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How very interesting. Sony have been slapped with a $90.7million fine, and have been told to "Withdraw PS2 consoles from the US market". This will not take place until an appeal is heard, but it could be bad news for a certain company...
[URL]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4387045.stm[/URL]
[URL]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4387045.stm[/URL]
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How very interesting. Sony have been slapped with a $90.7million fine, and have been told to "Withdraw PS2 consoles from the US market". This will not take place until an appeal is heard, but it could be bad news for a certain company...
[URL]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4387045.stm[/URL]
[URL]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4387045.stm[/URL]
Seems a little odd. :\
Heh, the electronics side is sliding too?
Good hopefully we'll get quality products from now on.
Good hopefully we'll get quality products from now on.
And this has... What to do with Nintendo?
Market rival.
But if people were so bothered by Sony, wouldn't they go into the Sony forum?
The forum that gets 6 posts a day?
Not really no.
Not really no.
Rumpadodosnitzle wrote:
> and they practically invented it
> themselves on the N64 with Lylat Wars.
You can invent anything you like, but if someone has a patent on it then you can't use it.
Patents are good in some cases, but most of the time they're a complete biatch to innovation as you can make something yourself to find that someone else has beaten you to it.
> and they practically invented it
> themselves on the N64 with Lylat Wars.
You can invent anything you like, but if someone has a patent on it then you can't use it.
Patents are good in some cases, but most of the time they're a complete biatch to innovation as you can make something yourself to find that someone else has beaten you to it.
I think it's more to do with the technology that creates the rumble than the actual motor itself.
Nintendo I think already proved that they used their own technology, which they'd already patented, in this case previously, whereas Sony's technology is obviously a copy of Immersion's.
Nintendo I think already proved that they used their own technology, which they'd already patented, in this case previously, whereas Sony's technology is obviously a copy of Immersion's.
Yeah.
I don't like this case at all.
Unless Sony did steal from this Immersion company, which I doubt, then Sony made something good of their own accord but some corporation who might not even have any uses for this "thing" they patented are milking them for it.
Bad news for innovators everywhere.
Yes, I know some will say that Sony aren't the biggest innovators in the game industry, but they do a fair bit and to be bitten like this?
I'm just glad that the supreme court ruled against patenting DNA patterns for stem cells!
Stupid corporations turning ideas in to property!
I don't like this case at all.
Unless Sony did steal from this Immersion company, which I doubt, then Sony made something good of their own accord but some corporation who might not even have any uses for this "thing" they patented are milking them for it.
Bad news for innovators everywhere.
Yes, I know some will say that Sony aren't the biggest innovators in the game industry, but they do a fair bit and to be bitten like this?
I'm just glad that the supreme court ruled against patenting DNA patterns for stem cells!
Stupid corporations turning ideas in to property!
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