Nintendo has been told it must pay a small portion of all future 3DS sales to another company, according to a court ruling from a US judge in New York Southern. The lawsuit gathered evidence that Nintendo infringed upon patented camera technology, belonging to Tomita Technologies, and used it without the company’s permission. The court ruled in favour of Tomita last month, saying that Nintendo must pay the company “1.82 per cent of the wholesale price” for all future 3DS sales.
Tomita Technologies has been keeping Nintendo on its toes since 2011, when the company filed for infringement against the gaming giant for using its patented 3D technology. Tomita was initially awarded $30.2 million in damages from the lawsuit last March, but an enforced ruling from the court reduced the damages to $15 million after the first sum was deemed “intrinsically excessive”.
Is this definitive or Nintendo still will recourt ?
We’ve not had any official response from Nintendo on the matter, so I couldn’t say just yet. But if or when they respond, we’ll update the article.
Update now! XD
They should. NIntendo’s gone to court 3 times on this and this fucker finally got a judge to do this.
And the thing is, its not even a valid claim.
NIntendo’s 3D Camera doesnt even work the same way
And on the least compelling feature of the 3DS no less.
I don’t think anyone has used their camera beyond confirming that the image quality is atrocious.
Agreed…
Hahaha true story. I know I don’t bother with it.
I used it all the time. After they killed Swapnote, the camera proved useless. It is cool, however to transfer pictures from my 3D camera to my 3DS so I can look at them. The 3DS can display much better quality than the camera is capable of.
It was great for sending pictures of my penis :)
Can someone please remove these idiots??
That camera is so ppor, I tried taking a photo in a moderately-lit room (no lights but a good amount of light was coming from the Sun), you couldn’t tell what the photo was supposed to be. Nintendo should just scrap it altogether.
Get ready…more Nintendo Content ID Claims are coming (to regain losses from this lawsuit ruling).
and what lawsuit did sony and microsft had for them to be doing the same?
Whatever they imagine I suppose and claims it to be true…
So the crappy-ass camera that no one uses and has caused controversy with children finding porn on their 3DS has become an even bigger burden for Nintendo as now they have to PAY for the crappy-ass camera…
I think it is safe to say that Nintendo won’t be including a camera in their next hand held system. It’s SOOOOO not worth it.
It’s not the camera that’s the problem. They allegedly ripped off the 3d technology itself, the tech the screen uses. The fact that the tech was developed by a camera company is misleading.
Whatever this issue involves we can all agree that it sucks…well for Nintendo.
Wow! Everybody just hates Nintendo
-_- stupid people Nintendo helped create the game industry where it is today plus Nintendo is usually always careful when it comes to this stuff I wonder what happened and how they actually got into this situation.
That human got rejected by High Command and so he obviously is jealous…
oh my god, shut up.”everyone hates nintendo” not true at all. “nintendo helped create the game industry” nice observation sherlock. I’m sure a money hungry company like tomita might change their mind after someone reminds them of their sentiments for the company their suing
Nintendo got it’s leg up into the industry by countersuing Universal over the use of the name Kong (as in Donkey vs King). It’s a two way street.
I’m not buying anything from tomina. Money grabbing bastards.
thats why Nintendo released the 2DS, i bet they will drop the 3DS now.
Yes…
And birds say woof…
it’s about the camera, not the screen… 2ds has 3d camera (why, you ask? idk!)
EXACTLY!!
The follow up to the 3DS will not be allowed to have a 3D screen now Nintendo has lost this lawsuit so what will the point be?
Nintendo is slowly losing the plot.The Wii U has been a massive flop, and now the 3DS success now was not even down to Nintendo innovation but another company they copied!!
you should team up with tomita
he’s a patent troll and you’re.. well… a troll
you 2 should get along just fine
Nintendo isn’t losing the plot, you’re losing your mind. Wii U sold 79K last week in Japan.
Stupid Xbots…
We will avenge this atrocity!
Like hell we will!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They want war eh? They just got one!!
*ancient alien guy* ” americans “
To the Xbot Commander:
http://gamingbolt.com/xbox-one-reportedly-suffering-from-leaking-issues
Lets be honest, its probably time for a new DS so Nintendo wont lose that much money. My bet is they will announce the new DS before or at E3
this ain’t hurting nintendo the next system will be shown soon anyways
New handheld?LMFAO!!!
Seriously the amount of rubbish you Nintendo guzzlers come up with!!
The 3ds is ONLY 2 years old would be commercial suicide to release a successor to the 3DS especially since the 2DS was just launched this Xmas!!
