And it's not what you're thinking, either. No one has a beef (yet) with the Wii's wand-waggling technology; Nintendo paid out for infringement on the design of the GameCube controllers.
Anascape, an East Texas gaming company, is now $21 million dollars richer after Nintendo shelled out the cash. A jury found that Nintendo infringed on Anascape's patent while designing its Wii Classic Controller, WaveBird and GameCube controllers. The lawsuit was originally filed back in 2006.
According to AP, Nintendo spokesman Charlie Scibetta said the company will seek an appeal and expects the court to reduce the award "significantly."
Nintendo wasn't the only target: Anascape also went after Microsoft for infringement, but reached an agreement with the company before the start of the trial against Nintendo. Safe!
I don't know who copied who, but I love my Wii Classic controller! Regardless of who has to pay who, I can still get more for $20!
What? Nintendo has the money!
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12:00 PM on 05.15.2008
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I do remember this silly thing though. Everyone expected Nitendo to come out winning. Either way, I'm sure Nintendo doesn't care as mindless people continue to feed into the Wii and give back what they just payed/
How odd 0.o
http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=10363
Most of these patents were filed in the late 90's
Here's the description of one of them, you guys can research the rest:
http://www.patentgenius.com/patent/5999084.html
I wonder how MS dodged the bullet? Probably threatened the company by cutting off supplies or something....
Yea I'm sure you can get $21 million out of a major international corporation with absolutly nothing to back up your claim. See Jamnontheone's comment for more on it.
Hi I like to comment on things I know absolutly nothing about, will not look further into it, and just type whatever comes out of my mouth.
Wheres the sony lawsuit? I love seeing them take lawsuits. R.I.P. My old friend Liksang.
The smaller companies that make'em 3rd party or PC?
Selective attacks!
That they went after Microsoft as well...colored buttons? Placement of analog sticks and d-pad? Bulkiness of controller? Those are the only similarities I noticed, ones that would leave Sony out of it.
12 (or however many it is) random people who probably have no concept of commercial law suddenly having to listen to a bunch of lawyers use so many long words. Half these cases the jury decides the bigger company is the evil one and the other half they might as well just toss a coin cause the jury hasn't understood a word.
1. Sure is Nintendo fanboy in here.
2. Big N just needs to pay up, I'm sure they can make that much back in less than a week.
I invented a wireless gaming device that utilized hand-held remotes for gameplay in my garage back in the early nineties!
The system was actually just a large raisin box and the remotes were small tree branches, but dammit I invented it first!!
Please make the check out to "Mr. Showtime."