Nintendo Sued Over Switch's Tablet/Removable Joy-Con Design

Another new Nintendo console, another greedy nobody trying to cash in on their success for a quick buck. They'll lose and ruin what little reputation they might have had.

This console looks closer to a cumbersome psvita

The two items are entirely different in not just design, but the actual function. The Switch slides into the bridge and the joy cons are used separate of the bridge as controllers for play on TVs. The joycons attach to the tablet when removed from the bridge.

The wikipad is a tablet with a glorified controller dock. It is not a bridge of any kind that allows the tablet to be played on TVs. It is nothing more than a controller with speakers.

I don't even see how the two are similar. The switch has screen which has detachable controllers on each side, and the Wikipad is more like a big controller that has a section in the middle you can slide a tablet\screen into.

It's absurd for Gamevice to think they can monopolize the entire concept of a game device that has a tablet\screen and controllers that are separate from each other.

Even if a company has a patent, they can't enforce it if the concept and design is so intrinsically basic that it would prevent any variation of it and be an obstacle to future innovation by other companies. This lawsuit will likely be thrown out.

Well, at least the plaintiff in this case actually used the patent they're suing over.

The law suit calls for [and we quote, "**** you bitch! Pay me!" and the tears of little children across the world.]

Gamevice must feel that they have a case, especially if they've patented something that they feel Nintendo has ripped off without checking. The world of patents and copyright infringement is a very complicated area, so I'm pretty sure they've done their homework here.

I wouldn't start loling at this just yet.

It's a shame patent trolling is a viable business model,

Lol they want to ban the sale of the Switch all together? I don't even like Nintendo but these fucking morons don't have a chance to win this one.

I hope Gamevice loses and gets taken to the cleaners.

Gamevice is taking a huge risk. Attacking a huge loved company like Nintendo will make them lose a ton of business. I for one, refuse to buy Gamevice products now.

Not surprising that they waited until the Switch became a huge commercial success to file the lawsuit.

Just another unscrupulous corporation trying to cash in.

Stop giving out patents when people claim to have invented the wheel.

So these lawyers and other suit losers have no lives right?

I hope they take Nintendo to the cleaners & then directly to the bank.

that'll teach Nintendo for not making Metroid games fast enough.

Yeah, that's not going to fly. The entire design is different. This cradles the tablet, while the Switch's joycons snap on to the sides.

I'm gonna sue you all for having hands. I patented hands. OFF WITH YOUR HANDS!

Nintendo is already unaffected by a few simple reasons, the controllers themselves are seperate entities. The Joy-Cons are Bluetooth, HD Rumble, Motion controller, and amiibo support. All which the other company doesn't have. You can use the joy con with something else, as to the Wikipad thing is just that system itself. SEEMS LIKE SOMEONE TRYNA GET MONEY LOL. CLOSE , BUT NOT GOOD ENOUGH. Especially I doubt Nintendo would create something that would eventually be sued on. They have been around 100 years, experience.

wrong picture gamespot? Gamevice came out first for the iphone & ipad/mini

I have never heard of them and I suppose Nintendo hasn't either. You can't copy what you don't know. Also the Nintendo Switch has 2 separate controllers instead of one controller with a "flexible bridge section". Their controller is an third party add on, but Nintendo's controllers are part of the Switch.

Gamevice is using this as advertising, the laws need to change, so they can't just sue, lose and just pay costs, when its this obvious they should be made to pay damages for time wasted to the courts and Nintendo, hopefully this would reduce this kind of thing in the future .

If this was remotely legit they would be suing tons of companies, Logitech, Nvidia, Ipega and others, all who have released the same type of controller for android devices gamevice is selling.

ROFL, is this a joke!? They are NOTHING alike.

Gamevice is going to lose this battle they have zero solid evidence to prove their claim the wikipad doesn't look anything like the switch or the joycon I have no clue what is gamevice going at with this lawsuit no one gave a shit about your wikipad even I tried the wikipad before and it sucks big dick the controller itself is too big and the analog sticks and the Buttons feel cheap sorry game vice but no one cares about you anymore we already have Razor Edge and ipega PG 9023 and they work flawlessly.

All just a marketing move. For instance, I had no idea what the hell Gamevice and Wikipad was until today. Neither did probably 90% in here, from the 90% in here, 10% will probably buy some shit of them now, and in a Japanese court of law, you get no huge sums anyway, maybe Nintendo pays them 800,000 usd or so for them to shut the hell up. All just marketing, relax guys.

And where were these guys when the Wii U was still around?

@deadpen: Can you prove you designed it?

@deadpen: They tried. The Sega genesis disappeared.

BULLSHIT that's all?✌️

Yea good luck with that..lol..lawsuits gets thrown out & Gamevice has to pay all the court cost for wasting time. :P

So why didn't they sue Nintendo when the Nintendo Switch was announced and waited 5 months after the system is released?
My current guess on that is the company just got mad because the Switch was successful and their thing wasn't.

Might as well sue all the companies that make controller shells for smart-phones and tablets.

I'm sorry but these guys can politely **** off? The Joycon design by Nintendo is ingenious and solves the problem of a feasible Controller for a tablet device. The design is perfect these jackholes are just mad they didn't think of it first. Personally I wouldn't mind seeing a more capable tablet like one of Razors gaming tablets with a Joycon like design I think that would be a beast of a handheld device while still being reasonably portable.

Ahahahaha! Yea, good luck with that Gamevice.

Makes you wonder doesnt it everyone has copied Nintendo since the D pad,analogue stick, shoulder buttons, rumble, etc