The 3DS follow up is already doomed, Nintendo will not be allowed to use a 3D screen, and for people who say the 3D is a gimmick lol it was the 3DS major selling point and why it has sold 38 Million more than the non 3d Vita!!
what? they won’t be allowed to use a 3D screen? LMAO
because every way of realizing autostereoscopy has already been patented or what? you should hear yourself talk XD
besides the 3D hardly drove sales at all as the 2DS is selling like hot cake
The camera sucks, indeed. Fun to play around with the first time you use it but I haven’t touched it in over a year.
ikr. if i need to take a pic I’ll use my DSi XL which shoots better pics than my 3DS XL.
They should apply a camera that is at least 3 times better for next Handheld and make sure they regain lost resources from this imbecile…
why? nobody cares about the fucking camera
Exactly, most people have a smartphone. Which has a camera. Which takes better photos than it.
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Just get rid of the 3D Nintendo, the majority of your fanbase doesnt care for it anyways, just Call it the Super DS, or Super Gameboy, or whatever just get rid of the 3D because its seriously crippling games.
(Pokemon X and Y are good examples) if the option for 3D wasnt there the game wouldnt have been limited.
Stfu NintendoDigSucka
You need a hug dont you, you silly fag. :)
There is already a Super Gameboy, lmao.
What, for that shitty 2010 phone camera o_O
Nintendo Charge 200 for a crappy Gimmick controller that runs in 144p >the WiiScamU
How much we’re 64 s when they came out, how good we’re the graphics? What about the snes? Do you also complain about Atari? And what does the wii u have to do with this?
Yeah… No.
Nintendo should just remove the camera from future 3DS’s. It’s not worth it and no one even cares about it.
wow someone gets it
https://mynintendonews.com/2014/12/09/nintendo-has-successfully-appealed-against-tomita-now-federal-court-orders-new-trial/
Tomita was a retired sony engineer, right? I think I read this issue last year.
IDIOTS………..trying to kill Nintendo foincially now.
Why are they idiots?you are just a butthurt Nintendo guzzler who is gutted that his hero company are nothing more than copy cats!!
The first lawsuit Nintendo lost to them was about the screen which the judge ruled in favour of Tomita and ordered Nintendo to pay 30 Million.
This new lawsuit is about the camera which again they have lost!!
Best 2 features of the 3DS were not even Nintendo’s own ideas….PRICELESS!!
3D is not that great, nobody use it and it is not worth it on any device , console etc. gamingblocksite.wordpress.com for more gaming, movies and tv show news :)
Tomita… never heard about them.
i thought it was for the screen not the camera
It was both, the first case they lost where they had to pay 30 Million was for the screen, this new lawsuit was for the camera.
Just proves Nintendo are not the kings of innovation more copy cats!!
They thought they could steal someone else’s idea from a company not that many people have heard of thinking they would get away with it!!
Worst start ever for Nintendo in the year that will decide if they stay in the home console market or not!!
just gonna leave this here
LMFAO!!All the Nintendo guzzlers who brag Nintendo are kings of innovation is total rubbish!!
They have lost 2 court cases now to tomita technologies which proves they are copy cats!!
Just as they are Nintendo they think they can steal stuff and no one will say anything and have now been seriously owned losing twice in the last 10 months!!!
Seriously this is all down to Iwata, the sooner he gets fired the better!!
This just proves that Nintendo are slowly losing the plot.
Wii U is dead and this will totally hurt 3DS sales moving forward!!
yeah totally.. 2 dollars will seriously hurt their profits Oo
not to mention that this technology is totally unrelated to gaming so who the fuck cares whether they copied that or not
besides he’s obviously a patent troll.. he just keeps filing new patents, none of which have had to go through any field testing (so no one knows if they’ll actually work) and waits til someone develops something that is remotely similar..
a fine of 15 million also implies that there was a certain similarity but nothing more… if they had actually copied anything the fine would definitely have been higher
confirmation for that see here:
http://www.crisona.com/iplaw/cases/11-cv-4256-1.pdf
“Tomita had failed to prove that Nintendo had willfully infringed the ‘664 patent by clear and convincing evidence”
also this:
http://www.m-cam.com/patently-obvious/intellectual-property-analysis-tomita-technologies-us-patent-no-7417664
i hope Tomita Technologies goes bankrupt
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“My shirt is blue, so is Nintendo’s Blue 3DS XL, they stole my shirt, I’m suing them.”
Meh, although its sad that nintendo lost to this, nintendo still has many companies backing them up, such as sega and capcom workin on projects that I reckon will put nintendos stuff back on the map, lets just hope something disasterous doesnt happen like “Microsoft buys Gamefreak” like what happened with rareware :/