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Hunter
07-23-2008, 01:31 PM
kryogen1x alerts us to coverage at 1up indicating that Nintendo controller may soon become scarce — Nintendo lost in court to Anascape over analog sticks in their Wii and GameCube controllers.This isn't the first time the big manufacturers have been targeted in lawsuits involving features in their controllers. From the article: "The lawsuit concerns the analog sticks in the Classic Controller and GameCube controllers, which Texas-based Anascape Ltd. claims to hold a patent on that Nintendo violated. The court has ruled in favor of Anascape, and US District Judge Ron Clark has rejected Nintendo's request for a new trial. As a result, Clark said he will put a ban on the sale of the controllers (which includes sales of GameCube systems) starting tomorrow, July 23, unless Nintendo posts a bond or puts royalties into an escrow account"

Read more of this story (http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/22/2351247&from=rss) at Slashdot.




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Frogacuda
07-23-2008, 01:46 PM
innovati0wned!

Basil
07-23-2008, 02:40 PM
Over analog sticks? Wow.

mr_chun
07-23-2008, 03:18 PM
Retarded. Gamespots article more specifically states (but makes it more confusing IMO), that it involves an infringement of their patent for a "Six degrees of freedom device".

DarthArcturus
07-23-2008, 06:19 PM
what the fuck ? can anyone sue and win these days?