Nintendo has been told to pay a former Sony employee a whopping $30.2 million in damages due to an infringement over glasses-free 3D technology by a New York federal jury. Seijiro Tomita, who had previously spent 30 years at Sony, sued Nintendo in 2011 for infringing his glasses-free 3D tech. Tomita told the jury that he had met Nintendo back in 2003 to discuss the technology. The jury found Nintendo in the wrong and dished out the $30.2 million to Tomita as compensatory damages.
Thanks to everyone that sent this in.
#YOLO
Please kill yourself
I would, but I want to sue someone else now!
http://www.gamereactor.eu/grtv/?id=96831&sid=6b9a5c2116e616bf3585b9385549f1db
@everybody – First ten minutes of Lego city undercover^ . Game looks awesome. Spoil at your own peril…
what the f r u i t?
What the F. R. U. I. T.?
was gonna comment then thought about it for a sec, now i dont know what to say.
What the fuck?
I second that….
Poor drones sad because this payment will add to the losses Nintendo will have in 2013?
well…yeh, unfortunately Nintendo had a bad run for the first time (I think…if so then first bad run in ages) but give me a rival console-based company that’s NEVER had a bad run…………now it’s your turn to comment…..
*(I think…if not then first bad run in ages) – my bad, meant to say NOT instead of SO haha
Well they had a pretty bad run up until they invested in video games.
Not like it matters, $30M is nothing
ha, too bad Sony didn’t own the copyrights huh? Maybe they could have been outta the red for a year
Ugh… You said “drones”, I want to slap you. Don’t go calling people that and then pretend that you’re not sucking up to another company.
Nothing compared to the Billions Sony lost last year…you drones seem to forget that. Have a nice day.
weird
NO!!! You could use that money to buy back Rare. They need it because look at what they did with Banjo Kazooie. Just buy back Rare
I would love the IPs back but Microsoft can keep Rare, they suck now.
In a interview on of former Rare’s members said “if Rare was purchased back by Nintendo, I would go right back to Rare”
That would be a dream :) But sadly I don’t see Microsoft selling Rare back, they know it would help Nintendo too much.
Rare sucks now. It sucked before Microsoft got their greasy mitts on it. Nintendo sold them because they sucked, not the other way around. The Stamper brothers left, then many other upper staff left, then they made Starfox Adventures which was a rip off of Zelda (fun, yes, and rendered beautifully, but unoriginal and not at all worthy of the company of Banjo Kazooie or Donkey Kong Country). Then they went to Microsoft and continued sucking.
Star fox adventures suck, yeah don’t blame rare for that shit, that was miamotos fault for telling that could’ve been the best game rare created dinosaur planet, saying the main charact looked to much like fox if u don’t beleive type up dinosaur planetfirst 50 minutes on youtubeYouTube it look like a awsome and memorable game…
Doesn’t really matter if Rare sucks. Nintendo owning those IPs again would be enough.
I want my Banjo Threeie!!
:\ they turned it into the whack game we know as: Banjo Kazooie Nuts and Bolts… BLEHHHH
Exactly!
If Nintendo wanted to buy Rare they would have done it when they had the chance, but they didn’t as they felt Rare had nothing to offer. And they were right.
I mean their IPs like Banjo Kazooie, Conker, Killer Instinct, and Perfect Dark
Actually last July, Nintendo was in negotiations with Microsoft to purchase some of their old IPs and even buy Rare back. The talks must have fallen though. The point is, Nintendo is interested.
All I care about is Killer Instinct.
All I care about is if they buy their IPs the one I want them to buy though has to be Banjo-Kazooie.
That was the franchise rumored to be what Nintendo wanted. I don’t see why as the have enough furry-critters running around, but that is what the rumor said.
That was a rumour that had no source there is no way in telling if it was true or not. Beside if Nintendo was interested in the IP they would have brought them when they had the chance but they didn’t.
Nintendo didn’t think Rare or its IP was worth buying and they were right as Nintendo found success with Retro studio.
Nintendo can’t just buy a franchise because they feel like it. Microsoft OWNS THEM. Microsoft has to be willing to SELL the franchises before Nintendo or anyone else could buy them. The fact that Microsoft shortly after that tried to renew the rights to ‘Killer Instinct’ shows that they aren’t willing to part with the Rare franchises easily.
