Analyze Ninendo Patents for Revolution:

[Canyarion]

Are you kidding me? We've seen those 3D mouses before... Minority Report is WAY beyond that...

[Teuthida]

http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-P...RS=AN/nintendo

Dunno if this is the same thing but has a more recent date:

A video game system includes hand-held player controllers operable by players to generate video game control signals, each hand-held player controller having a selectively driven vibration source arranged to generate vibrations for vibrating a housing thereof. A video game program executing system executes a video game program. The video game program executing system includes controller connectors which, in use, connect to the hand-held player controllers and a controller control circuit including a transmission circuit which transmits data to hand-held player controllers connected to the controller connectors. The video game program executed by the video game program executing system includes video game instructions, the video game instructions including at least one instruction for causing the video game program executing system to transmit command data via the transmission circuit to drive the vibration source of one or more of the hand-held player controllers so as to generate vibrations for vibrating the housings thereof.

[Crash]

Therefore, it is possible to consider that a vibration generating source be incorporated in a housing of the controller; however, in such a case, it is necessary to change the controller as a whole, and therefore, a person who intends to play games in which the vibration is generated must obtain a specific controller, and accordingly, it is not economical.

The present invention is a controller pack detachably attached to a controller which is connected to a video game machine, comprising a case; a vibration source which is attached to the case and generates a vibration using electric power; and a driver circuit which applies the electric power to the vibration source in response to a command signal from the game machine.

Nevermind... it's talking about Nintendo's Rumble Pak for the 64

..but it says filed (feb 2001)... so I'm confused.

[Canyarion]

Haha I read that and wondered how that was new.

[jeepnut]

Originally Posted by Canyarion

Haha I read that and wondered how that was new.

Same here.