Given the huge success of the Nintendo Wii thus far, it was perhaps only logical to think that the firm would want to transfer the idea of motion sensing controls to a portable console. A discovery of a recently filed patent seems to confirm the idea of that at least.

The Game Boy shape is just a rough representation of the console, we imagine.

The filing by Nintendo states:

“A game system includes a housing to be held by a player. The housing incorporates an XY-axis acceleration sensor to detect an acceleration in an X-axis and Y-axis direction and a Z-axis contact switch to detect an acceleration in a Z-axis direction. These sensor and switch detect at least one of an amount (e.g. tilt amount, movement amount, impact amount or the like) and a direction (e.g. tilt direction, movement direction, impact direction or the like) of a change applied to the housing. A simulation program provides simulation such that a state of a game space is changed related to at least one of the amount and direction of the change applied to the housing.”

Many industry critics are now wondering how the idea would work considering you’d be able to view the miniature screen whilst tilting the console here, there and everywhere. That said, Nintendo has already dabbled in the world of motion sensing portables in the form of WarioWare Twisted on the Game Boy Advance and Kirby Tilt ‘n’ Tumble on the Game Boy Color, and both worked pretty well.

We’ll keep you posted on any further developments.