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Nintendo has filed a patent for ‘smart fluid’ joysticks, perhaps to eliminate drift | VGC (www.videogameschronicle.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Let's hope this isn't just a random patent, and we actually get better sticks next generation.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@JonDorfman, what legal challenges?

@Cicraft

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A company already makes hall effect joysticks that are JoyCon sized and they claim to hold a patent for them. I haven’t taken the time to verify, but even if they don’t have a leg to stand on they could still take Nintendo to court.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@JonDorfman I wonder how they would do that while also not violating patents on JoyCons that I suppose Nintendo has.

I have not checked, but would be surprised if they do not.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nintendo doesn’t hold a patent on the JoyCon joysticks. As far as I am aware they are an off the shelf component.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@JonDorfman, I did a quick online search for Nintendo’s JoyCon patents, and interestingly found a US one from 2023 (2020 in Japan) about what looks Hall effect analogue sticks:
https://patents.google.com/patent/US20230280850A1/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That patent is what I was referring to when I mentioned a novel approach.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

@JonDorfman, right, but Hall effect analogue sticks themselves have existed for a long time, so that technology in general (except any novel addition) is (most likely) not patented anymore.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

To be fair I hope anybody and everybody that has a leg to stand on in court does so and wastes their time and money there.

Nintendo consistently uses it's legal might in anyi-consumet ways to harm its biggest fans. As somebody that loves Nintendo games, fuck Nintendo.