Nintendo Patent Could Prove Awkward For Microsoft's Xbox Live |
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According to Webpronews a recently approved patent for Nintendo could lead to lawsuits against other game console manufacturers. The patent was originally filed in 2000 and is for a videogame instant messaging system. The patent covers a chat system that involves a remotely stored buddy
list, allows for multiple statuses, and could broadcast information
about gaming activities. It would also display alerts when new e-mail
is received, enable the transmission of player preferences, and allow
for communication through either voice or text messages.
Two aging products, the Nintendo64 and the Game Boy Color, are mentioned in the patent, but there is speculation that the system could be implemented in the upcoming Wii. It may also serve as a bartering chip against software giant Microsoft. It looks as though Microsoft's Xbox Live system may infringe upon Nintendo's new patent.
If so, Nintendo could try to reach a cross-licensing deal that would allow it to delve into areas covered by some of Microsoft's patents. Sony is another potential target if Nintendo tries to pursue the matter. It's possible that nothing will come of this. It's also possible that we'll see a voice chat-enabled Wii, and a huge court battle between Nintendo and Microsoft. Of course, there are a few likelihoods that fall between those potential outcomes.
If anyone does cause a dispute out of this it would be very weird for Microsoft as being a member of Xbox Live since it first came out I know that the messaging system that Microsoft has in place is one of the best things the Xbox and the 360 has going for it and I couldn't imagine Xbox Live without it. Hopefully all the online gaming systems will have their own "Xbox Live" and be just as great. Go ahead and give us your thoughts about these rumors by commenting after the jump.
Via Webpronews
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you are reading way to mutch into this... "chat system that involves a remotely stored buddy list, allows for multiple statuses..." There are many programs like that (ex:MSN).
I love how this world works. I should make a patent for the flying car and then sue whichever dealership makes it first.
well done, this site has just been awarded the slowest blog site to post this news... but its still a great site
Ridiculous if a patent like would hold up to such a broad area. MSN, AIM wouldn't realy be involved because it states it's for a gaming system. However things like this piss me off, stupid USPTO, the whole thing with NTC or whatever and RIM was lame as well. THey make a patent on something cool, sit on it, wait for someone else (since they have no intention of doing anything) to do something with it and then sue them. LAME LAME
nintendo have no ground to claim that anything microsoft has done infrindges thier patent. Microsoft have similiar patents and stuff for thier services. Nintendo wudnt be stupid enough to try anything.
So this is saying Nintendo can make a deal with Microsoft about this? This is just a idea, Nintendo and microsoft online Communities could share things and interact with people playing a Wii and a xbox360. Like sending a message to your friend on a xbox360 while your on a Wii. They could also share market place on xbox360. But this will most likely not ever happen.
Thats bull*****! Off with nintendos head!
Yes, you could. Everybody would think your an @sshole, but you could do it. And you'd probably win. But this doesn't seem like something that will hold up in court. Wouldn't Nintendo have taken some action when Xbox Live was first introduced, not 3 years later? And what about things like gaming instant messengers, like Xfire? Either way, if this turns out to be true and Nintendo does take legal action (or anything for that matter, cuz making a patent and then just waiting for someone else to do it so you can sue is just plain gay), I will lose a lot of respect for them.
You cannot patent just anything. You cannot patent a flying car in general - there has to be something special about it for you to get a patent, ie. the device that actually makes the car fly. As said ICQ and MSN already use remote stored buddy lists, just because in this it says "for a gaming system" does not mean it is something else. This is exactly the thing about software patents that are being discussed a lot lately in Europe (EU especially).
"Wouldn't Nintendo have taken some action when Xbox Live was first introduced, not 3 years later? And what about things like gaming instant messengers, like Xfire?" -BAM That's how I see it. Why would Nintendo choose now to sue? It would be silly. They're the most profitable when it comes to gaming. They have no need to sue any one and will not be bought out any time soon by any one! http://nintendoinsider.com/site/EEEZuAypVuTuOJPzyb.php
I hope it spells the end for xbox liv$. Laughing my c0ck off
dont you know that somebody, patented the happy b-day song, and now you cant sing it in places like boys and girls scouts or md donalds with out pying royalties to the owner. look at the dual shock lawsuit the patent didnt go through till after a few years when there patent was approved. but it doesnt always worked like when they tried to do it with the ipod
They actually could sue M$, but I do not see it happening, but then again it took forever to sue SONY with the vibration thingy in their joysticks. Heck M$ sued Apple over the iPod thing and won, they waited three years to do it. Now Creative has filed a lawsuit over the iPod's interface!!
