{"id":15931,"date":"2018-03-26T11:45:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-26T11:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/03\/nintendo_has_filed_a_mysterious_patent_for_amiibo-style_nfc_cards"},"modified":"2018-03-26T11:45:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-26T11:45:00","slug":"nintendo-has-filed-a-mysterious-patent-for-amiibo-style-nfc-cards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/03\/26\/nintendo-has-filed-a-mysterious-patent-for-amiibo-style-nfc-cards\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Has Filed A Mysterious Patent For Amiibo-Style NFC Cards"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"news5.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/03\/nintendo_has_filed_a_mysterious_patent_for_amiibo-style_nfc_cards\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/03\/nintendo_has_filed_a_mysterious_patent_for_amiibo-style_nfc_cards\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"news5.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>There&#8217;s nothing quite like a mysterious patent to get chins wagging and brains ticking over. And this latest one from Nintendo is a right head scratcher. The patent, which was filed earlier this month to the United States Patent and Trademark Office, present a set of collectible trading cards with in-built NFC functionality (making them, in theory, function much like a traditional amiibo).<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s one extract from the patent discussing the NFC tech:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe trading cards refer to cards on which variously different pictures are depicted and a purpose thereof is collection and exchanged. Namely, the trading cards are cards manufactured and sold aiming at exchange or collection of pictures on each surface thereof.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>So what could it all mean? This isn&#8217;t the first time Nintendo has used NFC in card form &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/3ds\/animal_crossing_happy_home_designer\">Animal Crossing:\u00a0Happy Home Designer<\/a> used a set of collectible cards that included such functionality, so could this be a prelude to a similar set in 2018?\u00a0<strong>Pok\u00e9mon<\/strong> remains a big player in the CCG space, so there&#8217;s always the possibility that we could see Nintendo riff on that powerful licence.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/03\/nintendo_has_filed_a_mysterious_patent_for_amiibo-style_nfc_cards\/attachment\/1\/original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/03\/nintendo_has_filed_a_mysterious_patent_for_amiibo-style_nfc_cards\/attachment\/1\/original.jpg\" alt=\"news5-1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p><em>So what could this patent really be leading to? Are we getting more cards in the form of Animal Crossing Happy Home, or could it be a new take on the enduring\u00a0Pok\u00e9mon brand? Share your thoughts with the community below&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s nothing quite like a mysterious patent to get chins wagging and brains ticking over. And this latest one from Nintendo is a right head scratcher. The patent, which was filed earlier this month to the United States Patent and Trademark Office, present a set of collectible trading cards with in-built NFC functionality (making them, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}