4th March 2007, 1:02 AM
Wow... Immersion is doing pretty well for themselves... You know, that's actually a great "get rich quick" scheme they have going there. Invent something and patent it putting in token effort to actually produce the tech, then wait for other big name companies to unknowlingly copy your idea, then wait until they make massive profit after a few years to sue them for big bucks. And, in this case, they got the big ones. Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, ALL needing to pay big royalties to them? They have it made. Did Sega ever have to pay up for their "jump packs" or did Immersion just let them go when they realized Dreamcast was going to die out anyway?
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)