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Viktor on 23 October 2016
Asedebck said:
Viktor said:
We have seen patents from Nintendo that showed the switchable controllers on a screen years ago.

the patens went public august 2016 lol :D

They have several patents and the fact that they were granted in the first place supports the point. WiiU prototypes, which means pre 2012 alone makes clear that Nintendo had this idea a few years ago.



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JRPGfan on 23 October 2016

Does anyone think Nintendo could get sued for how much their product looks like this other one?



S.Peelman on 23 October 2016
Viktor said:
S.Peelman said:

It's kind of funny how the NX turned out to be pretty much exactly like this thing. I'm not sure, but didn't these guys say there were no parties interested in buying and distributing this? So what happened, Nintendo got lazy and were the ones that bought this concept, or did they really have the same idea? Nintendo's got to have known about this.

They also have shown in Iwata Asks, former WiiU prototypes years ago and some of them basically were two controllers (WiiMotes) on a screen, I would say this product looks like a rip-off of Nintendos public made prototypes and patents. Which most likely is the main reason why no big distributer bothered with this product.

Yes, I'd seen that issue of Iwata Asks and the picture. Maybe it did went the way you say, who knows. It's, curious to say the least.



SegataSanshiro on 23 October 2016

It doesn't matter. Game.com/Zodiac Tapwave was a touch screen portable before DS. Xavixport family oriented motion control casual console before Wii. Rio had MP3 players before Ipod. LG had Smartphones before Iphone. Point is it's not about who did it first but who did it best. I mean hell Vectrex had analog sticks in 1982.