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Oh, that wacky Sony, always causing problems.



As found on DVD Hardware.net:


Sony ordered stop PlayStation sales and pay $90 million

Posted on Monday, March 28 2005 @ 15:18:32 CEST by LSDsmurf
A U.S. court has ruled Sony to stop selling PlayStation consoles in the United States and to pay $90 million in damages to Immersion.

Immersion is a developer of digital touch technologies. They claimed that Sony violated one of its patents with its vibrating game controller. Sony said that it would appeal the decision. For the moment Sony will keep selling PlayStation consoles because the order will not go into effect before the appeal.

The patent infringement case covers the PlayStation, PlayStation 2, two game controllers and 47 games.

Source: Reuters
http://www.dvhardware.net/article4470.html

Nothing really to worry about, Sony has a fleet of lawyers, but if the court upholds this ruling after the appeal, we could see a drought of availability until Sony pays them off; this would seem likely as opposed to trying to rehab their own Dualshock controllers with their own design- which would take longer and cost more than just caving in and paying royalties and punitive damages.

I think this has been posted already. Sucks to hear though.

repost.

Link(s):
http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/...ad.php?t=45478
http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/...ad.php?t=45393

Actually, the appeals process is ongoing, and as long as Sony has an appeal in the system, their sales of systems, controllers, etc. may continue business as usual. Naturally, Sony's legal team will keep this issue safely locked up in court for many years to come.

This is great news- if Sony has to pay up that is!

I'm tired of "Poke your mom" being so popular. That, and I'd prefer U.S. Companies to dominate over that of "Bomb Da Harbor" companies.

1 America, 1 Society!

Originally Posted by Zman310 Link(s): http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/...ad.php?t=45478 http://www.cheapassgamer.com/forums/...ad.php?t=45393

Oh whatever. Mine's got color commentary.

why didnt immersion sue when sony releaseed the first dual shock controller or are they just totally diff technologys?

Originally Posted by friedram This is great news- if Sony has to pay up that is! I'm tired of "Poke your mom" being so popular. That, and I'd prefer U.S. Companies to dominate over that of "Bomb Da Harbor" companies. 1 America, 1 Society!

So your looking for say an EA console then?

Originally Posted by BeAt12 why didnt immersion sue when sony releaseed the first dual shock controller or are they just totally diff technologys?

I'd lean towards a different technology since the analog was tweaked on the new version.