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fellow member SNAKE has posted a thread about the first alligations from the original "creator"

here is the link to his thread

SNAKE'S THREAD


now this man has gone public, he was on fox news trying to prove his point that he is indeed the creator, this video has alot more clues that may or may not lead into this man winning against ninty.



A quite shocking report has appeared on the Internet in the past few days about how an ex-Midway employee claims that he is actually the one that came up with the idea of Nintendo’s Wii motion control technology and that his old company helped cover up the idea to help out the home of Mario.

GameTrailers.com is currently hosting a video clip of a bulletin from FOX News in the US, in which an ex-Midway employee claims that he already had a prototype up and running that used the technology that Nintendo currently houses in its world-leading Wii console. The suburban Chicago man says he actually designed and created the technology almost a decade ago, and reporter Mark Saxenmeyer investigates in the video below:


View this on YouTube
I used youtube not game traillers

Could this be true? Could Midway have axed the man on purpose to maintain close relations with Nintendo? It all seems rather far-fetched, but no doubt it will be something that is brought up several times in the coming months. Be sure to air your thoughts on the matter by posting below and stick around on Nintendic for further updates…

quit interested indeed as this man does have some very valid points aginst ninty, but who knows what the outcome will be.

we'll find out soon enough

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Wow, that is interesting...
sounds like lawsuit to me...

I think the thing to remember here is that he got sacked. When you work for any company and you get paid to create something for them, they own it, not you. And when you leave the company, they keep that stuff, and most likely the rights to it. At least this is how it usually works. Even if he/they did invent the tech first (which they didn't, IMO), it should be Midway suing, not this guy, according to this video.

well, if the guy DID invent it first, he can still sue because nintendo is saying that they invented it, if he is 100% sure he invented it, then he may be able to sue for plagirism because he isnt getting any credit for his work

again

i said

if he DID invent it

I have my doubts that one man invented those controllers all by himself while working under Midway. I mean, a whole team of people created the Wii controllers. Besides, even if he did the video said that Midway owned the rights to it. That gives him a lot less legal grounds to take with him to court.

ha, all these lawsuits about controllers patents are pathetic IMO, now im just awaiting a lawsuit from the man who invented the tv remote