Whiskey Tango Foxtrot: Company claims patent on controller ports that read analogs

[KirbyMeister]

http://www.joystiq.com/2007/01/10/console-makers-sued-over-analog-joysticks/

The patent office has reached a new level of stupid - payola stupid.

My commentary: There's so much prior art out there... this lawsuit won't last 2 days. Nintendo, Sony, and Microsoft are laughing quietly.

[The Damned]

Two of the companies being sued are Japanese. Can't they just hire some ninjas to take care of this?

[KirbyMeister]

Two of the companies being sued are Japanese. Can't they just hire some ninjas to take care of this?

That would make a hilarious game. Everyone is aware it's a game, and when the final boss attacks your analog sticks stop working, making you use the d-pad instead. If you play the Sony campaign, you can change weapons in real time. The Sony Ninja also has a ninjitsu called "Attack it's weakpoint for massive damage" which causes the enemy 599 US healthpoints worth of damage.

[The Damned]

Wow... that went off on a tangent, didn't it?

[KirbyMeister]

It's such a tangent it's almost perpendicular to the original topic.