Nikkei seems to be reporting that the decision has been overturned and Nintendo actually won the case. pic.twitter.com/WZZORe9uKs
— Daniel Ahmad (@ZhugeEX) April 25, 2016
@ZhugeEX yep, that’s correct. something like ‘the (American) court ruled that it did not infringe on the patent’
— Chrs Rd (@ccharlesreed) April 25, 2016
Two year ago, it was reported that Nintendo was required to pay royalties for every 3DS sold for infringing on some patents. The decision has now been overturned, with the court ruling that Nintendo did not infringe on the patent. Nintendo left a comment in response to the ruling, stating that “this ruling affirms our original assertion, and is an appropriate decision”.
Glad to hear this.
Interesting. Especially with how Nintendo finishes every win with a comment like this: “This case again demonstrates that Nintendo will vigorously defend itself and its innovations against patent lawsuits. It also demonstrates that, when justified, Nintendo will pursue all available options to recover attorney fees for improper litigation conduct. Nintendo continues to support reform efforts to reduce the unnecessary and inefficient burden patent cases like this one place on technology companies in the United States.”
Of course, they would never say “we stole this pantent”, it does seem like there’s much truth to the statement, seeing how they almost always win these things.
Its because this case was different. Nintendo actually lost this case. It was then over turned, so it makes sense to use different dialog. Nothing suspicious about it really.
Oh, I didn’t mean it was suspicious. It was just it seemed like Nintendo actually stole the pantent, but this supports their claim of never doing such things.
I wonder if Nintendo will be getting those royalty fees back.
And waste their money on useless consoles like the Wii U.
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Ohhh? And what makes you think that?
I hope so. I’m sick of region locking, no cloud storage, no universal account system, no cross save between the same game on two different consoles, no cross buy so when I buy a virtual console game on a home console, if that same game is on the handheld, I can get it for free on the handheld, etc.
Exactly
Mega Exactly!
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If they don’t get rid of it, then I don’t need to get an American NX for full price. In fact, I don’t need to get an NX til close to the end of it’s lifetime.
yeah I can’t wait to buy punch-out!! for the 5th time. woooooooooo
Yeah the wii u is just straight trash let it die already
Damn well better. D:<
If I had to guess they more than likely haven’t paid any royalties out. They wouldn’t pay the money until the appeal process went through, because as you can see it worked and they won the case.
That and the lawsuit was a scam. I never heard of this company until after Kotaku and AOS made a video about them.
It just seems weird since this only happened after the Wii U came out. Hmm?
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Sony isn’t going anywhere. Don’t get your hopes up soon.
Didn’t mean to say soon but soon enough the NX will be revealed…the NX to nothing that is.
Dark commander is a retard ignore it
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Cool. Now give Nintendo their money back so they can waste it on bullshit! Or hopefully use it on NX to make the console not be such a fail as the Wii U is.
You DO know Wii U failed because of shitty first impressions right? People thought it was just a Wii with U attached to it.
Shitty name, shitty advertising, shitty online features, & shitty region locking. All of these things made it fail. Not to mention Reggie’s constant lies about how the next year won’t have a game drought. Wii & Wii U are both mistakes. Hopefully Nintendo has learned from both.
Online features are decent. Wii definitely isn’t a mistake. It sold wonderfully.
As I told artofdadel, the mistake was the fact it was so weak compared to the competition & the fact it stuck with SD quality. Because of that & the lack of HD, the Wii U was behind the competition as well because Nintendo had to play catch up from the fact the Wii held them back, forcing the Wii U to be a stop gap console at best.
Wii didn’t hold them back. Masterpieces like Punch Out and such definitely benefited them cause no one saw an console like the Wii. Wii U I can understand but the Wii? That’s just plain absurd. It sold better than the N64 and Gamecube.
It sold because of a bunch of mindless casuals that hopped onto the latest craze. Tell me, where are these people at now? Clearly not on Wii U. Or do you think Smartphone & Facebook gaming is the best thing ever, too, because those sell a ton of microtransactions? Or that Call of Duty is the best franchise ever because of the amount of money it’s made over the last 10 years?
