This clearly indicates on something similar like gamepad, handheld connected on home console, or some sort of hybrid device.

What they where doing before wasnt working.

Nothing wrong with looking at the competitors and saying "why is this thing selling more than ours? whats it do that ours doesnt?"

"imitation is the sincerest form of flattery"

The twist is that Smart Glass and the companion app don't come bundled with the system. It's not an intergral part of the consoles' experiences. The aren't integrated into the ecosytem of the consoles because they're external features hardly anyone will have the incentive to use. That's like talking about remote play as if it's the same as off TV play. It's not, just by the merit that every Wii U comes with a gamepad and every game is built with off T.V. play as an expected feature, both to be integrated and used. When you buy a Wii U, off T.V. play is part of your intended experience. When you buy a PS4 or a Vita, remote play is not.

When the NX comes out and the main gimmick is the ability to play the same games on different platforms, is that just a copy of crossbuy/play/save on the PS3/Vita? No. Why? Because those systems weren't built from the ground up since inception to best utilize those features. Because the OS and the UI and the way games are designed for the platform aren't informed and influenced in a significant or integral way by crossbuy/save/play like the NX will. That's the twist.

You got me though. I was only talking about the one patent, so I don't know fuck all the relevance of the powersave one. Not that I care. The ability to put your console to sleep isn't exciting to think or talk about.

Of course people would have a field day. What on earth could Microsoft or Sony patent that wouldn't be copying something Nintendo uniquely does? Seriously. These patents are merely minor tweaks to industry standards everyone practices. It isn't copying. It's assimilating. When Nintendo breaks sales records with a two piece motion controller that only they use, and then Sony comes out with the exact same thing, but in black, yeah, it's copying. If Nintendo tomorrow filed a patent specifically for a touchpad on their controller or a camera that came with every NX that allowed you to talk to it Siri style to direct the console without using the controller, then your example would hold water. But they haven't, and it doesn't.

No one's saying Nintendo created group chat, and no one's making it out like they are revolutionizing the industry with their take on group chat, but making a patent for your specific brand of group chat isn't copying just as much as it isn't brand knew innovation.

EDIT: Also, do you not write/moderate for the site anymore?

Indeed there isn't, but trying to patent the ideas you're taking?

One rule for one, one rule for another.

And no, I quit.

Tachikoma US patent system is really weird and messed up.
Its like how apple could sue someone for makeing a retangular phone, or because of a colour.
Even the Icon thing, was way over the top.

If nintendo is copying something the others do, but they havnt patented, maybe nintendo ends up sueing them afterwards.

Thats what I thought as well! Thats the most interesting part of this whole thing, and least discussed one.

I wonder how this will work, will it be some sort of program that will be implemented in every game or some thing? Wouldnt it be cool if the console could read the weather in you area and SHOW THAT in the game? 

No. Still the same rule. Group chat is something can be done on Xbox, Playstation, and PC. It's a universal, standard feature in gaming. Again, making a patent for the unique way you do something that everyone else already does isn't copying. It assimilating. If Microsoft released a XBO controller 2.0, and it had a giant touch screen on it, and it was bundled with every new XBO from that point on, and every game on the XBO from then on had a map and inventory on the bottom screen, that's copying.

I'm surprised. You being a mod "made sense."

I think I understand where you're coming from spemanig. It's like saying Xbox copied Nintendo when they used the d-pad or analog stick, but they didn't since it was already industry standards when they joined the race. Right?

Pretty much. Maybe some of the Japanese 3rd parties will come back to Nintendo if the NX is capable enough, but definitely not the Western ones.