Sega's Dreamcast did someof the things that Nintendo posted in their patent before they filed it, so that kills it's validity already. So if Nintendo sues MS has Prior art to kill them.
if nintendo does anything about it, then they are big walking vaginas. theyve come last in using wifi and internet. yeah and like number 2 said its like as if i filed a patent for gaming and then waited for everyone else to start it.
That could real put a hurt on things for XBOX. But if Nintendo is smart they wouldn't do anything to keep peace for XBOX and Wii. They way people would buy both. So we could have a Wii-BOX360.
Someone said that xbox and wii games could talk to each other. If they made it pretty much the same as xbox friends/msgs i think that would crush Sony. Thats huge in itself and would bring alotta people together
Nintendo isn't stupid enough to sue, espicially after seeing what happened to creative.
i wouldnt be surprised if this puts an end to sony's future online service. nintendo could win agaist sony because sony doesnt have the best lawyers while microsoft can just give nintendo a couple of million and be done with it. this could be the end of sony....
anybody remember the company who had the patent on the unbalanced rotating mass in the controllers that makes em vibrate? well long story short they suid sony and ms but microsoft just bought half the company and ended up saving alot of money in the long run. just cause its a pretty open ended patent doesnt mean they cant push for an out of court settle while only threatening
although this is a bs article, i mean the whole patent thing, there are SO many ways MS could easily get out of a lawsuit... but the comment about the birthday song being patented is incorrect, it is actualy copyrighted, not patented, but anyways... oh! and the flying car exists... nice try...
the happy birthday song copyright, is "owned" by Time Warner
how bout a Wiiboy?
microsoft can afford nintendo 10 times over so they can just buyout and if there was ever a law suit i bet microsoft can finda wat to counter sue
http://www.maxpc.co.uk/news/default.asp?pagetypeid=2&articleid=5715&subsectionid=720 http://money.cnn.com/2004/08/04/commentary/game_over/column_gaming/ Nintendo is not for sale... If they did buy Nintendo they would do no better than Rare http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare_%28video_game_company%29#Future Rare made it big on a Nintendo console. There fan base was not sold with them apparently. Can you really take a whole fan base and just cut and paste them? Would Nintendo games do well on 360? You never really know. Sega converted there fans over to Gamecube where there game sell the best. Then again I was a big Sega fan and like other I thought it would be Sega vs.. Nintendo forever. Many Sega fans may just have owned Gamecubes be cause Nintendo was the next familiar thing. If for some reason Nintendo tried to sue they would already know MS will want to buy them. If they wanted to be bought they would take the offer that's on the table already. I can only see them being sold if, like with Rare, Some one sold of a lot of Nintendo's stock and MS became part owner anyway...
I agree with 26. and it is obivious that nintendo WII is gonna win the nextgen console markets, + ds lite is gonna oversell ps2, so why would nintendo want to just "give up"...
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Damn blog.... Yeah like I was gonna say, you obviously don't understand how buisnesses work....it's not like 1 japanese dude owns all of nintendo and decides when they will sell.....buisnesses sell shares of their companies and they are spread out among 100's or 1000's of people, and whoever owns the most shares usually has the authority, but usually you still need to take votes by the shareholders....now is someone owns more then half the shares in a company, then they own the majority and because of how the system works are usually in charge at that point. Sooo, MS just has to go around offering the right people the right amounts of money to get the 51% of shares....doubtful they will ever do it tho...
" + ds lite is gonna oversell ps2" that statement has no bearing in such an argument, nor any... they are in 2 different markets.. console and handheld... big deal if the lite sells more than the ps2.. gamecubes still suck, and so do DS's.. and i love nintendo, so don''t pull that fanboy crap out either. anyways just becuase apples sell more than rocking chairs, it doesn't mean the apple orchard owner is any better than the owner of a rocking chair store.. lol
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