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The idea behind the patent is to allow any smartphone with a touch screen to turn into an emulator for a Game Boy game library. Will it ever be published or is this patent just to protect an idea so that no one else can try it?
The success of the NES Classic and SNES Classic pretty much guarantees that Nintendo will publish a N64 Classic and maybe even a GameCube Classic. However, the launch of a Game Boy Classic handheld would undoubtedly record new sales records in this category. Unfortunately, it seems that Nintendo has other projects for its original mobile gaming device.
As Siliconera reports, Nintendo has filed a new patent for a Game Boy box in which is a touch screen device such as a smartphone. The buttons on the holster would touch the touch screen when you tap it and therefore, you will save as presses on the buttons regardless of the game played on the part of the touch screen visible through the cutout where would be the screen of the Game Boy.
Archived in March, this is clearly like a Nintendo play that offers a library of classic Game Boy games to anyone with a smartphone. Just buy the case, place your phone inside and download an app, which will take the form of a Game Boy emulator. Games can be included with the application, or more likely will be purchased separately as applications (or sets of games) themselves.
Offering a holster rather than a complete set certainly reduces costs for Nintendo, but also poses big problems. For example, each smartphone has a different size. How does the Game Boy's body stand up to this? Is there a minimum and maximum size? Or has Nintendo found a size that suits all the phones currently available? This seems very unlikely.
I would be surprised to see this business being launched and it may be that Nintendo is simply using a patent to prevent someone else from trying to do the same thing. Remember, we already have the Hyperkin SmartBoy, which allows you to use Game Boy cartridges and play games on your smartphone legally. It's a clever idea, which might have attracted the attention of Nintendo.
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