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Forums - Sony Discussion - Who copied who? Sony invented Move/Wiimote in 2000, WiiU technology patented long before WiiU was announced.

zarx on 04 February 2012
PlaystaionGamer said:
idont know about all this but i will say:

Sega Dreameye>Eye Toy > Kinect

bye


there fixed it for you



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VGKing on 04 February 2012
HappySqurriel said:
Patenting is not the same as inventing, and writing a patent or inventing something does not mean you ever intended on bringing a product to market ...

Sony may have had the idea before Nintendo released their products, but they obviously didn't see the value in them; which is actually a much worse statement about their management.


WRONG. They are waiting to implement these things with PS4 and waiting for them to become affordable for the mass market.



Rpruett on 04 February 2012
HappySqurriel said:
Rpruett said:
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).


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.

I'd disagree.  It is all about risk and reward.  They patent it because they see it as viable down the road and a good idea that they could take advantage of eventually.  It is not meaningless in this specific argument because this specific argument is filled with so much BS and propaganda for each persons 'favorite' system, this actually provides some concrete material that at the very least both companies are thinking about things.

It depends on the company,  Sony comes out with plenty of new things to the market, it's a prioritization process for them though.  Just because Nintendo releases a product first doesn't mean Sony didn't intend to in the near future. 

I wouldn't crown Sony as innovators either with this post, I would just say it quiets down the Nintendo is king innovation crowd.



HappySqurriel on 04 February 2012
VGKing said:
HappySqurriel said:
Patenting is not the same as inventing, and writing a patent or inventing something does not mean you ever intended on bringing a product to market ...

Sony may have had the idea before Nintendo released their products, but they obviously didn't see the value in them; which is actually a much worse statement about their management.


WRONG. They are waiting to implement these things with PS4 and waiting for them to become affordable for the mass market.


Maybe, but with Move Sony waited until after Nintendo had demonstrated that it was worthwhile before they even annoucned it ...

Realistically, if you read all the patents that have been filed by Sony, Nintendo or Microsoft on user interface devices you would see hundreds of UI concepts that never made it to market because the companies did not see value in them. The fact that Sony filed a patent that loosely resembles a device Nintendo is actually releasing doesn't mean that Sony ever planned on releasing that device.



Roma on 04 February 2012

i patented a time machine back in the year 1600 but i still don't know how to make it. whoever makes it will be a copycat!!



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blkfish92 on 04 February 2012

So this is going to cause the war of 2012!?



           

Lord Ciansworth on 04 February 2012

Power Glove. That is all.



Nsanity on 04 February 2012
Bristow9091 said:
I think we should have a more... meaningful debate...

Microsoft copied Sony with the Kinect, the Eyetoy came out years beforehand...

Discuss.

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Nsanity on 04 February 2012
HappySqurriel said:
Patenting is not the same as inventing, and writing a patent or inventing something does not mean you ever intended on bringing a product to market ...

Sony may have had the idea before Nintendo released their products, but they obviously didn't see the value in them; which is actually a much worse statement about their management.

Reminds me of this.



Judgement-2012 on 04 February 2012
Lord Ciansworth said:
Power Glove. That is all.


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