and Nintendo sued them because it was too similar. They took it back to the drawing board, and thrashed it a few times with the ugly stick, and together Ninty and Nyko "settled" with this redesign:
Now, I'm sure Nyko is just playing it safe by making a product that literally even a blind person could immediately distinguish from the Nintendo product.
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Nyko just settled a lawsuit with Nintendo over their "Kama" wireless nunchuck accessory.
They made this totally sweet looking wireless nunchuck:
http://www.crunchgear.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/87027-wl-nunchuck.jpg
and Nintendo sued them because it was too similar. They took it back to the drawing board, and thrashed it a few times with the ugly stick, and together Ninty and Nyko "settled" with this redesign:
http://www.nyko.com/img/nyko/products/large/WLNunchuck.jpg
Now, I'm sure Nyko is just playing it safe by making a product that literally even a blind person could immediately distinguish from the Nintendo product.