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demitri55 said:
intro94 said:
demitri55 said:
@bamboleo

i think your bias. just cause its sony they are copying?? how about if nintendo copied this?? and this is from 1999/2000

sorry, if the wii mote were just 2 waggling detectors i dont think it would have worked similarly to motion detection. The case here is that both Wand and WM+ track full movement with the aid of sensors. Not just acceleration.In fact...I doubt ninty looked at this way back.The fact is you cant do anything wii mote related with that kind of tech in the video. Shooters?comon. Swordplay?Really? it doesnt tracks movement.Just records waggling. I see why this type of ideas didnt took off.

he clearly states in the video that it can be use for other genres. he also mention a wireless version in the works. it also involves a nun-chuck and a main controller. in another video he also says it will use motion sensing (and in this video even says body tracking). i will look for that video or interview. its rumored midway sold this patent to nintendo and he was fire so they wouldnt have to pay him royalties (hence why he is suing nintendo and ex-midway founders). so please f you dont know dont comment. did you even watch the video by the way??

p.s he filed 3 patents under this prototype and it's rumored it was all sold to nintendo. actually when nintendo filed a patent for the wii-mote they made reference to this guy patents.

i did watch the video. Hes not the only one who sued(and of course failed) to get a case against the success of the Wii mote. Many other ideas were similar but not the same(and thats why so many different businesses tried to sue upon the wiimote). I think he had a lot of ideas and theories that nintendo made true(he didnt really put the ideas in practice) , but that never gave him a case on anything. You cant be so open to believe anyone claiming they sold the right to nintendo.In fact, nintendo wouldnt have lost anything by acknowledging Midway if all that jazz was true. The biggest possibility, is that all of that is bogus and gold digging.While he mentions other genres, his patent certainly doesnt shows any possibility of achieving that.Is like saying "In the future we will travel at light speed, but not knowing how. Later when people get that together, i will sue them for copying my idea".