I love how some dumbass from Dexerto said this is Hall Effect and everyone believed it when it's actually a force feedback joystick. The patent describes using magnetorheological fluid (a type of fluid that changes its viscosity based on magnetic fields) to physically change the force required to move the joystick. It even describes a situation where it can completely lock the x axis and restricting any movement left or right while freely moving up and down
The patent doesn't mention it, but most MR fluids are comprised of iron powder and a type of oil (plus other stuff obviously). They could've just found a good chemical mix that's resistant to most temperature changes
Don't you worry, they'll pass off the extra expense to you! If you thought $80 joycons were a scam, wait for their ultra premium $200 science fluid controller that will inevitably have some laughably stupid design flaw and die within a few months.
>tfw there will probably be a power-up in the enxt Mario Kart where you can lock other player's controls or make it harder for them to use the steering stick
This sounds great
>I love how some dumbass from Dexerto said this is Hall Effect and everyone believed it when it's actually a force feedback joystick
Lets face, not a single monkey on this planet even knows how magnets work.
>magnetorheological fluid
It's truly amazing. They will invent the most responsive and state of the art hand controllers. Will they give them to surgeons? Will they be used by the military or scientific research? No, they'll be used to add retarded gimmicks in their games and play Mario Party 20. I would be infuriated if I were a Ukranian drone pilot right now.
>ukraine
I'd let a million ukies get raped to death by pigs if that means I get a cool new controller.
Okay or "Russian drone operator", as if we don't well them to to them too. I like how the use of one counties name automatically means it's a real war.
MR fluid is already used in a lot of different situations outside this patent (most notably being an effective shock absorbers for speakers, machinery, and even able to lower recoil from guns
>playing racing game >joystick slightly rumbling to imitate being on a road, depends on speed >eating cheese >thumb is sticking to the joystick because of the cheese but whatever >suddenly a glitch occurs that causes the game to exceed the ingame speed limit >CRACK CRACK CRACK CRACK CRACK CRACK CRACK CRACK CRACK CRACK
>this being on f-zero to give the illusion of extreme speeds >miyamoto finally nudges and lets a game be released thanks to this i still want him retired so normal games can be released tho.
>drank the controller liquid
probably contains the same amount of lubricating fluid that most peripherals have in them already. Probably a droplet is all you need for whatever this controller technology does.
oh that's kind of cool
using MRF to control stick friction
trying to understand how they'll avoid dumb kids breaking their controller somehow because they aren't expecting the resistance
It won't be on the standard controller, it will be something on a specialised controller for 1 game with a high enough age target it shouldn't be a problem assuming you don't rage
Sounds intereting but Nintendo are usually the first ones to drop their own gimmicks, I don't think there is a single game in the switch that uses HD rumble for anything.
NO MORE TOKYO DRIFTU PAD
Fingerboxes have been around forever, Nintendo can't just patent it.
I love how some dumbass from Dexerto said this is Hall Effect and everyone believed it when it's actually a force feedback joystick. The patent describes using magnetorheological fluid (a type of fluid that changes its viscosity based on magnetic fields) to physically change the force required to move the joystick. It even describes a situation where it can completely lock the x axis and restricting any movement left or right while freely moving up and down
How will the heat or even the cold affect the fluid?
The patent doesn't mention it, but most MR fluids are comprised of iron powder and a type of oil (plus other stuff obviously). They could've just found a good chemical mix that's resistant to most temperature changes
so a similar feeling to the DualShock triggers?
Yeah
Sounds badass
Man that sounds cool as shit but also very expensive so more likely on some specialized controller than on the main ones, Time for Steel Battalion 2.0
Don't you worry, they'll pass off the extra expense to you! If you thought $80 joycons were a scam, wait for their ultra premium $200 science fluid controller that will inevitably have some laughably stupid design flaw and die within a few months.
>tfw there will probably be a power-up in the enxt Mario Kart where you can lock other player's controls or make it harder for them to use the steering stick
This sounds great
>I love how some dumbass from Dexerto said this is Hall Effect and everyone believed it when it's actually a force feedback joystick
Lets face, not a single monkey on this planet even knows how magnets work.
>magnetorheological fluid
It's truly amazing. They will invent the most responsive and state of the art hand controllers. Will they give them to surgeons? Will they be used by the military or scientific research? No, they'll be used to add retarded gimmicks in their games and play Mario Party 20. I would be infuriated if I were a Ukranian drone pilot right now.
>muh ukraine
Shouldn't you be bitching about orange man on twitter?
Okay or "Russian drone operator", as if we don't well them to to them too. I like how the use of one counties name automatically means it's a real war.
>ukraine
I'd let a million ukies get raped to death by pigs if that means I get a cool new controller.
MR fluid is already used in a lot of different situations outside this patent (most notably being an effective shock absorbers for speakers, machinery, and even able to lower recoil from guns
So when does MRAM make a comeback now that it's advanced enough for spastic zoomer phone hands?
Just make a deadzone calibrator. None of their games require competitive precision anyway.
>get hit with drunk darts in CoD:Switch2 Edition
>right-stick keeps shifting its direction on me
>playing racing game
>joystick slightly rumbling to imitate being on a road, depends on speed
>eating cheese
>thumb is sticking to the joystick because of the cheese but whatever
>suddenly a glitch occurs that causes the game to exceed the ingame speed limit
>CRACK CRACK CRACK CRACK CRACK CRACK CRACK CRACK CRACK CRACK
mfw joystick leaked all it's juices out and now it's all loose.
>this being on f-zero to give the illusion of extreme speeds
>miyamoto finally nudges and lets a game be released thanks to this
i still want him retired so normal games can be released tho.
No fucking way the kiddie company risks itself to parents suing because their kid somehow drank the controller liquid
>drank the controller liquid
probably contains the same amount of lubricating fluid that most peripherals have in them already. Probably a droplet is all you need for whatever this controller technology does.
okay
but what is it?
Click the link and read it you fucking tard
no
>Patenting hall effect sensors
Ugh, FINE. We wiru fixu de driftu probremu, stupid christian-oh goyim-oh.
I recognize that silly little box from taking apart my controllers.
So uh... Does this mean the Switch 2 controllers won't drift?
Yes but that's not it's main purpose
Worse
>programmed drift is now a gimmick feature.
No. Now it'll physically drift the stick.
oh that's kind of cool
using MRF to control stick friction
trying to understand how they'll avoid dumb kids breaking their controller somehow because they aren't expecting the resistance
It won't be on the standard controller, it will be something on a specialised controller for 1 game with a high enough age target it shouldn't be a problem assuming you don't rage
Sounds intereting but Nintendo are usually the first ones to drop their own gimmicks, I don't think there is a single game in the switch that uses HD rumble for anything.