the plot.

Sorry I haven't see it when posting.

Zlejedi I can't seem to find it :P

EDIT: http://vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=56180

So as long as it's well implemented, Navi was f*cking annoying and there was no way to turn it off. This is for the new Zelda right?

It's similar but not the same. Eurogamer had confirmed what we had thought before.