Mindless casuals? Really? It’s the best thing for Nintendo because the Wii looked unique and the advertisement gave it a good name. Look at the Wii U it got shit advertisement and it sold terribly.
Also the Wii is Nintendo’s best selling console so.
And decent online features? No cross save, no cross buy, no cloud saves, data is still console locked, Miiverse has gone to shit, & online for Smash still lags like crap. Yeah. Such decent online features the Wii U has.
Only reason it lags because of shitty connection or it isn’t strong enough. They have an adapter for a reason.
Also I never said it was good I said it was DECENT.
https://d28wbuch0jlv7v.cloudfront.net/images/infografik/normal/chartoftheday_2241_Nintendo_s_home_console_sales_n.jpg
what are you talking about?wii sales was the best in console history
The mistake was the fact it was so weak compared to the competition & the fact it stuck with SD quality. Because of that & the lack of HD, the Wii U was behind the competition as well because Nintendo had to play catch up from the fact the Wii held them back, forcing the Wii U to be a stop gap console at best.
power doesn’t mean nothing when innovation is your mantra.Wii was underpowered compared to x360 and ps3 but still destroied their ass with its sales.Wii U lacked the support of third party due to its programming difficulty therefore had very few games.plus xo and ‘s4 came out later.it’s a three race and usually someone want to see what the competitor can offer before buying a new console.and they have third party support.end of the story on what went wrong on the Wii U
Nintendo got lucky with Wii because all of the millions of casuals wanted to hop onto the next biggest fad which was the Wii. It was pretty much the new “bling, bling.” After 3 years, that fad died & a good majority left Nintendo for smartphone gaming. As for the Wii U, if you think lack of 3rd party support was it’s only problem, I pity you.
Exactly nintendo is shit and fucked up in many more ways then one
Thanks king for speaking the truth to this delusional kid
Oh look you got banned again. That’s hilarious.
So are you going to tell me what the wii u is better at then the ps4 and xbone because i have the facts ready to use or you can look at KING KALAS and he does more then enough of what nintendo need to improve in ya stupid child
I never said that stupid fuck.
Are you serious then you have terrible memory and you wouldnt want to get shitted on anyway by facts and like i said look at king kalas comments to see what nintendo need to improve on
Yeah “facts” anyways never said it was the better system. It’s just as good potential and power wise.
Nope now you have to explain why based on facts and if you dont have any then you are going off of feelings and if you really think the wii u has as much potential when it couldnt do as much or more in first place then you are a delusional drone and have you seen the games the ps4 and xbone can make compared to the wii u keep being retarded kid you can compare and contrast on your own now i think x is the best looking wii u game and may be one of the best open world games this gen but the ps4 and xbone if they dont already will have better looking open world games and dont get me started on the 3rd party support they cant do what they can on the ps4 and xbone on the wii u because there isnt much to work with
Wii U ran the same graphics rate as the other systems. Duh. There is a lot to work with the Wii U stupid fuck. It just wasn’t brought to it’s full potential because of shit advertisement and bad first impressions.
What do you mean by same graphics rate the xbone and ps4 can produce more on screen then the wii u and run it better and no there isnt a lot to work with the wii u and advertisement and first impressiobs have nothing to do with bringing out something to its full potential nintendo themselves brought out the full potential of the console and im talking about smash and mario kart and x and fast racing neo and im sure there are other examples but that is nothing compared to the ps4 and xbone which may have maxed out as soon as they launched but may have not because the games can look better and or just have more stuff on screen as the years go by and whos fault is that that those things happened to the wii u it is SHITTY NINTENDOS FAULT when you make a product you are supposed to get people aware of it AND FUCKIN EXPLAIN IT
HAH that’s hilarious. You clearly haven’t seen Smash 4, Xenoblade X, Hyrule Warriors etc. They run at the same graphic rate stupid.
Those games do not look as good ps4 or xbone games now how they run at their frames whether it is 30 or 60 would have to be compared to other games from the ps4 and xbone in the same category ya dumb shit
Hey now. Leave me out of this. I’m trying to get away from the nub…
Ha ha lol but keep saying what you are saying so it gets through that retards head nintendo is the bottom of the barrel they are scraping poop off of the poop deck
I swear you must be a kid. Who even SAYS “scraping poop off of the poop deck” you’re not putting people like King Kalas in a good light, you aren’t doing any justice one so ever.
