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

The hilarity, what part of this is infringing a patent exactly, the controllers, the housing, the mechanism, the tablet, the connections?

What an idiotic company all they've done is effectively bankrupted themselves with potential legal fees as this drags on and on with no payout at the end of it.

I bet there are hundreds of variations of tablet controller housing out there, I've definitely seen mobile phone ones.

The only way I could see Switch facing trouble is if they stole the locking mechanism of the joycons to the Switch.

Other than that the Switch is a tablet, the joycons are seperate blue tooth controllers, the dock is a usb-c to HDMI adapter.

One of the dumbest lawsuits I've ever heard of and why are they only filing now, instead of months ago when it was all shown? Wasting the courts time and taxes.

Finish this quick wikipad, cause soon you'll get sued for copying the sega gamegear!

Hmm ? okay soo what is that abomination.

Ban the Switch sales? i think Nintendo already did that to themselves since March because the Switch is HARD TO FIND anywhere

Ban on switch sales? HAHAHAHAHAHA If they just claimed money maybe they could get something. But Ban on sales, its never gonna happen so rip lawsuit i guess.

I’ve never even heard of this thing.. guess that would explain it.

Hmm...no one visits our site nor buys our product, what should we do? I know...let's sue Nintendo. Facepalm...welcome to 2017.

Haha good luck with that. As someone bellow has explained, the two things aren't even remotely the same.

What's kind of funny about this is that I discovered the Wikipad a while back due to its popularity amongst people running Nintendo emulators.

-Hey I want to sue Nintendo, too.

-Why?

-I don't know.

What a load of nonsense .. I thought it was only in America where they had stupid lawsuits that otherwise would be laughed out of court ?

And here we go again, people having brain farts and looking for money.

Just looked up what this Wikipad is and it looks like they don't have a case. The Joycons and what the grip is for the Wikipad are completely different. The Wikipad is a grip for you to put around your tablet into and it has a controller, a mechanism on the back, and speakers on the bottom of the grip. The Joycons are just controllers you slide on and off the system and that's it. No enhanced sound, no mechanism on the back, and the Joycons are both their own object, not one big object you put on your tablet. Plus why don't they sue other companies that have been doing this before Nintendo. Is it because Nintendo's device is more successful then there's and everyone else's, so they think they can try and make some quick money off of Nintendo. Nintendo has more money and lawyers than they do. They will lose more money than gain. Also wouldn't they have done this closer to launch or closer to the reveal of the switch rather than 5-6 months after it was released.

Up to this point I have never heard of the Wikipad until now, and to be honest the whole plug a screen into a controller thing has been around for quite a while now. The Nvidia Shield for instance is one such device, and there have been all kinds of ones that connect to android devices in order to provide more of a console style controller experience with the screen able to be attached.

Just to challenge their idiocy with some lighthearted stupidity, Nintendo should now sue them for using standard unified D-pads and analog thumbsticks. Their implementation might be different, but on the surface they look so similar! Too close to someone's vision of something somewhen. Oh, the relentless horror of this realization! :'(

Nintendo clearly stole the idea for the Switch from the people that made the Wii U.

Let's see how this plays out. I've a feeling little will come from this, or it will be settled out of court.

Lol