It's time once again to play everyone's favorite news game: Boarderline-Irresponsible Patent Speculation! On this episode, we have Nintendo filing a patent for what appears to be a new cartridge design for the Nintendo DS...or, maybe a new cartridge design for the heavily rumored DS 2?
The patent was picked up on by Siliconera, and to be honest, there's nothing in it that specifically proves it could be either of the above. While the included figure shows what certainly looks like a DS, the patent filing states that it's for "illustration purposes only." Still, Siliconera also points out this cartridge design -- which would, if it's actually meant for the DS, stick out quite a bit -- has the same number of pins as a standard DS cartridge.
That's all there really is to go on, though, so it's impossible to say what the mystery behind this cartridge is. Will more be revealed at GDC next week? Or will we have to wait until E3 in June for answers? Or does Nintendo have no intentions of doing anything with this patent at all? Stay tuned!


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