Anybody familiar with Nintendo's hardware history knows better than to expect the company to rest on its laurels. Sure enough, as the company's Switch continues racking up sales, a hint at its next portable system has already arisen in the form of a patent that is too bonkers to ignore. Patents, after all, can be filed without a company ever intending to make the product, and Nintendo has a history of these—including misleading patents that gave us an incorrect impression of how the Switch might eventually turn out.