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Are Sony and Microsoft really stealing ideas from Nintendo? -
06-17-08
This is turning into a bit of a problem I think. On the front page articles, mostly the latest ones posted like the Microsoft releasing Mii like avatars for the Xbox 360, fanboys have been flaming at each other because Microsoft (and Sony) is apparently copying Nintendo's ideas and Nintendo should...
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Re: Are Sony and Microsoft really stealing ideas from Nintendo?
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i think evryone needs to stop moaning. So what if MS and Sony use nintendo designs it cant be stopped it happens all the time you all just need to grow up doesnt it mean that nintendo has good ideas if theyre being used? |
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Re: Are Sony and Microsoft really stealing ideas from Nintendo?
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Originally Posted by Kitreia
1. Nintendo didn't great chatrooms, nor did they create the idea of using drawings in chatrooms. In that sense, Nintendo completely ripped off Microsoft, where MSN Messenger allowed that functionality through a plugin in MSN Messenger 6.0 (July 17th 2003).
2. Again, Nintendo didn't invent viewing of videos, 'or' demos. PC game demos were downloadable many years ago, I even remember playing a demo on my brother's Windows 3.6 machine, and music videos were placed in Music CD Singles quite alot, usually in Quicktime MOV format. Also, the viewing of videos on the GBA was made possible through a flash card far before those GBA Videos were released, and Nintendo didn't even bother giving the original developers credit where it was due.
3. All those cameras each hold a different purpose. The GBA Camera was mostly pointless, where as the Eye Toy was aimed at specific games available for the PS2 (and the newer PS Eye for the PS3 also for specific games available). The XBox Camera was made for XBox Live specifically, something Nintendo has NOT done (yet).
4. That's just business sense, they are not copying Nintendo in any way, as they are simply allowing connectivity to their own licensed, patented devices, in the SAME way Nintendo are doing. Nintendo do not hold the rights to an idea such as a handheld console, nor do they own the idea of interoperability (and you can find a few times this has been accomplished before Nintendo, with a simple Google Search).
5. Nintendo addressed issues to their handheld in a newer model, such as size and asthetics, and screen, Sony did the same with the PSP with battery life and other issues. It's not copying one company, it's business sense, in the same way there is more than one Linux OS. Linux originally had issues, and many people addressed these issues. People created one distro, and others addressed issues and bugs they found in those and released the same distro under a slighty changed name (e.g.: Knoppix, Knoppix STD, etc.).
6. Mortal Kombat is a fighting game, but hey, so is Street Fighter. Amazing, isn't it?
Game demos are not a concept created by Nintendo, and have existed, again, for a long time. You used to get FREE demo games for the Playstation and Playstation 2 quite alot. In magazines, through the post, handed out at the mall, hell in my local gaming store they had a bin literally full of game demo discs that you can pick up.
Also, I've been able to download videos to my PC for a long, long time. Nintendo didn't invent that concept either.
7. Sony and Microsoft don't have Friend Codes, and never will. Online gaming has existed long before the DS and Wii, you know.
Nintendo didn't copy anything, nor did Sony or Microsoft.
Each company came across ideas, and thought they were decent to impliment in their console(s). Nintendo didn't invent gaming, the PDP-1 did. |
But they were the first to come with half of the ideas like connect handheld to consoles. |
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Re: Are Sony and Microsoft really stealing ideas from Nintendo?
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Originally Posted by ultimaxtachi
How am I repeating myself with these comments ain`t that what comments about who do you think you are coward try to infract someone that not messing with you it don`t have nothing o do with you how I effected you anyway.:(
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This is my article, so you posting crap into it kind of like... does effect me.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Kitreia
1. Nintendo didn't great chatrooms, nor did they create the idea of using drawings in chatrooms. In that sense, Nintendo completely ripped off Microsoft, where MSN Messenger allowed that functionality through a plugin in MSN Messenger 6.0 (July 17th 2003).
2. Again, Nintendo didn't invent viewing of videos, 'or' demos. PC game demos were downloadable many years ago, I even remember playing a demo on my brother's Windows 3.6 machine, and music videos were placed in Music CD Singles quite alot, usually in Quicktime MOV format. Also, the viewing of videos on the GBA was made possible through a flash card far before those GBA Videos were released, and Nintendo didn't even bother giving the original developers credit where it was due.
3. All those cameras each hold a different purpose. The GBA Camera was mostly pointless, where as the Eye Toy was aimed at specific games available for the PS2 (and the newer PS Eye for the PS3 also for specific games available). The XBox Camera was made for XBox Live specifically, something Nintendo has NOT done (yet).
4. That's just business sense, they are not copying Nintendo in any way, as they are simply allowing connectivity to their own licensed, patented devices, in the SAME way Nintendo are doing. Nintendo do not hold the rights to an idea such as a handheld console, nor do they own the idea of interoperability (and you can find a few times this has been accomplished before Nintendo, with a simple Google Search).
5. Nintendo addressed issues to their handheld in a newer model, such as size and asthetics, and screen, Sony did the same with the PSP with battery life and other issues. It's not copying one company, it's business sense, in the same way there is more than one Linux OS. Linux originally had issues, and many people addressed these issues. People created one distro, and others addressed issues and bugs they found in those and released the same distro under a slighty changed name (e.g.: Knoppix, Knoppix STD, etc.).
6. Mortal Kombat is a fighting game, but hey, so is Street Fighter. Amazing, isn't it?
Game demos are not a concept created by Nintendo, and have existed, again, for a long time. You used to get FREE demo games for the Playstation and Playstation 2 quite alot. In magazines, through the post, handed out at the mall, hell in my local gaming store they had a bin literally full of game demo discs that you can pick up.
Also, I've been able to download videos to my PC for a long, long time. Nintendo didn't invent that concept either.
7. Sony and Microsoft don't have Friend Codes, and never will. Online gaming has existed long before the DS and Wii, you know.
Nintendo didn't copy anything, nor did Sony or Microsoft.
Each company came across ideas, and thought they were decent to impliment in their console(s). Nintendo didn't invent gaming, the PDP-1 did. |
Kitreia seems to be the only person here talking sense. Flaming my article isn't going to stop Sony and Microsoft from "copying" ideas from Nintendo. It's common business and some of you need to realize it's how business works, getting ideas off competitors and expanding on them. |
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Re: Are Sony and Microsoft really stealing ideas from Nintendo?
I agree with Budge.
It's like when the cave man made the Wheel.
Or whoever made the first Laptop.
Saying other laptop vendors, or mobile phone vendors, only copied ideas, is only going to point out your own stupidity.
Next thing you're going to tell me is Linux is made by selfish people who stole their ideas from Microsoft, because that's exactly what most people here are arguing about. It's really the same argument as that.
But y'know the difference here is no one would say that, because it's so utterly stupid. So why bring up this old topic to only show the general range of your IQ? |
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Re: Are Sony and Microsoft really stealing ideas from Nintendo?
First of all Nintendo made the Mii's for the console not just for a game.
Then Microsoft did it a year later. And u dont get your ideas from other people because that is their idea that u changed a little. It is called Plagurizing. And the reason why they did not use internet on the gamecube is because the internet was created by Bill Gates from Microsoft so they could not use it and they didnt have nintendo wifi made yet till the ds came out.. and the new tony hawk game with the skate boad is just a copy of wii fit balance board... and now nintendo is making a 4-d game of smb. which is the first 4-d game and if microsoft or sony make a 4-d game then it is also copying. |
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Re: Are Sony and Microsoft really stealing ideas from Nintendo?
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