New Nintendo patent application reveals old Classic Controller
by JC Fletcher 
{ Jul 10th 2008 at 9:30AM }
No, we couldn't! This application may just now be published in the U.S., but it's based on a Japanese patent application from 2005. This is the past of the Classic Controller, from back when Nintendo was talking about "shells." That cavity is for the Wii Remote, of course, or, as the application puts it, "an imaging information arithmetic unit."
[Via Destructoid; thanks, Blackfreefall!]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
seetrapp @ Jul 10th 2008 9:47AM
It seems rather uncomfortable due to its size. Then again so is holding two controllers but using one...
chad @ Jul 10th 2008 10:39AM
i don't actually have a classic controller, but that cord seems... well, cordy. and this design looks cordless. and that seems nice. but i still want an n64 controller that i don't have to mod.
jerry @ Jul 10th 2008 12:02PM
kinda looks like the wiimote was supposed to slide through the center
jason @ Jul 10th 2008 12:42PM
HAHA that looks very Ugly..... Go Nintendo just like the power glove lol
Hamster @ Jul 10th 2008 6:26PM
Nintendo didn't actually make the Power Glove, infact it had very little if anything to do with it. As a NES peripheral, history seems to have burdened them with it, but it was actually made by Mattel in the US (and PAX in Japan).
chad @ Jul 10th 2008 1:00PM
like this! don't forget your cond... i mean, protective sleeve!
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chad @ Jul 10th 2008 1:00PM
d'oh! bad formatting... can't fix... oh well.
Teddy @ Jul 10th 2008 1:10PM
A wireless classic controller would be the icing on my wireless cake (Wiimote, Wavebird, DS3 & all my remotes).
Good_Bytes @ Jul 10th 2008 8:07PM
how about a Wii gameCube controller.. with the sensor on it OR like in guitar Hero guitar: have the joystick control the main menu of the Wii.
Abscissa @ Jul 17th 2008 2:08PM
Dammit, now THAT is MUCH more like what the classic controller SHOULD have been.
Sisyphus @ Jul 22nd 2008 9:27PM
It has to do with the analog sticks on controllers.
Jamar @ Jul 23rd 2008 5:33AM
Looks like the past will be the future...