(1) IIIIITHE1IIIII covered the EyeToy contraption. Not only that, but it was a personal project by one of their employees, not a Sony-sanctioned concept.

(2) Have you ever been to a BestBuy or another tech store and seen the Sony Simulvision displays? The thing you're trying to claim as WiiU-like is simply a similar concept to those. People who've actually researched it already abandoned calling it WiiU-like seven/eight months ago when it first came up. It doesn't do anything whatsoever similar to the WiiU, but is instead a special display device that shows things "on-screen" that you can't see without it there.

In rough terms, I wouldn't be surprised if the origin for the Wii U tablet controller could be dated back to experiments with the Gameboy and SNES or N64 ...

The reason it has only been released today is that Nintendo (probably) believed they could never sell enough portable systems to design a home console around, and the technology to implement it well as a controller has only become cost effective recently.

it's not who finds the technology, it's who has the balls to release it, use their brain to innovate and create great stuff and ways to use the technology to their advantage, and the only company that does this is Nintendo

by that logic, Sony and Microsoft both copied Ninty's ideas if not the technology

Nintendo introduced the touch screen to the mass before the ishit, and Nintendo said the Kinect technology was available to them while developing the Wii but the choose (and very right) not to use it

idont know about all this but i will say:

Eye Toy > Kinect

bye

Again the Nintendo crowd is going to have a severe amount of butthurt trying to spin this all around. I don't think many Sony fans legitimately care about this garbage because that is the nature of the industry itself (Or any industry) but rubbing in the smug peoples face sure is funny to see.

You know the people who like to claim that Nintendo can do no wrong and is the holy trinity of innovation when much of their existence within the industry has been iterative like everyone else (with smatterings of good ideas interlaced).

So Sony was sitting on a gold mine and were to stupid to realize the Wii-mote market potential? Makes Sony seem rather incompetent.

Honestly, in a day and age where companies are patenting everything they can imagine because of how broken the patent system is, it is meaningless to claim that a patent shows that one company copied another ...

Until a company releases (or atleast announced) a product there is no reason to believe that they saw value in the technology.

Nintendo had the Wii U controller in development before 2010 so they cant be copying. The Move controller was actually Made in 2008 but the idea's were though of in 2000 or what ever. But the design we saw back then was not what we ended up with as its clear they took the Design of the Wii and made their own controller

Patents should be invalided within a year if the company fail to make the product.

No, I think patents should just be limited to very specific designs (and design elements) which could (more or less) be used to actually implement the technology ...