New patent application from Nintendo

[Soundwave]

spemanig said:

Soundwave said:
Shrugs. I wouldn't mind if the hardware (NX portable) actually looked fairly close to that. Just give it the X/Y buttons. I really like the Vita form factor.

But it won't.

There's no way of really knowing right now. Besides what exactly is wrong with that layout? I think it's the most functional and probably the most practical. 

Having to have two screens just so you can have a touch panel is incredibly inefficient today, it costs more money, takes up size in the unit (so you have less heat dissipation for your chipset), makes the system heavier, and eats battery life even in games where it does practically nothing.