A lot of ignorance today (Remote play and Eyetoy never existed)

[joeorc]

Play4Fun said:

 

Move was clearly very influenced by Wiimote's success and design.

and the WiiMote was clearly very influenced by the concept by the Team and Dr, Richard Marks over @ Sony and of course Gyration Inc. who pitched the idea to Nintendo in 2001, while in a year before DR. Marks @ siggraph 2000 showed off the Emerging trend in motion control concept's working on PS2 hardware prototype!

So like i stated its not as clear cut as many seem to think.

Again:

DR. marks in 2000 showed off the working Move concept with a working prototype software with a wand control scheme a wand with a multi- colored ball @ this is

one freaking full year before gyration pitched the idea to Nintendo in 2001!

http://www.siggraph.org/s2000/online/emerging/


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Richard Marks

here is the  PDF:

http://lukasz.dk/mirror/research-scea/research/pdfs/SIGGRAPHetech2000.pdf

I think many are confused about innovation and invention:

Nintendo create the WiiMote? no

they licenced it, unlike Nintendo Sony really did invent a method for their Motion control, So if Nintendo Licenced the technology they did not invent it in the first place, so how is it that Sony is going to " imitate"

something they invented?

"Innovation differs from invention in that innovation refers to the use of a better and, as a result, novel idea or method, whereas invention refers more directly to the creation of the idea or method itself."