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LordTheNightKnight on 08 August 2008

Which means Nintendo is honestly trying to inspire the industry, as they claimed. Hoarding the tech is against their goal, which is to make everybody on Earth a gamer. Since they are realizing this before the other guys, they just get the bonus of printing money.



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brawl4life on 08 August 2008

I'm guessing Microsoft is probably going to have something to do with it in the near future they have $$$ to spend :)



shams on 09 August 2008

No surprise there. I do think Ninty should just outright buy the company - it would be great tech to "own" IMO. Even if it costs them $500m or $1bn.



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.jayderyu on 09 August 2008

Interesting to note that the the power of the controll is WITH the technology already in the WiiRemote and the IR.



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evo03 on 09 August 2008

Though they have the head start in working with this sort of tech Nintendo better hope this doesn't come back to bite them in the ass in the future.



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MasterZack on 09 August 2008

r u kidding, rigth?



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LordTheNightKnight on 09 August 2008
shams said:
No surprise there. I do think Ninty should just outright buy the company - it would be great tech to "own" IMO. Even if it costs them $500m or $1bn.

 

But they could get a better return by just having bestselling games that use it, and allowing developers to use it, thus getting Nintendo back their old support.



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steven787 on 09 August 2008

Buying companies up isn't always the best option, neither is buying up patents.

1. Buying a company almost always removes the traits that made that company productive in the first place. This company was innovative enough to get these precise gyroscopes cheap enough to put in game controllers.

2. When you limit production (by being the only user) you are not maximizing efficiency, if others use the technology (whether in gaming or industry) then the prices will be kept low. Development and production costs tend to be higher for monopolies than for large competitive operations.

3. Even if you own the patent, there are many methods to get the same results. This isn't the first Gyroscope sensor for a control mechanism, it's just the most efficient production method used. It's 100% guaranteed that some one will come along and find a way to make this tech even cheaper using a different method.



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appolose on 09 August 2008


Motion-sensing cannot work on any more axes; "Six degrees of freedom is the holy grail," apparently. The future will be more responsive and robust gyroscopes that are smaller and cheaper to produce. 

 

Unless I'm missing something, isn't that rather obvious?  How are you going to have more than 3-D?



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Galaki on 09 August 2008
appolose said:

How are you going to have more than 3-D?

 

Is that supposed to be a trick question? It's obviously 4-D.



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