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It's a new DS slide sensor.

Nintendo Japan has revealed a new slide sensor for the DS, which effectively turns your handheld into an optical mouse.

It clips into the bottom of your system, with the laser and feet pads running underneath, and is finished lovingly with a near vertical protrusion to keep the top screen at a nice angle. The aim is to allow you to push your DS around a surface to explore different parts of a game, we think.

In Japan it costs JPY 5,800 (GBP 24 / EUR 35), and comes bundled with a game called Slide Adventure: Mag Kid - based around a small robot that has to reassemble itself from salvaged enemies, gaining their powers as he does so. There's 12 other mini-games included to make use of the slide sensor, too.

It follows news from earlier in the week, where Nintendo was seen craftily filing a patent for motion-sensing technology on a handheld.

Unfortunately Nintendo has no plans to bring it to Europe at the moment.

Head over to Eurogamer TV to see Slide Adventure in action, or follow our Internet biscuit trail for the first images of the slide sensor.

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lambtron #1 5 years ago

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"Unfortunately Nintendo Europe was unavailable to tell us whether there are currently any plans to release it over here."

No change there then.
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Steroyd #2 5 years ago

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o_O
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ecureuil #3 5 years ago

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How.. odd.
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Cloudane #4 5 years ago

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Portable, it ain't.
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Rirekon #5 5 years ago

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Why? Just why?!

Surely the touchscreen fulfils all the sliding interaction you could possibly need...

WHY!?!
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Wayne #6 5 years ago

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I knew about this yonks ago, and I don't think it explains the previous rumours about the motion controlled handheld patents.
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Razz #7 5 years ago

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O_o This is rather old.
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speedjack #8 5 years ago

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A LocoRoco style game might work ?
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The_Inquisitor #9 5 years ago

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At last we can get a sequel to Wario Ware Twisted, one of the greatest handheld games ever. The potential for this huge.
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ProfessorLesser #10 5 years ago

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Oh wow, Nintendo going back to their odd peripheral days!
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sanctusmortis #11 5 years ago

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...

Bizarre.
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gingerlink #12 5 years ago

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yer, this has been known for a while now, and i wouldn't call this motion sensing, it's just like having a flipping laser mouse strapped to the bottom of your DS
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Lost_in_Darkness #13 5 years ago

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I don't believe that it's made by Nintendo. It's a 3rd party game/controller made by a company called Agenda. It's just being published by Nintendo.

Edited by 1 at 09/08/07 @ 12:59
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afghan_jones #14 5 years ago

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sounds utter wank.

considering ninty consoles already offer almost every control device there is, what on earth is the use for something like this?

wont be long before nintendo games can only be controlled by strapping fibre optics to your cock, plus a sensor up your bum and then wriggling around on a big dancemat wearing a special suit that conducts static electricity. all so you can enjoy the latest batch of pokemon and family friendly minigames.
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Wayne #15 5 years ago

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Bitter?
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3william56 #16 5 years ago

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Thanks. Mine's a pint.
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Fodder #17 5 years ago

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If the patent talked about "motion over three axes", then this can't be the same thing, surely? What with it only having two axes, and not detecting tilt. The slide thing was announced quite a while ago now, too, and has been out in Japan for a week or so.

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afghan_jones #18 5 years ago

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"What a shit idea"

Yes, it is but punters will lap it up like the stupid sheep that they are because its ninty and everyone knows they are basically some kind of benevolent charity who love gamers unlike M$ and $ony who are disgusting death merchants who rape kittens.
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Razz #19 5 years ago

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Ignore the trolls.
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Tweakmonkey #20 5 years ago

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Totally unnecessary gagdet.
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afghan_jones #21 5 years ago

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Yes, Razz, just stick your fingers in your ears and say 'la la la la I cant hear you la la la' whenever someone points out that Nintendo might not be magical gaming angels from the future.
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Lost_in_Darkness #22 5 years ago

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and afghan, stick your fingers in your ears when someone points out that this isn't even made by Nintendo, they're just publishing the game. But regardless, carry on with your retarded trolls.
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knocker #23 5 years ago

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"Nintendo tilt gadget revealed"

So this thing - which doesn't tilt and isn't made by nintendo is related in some tenuous way to a 7 year old nintendo patent for a device which apparently does operate over 3 axis.

Cue trollfest. WTF has happened to Eurogamer ?
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afghan_jones #24 5 years ago

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@lost_darkness

I would stick my fingers in my ears but theyve just been up my bum so it wouldnt be hygenic.

Also, many thanks for your permission to continue retarded trolling. Ill put another one up in a bit when ive thought of more funny ways of impliying that nintendo is some sort of institution for repeat sex offenders.

hugs and kisses from the Jones. xxx
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Sebo #25 5 years ago

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@afghan

You've developed an awfully dirty mouth
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crazyhorse174 #26 5 years ago

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If the patent talked about "motion over three axes", then this can't be the same thing, surely? What with it only having two axes, and not detecting tilt. The slide thing was announced quite a while ago now, too, and has been out in Japan for a week or so.

You get axes with it!?

Sold!
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afghan_jones #27 5 years ago

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@ sebo,

yeah, watch out or ill kiss you with it.
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Raya #28 5 years ago

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Um - I think this is another gadget EG - nothing to do with the motion tilting. Anyway the could add motion sensing with a gizmo in the gba slot surely
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AOFanboi #29 5 years ago

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I have always dreamed about having a mouse-like device that also moved the screen around with it. How user friendly!

(That was sarcasm, for anyone who cannot detect such.)
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Decap #30 5 years ago

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Man, this just feels stupid.
Whats with all the motion-things with Nintendo nowdays. Is it truly so "boring and uncool" to just push the goddamn buttons like always? -> No it isnt, to me its the only real solution anyway.

I laugh at the idea of Wii and DS-players having a whole room of these truly unnecessary accessories in a couple of years. New toy with every game.
Then again, its not bad to have options if u want one.
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grussbarbar #31 5 years ago

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I like it. It has great potential in RTS games (superfast scrolling through the add-on and simultaneous unit selecting with the touch screen).
Also, it would make things like point&click adventures feel a bit more real: say, when you're examining a crime scene you can really look around everywhere for clues.

But yes, this had been known a long time. I think I saw the first Slide Adventure screens in June...
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