| __XBrawlX__ said: This is obviously fake. Microsoft wouldn't be as stupid to do this... people would immediately recognize it as a rip-off, and the inevitable suing of Microsoft by Nintendo would occur. There is no way this is real. |
While it would be a blatent rip off it may have been designed to get around Nintendo Patents. Look at the Playstation controller it was sesigned to get around existing Nintendo patents of the day. It all depends on how the patents are worded. Somethign so obvious like this released from a Major company with a competitor who is a major company would most likely have worked hard to keep it as similiar as possible but different enough to avoid patents...or maybe they just paid for the patents.
De85. Nintendo may not have invented these things for gaming but they surely introduced or reintroduced their implementation with regards to gaming styles. Nintendo bought back the analog stick for 3D gaming which had a large impact. Nintendo established the crosspad for 2D gaming and as far as motion sensitive gaming goes I have yet to see a controller that does everythign the Wiimote does(ie pointing+motion sensing+sound+ standard control)
