A new patent was released for a device that looks very much like a DSi... or maybe it's for the 3DS?

HEY!! LOOK HERE!!!!!!! If you download THIS PDF it will explain it a lot better than I could.

Source:

http://gonintendo.com/viewstory.php?id=119881

If you are having trouble finding the "Rumble" part of it, then please direct your eyes to the second picture, and look at #66 and #312, which say Vibrating Motor and Motor Driver

So how do I know that this is for the 3DS and not the DS/DSi? The speakers (the hardware speakers, not the people speakers) gave it away.

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 and not some other thing in the DS family.

However, in the first picture, the Power On/Charging/Wi-Fi lights are in the middle-right of the device. And there are only 2 lights. The DSi has 3 lights in the middle-left side of the device. The DS Lite is the only DS that has the lights on the middle-right of the device. It seems like Nintendo is combining several aspects of both the DS Lite and the DSi. So this DS in the picture has the cameras, SD Card slot, and the OFF/ON button location of the DSi; and the speaker arrangement and the lights location of the DS Lite.

Could someone explain b) and c) to me?

I'm not sure. I would guess the rumble pak? Maybe it's detachable?

There isn't a legend for B) and C)... so... use your imagination

I just downloaded the patent. That's what it looks like

Would 3DS really have 2 GPUs like the DS would, though?

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.

hmm it's strange that it has two separate GPUs, as the tegra 2 is a system on a chip design. This could mean that it's not using a tegra chip or that nintendo have modified it so they have two sets of the GPU component as separate chips, but that would defeat the purpose of having a system on a a chip. I guess it could be that the GPUs are not traditional GPUs and are used for the 3D effect (and/or Anti-aliasing etc) but that seems a bit strange.

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.

i found this too but you were to quick for me! :P

Maybe it's some kind of hybrid - Tegra powering computation and one screen with second much less powerfull gpu powering second one.