Nintendo making motion-sensing DS card?
by David Hinkle 
{ Jan 14th 2009 at 3:52PM }
A recent Japanese trademark threw up some flags over at Siliconera, as Spencer managed to find an odd one. Apparently for a motion-sensing DS card, the title for the trademark reads as "DS Houi Sensor Card". Curious, to say the least.Houi means direction, so it leads one to deduce that it's a card that senses direction or, more likely, motion. What's most interesting about this is Nintendo apparently means to include this technology directly into a DS card. It'd be like being able to play WarioWare Twisted! on the Nintendo DSi. Yeah, that would be awesome.
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Gumbyx84 @ Jan 14th 2009 4:50PM
Would be more impressed if there wasn't an existing flash card for DS that already does this.
http://ndsmotion.com/
Scuffles @ Jan 14th 2009 5:13PM
Just nice to show the good folks at Nintendo are finally catching up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_UHPoXOtfQ&eurl=http://www.kotaku.com.au/games/2008/02/the_french_enslave_robots_with_nintendo_ds-2.html
they switch to the DS motion card about half way through ...
wait what was that homebrew not being used for pirating games... Gasp!!! /sarcasm
chispito @ Jan 14th 2009 6:20PM
I'd be much more impressed if it were for a compass or, even better, a GPS. Motion-sensing in a handheld is so... meh.
Strike Man @ Jan 15th 2009 12:18AM
For the record, the new (and fairly craptacular) Tony Hawk title for the DS comes with a motion sensor that plugs into the GBA slot.
I'd like to see Nintendo cram this into a much smaller DS cart, but I fear that it might lead to yet another bulging attachment (ie like the aforementioned Wario Ware Twisted cart).
EXTREME Seph @ Jan 15th 2009 4:28AM
It's probably not unheard of. Technology gets smaller. I just want to know what the damn card will be used for.
JOBOT @ Jan 15th 2009 12:42PM
Really Nintendo? A motion-sense card for the DS (third-party) has been out for close to a year already.
KaBob799 @ Jan 16th 2009 5:51AM
You can't expect Nintendo to make every possible technology just because it is possible.
required @ Jan 15th 2009 5:24PM
Since it has a camera/s it looks like it could handle motion like old mobile games do. Example:
http://www.tilt-a-world.com/