Philips wants to ban Wii U?

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kljesta64 on 14 May 2014

again someone paying off to sue nintendo or what superchunk said

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episteme on 14 May 2014

superchunk said:
So I read more about this.

Two patents in question.

1) First one describes the wiimote as well as ps move. However, it was filed in 2009. This has to be thrown out as Nintendo has patents, prior art as it existed since 2006, and a lot of legal history to prove their case.

2) Second one is from 1996 and it essentially describes a system that puts a virtual body of you in the game and tracks your movements. Reading this and it actually matches Kinect, not wiimote.

They are obviously trying to tie them together to counter all motion type controls, but its a rather weak argument that Nintendo has already won multiple times in court over its wiimote.

One person on GAF brought up an interesting point. Philips is a major player in the medical field. Nintendo is hinting at entering the medical field with the QOL platform. It seems rather interesting that Philips is doing this push now. Maybe they are taking a pre-emptive strike on Nintendo to keep them out out the medical markets.

I don't see any way Philips will win this. But I am interested in the QOL argument.

Not sure if QOL will compete with Philips. QOL is for entertainment, Philips makes stuff like CT's and other X-ray equipment.

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superchunk on 14 May 2014

episteme said:

Not sure if QOL will compete with Philips. QOL is for entertainment, Philips makes stuff like CT's or X-ray equipment.

QOL, as stated by Nintendo, is for health and body improvement through entertainment. It clearly is medical related and its possible Philips sees this as a beach-head move.

Really its just a theory, but I think it kinda makes sense.

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hinch on 14 May 2014

superchunk said:
So I read more about this.

Two patents in question.

1) First one describes the wiimote as well as ps move. However, it was filed in 2009. This has to be thrown out as Nintendo has patents, prior art as it existed since 2006, and a lot of legal history to prove their case.

2) Second one is from 1996 and it essentially describes a system that puts a virtual body of you in the game and tracks your movements. Reading this and it actually matches Kinect, not wiimote.

They are obviously trying to tie them together to counter all motion type controls, but its a rather weak argument that Nintendo has already won multiple times in court over its wiimote.

One person on GAF brought up an interesting point. Philips is a major player in the medical field. Nintendo is hinting at entering the medical field with the QOL platform. It seems rather interesting that Philips is doing this push now. Maybe they are taking a pre-emptive strike on Nintendo to keep them out out the medical markets.

I don't see any way Philips will win this. But I am interested in the QOL argument.

Conspiracy theories aside.. the picture used for the first patent is hilariously bad.

I can't get my head around that door... Is it going in or out? Argh.

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VanceIX on 14 May 2014

They won't ban it, they're just setting the bar high so they can negotiate a cut from the profit on each console sold.

Whether or not they succeed is a different question.

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binary solo on 14 May 2014

Forget what about PS Move. What about DS3 sixaxis and Wiimote? Unless it's because of the screen on the Wii U controller it would seem that patent ship has we'll and truly sailed and Phillips was not on it.

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JazzB1987 on 14 May 2014

What I learned so far about this Philips Vs Nintendo thing. (on here / gaf / the rest of the net)

Philips wants to fuck Nintend because of 2 patents.
One was filled in 2009 and Wii came out in 2006. = Philips is the bad guy IMHO

Everything in those patents is completely vague. And is just there so people that one day invent similar stuff get trouble = Philips is again the bad guy.

Philips does not even make TVs anymore they sell their name to any shit company that wants Philips on their TVs or radios etc. All they do now is medical equipment and shavers. = Philips is trash

conclusion:
If I would not have heard about that Philips vs Nintendo thing I would have thought Philips is a good company that MAKES TVs etc but now its a shit company full of idiots that sells its "logo" to any crap company that buys it for some cash. (This explains why my headphones were so super shitty they were probably made by some garage "inventor" without hands in china)

Fail.