Bill Gates Denies Wii's Existence

[ICE]

i agree, naughty microsoft copying nintendos camera...

and i consider murder by bullet or knife vastly different.

more to the point, nintendo invented motion control...no nintendo created motion...stop copying±!±!

what does the camera do? detect motion you say? sounds familiar..

ninty struck big with motion control and now everyone is trying to strike while the irons hot.

different means to reach the same result.

[Miria]

lol Its how the Industry works.. They like to Scab each others ideas and claim them as there own... Come On Nintendo PATENT your stuff and buy other companies out..

[Accordion]

what does the camera do? detect motion you say? sounds familiar..

ninty struck big with motion control and now everyone is trying to strike while the irons hot.

different means to reach the same result.

very familiar...eyetoy, dreamcast, gametrak...

[ICE]

very familiar...eyetoy, dreamcast, gametrak...

yes we're getting somewhere!! i never said that ninty invented motion sensing, i just meant that its recently caught on with the public and ninty is responsible.

MS and sony never had interest in really going at the whole idea of motion sensing until ninty showed them it could be done and done well. now all of the sudden they want to try their hands at it.

[Accordion]

yes we're getting somewhere!! i never said that ninty invented motion sensing, i just meant that its recently caught on with the public and ninty is responsible.

MS and sony never had interest in really going at the whole idea of motion sensing until ninty showed them it could be done and done well. now all of the sudden they want to try their hands at it.

please stop with inclusivity and patronisation. i am not agreeing with you.
you simply dont understand nintendo very well

there is no 'all of a sudden' about it, and im too altered/tired/busy to break your illusions of nintendos pro-consumer image.

i will say that the real acomplishment from nintendo is their ability to keep both the investors and consumers sweet with talk of innovation and risk.
if you want to prove me wrong, tell me the risk of selling old hardware and software for a large profit and i will gladly accept.

[ICE]

please stop with inclusivity and patronisation. i am not agreeing with you.
you simply dont understand nintendo very well

there is no 'all of a sudden' about it, and im too altered/tired/busy to break your illusions of nintendos pro-consumer image.

i will say that the real acomplishment from nintendo is their ability to keep both the investors and consumers sweet with talk of innovation and risk.
if you want to prove me wrong, tell me the risk of selling old hardware and software for a large profit and i will gladly accept.

what are you talking about? my illusions of Nintendo's pro-consumer image? when did i ever mention anything even remotely in that direction?

ALL i said is that N struck at the right time with motion sensing. i didnt say that they made it or invented it. just that they busted it out at the right time and now everyone is trying to do the same.

also i know you werent agreeing with me. its called sarcasm.

[Accordion]

nighty night

[Shadowblind]

--nintendo invented motion sensors--.

Not really. I had a sega genasis game that used a motion sensor rifle to play it.

[DeeDub]

That article was very selective in what quotes they included to make Bill Gates sound bad, here's the rest of what he said (saw this on xbox-scene):

He ended his comments by saying, "And as we get natural input, that will cause a change... Software is doing vision and so, you know, imagine a game machine where you're just going to pick up the bat and swing it or the tennis racket and swing it."
As the similarities behind his concept and that of the Wii were pointed out, Gates responded: "No, that's not it. You can't pick up your tennis racket. And swing it."
"You can't sit there with your friends and do those natural things. That's a 3D positional device. This is video recognition," he added.

[DPyro]

Um, Sony has had the Eyetoy for awhile now. And a motion sensing patent long ago as well.