Nintendo Patents: In Game Chat, Sound Sampling, Low Power Mode, and More

[DanneSandin]

spemanig said:

Tachikoma said:

One rule for one, one rule for another.

And no, I quit.

No. Still the same rule. Group chat is something can be done on Xbox, Playstation, and PC. It's a universal, standard feature in gaming. Again, making a patent for the unique way you do something that everyone else already does isn't copying. It assimilating. If Microsoft released a XBO controller 2.0, and it had a giant touch screen on it, and it was bundled with every new XBO from that point on, and every game on the XBO from then on had a map and inventory on the bottom screen, that's copying.

I'm surprised. You being a mod "made sense."

I think I understand where you're coming from spemanig. It's like saying Xbox copied Nintendo when they used the d-pad or analog stick, but they didn't since it was already industry standards when they joined the race. Right?