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Posted by: lol_Doughnut Dec 8 2006, 10:12 PM

http://wii.ign.com/articles/750/750001p1.html

Posted by: FeRgY Dec 8 2006, 10:15 PM

Again? They were just sued for rumble feedback...

Posted by: lol_Doughnut Dec 8 2006, 10:24 PM

I thought that was Sony. :/

Unless Immerson is just an asshole company.




My guess is the second one.

Posted by: Gamb Dec 8 2006, 10:25 PM

You can only be sued so many times...

Posted by: Requiem Dec 8 2006, 11:00 PM

Nintendo will probably pay them off, if they know they will lose the case.

Posted by: Jr7891 Dec 8 2006, 11:49 PM

This will be thrown out. If you go read the patent and look at the site of the product, all this was is a wireless remote that had the arrow keys mapped to buttons, and a transmitter that controlled the pointer.

The two remotes don't even function the same. The Wii has most of the info come from the Wiimote and this piece of shit uses the oddly shaped transmitter to recieve the motion sent from the optical laser found in the remote.

Posted by: Requiem Dec 9 2006, 01:18 AM

And the Wiimote uses the Wii as a transmitter. In the long run it's pretty damn close to being the same thing.

Posted by: Jr7891 Dec 9 2006, 02:05 AM

It isn't. At ALL. This is just a wireless mouse with arrow keys mapped to buttons for Powerpoint presentations.

There are no accelerometer, or ways to tell where it is in regards to the reciever, or how it is tilted.

This company should be suing the people who actually made a good version of this idea. Not nintendo. I mean, they didn't even design the thing for the same reasons nintendo designed it. And they are far from the first to come up with wireless pointers.

Think laser pointer with buttons. The wii just works difrently. I'll type some longwinded shit up tomarrow. I need UMK3 and sleep for now.

Quick edit: Boring Powerpoint mouse = infared. Wiimote = Bluetooth. differant technologies. That makes enough of a differance for this to get thrown out.

Posted by: lol_Doughnut Dec 9 2006, 05:19 AM

Nintendo really needs to sue Namco's ass. What with Teh guncon n shit.

Posted by: FeRgY Dec 9 2006, 10:18 AM

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6155238.html

Posted by: lol_Doughnut Dec 9 2006, 11:17 AM

Oh. LOL.

Posted by: Jr7891 Dec 9 2006, 01:18 PM

Guncon works nothing like the Wiimote. When you pull the trigger, the screen flashes and whatever is white is what is hit.

Then it combines this with whats on the screen (Enemies, objects, wherever you shot at).

So, it is a 3 step process that works extremly fast. All the info comes from the TV. This is why you can't use a guncon on any HD screen (Except RGB monitors used in arcades.)

The duckhunt zapper simply looks for white anything. You can shoot the thing at a white wall or light and kill every duck on the screen.

Nintendo wouldn't sue Namco right now anyway. They are working together to make the games that Rare had previously (Star Fox, Donkey Kong, arcade Mario Kart, and a few other portables.) The last thing Nintendo needs is to alienate its third party devolpers.

Posted by: lol_Doughnut Dec 9 2006, 01:38 PM

If this company can sue Nintendo for almost kind of like it technology, then I see no reason Nintendo couldn't sue for Guncon.

Posted by: Jr7891 Dec 9 2006, 03:13 PM

Heres the thing though. Nintendo hasn't been sued yet. This shit hasn't even reached Nintendo's offices.

You can get a lawsuit on anything. If I wanted to sue you for having the name Doughnut, a lawer would be glad to take my money and at least attempt to start something. Then everything gets thrown out and the only people who won were you and the lawyer.

Posted by: lol_Doughnut Dec 9 2006, 03:35 PM

BRING IT, BITCH.


...But now I see. Lol legal system.