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Porcupine_I on 21 June 2014

I don't get it, are they sued by Phillips too now?



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Devil_Survivor on 21 June 2014
Maraccuda said:
KLXVER said:
Maraccuda said:
KLXVER said:
Whats the lawsuit about?


Phillips claim that the Nintendo Wii infringes on two of their patents. Even though the patents are incredibly vague and refer to 'controlling with a device'.

Even one of their patents was filed AFTER the release of the Wii.

Shame on Phillips wanting money.


and still they won? 

Well I dont know the exact details but it appears they one the first case in UK or something. So I hope Nintendo appeals it or atleast the cases for USA and Germany and France are overturned.

here read this:http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2014/06/philips_secures_wii_patent_victory_over_nintendo_in_the_uk

It has more details in it.



 

Maraccuda on 21 June 2014
KLXVER said:
Whats the lawsuit about?


http://www.scribd.com/doc/224095177/Koninklijke-Philips-N-V-et-al-v-Nintendo-et-al

Here is the actual case claim by Phillips (or what I am led to believe is the real one).

And this is an excerpt from the claim;

'The present patents-in-suit stem from these fields of research and development and claims protection for an interactive system for which a user can remotely control devices in an intuitive manner. Such intuitive remote control mechanisms are used in present-day home video game consoles'.



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KLXVER on 21 June 2014

Nintendo should just show the judge what Phillips did to Zelda and the judge will rule in Nintendos favor in a heartbeat...



Bfriedli on 21 June 2014

It's about Phillips losing a ton of money when Nintendo agreed a partnership with Phillips to produce SNES-CD (attaching Phillips CD-i to a SNES) after Sony decided to make its own console the Playstation. Nintendo pulled out and agreed instead to allow them to make 3 Zelda Games for the CD-i(Link: The Faces of Evil, Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon and Zelda's Adventure) The CD-i did horrible and all 3 Zelda games sucked (because Phillips outsourced them) Phillips lost a ton of money over a Billion $. Now that Nintendo is hurting really bad and after the success of the Wii, there trying to bankrupt Nintendo by getting royalties from the Wii and banning the Wii U in the USA over supposed patent infringement that they knew about it since at least 8 years for the Wii and 3 years for the Wii U.



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eFKac on 21 June 2014
Bfriedli said:
It's about Phillips losing a ton of money when Nintendo agreed a partnership with Phillips to produce SNES-CD (attaching Phillips CD-i to a SNES) after Sony decided to make its own console the Playstation. Nintendo pulled out and agreed instead to allow them to make 3 Zelda Games for the CD-i(Link: The Faces of Evil, Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon and Zelda's Adventure) The CD-i did horrible and all 3 Zelda games sucked (because Phillips outsourced them) Phillips lost a ton of money over a Billion $. Now that Nintendo is hurting really bad and after the success of the Wii, there trying to bankrupt Nintendo by getting royalties from the Wii and banning the Wii U in the USA over supposed patent infringement that they knew about it since at least 8 years for the Wii and 3 years for the Wii U.


Wow so much crazy speculation and  wrong in this post.



So it is happening...PS4 preorder.

Greatness Awaits!

Bfriedli on 21 June 2014

Maybe a lot of speculation but not wrong. Why sue now as there hurting and Wii's successes after 8 years?



Conegamer on 21 June 2014

Yeah it's not gonna be discontinued I agree.

However, in future don't make a thread with such little information in. Either find something to "bulk it up" or post in one of the existing threads. They're there for a reason, after all.



 

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