It was a ‘rumor,’ and it was reported on every major gaming news site and there was never any retraction. No reason to think it was not legit. To add to that, both ex and CURRENT Rare employees have talked about possible dealings with Nintendo. For all we know the deal could still be on the table. There is a lot of cash at stake here. Not something that can be ironed out quickly. Negotiations between major conglomerations can sometimes take even years.
I would buy any console for killer instinct
Fuck yeah! Killer instinct is all they need…that’d be some crazy shit if Nintendo did buy that IP and Retro was making the 3rd installment …
Rare sucks now. It sucked before Microsoft got their greasy mitts on it. Nintendo sold them because they sucked, not the other way around. The Stamper brothers left, then many other upper staff left, then they made Starfox Adventures which was a rip off of Zelda (fun, yes, and rendered beautifully, but unoriginal and not at all worthy of the company of Banjo Kazooie or Donkey Kong Country). Then they went to Microsoft and continued sucking.
Well you’ve got that all wrong. Nintendo only purchased 49% because they wanted to give the Stamper Bros. control over the company, but only develop for Nintendo. Unfortunately, when the Stamper Bros. left, Microsoft offered them a ton of money to sell to them, and with Microsoft owning 51%, Nintendo had no choice but to sell because it was pointless owning a company who would only develop for Microsoft.
Lol Nintendo was mad, you could read it in their official statement
Where is their offical statement?
IGN
URL?
wow, wow… wow!
Well 30.2 millions, for Nintendo is nothing. We know they had billions in the bank…
More R&D Nintendo for the next time ;)
still a lost..
i know.. )=
as other user said, money to buy Rare or the franchises they have, or form another studio..
If they just buy back Banjo Kazooie, Conker, and Perfect Dark. I’ll be joyous as all can be. I’m actually buying an Xbox just for Rare games because I can’t get an N64
Don’t forget Killer fuc.. Instinct! That will be Nintendo’s well known fighter, like Street Fighter is for Capcom.
I don’t feel the magic playing a Banjo or Conquer game on a microsoft console; i don’t understand why, is not the same.. =S . I feel happy to play those games in a Nintendo console.
Maybe if there is a huge demand for them to buy back ALL the popular IPs, like Banjo Kazooie, Conker, Perfect Dark, and Killer Instinct. Just Maybe they’ll do it
That’s something i was thinking a long time ago, seeing all those Survey’s pages. How can we scream at Nintendo’s face, and tell them to buy those franchises that will fit perfectly the WiiU.
A demand page, maybe? But it will be so obvious that microsoft or another company will notice that.
Games like Rare has would fight perfectly. Someone needs to make a demand page and e-mail it to Nintendo
Just so you know it’s the same guy just a different picture
I’ll do it, but my english and grammar is not that good; and before that we need advertisement, A LOT.
Yeah, it doesn’t really matter when they’re going to be sitting in cash when the Pokemon Wii U game comes out.
why always a sony employee is behind of all this kind of stuff…
LOL *\(^o^)/*
Boooooooooooo.
Boooooooo is right but unlease they paid it and move on(:
You are “booing” fairness?
Yes of fairness :) lol
How is it fair that a butthurt cunt that couldn’t sell his outdated shit suddenly decided to sue Nintendo and won?
Let me ask you something, when you have your work stolen, do you spend three years trying to sell it somewhere else while it is being used illegally; until someday you decide you want to sue?
No, you take immediate action. The fact that this man somehow waited three years before telling he was ripped off, isn’t that a little bit suspicious? What was he doing? Living under a rock?
There’s no excuse, the man works in this business, he couldn’t not know about the 3DS even before it was officially announced? Why didn’t he react when there were rumours of the console, or when it was announced, or when it launched, or in the following two years?
Absurd.
Good flucking question. The guy was probably too busy making Yoshi eggs come out of his filthy copycat ass. D:<
And how he got a pattent for sony tech?
Exactly, I love how these guys wait until their ‘innovation’ becomes a money maker before they come out of the woodwork and sue the company for allegedly ‘stealing’ it. It’s sort of like someone coming out and ‘suing’ Mother Nature for ‘stealing’ their ‘oxygen-producing’ technology after trees have been round for millions of years.
Because if the 3DS had turned out to be a flop, do you think this guy would be suing Nintendo? Probably not.