I randomly said it for the first time but nintendo is still far behind regardless of anything i say and that is a FACT and i dont need to put him in a good light he is doing that himself by calling out the BULLSHIT that is nintendo by being behind and i am doing justice by calling out nintendo on not competing and always being behind and telling yo stupid ass how theybcan improve but it seems you arent reading those comments or you must have forgot with yo shit ass memory do you need me to explain it again god damn stay in school kid
Anything you say is fact? You need to go back to school and learn how reality works kiddo.
Ha ha lol it seems you cant read i said nintendo is behind regardless of what i say and that is a fact NINTENDO IS LAGGING BEHIND THE OTHER 2 COMPANIES when it comes to consoles that is a fact unless if the wii u can go toe to toe with the ps4 and xbone which is false information you god damn drone but if everything i did say was fact it would be backed up by facts yet again stay in school ya retard
Dude just get banned for good already.
Exactly shut the fuck up you have no facts whatsoever eat camel shit ya dumb ass kid
I have LOTS of them. You don’t.
I hope you do realize that the poor choice of name is far from being the only reason why the WiiU ended up being a failure.
The name was one of the top major reasons tho.
The way I see it, it’s quite the contrary. The name was a misstep that was relatively easy to correct and compensate for, especially in comparison to some of the other mistakes that have been done with the WiiU.
“Compensate for” probably wasn’t the best expression in that context, let’s use “overcome” instead. Forgive me, it’s late here, haha.
Yet it didn’t bite them in the ass until later on.
“Later on”? Not sure what you mean.
Like the sales speak for themselves. People thought Wii U was just another Wii. Like I think they didn’t think it would hurt them until the Wii U started not getting good sales.
As I’ve said above, the poor performance in sales wasn’t caused by the name only. It certainly had an influence, but the way I see it, it did not have as much of an impact as other factors did.
Because people thought it was just another Wii with slight upgraded graphics. And the tablet thingy wasn’t convincing them.
Yeah, a misstep that made most of the casual Wii owners think Wii U was an add-on they couldn’t justify paying $350 for. Not just them- anyone who didn’t follow the gaming scene was confused, and the lack of proper advertising did not help.
Yes, that’s what I was implying when I said it was a mistake that’s easy to overcome, compared to other issues. Consistent and proper marketing could have solved it for the most part, whereas things such as missteps/problems related to the hardware and software are much more difficult to correct.
EXACTLY! That’s what I’ve been saying. Shitty first impressions and shit advertising.
The fact most of the people that got the Wii were casuals & they went straight to Smartphone gaming & Facebook gaming also didn’t help matters.
Ha ha lol exactly
Why do people even bother trying to sue Nintendo? Nintendo always wins.
because they assume that going after nintendo is easy win because they are weak when in reality they are gods, in legal cases that is. just because nintendo looks weak doesnt mean they are weak.
That and they sued them on the day the Wii U was release. Why wait so long if Nintendo stole their shit? I think the lawsuit was a scam and I’m glad Japan for once did the right thing. That and I think Iwata would be shocked if he wasn’t dead….. :(
They’re called patent trolls. Patent trolls are mostly shell companies that thrive and exist SOELY to sue large companies. EVERY major company has dealt with them once and have made them waste their time and money on BS claims. Eventually, the trolls lose (if the company is big enough), but while those things are being overturned, they’ve already gone to the next target.
It’s a very stupid thing that happens and the government needs to make laws to prevent this garbage from happening.
That’s what I said all those 2 years ago. Did anyone listen to me? Nope! XD
I’ve only started to seriously looked at this website a few months ago, so I wouldn’t have known. :/
yup. :/
it’s kind of cool that the 3ds has double screens.
Did you know that the original Punch Out Arcade game was the first time Nintendo made use of dual screens? All the waaaaayyy back in 1983 lol
No but now i do but they are still shit where are the games