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| Yan |
| quote: | | Haven’t seen a source for this other than Japan Today, which seems a little weird, but reportedly a US District Court has ordered Sony to pay Immersion Corp. $90.7 million for infringing several patents related to computer-controlled vibrating motors (which Sony uses in their Dual Shock PlayStation and PlayStation 2 controllers). What’s weirder still about this news is that as far as we can tell Sony already lost this case back in October when a federal jury ruled that Sony owed Immersion $82 million. Making it even more painful for Sony this time around (if this news is true, that is), the judge presiding over the case has also issued an injunction forbidding Sony from selling Dual Shock controllers, as well as “40 game software products” (or “games”, as we know them), here in the States. It’s Sunday, so we haven’t been able to confirm the details of this case with Sony, but we’ll give them a ring tomorrow and find out what’s going on. |
Taken from engadget.
A surprise to me, actually. Thought Sony was more legitimate than this. |
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| infinity HiGH |
I remember reading about this the first time around. Looks like it's not over yet, lol
I gotta say that this does suck, cause I always found Sony's vibrating feature to be the best. |
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| Spad |
| Shock controllers are just annoying, usually turn them off. |
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| tjpatel |
| just seen it on Yahoo! News |
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| CGRumler |
I hope that Sony wins the appeal, because I work the video game department at Best Buy.
I would absolutely LOATHE having to clear out the shelving of all of the PS2 games that are said to have infringed, systems, and Dual Shock controllers.
A list of games said to have infringed (from Joystiq.com):
A Bug’s Life; Amplitude; Ape Escape; Atlantis: The Lost Empire; Bloody Roar 2; Cool Boarders 3; Cool Boarders 4; Cool Boarders 2001; Crash Bash; Crash Team Racing; Drakan: The Ancients’ Gate; Emperor’s New Groove; Extermination; FantaVision; Final Fantasy X; Formula One 2001; The Getaway; Gran Turismo; Gran Turismo 2; Gran Turismo 3; Grand Theft Auto: Vice City; Grand Theft Auto 3; Grind Session; ICO; Jak & Daxter; Kinetica; Kingdom Hearts; Legend of the Dragoon; The Mark of Kri; Medal of Honor Frontline; Medievil 2; Metal Gear Solid 2; Monster’s, Inc.; Sly Cooper and the Thievius Racoonus; SOCOM Navy Seals; Speed Punks; Spyro: Ripto’s Rage; Spyro: Year of the Dragon; Stuart Little 2; Syphon Filter 2; Syphon Filter 3; Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3; Twisted Metal: Black; Twisted Metal 4; Twisted Metal: Small Brawl; Treasure Planet; and War of the Monsters |
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| Yan |
| quote: | Originally posted by CGRumler
I hope that Sony wins the appeal, because I work the video game department at Best Buy.
I would absolutely LOATHE having to clear out the shelving of all of the PS2 games that are said to have infringed, systems, and Dual Shock controllers.
A list of games said to have infringed (from Joystiq.com):
A Bug’s Life; Amplitude; Ape Escape; Atlantis: The Lost Empire; Bloody Roar 2; Cool Boarders 3; Cool Boarders 4; Cool Boarders 2001; Crash Bash; Crash Team Racing; Drakan: The Ancients’ Gate; Emperor’s New Groove; Extermination; FantaVision; Final Fantasy X; Formula One 2001; The Getaway; Gran Turismo; Gran Turismo 2; Gran Turismo 3; Grand Theft Auto: Vice City; Grand Theft Auto 3; Grind Session; ICO; Jak & Daxter; Kinetica; Kingdom Hearts; Legend of the Dragoon; The Mark of Kri; Medal of Honor Frontline; Medievil 2; Metal Gear Solid 2; Monster’s, Inc.; Sly Cooper and the Thievius Racoonus; SOCOM Navy Seals; Speed Punks; Spyro: Ripto’s Rage; Spyro: Year of the Dragon; Stuart Little 2; Syphon Filter 2; Syphon Filter 3; Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 3; Twisted Metal: Black; Twisted Metal 4; Twisted Metal: Small Brawl; Treasure Planet; and War of the Monsters |
Wow.
The games that I'd be sad to see go would be:
Amplitude, Ape Escape, Fantavision, FFX, Gran Turismo, the GTA series, ICO, Jak and Daxter series, Kingdom Hearts, The Legend of Dragoon, The Mark of Kri, Medal of Honor Frontline, Medievil 2, MGS2, Sly Cooper, SOCOM, and Tony Hawk's PS3.
Then again, I've played through most, if not all, of them so I guess it wouldn't be much of a loss for me. |
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| CGRumler |
I wonder why some of the newer games in those series (GT4, GTA: San Andreas, etc...) aren't considered to be in violation?
Any ideas? |
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