Sony gets screwed over

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Since 2002, Immersion Corporation (manufacturers of vibrating gaming technology) have been fighting Sony Computer Entertainment through the courts, arguing that Sony's Dual Shock controllers infringe on patents filed by Immersion before Dual Shock was sold for the first time.

The order, from a California court, forces Sony to pay $90.7Million directly to Immersion for patent infringement. This comes only a few months after a Federal court awarded $82Million in Immersion's favour in September 2004.

However, this time Immersion have won an even greater battle. An injunction is now in force which prevents sales of Dual Shock Controllers (and the Playstation consoles they are bundled with) and around 40 software products including Grand Theft Auto III and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City in the United States.

The injunction is withheld while Sony appeals against it. Sony can continue to sell these products while a court is considering their appeal.

This is the second blow of recent weeks to Sony. Just last week, they launched their Playstation Portable platform and found a much lower level of public interest than they had expected. Store managers have reported having up to 90% of their allocated units still on shelves, which clearly hampers the company's hopes of selling its first million consoles as quickly as possible.

http://www.joystiq.com/entry/1234000920037859/

http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D893OTH80.htm?campaign_id=apn_tech_down

http://www.engadget.com/entry/1234000997037831/

http://www.japantoday.com/e/?content=news&cat=4&id=332037

Just something I saw and thought someone would be interested in! :eek:
 
ROFL! :rotfl:

Sony got bent over :) It's about time someone stuck it to there bitch ass. To bad $90 million is only a small dent in Sony's pockets :( I do like that they have to recall all of their shit and take out the dual shock controllers though :p

/me not a big PS/PS2 fan.
 
Ouch...Sony must realy be chewing wasps over this.

But i love Sony, so if they ever get short of $$ i'll lend em a few quid.
 
XMS said:
Ouch...Sony must realy be chewing wasps over this.

But i love Sony, so if they ever get short of $$ i'll lend em a few quid.

When it comes to consoles I only give my $$ to MS :D
 
name='Austin' said:
I gave my money to Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft this round. lol

I'm not much of a console gamer... I prefer the 1337 gfx of computer games :)

I sold my Xbox a few months back to make my rent payment :p lol
 
I dont actually use consoles either.

the only reason i'd give Sony money was for their Sexy Plasma TV's and Monitors

And also their sweet hi-fi seperates.
 
XMS said:
I dont actually use consoles either.

the only reason i'd give Sony money was for their Sexy Plasma TV's and Monitors

And also their sweet hi-fi seperates.

Agreed :D I have a 65" Sony HD big screen in my basement that fuckin r0x s0x off of anything I've ever seen before.
 
When i go down the local electronics store and see Sony screens side by side with things like Pioneer, Phillips, Samsung etc...Sony just kicks their a$$es
 
name='XMS' said:
When i go down the local electronics store and see Sony screens side by side with things like Pioneer, Phillips, Samsung etc...Sony just kicks their a$$es

Yeah the picture quality is unparalleled. Sony rules the HD universe :D
 
name='FragTek' said:
Yeah the picture quality is unparalleled. Sony rules the HD universe :D

I think that this is not a good thing for consumers and for once I am against the smaller company....just get some money and settle on that.....their just being greedy. IMHO tho :mad:
 
Yeah but Sony just turned that little company into a $100 million company, plus the $80 million they got from the other place they sued.

Hell, i'd be fucking greedy too if I knew I could get myself a quick $200 mil. rofl.
 
FragTek said:
Yeah but Sony just turned that little company into a $100 million company, plus the $80 million they got from the other place they sued.

Hell, i'd be fucking greedy too if I knew I could get myself a quick $200 mil. rofl.

I wonder if you can get shares in this little company. The way they are sueing people, even the shareholders will be millionaires overnight!
 
name='XMS' said:
I wonder if you can get shares in this little company. The way they are sueing people, even the shareholders will be millionaires overnight!

rofl, I wish I were one of them!
 
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