vdoesntforgive said:
Infamy79 said:
vdoesntforgive said:
Onyxmeth said:
Are you implying that Wii-Motion + is more advanced than whatever motion thingers the competition are making and thus have killed any possible advantage they may have, or are you saying that the competition simply can't do any better than WM+ because it's as good as motion controls can get?
Also, for someone so well versed on the expansion strategy Nintendo is using to attract new gamers, this argument seems very ignorant on your part and below what I would expect you to say. It should be obvious to you that Sony and MS could mimic and better the motion functions and still not hit the expanded audience at all without other factors present. None of which either company has shown they possess.
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I think the problem with Microsoft and Sony now is, the methods the wiimote utilizes has now become the "standard" for how motion controlls should be done. How do MS and Sony go forward without stepping on Nintendo's toes (and their lawyers)? There's definately room for improvement, but I feel either of those two companies are at a risk of putting themselves in a corner they won't be able to get out of, if they too far forward with their "mii too" strategy.
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I don't think the lawyers will come into it, Nintendo licensed the motion technology from a 3rd party (although I believe they also have invested in the company) and have said that MS or Sony are free to license the same technology if they want.
Anyway, I guess we need to use M+ before we can see if it can be improved or not. While it will give 1:1 motion, I would be surprised if it was completely accurate with really fast movements. I'm sure there will always be room to improve.
Either way, it certainly will hinder and attempt by Sony & MS to offer improved motion control, as just like BluRay, it may offer some improvement, but not enough to be a true advantage in the market.
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Isn't that just the company behind the gyroscopes for Motion+? I'm talking about the actual Wiimote, and techniques they used to get the thing to work the way it does. There has to be a patent hurdle somewhere in there?
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bdbdbd can show you the patent.
Its for a remote control shaped controller with ir pointer control and accelorometer built in to the same unit. Its specific enough and vague enough to prevent anyone from copying the shape or multiple functions of the wiimote without breaching copyright.
edit > ok this is what Nintendo owns. No company can use this configuration.
http://v3.espacenet.com/publicationDetails/originalDocument?CC=US&NR=2008015017A1&KC=A1&FT=D&date=20080117&DB=&locale=
“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.