Tomita sued Nintendo in 2011, same year the 3ds war released
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/03/13/us-nintendo-patent-infringement-idUSBRE92C1DA20130313
you’ve got to be fucking kidding me
Mother of god…….
I find it highly ironic, after all the times we’ve heckled Sony for copying Nintendo. : [
Nintendo should be sueing Sony to for what they got!!!!
And what exactly would that be?
Nintendo cant sue Sony…Sony has no money lol.
They can’t sue Sony because Sony has done nothing worthy of a lawsuit.
Neither has nintendo… After all they didn’t make the glasses free tech… Sharp did I believe… but it wasnt sony suing it was some lazy guy who wouldn’t do anything with his idea
I think the Wiimote/Move fiasco is enough basis for a lawsuit, after all, not only the main figure of the product but even the publicity about it was copied.
Of course, that would have been relevant three years ago, not now.
The lawsuit has nothing to do with Sony, don’t let the terrible headline trick you.
Wow that sucks.. Didn’t think Nintendo was the type of company to take technology without permission.
Well, I think they’re doing the same as Sony. They copy the Wiimote Nintendo copies no glasses 3D
I’m pretty sure they asked permission when they got the 3DS screens from Sharp.
Yeah, that’s right. Nintendo don’t even make the damn screens they got sued for.
Nintendo worked with several companies on the 3DS, they didn’t take this cunt’s shit, they used similar technology and the fucking retard sued three years later, when he realized he could make an easy living out of it.
Seriously, if you had something that you considered the achievement of your life and it was stolen, would you wait three years, through rumors, announcements, launches, publicity and titanic sales to sue? No, you would take immediate action.
It’s absurd that they want us to believe this fucking parasite stood three years looking at a business boom with his supposed ideas doing nothing until he suddenly decided he wanted to sue. And he didn’t even sue the right company as Nintendo does not manufacture the 3D screens. This is a fucking fraud.
Every company has stolen something in there lifetime. It really is nothing new.
Pay up, Nintendo. Pay up.
Unlease they did pay up so Sony would stop bugging about them about it
*them about it
He will be lucky if he gets the money by 2018 lol.
That is why you should not be giving out information. That stupid idiot told them the idea of 3D free glasses. If he worked for Sony then why didn’t he give them the idea. Funny if you ask me even if Nintendo took it and it was wrong of them to do so. Sony could of had that idea and caused Nintendo huge problems in future.
wise old japanese; he wait 3DS to be successful and then he pushed more his case in the court; so he can grab a taste of that pie. =/
this
Eh, they were sued in 2011. 2011 is the year the 3DS was released in. And as we all know, in its first months, the 3DS was not really successful. Means: Your argument is invalid.
Yes Kairi, you have a good point there, but; think about, based on Nintendo’s console history, everybody knows they always tend to win good profits; waiting 1 or 2 years to see the 3DS sales increased; is something a common guy with no business strategies in his mind would know. That’s when greed comes in…
We don’t know this Tomita guy, too. Why do you need 30.2 millions if your old? Children? Houses? Botox? Obviously he had a plan. :)
(sorry for my bad english)
I personally believe if you dont do something with your tech from 2003-2011 then you threw it away… and also sharp made the screens not nintendo so… yeah …maybe nintendo should sue sharp XD
But just because they won good profit from their former consoles, doesn’t mean there can’t be an exception. Because there always can be unpredicted exceptions. Nobody could have foreseen that the 3DS would be this successful, not even the former Sony employee.
And I don’t think anyone would say no to $30.2 million, no matter how old they are. (:
Sorry, but that’s a bullshit excuse.
If I had my books stolen from me I wouldn’t sit still for three years watching someone else profit from them until I decided to sue; even a month is too long for that.
Also, are you aware that the console was rumored to exist as long as two years prior to the launch? And that it was announced more than a year before launch?
You’re talking about how arguments fail and you can’t even think into their workings? The console wasn’t announced the day it launched, you know?
Hey! Calm down xD , it was just an idea, i don’t have the universal truth. There could be a lot of situations. At the end we don’t know what Tomita was thinking. Innocent, or Not. He wants money from Nintendo because they have a lot. The real reasons remain unknown.
Butthurt fanboy is butthurt!
Tenshiros said the former Sony employer waited for the 3DSs success before suing Nintendo, which is not true and that is what I tried to explain. I did not try to explain in any way why he waited for the release at all. Learn to read, please.
