05-24-2006, 03:02 AM
Quote:Seems like legal mumbo jumbo to me. You could target Microsoft, Sony, and Electrosource... but were too busy and/or forgot to check if Nintendo violated your patent too?:blink:Maybe they're just Mario fans.
My read of this is that the "full analysis" mentioned isn't necissarily a technological analysis but more a legal analysis. From a business standpoint i think it can be assumed that they had someone crack open some nintendo controllers and rumble packs and check out the hardware inside. What's likely is that the hardware nintendo uses is different enough from thier hardware and the hardware that Sony, Microsoft, and Electrosource is using to make legal recourse against nintendo more complicated. If this is the case then for Immersion to file a case against Nintendo as well would unnecissarily complicate and risk the trials against the others.
which isn't to say that Immersion can't win a suit against nintendo but i'm sure that they would want to get these "easy" cases out of the way before they got into a more complicated legal battle.