 Yes, Nintendo lost a lawsuit over the Nintendo Wii and has to pay $10 million in damages. Of course Nintendo is likely to appeal that decision and it could be locked up in litigation again for another year or two, but Nintendo could lose the appeal and still have to pay those damages and maybe pay even more for putting the company that won through the ringer during the appeal process. And this is something I want to talk about, not because I think that this matters too much. The lawsuit that Nintendo lost here was to a company called iLife and right now they make mostly those kind of rumba kind of vacuum cleaners that run themselves through your house and they sued Nintendo over the accelerometer technology in the WiIMO and they originally were seeking quite a bit more money and then backed off and the final ruling ended up being $10 million which is a payout for 36 million units that sold prior to the lawsuit occurring. And I'm not that concerned about this lawsuit. The lawsuit didn't end with Nintendo giving a cease and assist, they could still make WiIMO's if they want. Their future money on WiIMO's are not being given to the company, it's only on those 36 million units and this might actually get held up in appeal, I don't know. But this brings up an interesting conversation with patent trolls and a lawsuit that's currently pending against Nintendo over the Switch Joy-Cons. Because when I talked about the Switch Joy-Con lawsuit a month or so ago, a lot of people were telling me that I was making much to do about nothing and that's because patent trolls and these kind of lawsuits happen all the time to major corporations. But this was a reminder and it was something I tried to make evident in the video, maybe I didn't do a good enough job, that just because these things happen all the time doesn't mean that the company that should win always does. I think the current lawsuit pending against the Nintendo Switch is dumb. I don't think it has much merit. But that lawsuit over the Joy-Cons and Game Vice, a company who made slide on adapters for tablets for controllers is a frustrating lawsuit but it's one that could lead to something and this is a reminder of that because the lawsuit I kept bringing up that Nintendo lost famously was or infamously was a lawsuit over the Nintendo Wavebird controller and the wireless technology in that controller. In fact, Nintendo's loss over that caused them to no longer be able to make the controllers. It's a very interesting situation because Game Vice was going after Nintendo Switch for the Joy-Cons and they wanted damages and a percentage of every single sale of every single Switch to date and they also wanted to stop Nintendo's production of Nintendo Switches. That's highly unlikely, it's very rare for a judge to rule to stop production of a product especially if the competing product that Nintendo supposedly violated a patent of isn't actually out there in the wild to purchase so a judge likely wouldn't shut the Switch down anyways. But this lawsuit that Nintendo lost over the Wiimote is important because it is that harsh reminder of yes, Nintendo can lose lawsuits. Even if it feels like they shouldn't lose the lawsuit, like the lawsuit with iLife had nothing to do with gaming at all, it had to do with life-saving technology when people fall and it's a very interesting thing and I don't know if iLife was truly patent trolling or heck maybe Nintendo really did steal their technology, I don't know. We're not involved in the legal process, we're not inside Nintendo, we don't know. We just assume it's a patent troll because the company is still around, they're obviously still making money, they're not like a company that tanked and they're just trying to get one big payday here, they're definitely making products still. But yeah, this is just a really interesting outcome and Nintendo might win on appeals and it might get tossed out anyways although Nintendo might be spending over $10 million to appeal the thing, sometimes it's about the public reception rather than the actual payout because public reception, Nintendo doesn't want people to think they're stealing technology and that's an important reputation they want to keep even though they have lost in the past like with the Wavebird. So this is just a situation that really brings forth to me my legitimate concern I had about Game Vice's lawsuit against the Nintendo Switch and for those who don't know what that lawsuit is, essentially Game Vice is suing Nintendo Switch over the Nintendo Switch Joy-Cons saying that their mechanism used to connect and their mechanisms used for controlling games and all that stuff on the Switch violates their patent for a similar kind of device that connects to the side of a tablet for controllers. And the wiki tab is the one a lot of people talked about because that's a product they actually released but the actual patents for a product they never released and we don't know if they have prototypes of it because having prototypes of it is actually going to help Game Vice even though it never released at retail and it's weird because there have been similar products that clip on to the side of phones and tablets in the past that have released that Game Vice has not gotten