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CardJoe · 7th Jun 2007, 10:53

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2007/06...nt_announced/1

Nintendo announce a new input attachment for the DS, dubbed the 'slide controller'.

mclean007 · 7th Jun 2007, 11:09

So it's a peripheral you connect via a cable and then it acts as an input device that is used by sliding it around on a flat surface. Sounds a lot like a revolutionary idea from 1964 called the "mouse"!

It'll never catch on, I tell thee!

CardJoe · 7th Jun 2007, 11:11

No, I don't think it has a cable. Details are sketchy though.

FooSai · 7th Jun 2007, 11:31

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Originally Posted by CardJoe

No, I don't think it has a cable. Details are sketchy though.

A wireless mouse!!!!
It's science fiction I tell thee.

teamtd11 · 7th Jun 2007, 11:36

lol, how i read it, its a gba cartrage which you put on a table or something, and rool the ds around while playing. so the ds would be flat to the table with the screens up.

DXR_13KE · 7th Jun 2007, 11:45

remember those game boy cartridges that had rumble? imagine the rumple part having some kind of surface that is movable and sensitive and you put it on the table and play with it like a joystick.

CardJoe · 7th Jun 2007, 12:29

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Originally Posted by teamtd11

lol, how i read it, its a gba cartrage which you put on a table or something, and rool the ds around while playing. so the ds would be flat to the table with the screens up.

Thats how I understand it from what I've read. Nintendo should let us have some more details soon though.

Jamie · 7th Jun 2007, 12:39

Great idea, make a game handheld portable gaming platform that requires a flat surface such as a desk!

mikeuk2004 · 7th Jun 2007, 12:40

Ok, so you end up scratching your DS and table by sliding it around and then when you get a bit too aggresive it slides too far and off the end of table and smashes into bits

Then end of your DS and a ruined table. sweet

kenco_uk · 7th Jun 2007, 12:45

Cracked LCDs and Scratched Tables - new album from the Nintendo-ites.

mikeuk2004 · 7th Jun 2007, 13:02

I guess we need to see it to fully understand it.

riggs · 7th Jun 2007, 13:18

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Originally Posted by mikeuk2004

Ok, so you end up scratching your DS and table by sliding it around and then when you get a bit too aggresive it slides too far and off the end of table and smashes into bits

Then end of your DS and a ruined table. sweet

Hehe, do you think the game will come supplied with a wrist-strap?!

Ghys · 8th Jun 2007, 01:32

hahahaha speak of the devil ! Look what i found today !

this is why they say I h4x

benjamyn · 8th Jun 2007, 17:16

Here you go, courtesy of Go Nintendo!

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