Patent reveals a potential new Nintendo controller

It looks like Nintendo could be up to its old disruptive controller-design tricks again.

NeoGAF game-forum member Disorientator spotted a patent application, published earlier today, for a “game apparatus and information processing apparatus.” Although the 42-page document doesn’t mention Nintendo specifically, names listed in the inventors and author fields are associated either with Nintendo, or in other patents that named Nintendo specifically as an assignee — including Masato Kuwahara, who was behind the GameBoy Camera, GameBoy Printer, Nintendo DSi, and Nintendo DSi XL.