New Patent for 3DS, Possible Rumble Feature? (Pictures included)

[Cobra_]

mysticwolf said:

Cobra_ said:
Look at 58 on the first and second picture and you will see that the Memory Card is a Game Card.

How can someone make a deduction that there might be a hard drive in a device because it has a CPU and RAM is beyond me. DS has a CPU and RAM. Even the old Game Boy has a CPU and RAM. Does a Game Boy have a hard drive? It doesn't, starnge as that might seem.

Anyway, according to the second picture the "motor driver" is supposed to be a part of the device which might mean that this patent is going to be used in a new handheld (if it's going to be used at all). As far as I know, DSi doesn't have any motor driver - I might be wrong though. It doesn't matter that the first picture shows the old DSi - they are not patenting the looks of the final product here, after all.

Yes, you were right about the first two parts. I don't know what I was thinking.

However, I am pretty sure this patent is not for the DSi.

If you look at the first picture, at the speakers, you will notice that each speaker has 6 speaker holes (I don't know what the "speaker holes" are actually called) on each side in a rectangular pattern. The DSi has only 1 hole on each side. This makes me assume that this is not for the DSi, or the DSi XL, because the XL has 6 holes on each side, but they are arranged in a hexagonal pattern, not rectangular. The DS Lite is the only DS with 6 speaker holes arranged rectangularly, but the DS Lite does not have cameras, or the Power button at the bottom, or an SD card slot.

THAT is why this is the 3DS. The speakers and the cameras gave it away.

Actually, when you read my third paragraph again, you might find out that I'm not arguing with you there. The patent definitely does not concern DS or DSi in my opinion. They are only using the DS/DSi handheld design for illustrative purposes here. Whether the patented feature is going to be used in 3DS remains to be seen