Nintendo May Add Rumbling Styli to Next Handheld

[yourbeliefs]

Well I think the battery life of a stylus that rumbles would be an issue. So would controlling it. Not that mine isn't hard enough to control as I usually play on a subway.

Although I can see this differing depth idea leading to some cracked screens if people get a bit too intense during their gaming sessions.

Yeah really... how is this going to work and not cause damage to screens and/or pointers? A vibrating stylus being pressed upon that screen seems like a recipe for disaster with hardware issues the likes of which we haven't seen since the early RRoD days..

 

[SavingPrincess]

Yeah... now I'm really not going to get the DS back from the girlfriend.

Aside from that, have you ever set your cell phone down on a table and got a call? Now imagine that physically pressed down against a screen. I don't get this one bit.

 

[Irridium]

A rumbling stylus?
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Trying really hard to not make a sex toy joke here...

It will be interesting to see how this turns out, thats for sure.

 

[Andronicus]

If the stylus has a rumble feature, wouldn't that mean it would need to be quite thick? Sounds like it would be a little hard to control, to me...