Kairi, Well the idea i was sharing, was more in the lines of… He knew, Nintendo, almost every generation, succeed. Of course the 3DS wasn’t ready, but my idea was more like he sued them in 2011, but the case wasn’t on fire until this year(when magically the 3DS is the bomb in japan right now) and we began to hear more about the subject everywhere, then he/or his attorney think.. “hey! They’re selling a lot, let’s push the case a little more so we can grab those sweet yens”. You see?, i think i explain myself better this time.
But this is just an idea, is not the real deal; Nobody knows what it’s happening. So we can only guess. That’s all.
The bad thing is that, money is money, so i’m hoping Nintendo tries to make an arrangement so they can pay a little less, maybe 20″ millions or less; Even if the news said that they need to pay all.
(hate my english i’m from ec)
Nintendo must’ve had a sucky attorney.
they used a pikmin toy
That made me lol. :)
hahahaha xDD
No… But the other guy had Phoenix Wright. No one beats Phoenix Wright.
It is a lot of money…
30.2 million?!?!?!?!?!?! That’s like a million for every 3ds sold!!!!!!!!!!!!
>.<
I think you need to check your math. lol
More like $1 for every 3DS sold.
That’s like $1 for every 3DS sold. Still a lot of money though.
Yeah, Nintendo has only sold 30.2 handhelds and each one costs 1 million dollars to make! Totally!
Yep , I still can’t believe I spent 1 million pounds on my 3DS XL……..
Wow!
for what i know nintendo wasnt in charge of that tecnology they outsourced it to another company, that company should be the one sued, no nintendo, nintendo didnt say they made the tecnology, so is really weird that nintendo is the one to blame
Nintendo is using the patented tech.
Supposely is using.
They are using it. The debate is whether or not they were infringing on the patent. The court of law says they are.
I doubt Nintendo is going to take this up with a higher court as $30 million isn’t that much for them; So the record states that they did infringe on it.
It happens all the time in the tech world. Sometimes it’s deliberate, other times it’s a mistake. Not sure about this time.
I think he be lucky if he see half the money.
So, isn’t Sharp responsible since they supplied the technology for the screen or was it an idea infringement?
exactly! I think the dude just had a grudge against nintendo being an ex-sony employee and all. He didn’t even sue nintendo of europe which is kind of weird though…
Idea infringement
He was a former employer, nothing was copied by Nintendo from Sony. They just took his ideal and didn’t I’ve him credit. Happens all the time, yet i am disappointed in Nintendo they could have settled out of court.
Just in case this article never bothers to hear what Nintendo said, here was NoA’s response:
“A jury awarded $30.2 million in damages to Tomita Technologies in a patent infringement lawsuit brought by Tomita against Nintendo. The Tomita patent did not relate to the 3D games playable on the Nintendo 3DS. The trial was held in U.S. District Court in New York before Judge Jed Rakoff.”
“Nintendo is confident that the result will be set aside. The jury’s verdict will not impact Nintendo’s continued sales in the United States of its highly acclaimed line of video game hardware, software and accessories, including the Nintendo 3DS. Nintendo has a long history of developing innovative products while respecting the intellectual property rights of others.”
Wow I can’t believe it. Didn’t know Nintendo were low enough to steal peoples intellectual property. That’s it for them they’re bankrupt.
Im sure the guy gettin 30 million is happy tho. Nintendo basically sold his technology for him but he gets all the profits.
its the big wigs at nintendo. im sure the vast majority of developers at nintendo had nothing to do with this
Lqtm how can you be expected to be taken seriously with such a funny name
Lol
You don’t know how much money Nintendo has in the bank, do you?
I thought Nintendo said they went with some elses idea? Funny how Sony ONLY copies Nintendo yet does Nintendo sue? Nope. I would like to see the proof the jury supposedly saw that proved they stole the idea. I call shenanigans otherwise.
Sony does not copy Nintendo. They occasionaly borrow ideas from Nintendo. There’s nothing Nintendo can sue them for really.
The move says hello, so does Sony all stars battle royale. If you believe that those are not copies then you have issues. Even a five year old would see this.
