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Ah, Nintendogs, now there\u2019s a name we haven\u2019t heard in a while. The mega-franchise was last seen with Nintendogs + Cats on the Nintendo 3DS, where it didn\u2019t quite hit as hard as it did on the DS. Now it looks like, maybe, possibly, Nintendo is doing something with it again.<\/p>\n

During the week, a new patent was released from the United States Patent and Trademark Office suggests something may be happening. Now while it doesn\u2019t say \u201cNew Nintendogs\u201d, it does have some illustrations showing a user using their smartphone to place a dog in AR space. These patents are usually very broad and general, so Nintendo could have just used a dog because \u2013 that\u2019s what the person creating the patent wanted. The next part is where it gets interesting.<\/p>\n