Wii - a stolen design, ad campaign, and legacy?

[andy]

This is very interesting, considering the timing of it. Wozniak vibes up and down.

[RivalGuy]

Kind of an unsatisfying watch. Neat to learn about this company I hadn't previously heard of, but the crux of the legal question, whether Nintendo violated XaviX's patents or used another technology for motion detection in the Wiimote, isn't answered, and we don't even get a gesture at an answer. I get that the case was settled so that was a dead end, but surely there are people with the tech skills needed to look at the two pieces of hardware? Or hell, even just the relevant XaviX and Nintendo patents.

[andy]

I don't think it's unsatisfying and I think that there is some bad blood since they legit stole the COMMERCIAL for it. I mean, c'mon. That's not just a popular trope. That was a 1:1 ripoff.

Nintendo has a cache that's untouchable in public opinion in Japan (there have been huge Reddit wars over it, where the nearly universal Japanese viewpoint is Nintendo is a national treasure...I just happened to read through a few of them the other day completely unrelated). And it DOES say 'allege' right in the title which means it can't have been proven.

[RivalGuy]

Maybe "unsatisfying" was the wrong word. It would have been better to say it was a anti-climactic. I was hoping to get some technical analysis on how the two systems work, and I didn't. As friendly as their marketing and games are, Nintendo is absolutely ruthless as a company, so I'm not going to pretend they're above patent infringement if it maths out. I was just hoping to get some more clarity on how likely that was, based on what we can observe from the patents of the two companies, and the hardware of the two devices.