They are blatant copies, yes. But I dunno if it’s really Lawsuit worthy. I’m no Lawyer, but motion control has been done long before the Wii, and even before the Sony Eyetoy, with the Powerglove. All Stars Battle Royale is just Sony’s version of Smash Bros I guess. Cross-overs aren’t Nintendo exclusives. You don’t need Nintendo’s permission to cross over Batman and Spiderman. As for it’s gameplay, I believe they admitted to it being a Smash clone. I dunno, regardless, Nintendo hasn’t sued.
That still would mean that Sony stole motion-control from Nintendo of you are bringing up the ‘Nintendo’ Power Glove. o_O
But seriously, all companies borrow ideas from each other. It’t not a big deal. Nintendo is the most ripped off company in teh history of gaming. It’s no problem because it has just contributed to gaming as a whole becoming better. I hope more ideas get ripped off from Nintendo in the future. It’ll only mean a better gaming experience for us.
However as far as ‘copying’ goes. If I developed a new-type of basketball does that mean the original creator of the basketball’s family should sue me? No. When you take the exactly same thing of a competitor, change nothing at all, and slap your name on it then it is copying. For instance the JungleTac ‘Vii’ in China is a blatant rip-off of the Wii. Nintendo could sue the be-jabbers out of them, but what would be the point? You know??
You know, Nintendo didn’t actually make the power glove. They popularized it, but not made it.
Mario was not the first platformer. By your logic, it is a rip off of an earlier game.
With a capture of the Wiimote and the Move publicity, Nintendo could easily sue Sony.
When Sony used Smash Bros as 1 of the Tags in the original trailer on youtube for All Stars Battle Royal? The Move? Having a “touch pad” while its not a screen making a touch feature in the middle of the controller is still following Nintendos lead.
Actually, the Vita also had a “touch pad”.
well if you all read any previous post about this before, Nintendo had met with many others before they met with him and did NOT choose or use this man’s idea. They chose a different company which supposedly took the idea.(and they had proof of it) Nintendo really wasn’t the one at fault. It was the company they went with which should have been the ones sued. NOT Nintendo. He also ONLY sued Nintendo of Japan and of America, but not Nintendo of Europe which makes no sense to me since they have 3ds’ as well. Nintendo didn’t win in court because it was tried with western jurors…this is why I believe jurors are idiots and no nothing about laws or evidence they just believe a friggin’ sob story over the truth. So yeah, jurors suck. That’s why Nintendo lost, but they will make their money back.
I agree with you 103%!!!
I think the jury system should be banned… I mean Jurys convict men more so than women with equal evidence… its unjust… look at that Casey Anthony chick
Exactly, just some crying cunt is all it takes of people to incur in unjust bullshit like this.
Like this man, claiming all the crap he can, but does that change the fact that he spent three years after the 3DS’ first announcement, through rumors, announcements, launches, publicity and sales; trying to sell his technology?
Who in their right mind would spend three years seeing someone else profit from their work and not do anything about it?
And he goes and sues a company that does not even manufacture the product.
Any intelligent person would have dismissed this case in a second.
And you remember Samsung VS Apple over rounded corners?
Remove the 3D technology from the system.
1. It’ll make it even cheaper
2. No one uses it anyways
The No3DS.
I use it :(
Me too.
Some games require the 3D. :/
And then, it wouldn’t make sense to be called “3DS.”
:/
No they don’t. The closest a game came to “requiring” 3D was Super Mario 3D Land, and that was really only for a couple bonus stages. If there was such a way to create a game only playable in 3D I don’t think Nintendo would do it. It would alienate some of their fans that dislike the feature, and Nintendo has stated many times that 3D is purely optional. And it always will be.
I didn’t say they can only be played in 3D, but just like you yourself said, some games require 3D like Super Mario 3D Land that required you use it to get to different parts of the levels, and so on.
Nintendo must have had a reason to actually go through with the trial rather than settle out of court. But who are we kidding? This is New York people, the state that banned soda in big cups. The judge probably decided to give the guy a cut of Nintendo’s money because they’re all a bunch of socialists
I think “idiots” is the correct term to replace socialists.
Is there a reason why you felt the need to state that it was a former Sony employee, just the guy name would be fine. Of course you probably did it on purpose to get the people to click on it.
shut up, you are weak.
Does this mean the 3ds must be discontinued as well?
You can sue for technology you did nothing with since 2003?… MERICA… any common sensed judge would say “You didnt do anything with it why complain now?”
I know this probably isnt american based I just like saying that
No any commonsense judge woud do things BY THE LAW, which is what the judge in this case did.
