The Wii controller is an innovation??? Go to hell...

[adrenaline]

Nintendo wont shut up about being the first ones to create a motion sensing controller. Well, they werent.

Anyone want to guess who had the idea first, and filed the patent protecting it back in 1999?? SONY.

Yes, back in 1999 sony filed a patent for a motion sensing controller. There is a link below, and once you get to the page click on 'mosaics' link and go to the last page (with the diagrams). There just happens to be a diagram that quite coincidently resembles the wii controller.

This angers me. Nintendo flamed sony so hard for copying their idea, but really it looks like THEY copied sony!!

LOL @ Nintendo!

http://v3.espacenet.com/textdoc?DB=E...QPN=JP11099284

Patent number: JP11099284
Publication date: 1999-04-13
Inventor: KOBAYASHI HIROAKI; YORIZUMI MINEO
Applicant: SONY CORP
Classification:
- international: G06F3/033; G06F3/033; (IPC1-7): A63F9/22; G06F3/033
- european:
Application number: JP19970265541 19970930
Priority number(s): JP19970265541 19970930



Abstract of JP11099284

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To instruct an operation by the movement of a small controller that is close to the movement of a character by making the controller movable, detecting its movement and outputting a signal, and switch-recognizing the direction of the movement on the basis of the outputted signal. SOLUTION: The controller detects an angular speed by a detection section provided in a connecting section that connects the right and left operating sections of a controller unit 82. For example, rotation in the direction of rolling in relation to the right and left operating buttons 55, 56 of the left operating section is detected as an angular speed in the direction of rotation in the XY plane by the detection section 70 with the Z axis as the central axis. The detection section 70 is comprised of a movement detection section 71 made up of an angular speed sensor 72 and an amplifier 73, and a direction detection section 74 made up of movement direction recognition switches 79, 80. Therefore, movement can be instructed by the movement of the controller without operating the operating buttons 55, 56, etc.