@Grey Acumen: WTF, you're in debt?
That was US patent, so it's not for nearly 20M Wiis and nearly 9M PS3:s. Only the quantity sold in US. Someone else may have the same patent in somewhere else or you may not even be able to patent it somewhere else.
The reason why the companies are always preventing the sales, is because the company sued will be more willing to pay/more willing to take the sueing company more seriously. This also relates to my next point:
@GA&Halil: The reason why US companies are sueing foreign companies is because they're hoping that the companies will settle instead of going into court (which is pretty common). The US system doesn't seem to make sense and it's very expensive to start fighting without guarantees of you actually winning the case, so it's much more cheaper to pay than go to court and then pay (for example with the Immersion case, M$ paid a lot less than Sony because the forementioned settled it without going into court). The thing is, that the companies hope the foreign companies, who aren't familiar with the US system, get scared and pay them and since sueing is the national sport in the US, it's more than preffered to sue someone.
@Katilian: I think those weren't the patents mentioned, since the article was talking about configuration. Although, i could be wrong.
@Coglestop: Like i earlier said, what was mentioned in the article, were something that Bluetooth does.
Ei Kiinasti.
Eikä Japanisti.
Vaan pannaan jalalla koreasti.
Nintendo games sell only on Nintendo system.
