Nintendo Files Patent for New Handheld Gaming Device Unlike Original Switch

Newly published Nintendo patent shows drawings of a handheld gaming device that differs from the original Switch.

Device has a joystick, face buttons, shoulder buttons, and a touch screen, but no detachable Joy-Cons.

Home and media buttons are moved to the bottom of the device.

Patent filed late 2022, published October 2022.

Unclear if new device will play games from original Switch, but may be backward compatible.