Playstation sales halted?

Matthewthebig

Look

I cant ****ing belive this!

Ciaran500

Sony will apeal and delay that at least till the PS3 comes out.

okidoki987

By the time Irish retailers find out about it, it will be 5 years down the road and it will all have be sorted out.

iregk

Wouldn't worry too much about it, this sort of thing happens every day in teh computer industry. Sure Microsoft had a case brought against them for copying the dreamcast controller. Nothing came of it as im sure nothing will of this. Anyway, every console steals ideals from every other one....

Peteee

I wonder why Sony is being targeted here and not nintendo (Who, i'm fairly sure had the Rumble pack for the N64 before the Dual Shock controller came out around the time of the first GT)

Is it because Sony are still selling their dual shock controller and nintendo arnt (AFAIK the cube dosent have a rumble feature, although i've never played one for any decent amount of time unfortunatly)

KTRIC

What about all the new consoles in the stores at the moment ?? Can people still buy them (not that I care!!!) or not.
When does this officially come into action ??

Standard Toaster

My mobile vibrates when I play a Java golf game on it. Are they gonna sue them too?

Fysh

Peteee wrote:

Is it because Sony are still selling their dual shock controller and nintendo arnt (AFAIK the cube dosent have a rumble feature, although i've never played one for any decent amount of time unfortunatly)

Cube controller does have a rumbe feature in it. And the cube controller borrowed a couple of ideas from the PS2 controller, to say the least, after the fiasco that was the N64 joypad...

I can't see Sony just rolling over and accepting this.

Ciaran500

What was wrong with the N64 pad?

Fysh

I found it way too clunky, like it was trying to fit too many buttons on there. Interesting design, sure, but certainly not the best way of incorporating all those features imo.

Cake Fiend

Fysh wrote:

And the cube controller borrowed a couple of ideas from the PS2 controller, to say the least

Like what?

If you're talking solely about vibration features and analogue joysticks, Nintendo are the innovators there.

RobertFoster

GC pad is the most comfortable IMO.

Headshot

RobertFoster wrote:

GC pad is the most comfortable IMO.

i would have to disagree
the orignal xbox controller rules

KTRIC

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cregser

Well, the topic is about game controller patent infringement. It hasn't strayed too far, yet.

The PS1 pad copied off the SNES gamepad. The N64 pad innovated with analogue sticks, Z button trigger, and rumble pad - dualshock copied with analogue sticks + shock and then went all analogue with DualShock2. The Xbox pad copied trigger buttons.... and I don't know what the GC pad was trying to do. It's my least favourite pad.

Anyway, I thought the MS ForceFeedback joystick was the first vibration controller.
There must come a time when a patent is an industry standard.

Sony won't loose. Immersion have total annual revenues of $23.8m. So Sony only have to drag them through the courts for a little while to keep most of their $90m.

Chalk

dont ms have 10% in imersion?

monument

okidoki987 wrote:

By the time Irish retailers find out about it, it will be 5 years down the road and it will all have be sorted out.

What a strange statement.

Chalk wrote:

dont ms have 10% in imersion?

Yes, they do.

Chalk

im gonna put my tinfoil hat on and start writing conspiracy theories from my treehouse

Dr_MalPractice

didn't microsoft settle out of court right at the start, whereas sony decided to go the court route. could microsofts settlement be helping to fund the suit against sony?

monument

Yes, MS also loaned them money, and they now own 10% of the company...

http://gamestoaster.typepad.com/games_toaster/2005/03/not_so_good_vib.html

Kristok

its nice to see sony getting a bloody nose, shame it dosnt apply to europe