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Taken from n-philes.com:
'Sega feels that The Simpsons Road Rage is too similar to their own Crazy Taxi (GCN, Xbox, DC) and have sued a division of Fox Entertainment for selling the game. Sega says that the title infringes on a Sega patent and the game was designed to deliberately copy and imitate Crazy Taxi. The lawsuit not only goes after Fox Interactive, but Vivendi Universal that now owns the company division, as well as the developer Radical Games Ltd. and publisher Electronic Arts.
Sega is asking for sales of Simpsons Road Rage be stopped and for reimbursement of lost profits. It has sold more than 1 million copies to date, further financial reason for Sega to go after them. Nothing has been said about the more recent Simpsons Hit & Run game.'
Hrmm...It sounds like Sega are perhaps getting a little bit desperate. If this goes through and wins (unlikely as it may seem), then any company that has made any platformers after Mario, should be sued by Nintendo. Or as someone said on the n-philes forum, Capcom could sue anyone who ever made a fighting game. Sega need to deal with this fact: Ideas get stolen (and Shigsy aparently knows it, with him being so secretive about Mario 128).
Although they do have a point about Road Rage being very similar, and I'm sure they own patents/copyrights on it, I don't think it can have stopped many Crazy Taxi Sales, Road Rage is a pretty awful game anyway. It just seems a bit too stupid on Sega's behalf to me, but anyway, what do you all think?
'Sega feels that The Simpsons Road Rage is too similar to their own Crazy Taxi (GCN, Xbox, DC) and have sued a division of Fox Entertainment for selling the game. Sega says that the title infringes on a Sega patent and the game was designed to deliberately copy and imitate Crazy Taxi. The lawsuit not only goes after Fox Interactive, but Vivendi Universal that now owns the company division, as well as the developer Radical Games Ltd. and publisher Electronic Arts.
Sega is asking for sales of Simpsons Road Rage be stopped and for reimbursement of lost profits. It has sold more than 1 million copies to date, further financial reason for Sega to go after them. Nothing has been said about the more recent Simpsons Hit & Run game.'
Hrmm...It sounds like Sega are perhaps getting a little bit desperate. If this goes through and wins (unlikely as it may seem), then any company that has made any platformers after Mario, should be sued by Nintendo. Or as someone said on the n-philes forum, Capcom could sue anyone who ever made a fighting game. Sega need to deal with this fact: Ideas get stolen (and Shigsy aparently knows it, with him being so secretive about Mario 128).
Although they do have a point about Road Rage being very similar, and I'm sure they own patents/copyrights on it, I don't think it can have stopped many Crazy Taxi Sales, Road Rage is a pretty awful game anyway. It just seems a bit too stupid on Sega's behalf to me, but anyway, what do you all think?
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Dringo wrote:
> Yes Nintendo should sue SEGA for using the D-pad, the platform genre,
> Sonic Shuffle etc... etc...
If you look at the ps2 control it is very similiar to the snes control.
It has the l and r buttons, the controll pad is almost the same and the square, cirle, x, the triangle buttons have the same postitions as the Y, B , X and A buttons and the start and select buttons have the same positions as the SNES control.
> Yes Nintendo should sue SEGA for using the D-pad, the platform genre,
> Sonic Shuffle etc... etc...
If you look at the ps2 control it is very similiar to the snes control.
It has the l and r buttons, the controll pad is almost the same and the square, cirle, x, the triangle buttons have the same postitions as the Y, B , X and A buttons and the start and select buttons have the same positions as the SNES control.
Hasn't everything been done before?
I'd like for Sega to get their hands on some cash, especially if it's from Electronic Arts - but what they're proposing is far-fetched and ridiculous. There's loads of Terminator rip-offs, huge numbers of songs that only vary slightly from each other and a multitude of Mario Kart clones.
When you invent something groundbreaking, someone's going to find a way to get a piece of it. Unfortunately enough.
When you invent something groundbreaking, someone's going to find a way to get a piece of it. Unfortunately enough.
Yes Nintendo should sue SEGA for using the D-pad, the platform genre, Sonic Shuffle etc... etc...
Taken from n-philes.com:
'Sega feels that The Simpsons Road Rage is too similar to their own Crazy Taxi (GCN, Xbox, DC) and have sued a division of Fox Entertainment for selling the game. Sega says that the title infringes on a Sega patent and the game was designed to deliberately copy and imitate Crazy Taxi. The lawsuit not only goes after Fox Interactive, but Vivendi Universal that now owns the company division, as well as the developer Radical Games Ltd. and publisher Electronic Arts.
Sega is asking for sales of Simpsons Road Rage be stopped and for reimbursement of lost profits. It has sold more than 1 million copies to date, further financial reason for Sega to go after them. Nothing has been said about the more recent Simpsons Hit & Run game.'
Hrmm...It sounds like Sega are perhaps getting a little bit desperate. If this goes through and wins (unlikely as it may seem), then any company that has made any platformers after Mario, should be sued by Nintendo. Or as someone said on the n-philes forum, Capcom could sue anyone who ever made a fighting game. Sega need to deal with this fact: Ideas get stolen (and Shigsy aparently knows it, with him being so secretive about Mario 128).
Although they do have a point about Road Rage being very similar, and I'm sure they own patents/copyrights on it, I don't think it can have stopped many Crazy Taxi Sales, Road Rage is a pretty awful game anyway. It just seems a bit too stupid on Sega's behalf to me, but anyway, what do you all think?
'Sega feels that The Simpsons Road Rage is too similar to their own Crazy Taxi (GCN, Xbox, DC) and have sued a division of Fox Entertainment for selling the game. Sega says that the title infringes on a Sega patent and the game was designed to deliberately copy and imitate Crazy Taxi. The lawsuit not only goes after Fox Interactive, but Vivendi Universal that now owns the company division, as well as the developer Radical Games Ltd. and publisher Electronic Arts.
Sega is asking for sales of Simpsons Road Rage be stopped and for reimbursement of lost profits. It has sold more than 1 million copies to date, further financial reason for Sega to go after them. Nothing has been said about the more recent Simpsons Hit & Run game.'
Hrmm...It sounds like Sega are perhaps getting a little bit desperate. If this goes through and wins (unlikely as it may seem), then any company that has made any platformers after Mario, should be sued by Nintendo. Or as someone said on the n-philes forum, Capcom could sue anyone who ever made a fighting game. Sega need to deal with this fact: Ideas get stolen (and Shigsy aparently knows it, with him being so secretive about Mario 128).
Although they do have a point about Road Rage being very similar, and I'm sure they own patents/copyrights on it, I don't think it can have stopped many Crazy Taxi Sales, Road Rage is a pretty awful game anyway. It just seems a bit too stupid on Sega's behalf to me, but anyway, what do you all think?
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