Thats interesting… I believe in fair play… but whatevs.. the problem is the 3D tech didnt come from nintendo it came from an other company which should have been held accountable…
Dont waste breath whit this ilitared.
That’s essentially a form of Ignorantia juris non excusat.
Well.. it was the jury’s fault for Nintendo losing the lawsuit. They found the company guilty dispire them… NOT BEING GUILTY! It is like how Casey Anthony was found not guilty because the jury was on crack.
*despite
I bet half that money that Nintendo will not have to pay all that.
If they don’t pay it they’ll get in even more trouble. $15.2 million, please.
They bet isnt over until money is passed from one to the other
he is so stupid dosnt even know how to read.
OoO
Lol your icon is blury has Hell.
OoO
Uhh… Nintendo has given warnings about the 3D via heath & safety rules. It’s really his fault that his eyes got damaged :/
What?
xD That’s what I’m wondering.
*Is confused*
Nevermind what I said. I really don’t care about this topic…
Nintendo stealing from Sony… perfect.
This is bad, real bad. The worst part (if Nintendo don’t win an appeal) is that Tomita will now get a cut of every 3DS sold thereafter so long as the glasses-free tech is being used.
Where did you read that? Nintendo just had to pay for “damages.” Which is crap because the guy didn’t even do anything with his patent in the first place! He doesn’t automatically get a cut of every 3DS sold.
Either way it still prints money
You know it :D
Only governments are allowed to print money. I guess Nintendo will be sued for making counterfeit currency next! xD
Nintendo Land… Just saying.
I hear the sound of prices going up…
Great.
No way dude.
everyone want to sue nintendo for infringement on anything they see fit like pokemon for instance, someone will sue nintendo cuz pokemon is an infringement
Of??… Digimon?? 😵
“Houndour looks like my dog, FUCK YOU NINTENDO, I’M SEWING”
lol! Meowth is kinda similar to my cat! And goldeen looks like THREE of my gold fish!!! Damn You Nintendo!!!!!
I thought it was 10$ per unit, which would make over 300M$.
Either way, it’s not that bad.
I’ve been thinking about that… why doesn’t Nintendo sue Sony for all their ripoffs?
Because they’re assholes.
And because the Move design is different tech, you can sue something that isnt your tech, although according to this, you can apparently if its slightly related to it.
The publicity is a blatant copycat.
Nintendo wasn’t even in the wrong. They are basically “The innocent victim being punished for something they didn’t do.” Nintendo went out lf their way to NOT infringe on the patent, yet the jury found them guilty anyway. 😡
Wow, what an asshole.
“It does this, must be my design”
Pretty sure it wasn’t your design seeing as Nintendo reached out to more than one person.
Oh well, $30 mil doesnt hurt Nintendo that much in comparison to the amount companies loose by just releasing a console.
I mean come on, “purposed the tech back in 2003”.
Really? How could anyone this a 2003 design would be the same as a 2010-11 one.
Pretty much won a case because “it’s similar”. Maybe because, thats the only way it can be done, you’re not God’s gift, you live in Japan in a generation of technological breakthroughs, some genius Japanese kid in school could probably design this.
That’s about the amount Miyamoto must have in his pocket LMAO xD
Dam wt a lucky bastard. He’s sitting on a fortune now
This is why companies patent thousands of tech and products ideas each year. Stake a claim on it.
Cause they are greedy scumbag assholes.
The point of any business is to make money. That’s the purpose.
Yes, even Sony.
Where is J. Kirby when he is needed?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cc3Um-BBhpI
Oh, he is right here :S
Patent Troll, the 2 patents aren’t even the same! Also it’s not even Nintendo’s Technology. Nintendo licensed the glasses free 3D tech from Sharp who actually makes the screens for Nintendo. This case should get thrown out after the appeal.
Yeah, Nintendo got screwed plain and simple.
Nintendo probably approached several companies to come up with glasses-free 3D tech. In the end they went with Sharp’s solution, so this guy is only suing because our court system in this country is totally messed up. Just a patent troll, and if he has a case he should be suing Sharp not Nintendo.
THe court system can throw Yoshi eggs at whoever they want, but they can’t kill Nintendo!
