The patent describes a system with two physical joysticks, each of which can be pushed down for an additional button-press input, and two buttons to be pressed by the index fingers on top of the screen. As there is no surefire way to confirm its authenticity, it is hard to determine if the leaked images are real.
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While the controller looks like it is a rather sleek, nearly mass production ready design, Perkele37 added another note of explanation to the discussion as follows; “To clarify, this is the controller unit for the console”.
Haptic feedback feels like Apple’s “taptic” engine. If that “investigation” somehow proves true, it will be one of the greatest things ever accomplished on the Internet.
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According to perkele37, the controller’s sticks don’t move, only the upper nubs do. The Nintendo NX controller will supposedly use Sharp’s free-form display technology, so is the left corner made of something different or what? Looking at the photo from yesterday, shadows reflect trees from the outside of The Division studio and the keyboard layout seems Swedish, so… The Nintendo NX is said to bridge the gap between home consoles and handheld gaming devices, so this could be a standalone portable device as well. This friend is “a public figure who I will not name, but does know all about NX (I won’t be asking them about it though)”. Even though these seemed to be real images, they didn’t exactly look legit considering how blurry the pictures were and how any Nintendo branding was lacking. Nintendo Life contributor Liam Robertson has spoken to a source of his that has access to prototype NX hardware. With the E3 Expo coming up in June, that’s likely where we’ll get all the details of whatever NX is, if Nintendo doesn’t spill the beans prior to the big show. As always, we’ll find out exactly what type of controller Nintendo will have when they make an official reveal.
