Nintendo Sued for Patent Infringement

[Izak]

Yeah, but sony in "complete control over any and all titles"?
Coulden't have ended well.

That would have been the major downfall of the contract, why on earth did Nintendo originally agree those terms, if they'd made the contact like they had done with Philips (keeping control of their own titles) then maybe Sony would have never made the PlayStation. But no one will ever know!

[Fedex]

Just to let you know further information about this case, Nintendo had a patent back from the early ninties in a similar vein of "a trigger operated handheld human interface device" which we know today as the N64 pad.

The case was thrown out and the company concerned were lucky that Nintendo didn't sue for infringement of their copyright.

Not an amazingly accurate source but sounds about right. (a friend of mine was following the case and keeping me updated)

Edit:- on the other matter of the SNES-CD I am personally glad the Nintendo and Sony thing didn't work out as they both went on to make great consoles and we have that to thank for the mainstay games arena as it is today. These two can't exist without each other, they just don't know it, monopolies are never good.