Why can't Nintendo just sue Sony for imitation?

[Pingu]

Bamboleo said:

WereKitten said:

Bamboleo said:

1) We're talking here about home console gaming. The amount of "inovations" brought by companies or a group of geeks into PC's is insane. Check the skinput technology on youtube for example.

2) You doubt. Period.

3) For home computers, exactly. Not consoles.

4) There's so many ways, yet Sony decides to go exactly the Wiimote and nunchuk way. Coincidence? Epic no.

You're needlessly confrontational, and not addressing the gist of my argumentation.

I'm talking of early eighties here. And for several years after the great console crash home computing meant mainstream gaming, especially in Europe. It was not a geeky minority, it was all there was to gaming and it's where the consoles had to restart from/compete against.

If all you saw is Nintendo, of course anything they did would look new to you. But gaming is -and was- a much bigger and varied world and Nintendo drew inspiration from the existing as much as anybody else, and rightly so.

@Damnyouall

thanks for another example, forgot about the 5200 and didn't really know much about the vectrex.

Now we're drifting from facts to our own opinions.

 While I respect yours, you have to realize that if things were as you describe, Nintendo wouldn't be considered by the gaming community, and press, as the 'creators' of such features in home console gaming as D-pad, Rumble, analog sticks, shoulder buttons, etc.

Thing is, they are considered to be the ones bringing that, and Sony is already famous from many years now to adopt the Nintendo creations.

 

And Computer gaming is not home console gaming since I recognized the difference between a computer and a console back in the 80's when I first saw a commodore (or Spectrum, I'm not sure which was the first, but I clearly remember the Jumping Chickens game)

Do you have any evidence to support this? Otherwise this is surely just an opinion

Anyway the thread seems to be going way off topic to an analysis of the controllers of various consoles over the last 20 years which ultimately proves nothing and results in flame war (which I am guilty of too). Going back to the OP the answer is no Nintendo cannot sue as what matters is that the tech in the MOVE is different to the wiimote and the obvious similarities aside this is all that matters. Surely the fact that the remote operates with the PS eye indictaes taht they are not exactly the same.