{"id":90627,"date":"2016-04-26T14:59:55","date_gmt":"2016-04-26T12:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=90627"},"modified":"2016-04-26T15:01:22","modified_gmt":"2016-04-26T13:01:22","slug":"nintendos-new-controller-has-just-leaked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/nintendo\/90627-nintendos-new-controller-has-just-leaked","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo&#8217;s new controller has just leaked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A leak posted on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neogaf.com\/forum\/showthread.php?t=1210754\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>NeoGaf<\/strong> <\/a>may point to what the upcoming Nintendo NX&#8217;s controller will look like.<\/p>\n<p>The unusual &#8220;U-shaped&#8221; design was already patented in Japan on 16 October 2014, but was internationally filed through the WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization)\u00a0 on 22 April 2016.<\/p>\n<p>This invention concerns some form of exercise controller\/system, incorporating sensors for load, acceleration, gyro, and temperature to be used for gaming\/exercise. The confirmed inventors are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>KURODA, Ryoji &#8211; Has more than ten patents with Nintendo, most related to Wii Remote.<\/li>\n<li>YAMAMOTO, Shinji &#8211; Has more than five patents with Nintendo, most related to controllers. He&#8217;s also done work for Panasonic.<\/li>\n<li>YAMADA, Yoshito &#8211; Unsure about connection to Nintendo, but he appears to have various patents in differing fields (tech mainly).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It is entirely possible that the controller has nothing to do with Nintendo&#8217;s upcoming NX console, but the patents themselves all appear to be legitimate.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Below is an image of what the controller will supposedly look like (click to enlarge):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/NX-controller.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-90631\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/NX-controller.jpg\" alt=\"NX controller\" width=\"1226\" height=\"724\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/NX-controller.jpg 1226w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/NX-controller-768x454.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1226px) 100vw, 1226px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Biggest movies you can watch in South Africa this week\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/entertainment\/90385-biggest-movies-you-can-watch-in-south-africa-this-week.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Biggest movies you can watch in South Africa this week<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Blizzard finally comments on pirated servers\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/90603-blizzard-finally-comments-on-pirated-servers.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Blizzard finally comments on pirated servers<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Awesome gaming and gadget specials in Dion Wired Mall of Africa Grand Opening\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/90534-awesome-gaming-and-gadget-specials-in-dion-wired-mall-of-africa-grand-opening.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Awesome gaming and gadget specials in Dion Wired Mall of Africa Grand Opening<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A leak posted on NeoGaf may point to what the upcoming Nintendo NX&#8217;s controller will look like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":87682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,6],"tags":[31,9148,73,18303,2792],"class_list":["post-90627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","category-nintendo","tag-active","tag-controller","tag-nintendo","tag-nx","tag-patent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90627"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90645,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90627\/revisions\/90645"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}