There is no such thing as an original idea. It's a long-standing misconception, and one that is ludicrous if you stop to consider it. How can you come up with an idea with nothing to base it on? You can't, of course; you have to derive your ideas from what you have available to you. Everything has a source, even ideas, and thus no ideas can truly be said to be original.
That's where innovation comes from, of course: when an idea is a combination of ideas that hasn't been present before, then there can be innovation. To that end, Nintendo having the same starting model as Gyration is not important; Gyration did not come up with the idea to combine motion-sensing with the fully one-handed controller setup and expansion port. In that regard, Nintendo was still innovative.
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