PS3 could be recalled?

Though it proably wont get past this point...it'll be funny if it actually happens. I like Joystiq's spin on this:

Massive damage dealt to PS3, lawsuit demands

killaj2786

ZOMG!!! TEH GIANT ENEMY CRAB!!!11! quick! someone get me a pot of boiling water, a nutcracker, a fork and some butter! i'm gonna take that son of a b---- down if it's the last thing i do! mmmkay!

Interesting but there won't be a recall. These types of suits always start off saying give me all profits, stop making the infringing device, and pay me billions in penalties.

But they want to settle so they setup the worse scenario possible if it goes to court and sony loses. Look at RIM (Blackberry) and the lawsuit they lost. They actually had to turn off their service, but then they quickly settled paying millions to the company they stole their idea from.

*IF* this company wins it will just mean Sony will ose more money.

mikasa

I agree to a point.

they will stand to make much more money off of forcing sony to pay royalties on their hardware. a recall will not be good for either side, but it IS an option on the table.

Arstechnica has a better writeup on this.

"The patent in question was filed in November 1989 and issued in late 1991 back in the days when the Intel 486 and the Motorola 68040 were the bleeding edge of personal computing while the NES and the Sega Genesis represented the pinnacle of console gaming."

"Searches of corporate filings in California, where the company is based, and Delaware, where the complaint says it is incorporated, turned up no trace of Parallel Processing Corporation. In fact, there are no references to the company at all on the Internet aside from mentions of this story, leading us to assume that this is not a technology company, but a partnership organized just for the purposes of litigating this case."

There is a name for this, it's called PATENT TROLLING.If you read the patent you will see that it is very broad and could be applied to any multicore CPU. That means that Sun, Intel, AMD and IBM (including the Xenon, the Xbox 360's processor).

[QUOTE="asdasd"]

This company pattented parallel processing.. in '91...? Why dont they sue intel and AMD, because their chips have parallel processing too. Patents last 17 years, that means this one is about to run out. Looks like they're just tryin to make some quick cash.

Hell, I have an idea. Im going to patent air! Then I can sue everyone

xDonRobx

I beat you to it :P

You better sue him for thinking about patenting your already patented air.

http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2195328/sony-sued-cell-cpu

well, i knew it just a matter of time for sony to face ANOTHER lawsuit in connection with the gaming devices.....

with sony's history of losses and settlements, one has to wonder just how much time the ps3 really has.....

SCE just can't continue to drain sony like this...

tango90101

Question: was Resistance: Fall of Man ever recalled due to the lawsuit?

Then stop speaking forever.

[QUOTE="mikasa"]

Interesting but there won't be a recall. These types of suits always start off saying give me all profits, stop making the infringing device, and pay me billions in penalties.

But they want to settle so they setup the worse scenario possible if it goes to court and sony loses. Look at RIM (Blackberry) and the lawsuit they lost. They actually had to turn off their service, but then they quickly settled paying millions to the company they stole their idea from.

*IF* this company wins it will just mean Sony will ose more money.

tango90101

I agree to a point.

they will stand to make much more money off of forcing sony to pay royalties on their hardware. a recall will not be good for either side, but it IS an option on the table.

No, its not a viable option. I can't think of single example where an injunction was issued and not stayed simply because injunctions harm entirely innocent third parties (in this case PS3 owners).

[QUOTE="tango90101"][QUOTE="mikasa"]

Interesting but there won't be a recall. These types of suits always start off saying give me all profits, stop making the infringing device, and pay me billions in penalties.

But they want to settle so they setup the worse scenario possible if it goes to court and sony loses. Look at RIM (Blackberry) and the lawsuit they lost. They actually had to turn off their service, but then they quickly settled paying millions to the company they stole their idea from.

*IF* this company wins it will just mean Sony will ose more money.

skektek

I agree to a point.

they will stand to make much more money off of forcing sony to pay royalties on their hardware. a recall will not be good for either side, but it IS an option on the table.

No, its not a viable option. I can't think of single example where an injunction was issued and not stayed simply because injunctions harm entirely innocent third parties (in this case PS3 owners).

Look at RIM (Blackberry). I *Think* they had to turn off service for all but the politicians. RIM quickly setteled.

[QUOTE="tango90101"][QUOTE="mikasa"]

Interesting but there won't be a recall. These types of suits always start off saying give me all profits, stop making the infringing device, and pay me billions in penalties.

But they want to settle so they setup the worse scenario possible if it goes to court and sony loses. Look at RIM (Blackberry) and the lawsuit they lost. They actually had to turn off their service, but then they quickly settled paying millions to the company they stole their idea from.

*IF* this company wins it will just mean Sony will ose more money.

skektek

I agree to a point.

they will stand to make much more money off of forcing sony to pay royalties on their hardware. a recall will not be good for either side, but it IS an option on the table.

No, its not a viable option. I can't think of single example where an injunction was issued and not stayed simply because injunctions harm entirely innocent third parties (in this case PS3 owners).

prolly not, but who really knows....

but it IS an option....

[QUOTE="tango90101"]

http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2195328/sony-sued-cell-cpu

well, i knew it just a matter of time for sony to face ANOTHER lawsuit in connection with the gaming devices.....

with sony's history of losses and settlements, one has to wonder just how much time the ps3 really has.....

SCE just can't continue to drain sony like this...

Redfingers

Question: was Resistance: Fall of Man ever recalled due to the lawsuit?

Then stop speaking forever.

not even REMOTELY the same...:roll:

next time, ignore the submit button...

If they get recalled and Sony has a bunch of PS3s what good would it do them if their is no good games for them?

I guess they can play MGS4 which looks dumb IMO but then they would have to wait

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