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Wait! Nintendo.....Stole?!



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hatmoza 2.0 said:
Wait! Nintendo.....Stole?!

 

LOL you get today's award for "Most likely to not read through a thread"



bardicverse said:
hatmoza 2.0 said:
Wait! Nintendo.....Stole?!

 

LOL you get today's award for "Most likely to not read through a thread"

 

 Oh! I thought I would get a sarcasm award.



hatmoza 2.0 said:
bardicverse said:
hatmoza 2.0 said:
Wait! Nintendo.....Stole?!

 

LOL you get today's award for "Most likely to not read through a thread"

 

 Oh! I thought I would get a sarcasm award.

 

I think Rol gets that by default, for eternity. The "posting in every thread possibe" award is still up for grabs tho.



bardicverse said:
Thx, actually, Motion Controls were around even before MS, ever hear of Virtual Reality, or the NES Power Glove? As for the specific device, it says nothing about accelerometers, bluetooth, or anything that the Wii remote uses.

Considering that the Wii released in 06, that implies development to start 3 years earlier, and research 2 before that, Theoretically, the initial concepts for the Wii remote could have been found in 2002 as well. Maybe Nintendo just beat them to the finish line and got their patent out first?

BTW, the MS Research from 2004 link, it doesn't load.

Just tested both links and they worked fine.

 



Its libraries that sell systems not a single game.

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^^ will recheck again, was timing out this morning