Actually,I'm sorry, I do have to refute this. Everyone and their brother could have seen the usefulness of motion sensors in a controller. BUYING A PATENT IS NOT THE SAME AS BUYING THE IDEA, IT IS BUYING THE PERMISSION TO USE THE IDEA.
Miyamoto and the rest of Nintendo probably figured this out just as much on their own, and then said: "damn, if we want to do this, we'll need to check and make sure patents aren't going to be an issue. Yo snake, go sneak that shit" and so they checked the patents out and found that some guy they had never heard of had done patents for this, so they bought them so that they could actually do something useful with it, like add a pointer and a few more buttons to it and design an entire system around them to make sure it got supported with good games so that it actually became a success.
I'll give him credit where credit is due. He possibly was the first to make a real world demo of how this could be done, but to say that he was the ONLY one to come up with this idea on his own is ridiculous. He could probably get a decent job if he could officially put that on a resume, heck, maybe nintendo might be willing to hire. The fact that he's not suing is really the only thing that makes this credible to me though.
You are an idiot. You are going to great lengths to explain something you don't know shit about.
OK I get it you are a Nintendo fanboy and think that all great ideas come from Nintendo, but to make something up as if you have a clue and then post it here is annoying. Go crap in your hat!!!
@kurt mm, his assumption is alogical one. Stop being one of those 'stick it to the man' people.
Yes he may have come up with the idea ages ago, but everyone and their mother have at on point said, it would be cool if I could do this in real life. We've had virtual reality games, hell nintendo had the virtualboy.
The fact that this man made a working version is admirable, but to say that nintendo ripped it off is just an assumption. Who says they didn't have the idea as well and simply bought the patents.
Thats not to say that they didn't rip off the idea either, but the fact that he created the original version and had patents for it doesn't prove anything about the origins of the idea of the wii.
So let me sink to your level and say: So go screw yourself
What's unique about this is not just the motion sensing, it's the two motion sensing controllers tethered together for sensing both hands. Sure everyone and their brother has thought of motion sensing controllers, but tying two together in this fashion is not nearly as standard as that.
Sure it's possible Nintento came up with the idea completely on their own. I would imagine the Wiimote itself is probably their own idea, but I wouldn't be suprised if this guy was the inspiration for the nunchuck combo.
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Actually,I'm sorry, I do have to refute this. Everyone and their brother could have seen the usefulness of motion sensors in a controller. BUYING A PATENT IS NOT THE SAME AS BUYING THE IDEA, IT IS BUYING THE PERMISSION TO USE THE IDEA.
Miyamoto and the rest of Nintendo probably figured this out just as much on their own, and then said: "damn, if we want to do this, we'll need to check and make sure patents aren't going to be an issue. Yo snake, go sneak that shit"
and so they checked the patents out and found that some guy they had never heard of had done patents for this, so they bought them so that they could actually do something useful with it, like add a pointer and a few more buttons to it and design an entire system around them to make sure it got supported with good games so that it actually became a success.
I'll give him credit where credit is due. He possibly was the first to make a real world demo of how this could be done, but to say that he was the ONLY one to come up with this idea on his own is ridiculous. He could probably get a decent job if he could officially put that on a resume, heck, maybe nintendo might be willing to hire.
The fact that he's not suing is really the only thing that makes this credible to me though.
You are an idiot. You are going to great lengths to explain something you don't know shit about.
OK I get it you are a Nintendo fanboy and think that all great ideas come from Nintendo, but to make something up as if you have a clue and then post it here is annoying. Go crap in your hat!!!
@kurt
mm, his assumption is alogical one.
Stop being one of those 'stick it to the man' people.
Yes he may have come up with the idea ages ago, but everyone and their mother have at on point said, it would be cool if I could do this in real life.
We've had virtual reality games, hell nintendo had the virtualboy.
The fact that this man made a working version is admirable, but to say that nintendo ripped it off is just an assumption. Who says they didn't have the idea as well and simply bought the patents.
Thats not to say that they didn't rip off the idea either, but the fact that he created the original version and had patents for it doesn't prove anything about the origins of the idea of the wii.
So let me sink to your level and say:
So go screw yourself
You're a douche bag
Which one is the douche bag?
@Volite
Everybody who has ever existed is a douche bag.
What's unique about this is not just the motion sensing, it's the two motion sensing controllers tethered together for sensing both hands. Sure everyone and their brother has thought of motion sensing controllers, but tying two together in this fashion is not nearly as standard as that.
Sure it's possible Nintento came up with the idea completely on their own. I would imagine the Wiimote itself is probably their own idea, but I wouldn't be suprised if this guy was the inspiration for the nunchuck combo.