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DS News by Robert Purchese
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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Comments: 1-33 of 33 in total
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The_Inquisitor
09/08/07 @ 11:17
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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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gingerlink
09/08/07 @ 11:30
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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
09/08/07 @ 11:53
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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.
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afghan_jones
09/08/07 @ 12:02
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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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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
09/08/07 @ 12:43
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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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afghan_jones
09/08/07 @ 12:50
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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
09/08/07 @ 13:05
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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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Agenda - I think they developed 42 All-Time Classics.
I do actually think this has some potential especially if it's used in the way Wario Ware: Twisted was, but so far other peripheral like the rumble pack haven't really been used well. Oh and guys, surely you should know now that you shouldn't judge before you have played (or in this case used)! |
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afghan_jones
09/08/07 @ 13:18
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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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crazyhorse174
09/08/07 @ 14:04
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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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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. :p Then again, its not bad to have options if u want one. :) |
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grussbarbar
17/08/07 @ 13:20
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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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