Nintendo plans to have you steering with your fingers
Games - Sunday, February 28th, 2010

Nintendo plans to have you steering with your fingers nintendo dsi steering wheel thSteering wheel accessories usually make for a fun driving game experience by adding a little bit more realism and feel. Nintendo usually thinks of ways to make gaming intuitively fun, with controls and interfaces that usually take up a few minutes for anyone to learn. According to this report, Nintendo has filed for a patent that basically claims dibs on touch-based steering wheel controls for their DSi handheld.

Here are the inventor’s notes:

In one exemplary illustrative non-limiting implementation, a video game or other application displays an image of a steering wheel. Such display may be on the same screen as one that displays other information such as a race course or other environment through which the vehicle may be maneuvered in a simulated fashion, or it may be on a different screen. The steering wheel display is, in one exemplary illustrative non-limiting implementation, displayed on a screen that is touch sensitive. The touch-sensitive functionality of the screen is used in at least some exemplary illustrative non-limiting implementations to allow the video game player to control the position of the steering wheel displayed on the screen. The displayed vehicle steering wheel position, in turn, is used to control the travel motion or direction of the vehicle being simulated. The resulting simulation provides a realistic input control interface obtainable using relatively inexpensive and compact input devices such as those available on conventional portable or other video game play and/or simulation platforms.

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Basically, instead of driving using the usual left-right d-pad buttons, you’ll be swiping your finger (or the stylus) across the screen to move a car around. Whether this catches on is still up in the air though—that can’t feel realistic, it looks like too much work, and people with big thumbs might not be able to see anything on the screen. But hey, we’re pretty sure Nintendo knows what they’re doing. They definitely managed to make bowling and tennis fun again (on the Wii, at least).

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