Former Midway employee Patrick Goschy is planning to sue Nintendo for patent infringement, claiming that he created the idea of a motion controlled system very similar to the Wiimote/Nunchuk combo currently in use in Nintendo's Wii.
As proof of his claims, Goschy has released the above clip from 1999 demonstrating his design for the system.
Nintendo claims that Mr. Goschy's idea had no impact on the design of their current controller, but that video does demonstrate a system that seems very similar to what Nintendo uses currently.
The big question is: if his system was developed almost 10 years back, as he claims, why has it taken Mr. Goschy so long to act on Nintendo's alleged infringment?
In addition, both his system and the Wiimote seem very similar to motion-controlled systems that have been in existence for many years.
It will be interesting to see how this plays out in the courts -- assuming it gets that far -- as the Wiimote is one of the key components to Nintendo's current success.
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