Looking for a fun, on-the-go gaming machine? Razer may have the gadget for you, with a new patent for a tablet gaming controller that sounds (and looks) an awful lot like the Nintendo Switch‘s Joy-Con controllers.
Taking the form of two slim, detachable controllers that attach to the side of a “mobile device”, with four input buttons and a joystick on each one, there’s more than a passing similarity to the Joy-Cons – which slide on and off the body of Nintendo’s Switch console, depending on whether you’re playing in handheld or docked mode (or just when leaning the Switch on its rear stand).
The patent describes Razer’s controllers as being “mechanically secured” to the sides of a “mobile device”, meaning we could see this either for a large smartphone or a small Windows tablet.
The patent was spotted by Dutch technology website Let’sGoDigital, and was published in early August after an application dated to March of this year.
Source: Techradar