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Nintendo Files Patent for Touch Pen Attached to Joy-Con Strap

Nintendo recently published a patent on the US Patent Office that shows an improved Joy-Con strap with a touch pen nub.

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A new published patent in the US Patent Office by Nintendo, filed on June 4, 2019, reveals an invention that is actually something rather obvious in hindsight – a touch pen attachment for the Nintendo Switch Joy-Cons.

Essentially, it’s a Joy-Con strap that looks and is attached similarly to the original, but with an extra touch pen nub on top. As you might expect, this strap attachment is meant to work with the touchscreen in Handheld mode, utilizing detached Joy-Cons. What makes this ingenious is that it essentially means that you can utilize both touchscreen and button controls with just the Joy-Cons.

The patent also shows off some interesting uses of this touch pen strap, including game uses. In the above example, the touch pen is used to touch a box, and the game sends a signal to make the controller itself rumble as feedback to touching the box. This can be used alongside HD Rumble to rumble differently depending on whether it was a winning box or not.

In another example, an application of this dual controller is shown with a drawing game, where you can draw with the touch pen on the touchscreen of the Switch. By pressing a button, you can immediately change the thickness of the line drawn.

 

[10000]

looks creative but doesn't matter if the joycon fragile asf

 

[Birdo]

DS games incoming

 

[MoreJRPG]

This looks...absurd? Where's the market for this unless they're porting handheld games.

 

[InterMusketeer]

Huh. Could be pretty cool. You could actually have 3D games where you can control your character and the camera with both control sticks, while also drawing stuff on the screen. I don't know exactly what kind of game would make use of that... but if anyone'd be able to find out, it'd be Nintendo, right?

My only complaint is that they're making all this stuff that doesn't work in most configurations. If you play on TV, this thing's useless. If you have a Switch Lite, buying a separate Joy-Con and the touch strap thing seems unlikely.

 

[Closer]

Rhythm Heaven. Please.

 

[FStubbs]

Huh. Could be pretty cool. You could actually have 3D games where you can control your character and the camera with both control sticks, while also drawing stuff on the screen. I don't know exactly what kind of game would make use of that... but if anyone'd be able to find out, it'd be Nintendo, right?

My only complaint is that they're making all this stuff that doesn't work in most configurations. If you play on TV, this thing's useless. If you have a Switch Lite, buying a separate Joy-Con and the touch strap thing seems unlikely.

Could always be something they do next gen. They're working on the Switch's successor as we speak.

 

[lestar]

this would be perfect for a DS virtual console, in vertical mode.

 

[DunDunDunpachi]

Could be used for some interesting stuff.

 

[Max_Po]

might help scratching the depths of your ass...

 

[ProgenitorCastle]

Pretty intriguing, didn't see that coming! Wonder what it'll be used for

 

[Codes 208]

Pretty intriguing, didn't see that coming! Wonder what it'll be used for

Games like mario maker 2 i presume. Otherwise they may try to revive some old ds style games like brain age academy.

 

[ProgenitorCastle]

Games like mario maker 2 i presume. Otherwise they may try to revive some old ds style games like brain age academy.

Those are possibilities, but I think that new games designed to take advantage of the HD rumble aspect could be possible as well