nordlead on 22 July 2008
| FishyJoe said: I'm too lazy to look at the patents. Can anyone tell me what they cover? The controllers don't really seem all that different from what existed from decades ago except adding more sticks and buttons. Can you really patent adding more sticks and buttons? |
I only scanned a couple, but one patent starts off by describing a controller held in two hands. This controller has on the left side a group of dependent buttons (not stated in the patent, but I interpret that as a d-pad), while the right side as multiple independent buttons (which I interpret as having a a,b,x,y set of buttons).
Some parts of other patents describe essentially a TV remote in terms of functionality, but with the equivilent of bluetooth or some sort of Wifi.
Overall, (and I've said this before) all of these patents should never have been accepted in the first place, or voided due to prior art.
