http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aO_ucYxT3eNw this news is relatively fresh, 22 July 2008 In short, nintendo may have to stop selling nun-chucks and GC controllers/Classic Controllers, due to the usual conflict of patents. In this case, the patent holder claims that nintendo has "Clogged up the channel" and "he can't enter" into this market. Naturally, the guy is just after a big settlement and from the sounds of it, it must be quite high. For more, read the link or the quoted text below. for those interested in the relevant patterns and their contents: http://www.theinquirer.net/en/inquirer/news/2006/08/03/microsoft-nintendo-sued-over-games-controller
Go to a website and buy bootleg controllers. There are wireless and wired bootleg nunchucks avaible, and GC controllers avaible which do the same thing as the classic controller.
I ve always had an issue with unlicensed products,mainly due to quality matters. I m not affected by this decision for now, and no one else is, because the only thing nintendo can realistically do is settle with the greedy asshole.
$21m? For Nintendo at the moment that's the small change they have in the back pocket of a middle managers trousers.
Nintendo would rather pack up, move back to Japan and return to making playing cards than admit they were wrong about anything. There will be no Classic Controller on the shelves by this time next year, and Nintendo will insist that we never needed one.
The nunchuk attachment is not affected by the lawsuit and would not be banned due to this patent. I wouldn't worry about not being able to buy the other controllers since the ban will be stayed until the appeals process is over and done with (or mostly done with).
Nintendo can pull a microsoft and buy him out then put him on the streets so he can turn tricks to 3rd parties to get some decent games on the Wii and thus make me interested in it.
