OldClassicGamer wrote:Haruka wrote:Or Philips is desperate for quick money, or Nintendo has got quite a problem to solve. Honestly, why Philips only warned Nintendo about the patents 5 years later after the Wii release? Also, in 2011 there was no Wii U yet.
Why 5 years waiting? Because they are talking bullshit and just trying to get some money. The fact that in 2011 there was no Wii U yet only proves that.
Philips is still butthurt that CDi failed and that their partnership with Nintendo is over.
Actually, the Wii U mention is not the odd part. The Wii U was known to support Wii Remotes in 2011. So the technology used to make Wii Remotes possible on Wii is present in the Wii U, and we all knew that in 2011. So it makes sense that they would mention the Wii U.
The odd part is that it apparently took them 5 years to figure out what kind of technology makes Wii Remotes work, even though Nintendo outright explained it before the Wii launched. If Nintendo was in the wrong, they would never have done that, and this patent would have been made before the Wii launched considering Nintendo explained how it worked before the Wii launched.
Also, I doubt this has anything to do with Philips being butthurt about the CDi, companies don't work like that. This has to do with "idea patenting" being a way for less successful, or even just greedy companies, to make a profit off of the successes of other companies. Nintendo was already the target of this when some Japanese company sued them over the technology that makes the 3DS work it's glasses-free 3D magic, as that company patented a similar way of making it work. That company somehow won in the end, and now they take a small percentage of the money made from 3DS sales from now on.
Nintendo is just loaded with cash and everyone wants a piece of it.
