Weird-Ass Weirdery From Nintendo: Donut-Shaped Gaming Coming Our Way

Ah, Nintendo. You crazy, crazy bastards.

Many of the industry's more eccentric ideas came from these guys. Back when the DS was announced, a touchscreen handheld device was the kind of witchcraft that would've seen your ass burnt at the stake a century ago. Today, even freaking Grandma Egotastic has a stylus-pokeable smartphone, which just shows how ahead of the curve Nintendo are.

Not that it's always worked out so well. The world was not ready for the migraine-inducing ballache that was the Virtual Boy. It was kinda sorta cool to thrust your actual goddamn face into that magical visor of three dimensions, but the seizures and eyeball-meltings soured the whole experience. Still, they tried.

But the question is, what in holy balls are they trying now?

The Japan Times brings news of a bizarre new deal between Sharp and the Big N. The former have been working on ‘advanced liquid crystal displays that can be shaped freely according to user demand,' the report states. ‘Nintendo is considering creating a hole at the center of the display, making it doughnut-shaped.'

This is all we know for now, but it's damn well interesting. After touch screens, visors, motion control and the Wii U tablet gamepad, I suppose donut-shaped gaming is just the next logical step. Could they have an even more crazy-ass console in development? We'll have to wait and see.


The Japan Times, via Kotaku.