{"id":102303,"date":"2019-10-22T18:45:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-22T18:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/10\/is_sharp_about_to_challenge_nintendo_with_its_own_portable_gaming_device"},"modified":"2019-10-22T18:45:00","modified_gmt":"2019-10-22T18:45:00","slug":"is-sharp-about-to-challenge-nintendo-with-its-own-portable-gaming-device","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/10\/22\/is-sharp-about-to-challenge-nintendo-with-its-own-portable-gaming-device\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Sharp About To Challenge Nintendo With Its Own Portable Gaming Device?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Despite its recent financial woes, Japanese electronics company Sharp has a long and proud history of innovation and has worked with Nintendo in the past on components for its games consoles. However, a new patent<\/a> hints that Sharp could be looking to enter the gaming space and become a rival to Nintendo.<\/p>\n

The patent shows a tablet-like device which is almost all screen, while a gaming control interface bolts onto the side magnetically. Both parts can be used independently from one another, and the patent shows two different designs – one with a straight design, and another with a unique curved design.<\/p>\n

There’s no sign of any cartridge slot on the device which would suggest it will be a traditional tablet-style experience, possibly powered by Google’s Android platform, or perhaps even Microsoft Windows. Sharp has manufactured Android devices in the past, which lends some credence to this assumption.<\/p>\n

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However, it could be that this device will never see the light of day; companies take out patents all the time but do not put them into active production.<\/p>\n

Still, given Sharp’s resurgent stance in recent months thanks to investment from Foxconn, it would be interesting to see what it could do in the gaming space with such a system. Could this be a challenge to Switch? Perhaps not in the short-term, but the rise of cloud-based gaming via phones and tablets would certainly make such a product viable.<\/p>\n

Who knows; given the company’s prior business links with Nintendo, it could even influence the successor to the Switch in some way. Let us know your thoughts with a comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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