You clearly don't understand that the patent is not for the actual design of the controller and the final product isn't represented by such in the illustration. The whole summation of the patent is for scrollable, clickable shoulder(wheels) or buttons with some kind of force feedback or inertia motorized mechanism. You may not want to admit it, but this is why Nintendo should stay in the hardware game, this is something that should have been in current controllers and it will only be a matter of time before Sony and Microsoft both copy it for certain!

People love to trash Nintendo for not doing the obvious choice of just improving graphics of their hardware (which should definitely be a focus to some extent), but never want to give them credit when they incorporate something like this. Which is ingenious and will change how we game and the level of interaction and control input...

hope it's fake too

It finally made it to n4g! Wow some of you guys sound like ungrateful twats.

Well anyway a click able scroll wheel would me zooming presices, tank controls or dual track controls easier. Scrolling and use could be done with one button while the others are used to evade. They could be used to spin off a tackle in a foot ball game or control the lateral distance of a cross over in basket ball or start a slide in soccer or baseball.

This is literally the point of a console. To do stuff other platforms wont.

Put two different types of inventory, item or weapon sets, to the scroll wheels, then just turn in either direction to quickly access said items.

They could also be used for balancing mini-games and interactive puzzles, in adventure games, for quickly zooming to specific depths in a shooter when ADS, and quite a few other functions.

The uses depend on the imaginative power of the developer.
Although I imagine, much like the game pad, most won't know what to do with it if it ever came to fruition, but I'd love it for the possibilities it provides.

apparently the NX made it's own fans believe anything regarding rumors, patent, delayed games or rumored games from Nintendo to be for NX launch.

It almost like I reading Fairy Tail again regarding Zeref followers.