Today's News:
* According to Reuters, Embracer Group is currently considering selling off Gearbox Entertainment as part of the company's current restructuring process. It was reported that Embracer is pushing forward with the idea after getting some interest from several third party groups for Gearbox.
Link:
https://www.reuters.com/markets/deal...es-2023-09-11/
* Nintendo is currently rumored again to be working with Universal Studios on the production of a live action Legend of Zelda film.
Link:
https://mynintendonews.com/2023/09/1...ndo-universal/
* Based on a recent patent filing, Nintendo is currently rumored to be working on new joystick tech that would resolve stick drift issues. This new tech doesn't rely on existing tech that had led to stick drift becoming a growing issue in gaming since at least the Xbox One/PS4 era. Its currently not known if this new tech would be featured in Nintendo's Switch 2 console or for a future console instead. It is also currently rumored that this new patent might not be related to resolving stick drift and instead would be for something similar to adaptive triggers like with the PS5's DualSense controller.
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Originally Posted by IGN
A new Nintendo controller patent appears to include magnetic analogue sticks, which some have suggested raises hopes the company’s next generation console won’t suffer the drift issues that have plagued the Switch.
Video game accessibility consultant Laura Kate Dale linked to the patent in a post on X, saying that if this patent relates to the controller for the rumoured Switch 2 console, “this should end analogue stick drift issues next-gen.”
Nintendo filed the patent with the United States Patent Office in May, but was only published on September 7. It describes the inner workings of an analog stick that uses a magnetic field to communicate movement, aka a Hall Effect joystick.
This is different to the tech seen inside a Switch’s Joy-Con, which uses plastic circuit boards that can show significant wear on the joystick slider contact points. Joy-Con “drift” is perhaps the biggest fault-related issue with the Nintendo Switch. In 2022, a report from UK consumer group Which claimed that, even after just a few months of use, the Joy-Con's plastic circuit boards show significant wear on the joystick slider contact points. This causes Joy-Con drift, an issue Nintendo hasn't been able to fully address in the console's six years on the market.
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Link:
https://www.ign.com/articles/nintend...d-drift-issues