Philips wants to ban Wii and Wii U in America

[assassinz]

Wouldn't this lawsuit mean 3rd party Wii controller manufacturers can get sued too?

 

[WiiCube_2013]

Wouldn't this lawsuit mean 3rd party Wii controller manufacturers can get sued too?

How much money do I need to sue Sony for stealing an idea I had which they used in PS4 but never told anyone about or patented it?

This sue-everyone sure sounds cool.

I perhaps should sue Nerf for selling those shitty bullets that get stuck in the sniper when I least expect.

 

[Foxi4]

if you think THIS is a joke. The company Commodore / Amiga (which brought to you the Amiga / C64 computer line and the CD32 game console).....

was taken down entirely due to one vague XOR (Exclusive Or) cursor patent by Cadtrack. One fucking patent ruined an entire reputable player in the electronics industry and forced hundreds of local Pennsylvanians to lose their jobs.

This crap is why the CD32 was never released officially in the USA. But had to be imported. Commadore wouldn't have been so bad off to declare bankruptcy if they didn't put all their assets into the CD32.

Let's not overdramatize, the company had serious financial issues at the time. They closed shop because they had to declare bankrupcy in the face of the CD32's failure as well as poor performance of their computers in most markets as well. It didn't happen overnight, it was an on-going problem that began in the late 1980'ies as Macs and IBM-Compatible PC's took over the market.

 

[Gahars]

lol after Sony stabbed Nintendo in the back with their "Play Station" SNES-CD agreement contract, where Sony would have exclusive rights for the addon and Nintendo would get barely nothing).

Nintendo pretty much had "Revenge sex" with Phillips behind Sony's back (which was revealed shortly after CES of that year) with a SNES CD deal and a Nintendo character contract. Which created the incested lovechild abominations known as the Zelda: faces of evil, wand of gamalon, Zelda's Adventure and Hotel Mario. The worst 4 games on the Phillips CD-i. Oddly enough both deals fell though and Sony went to make their Nintendo-less "PlayStation" and the CD addon never happened. Protip!: the SNES has a sound chip designed by Sony, which sparked Sony's interest in Nintendo in the first place. the irony.

Boring history lesson aside (i did a lot of research for my YT series). Nintendo has dealt with Phillips before but not in a negative way like this.

So I guess "Company Erotica" is a thing now.

If so, Microsoft/Apple. Best OTP, do ship.

 

[Foxi4]

So I guess "Company Erotica" is a thing now. If so, Microsoft/Apple. Best OTP, do ship.

This prompted me to make a Google search.

I found "Bill and Steve's (S)Excellent Adventures".

I regret everything.

 

[FAST6191]

Being one that has always been encouraged to make my own mistakes I used Foxi4's post as the starting point of a search.

I am not sure whether it is the logical extension of the "companies are people" mindset or whether I just want to go back to a time where companies were the ones fucking me in the arse.

 

[VMM]

Maybe the patent is too vague and undefined and they only have the patent in the US because the US patent office allows the patenting of vague ideas. European patent offices have way stricter criteria so it's entirely possible Philips only has a patent in the US and can only demand a ban there.


EDIT: "Philips bans Wii U in North America; no impact on sales"

With all the ridiculous lawsuits for copyright infrigiment that Apple has done in the last couple of years this does not surprise me.

 

[Foxi4]

EDIT: "Philips bans Wii U in North America; no impact on sales"

That would still increase profits due to lowered logistics expenses. No shipping, no problem.

 

[stanleyopar2000]

This prompted me to make a Google search.

I found "Bill and Steve's (S)Excellent Adventures".

I regret everything.

oh common guys...it's not literally...it's like they...screwed with someone else behind their partners back just to get back at them... : /

and yeah Foxi4 come to think of it...Commadore also extended their resources into the failed video game department...(C64GS [which was a dumbed down C64], Commadore CDTV and MAX Machine) which failed. If they stayed with what worked which was Computers..they maybe would have stayed around longer instead of get greedy and knowingly fail 3 times at it.

 

[Bladexdsl]

phillips are blaming ninty for their terrible zelda cd-i games causing the CD-i to fail and want revenge even though ninty had nothing to do with them zeldas

 

[KingVamp]

They are appealing it.

 

[cdoty]

See what happened.. I warned you about voting the CDi as the worse console of all time.

May Philips have mercy on your souls.