Nintendo Co., Ltd.

The Pokemon Company

Kazuhiro Maruyama

Masaya Takei

Shinta Minagawa

Kohei Odanaka

Yoshitaka Tamura

Wakana Ohori

Kenichiro Ashida

Koji Saito

Noboru Wakitani

Yuki Taniguchi

Toshiaki Iwao

Noriko Akita

Mitsuru Katayama

Hiroshi Igarashi

Junji Takamoto

Daisuke Kumazaki

Kochi Kawai

Takanori Okamura

Takaki Fujino

Takahiro Sato

Satoshi Ogawa

Hiroyuki Takeuchi

Tsunekazu Ishihara

Hiroki Soji

Nobutaka Nakajima

Kenichi Ikeda

Kosuke Nakamura

Masahiko Oota

Kouzou Kamimura

Kozo Kamimura

Norihisa Yabe

A housing of an example of an electronic apparatus has a top surface and a bottom surface and has a flat shape, wherein a cross-sectional shape thereof on a reference plane perpendicular to the up-down direction is a circular shape. A rechargeable battery has a rectangular parallelepiped shape. The rechargeable battery is provided inside the housing so that a first long side is at an angle to a direction extending from a first position on the side surface portion at which the charging terminal is exposed toward a second position on the side surface portion that is opposite from the first position. The electronic apparatus includes at least one of a vibrator and a speaker provided at a position that is between the first long side of the rechargeable battery and a portion of the side surface portion opposing the first long side, on the reference plane.

Electronic apparatus

A housing of an example of an electronic apparatus has a top surface and a bottom surface and has a flat shape. A power supply section having a flat shape is a power supply section, which is a housing case capable of accommodating a battery or is a battery, and the power supply section is provided at a position inside the housing that intersects with a reference plane perpendicular to the up-down direction. A first substrate is provided parallel to the reference plane on the top surface side relative to the power supply section. A second substrate is provided parallel to the reference plane on the bottom surface side relative to the power supply section. The electronic apparatus includes at least one of a vibrator and a speaker at a position that intersects with the reference plane.

An example game controller includes a spherical housing, a vibrator, an inertia sensor, an operation device, and a transmitter. The vibrator is inside the spherical housing and configured to generate a vibration to vibrate the spherical housing. The inertia sensor is at a position inside the spherical housing such that a distance from a center of the spherical housing to the inertial sensor is shorter than a distance from the center of the spherical housing to the vibrator. The operation section has an operation surface. The operation surface is capable of being depressed and is at the spherical housing on an opposite side from the vibrator with respect to the center of the spherical housing. The transmitter configured to transmit, to outside, information regarding an operation on the operation section and information output from the inertia sensor.

Game controller

Data input device

Based on first data transmitted from a game controller, a game apparatus executes game processing for catching a predetermined game character and transmits, to the game controller, second data corresponding to the game character as a target to be caught. Based on the transmitted second data, the game controller outputs a sound corresponding to the caught game character.

Game system, game processing method, storage medium having stored therein game program, game apparatus, and game controller

An example game controller includes a housing, an operation section, a light-emitter, and a lightguide. The housing has an opening. At least a portion of the operation section is exposed through the opening. The light-emitter is inside the housing and configured to emit light. The lightguide includes a light-receiving surface configured to receive light generated from the light-emitter and a light-exiting surface configured to output light received via the light-receiving surface to outside the housing. The lightguide includes a surrounding portion and an extended portion. The surrounding portion has the light-exiting surface and surrounds a circumference of the operation section. The extended portion is extended from the surrounding portion and has the light-receiving surface at a tip portion thereof.

An example game controller includes a spherical housing, a joystick, an operation section, and a transmitter. The joystick protrudes from a surface of the spherical housing. The operation section includes an operation surface. The operation surface is capable of being depressed and is integral with the surface of the spherical housing. The transmitter transmits, to outside, information regarding an operation on the joystick and information regarding an operation on the operation section. Thus, it is possible to provide a game controller that allows for various types of operations.

Controller

A non-limiting example cover includes a first cover portion that is provided with a plurality of operation buttons. Each of key tops of the plurality of operation buttons is constituted by a key top portion, an actuator and a conductive member. A connection portion of a conductive sheet is provided between the key top portion and the actuator, and the connection portion is connected, via a coupling portion, to a body portion that is provided on an outside of an area arranged with the key tops. The connection portion is connected to a protrusion provided on a lower side of the key top. Resin plating is applied to the protrusion, and when the key top is depressed and thus a portion of the key top portion where the protrusion is provided is brought into contact to the conductive member, the conductive member and the conductive sheet are electrically connected to each other via the resin plating. Therefore, an electrostatic capacitance of a touch panel changes at a portion that the conductive member is in contact, whereby it can be detected that the touch panel is touched at the portion concerned.

Cover

An example game controller includes a spherical housing, a joystick, an operation button, a vibrator, and an antenna. The housing includes a first hemispherical portion and a second hemispherical portion. The joystick is on a boundary between the first hemispherical portion and the second hemispherical portion. The vibrator is inside the second hemispherical portion and configured to generate a vibration to vibrate the housing. The antenna is inside the first hemispherical portion, the antenna configured to transmit, to outside, information regarding an operation on the joystick and information regarding an operation of the operation button.

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Kazuhiro Maruyama