Okay as much as this is bizarre, how did it at the start of the comments this turn into a nintendo should buy back rareware IPs?
lol IDK!? 😆but Nintendo was bamboozled!! The guy got free money. If you are going to patent something shouldn’t you actually do something with the patent??? Sory Nintendo took the initiative, found success and now they have to pay for it. Complete bull.
lol nuff said.
Just pay the money and move on. Nothing else to say.
Fuck you Sony Baloney! Not only do you have the groins to copy Nintendo, but you also have the nucking futs to curse them by paying you up!
YOU WILL PAY FOR THAT, SONY!!! YOU WILL PAAAAAY FOR THAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“former Sony employee”
SONY DIDNT SUE THEM YOU IDIOT.
This isn’t bad. Patriots, people who recite and follow the constitution, people who don’t trust government and so on are now labelled ”Terrorists” and thrown in court. Hell, we have little kids who’re being conditioned to believe guns are bad by arresting them over poptarts bit till they look like guns or even using bubble guns. The court system is corrupt so it’s no surprise stupid things like this happen.
I guess saying it’s just the court system isn’t necessarily enough though.
I like how Sickr puts “former Sony Employee” as if this has shit to do with them at all.
Disgusting and pathetic clickbait, no surprise.
Hey man, atleast it’s not another kotaku or gamefaqs.
Yes, because it’s soo disgusting and pathetic to try to earn extra ad revenue to pay for the bread on the table.
Actually if you read the origional article the jury specifically made an emphasis on the fact that the man was a former “SONY” employee. Sickr didn’t go out of his way to make a connection to the company.
IGN did it too. Hell, I bet even Yahoo! did it.
I’ve seen people put things like “Nintendo steals from Sony” relating to this article.
But im sure that okay with you?
Fuck off cunt
Well, do you expect any less from the media? :P
Yikes, that must hurt, Nintendo.
The basis of the 3ds comes from the ds and virtual boy.
Maybe this is why theyre making us pay for Flipnote Online
haha! and why they made NFC Pokemon figurines for the new Wii U Pokemon game.
Old news is old
by now they must’ve got all their money back, so it doesn’t matter any more :D
THAT’S NOTHING BUT POCKET CHANGE TO NINTENDO
sony copied alot of stuff from nintendo so they should sue sony :)
What that’s crazy?! Wow…
I feel like there is more to the story. Nintemdo is not the type to leave someone uncredited.
Okay, I researched more into the story and it is rediculously stupid. The guy claims Nintendo stole his idea, but Nintendo was meeting with many people on glasses free technology at the time. So it wasn’t really “his idea.” What happened is this moron patented the idea in 2008.(Did nothing with it.. -__-) and then Nintendo went and made the 3DS and even avoided the parts of the patent that made it illegal to copy. However, the moronic jury found Nintendo in the wrong and forced them to pay. Da Fuq!? Nintendo got screwed!!!!!!!!
can you give me some links please?
Where was Phoenix Wright when this happen?
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Paraphrasing from Zuckerberg in the Social Network
If he really was the creator of glasses-free 3D, he would have created it.ù
But well, considering how much money Nintendo truly has in stock, they can take the hit.
Playstation Allstars isn’t copying Smash Bros at all.
But since the style is relatively the same, let’s go ahead and sue…
You should work for Zynga. I heard they hire bullshit.
Its not far from the same thing.
The sue was based on idea patenting (because apparently only 1 man can have an idea now), so technically they could sue them. But they won’t, because what’s the point, the studios who made it even shut down, it was a flop.
The 3DS practically prints money
This is pocket lint to Nintendo
Wow, can’t believe he won lawsuit when nintendo was having meetings about that same hardware a year before they even met that guy, look it up the info is out there!!
Well my fellow brethren…
As you know we got attacked recently and lost a batallion…
Report indicates that this judge was of Microsoft origin paid to assist this Inventor Unit to attack Nintendo…
However fear not, soon we will take back what’s ours and make the Vita extinct as revenge!
And of course send our Ninjas to destroy this individual…
I swear that 3-D display technology was used with the permission from Sharp. Shouldn’t he have sued Sharp instead?
This because he is a former “Sony” employee. You know what I’m saying?
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D;
more negative attention for Nintendo :\ woo….
Oddly enough, the case was lifted the exact month when Sony planned a price cut in PS Vita and why he still waits for the Nintendo 3DS to have a descent profit before the file that case even though he must file the case when the 3DS is still in development or was revealed to the pubic audience. How Odd is that?
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