taken from Koraku.com
Relations between Nintendo and Sony are turning into a downright pissing match in the U.K. First Nintendo’s UK boss David Yarnton attacked Sony’s new controller saying Sony “didn’t innovate, they copied.” Now SCEE’s Phil Harrison denies that, saying they’ve been working on motion sensing for “a long time.”
Hit the jump for the full load of Harrison BS.
In a way I understand why people say [we stole Nintendo’s idea], but it is a little stupid, if you forgive the remark.”
When we brought the PlayStation to the market in 1994, we introduced real time 3-D graphics for the first time,” he noted. “When Nintendo launched its N64 in 1996 it also had 3D graphics, did we say, “Nintendo stole our idea!”? Obviously not. Such innovations become possible because of a combination of technology, cost and manufacture capacities.
We’ve been working on [motion-sensing technology] for a long time and Nintendo has certainly likewise already been working on something similar. The difference between our strategy and that of our competition is that our controller is still similar to the Dual Shock, the industry standard controller. I estimate that nearly 400 million Dual Shock controllers have been sold worldwide.
Weird, because I’ve been thinking about motion sensing controllers for a long time too. So there you have it, the motion sensing concept was invented by Nintendo, Sony and I.
taken from Koraku.com
What a stupid response from Sony. I could have thought of a better one.
Andrew
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