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Nintendo has filed a patent for ‘smart fluid’ joysticks, perhaps to eliminate drift | VGC(www.videogameschronicle.com)

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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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Matija Šuklje@toot.si
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@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.

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

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@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/

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

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