after but those devices and products never really sold well so it might not have been worth Game Vice's time. I don't know Game Vice is still around today they're still making some sort of money somewhere somehow some way some people must really like some of their products and maybe they do work well. I don't know but Game Vice Game Vice's law suiting its Nintendo seems laughable on the surface because if you look at what their products is and you look at the patent and then you look at what Nintendo Switch Joy-Cons are it doesn't seem like they have much to stand on but again just because it doesn't seem like you have much to stand on it didn't seem like iLife had much to stand on it doesn't mean that you're going to win and I don't think the switch again is in serious threat of being shut down but this lawsuit that Nintendo loss is just that reminder that reminder that you know what folks no matter how ridiculous a lawsuit sounds no matter how much we hate patent trolls and all that you know all that mumbo jumbo at the end of the day we don't actually know what the legal outcome is going to be and yes there is a chance that Nintendo can lose now what we do know however and this is where you can take some peace of mind out of Nintendo losing the remote you know lawsuit and having to pay ten million dollars is that even if even if let's assume the worst possible thing happens and Game Vice wins the lawsuit against Nintendo and the judge favors you know game vice entirely so game vice not only gets a percentage of every single sale of Nintendo switch but Nintendo has to stop production of Nintendo switches at least until they develop new technology for the joy cons or a new way of doing it let's say that that worst possible situation happens well you know what happens next Nintendo appeals Nintendo wraps us up in court as long as they can and we never really get a final judgment on this until five six years from now and by then Nintendo's already looking towards the switch to and start to phase out the Nintendo switch possibly at that point so yeah it's it's one of those things where even if the worst possible situation happens it's probably not going to have any effect on the current generation it could just have a financial impact on Nintendo where they're gonna have to make a big payout and yes Nintendo switches might have to stop production a little early but Nintendo's gonna plan for that they're gonna have the new Nintendo switch that doesn't violate the patents they're gonna have the Nintendo switch to which doesn't violate the patents you know they're gonna figure out exactly why they lost and not you know have a new way around it that cannot be wrapped up in that lawsuit or will require a whole brand new lawsuit which again could get wrapped up in litigation for six years you know we're talking about a Wiimo lawsuit that got wrapped up in 2017 and the Wii came out in 2006 so Nintendo's going to do everything they can even if especially especially if they think they're going there's a chance they could lose they're gonna wrap it up in litigations and appeals for as long as they can to keep making the products that's almost one of the benefits of the of the the downfall of the American political system or the political system the American laws system is that you can basically sue over anything and there's a ton of loopholes but the benefit of that is that even if it's a legit lawsuit that you could lose consumers don't necessarily need to be negatively impacted because of the appeals process so anyways I just thought it was an interesting thing to bring up that Nintendo lost this lawsuit for the Wiimote has to pay I live 10 million although Nintendo is appealing it or plans to appeal I don't know if the appeal motions have been filed yet but it's just a really interesting thing and we'll have to see where it goes from here because I think all of us you know we have a tendency to be overly loyal to the companies that we enjoy their products I enjoy Nintendo products but if they legit infringed on this we patent and legit you know somehow infringed on the game vice patent yeah Nintendo should be held accountable I think the game vice patent is way less viable than the iLife but I thought the iLife patent was also not that viable if I'm being honest so what do I know I'm not a judge I'm not a lawyer I don't know the fine-tuned details of the situation but yeah just a reminder we don't know what's gonna happen but we do know that Nintendo is not going to let this affect us as consumers until it's well after the fact and we're not even looking we're not even having conversations about the original Nintendo switch really by the time we get that wrapped up anyways folks I am Nathaniel of a chance from Nintendo Prime and if you like this video you know what to do and if you just like this video hit that dislike button subscribe for more and as always folks I will catch you in the next way you just a reminder we're still gonna have our Mario plus rabbits kingdom metal first ever video game review video review anyways by Nintendo Prime on YouTube later this week I'll have news later on what day that's going to be I have not starting started writing the review yet I had a long weekend but yeah look 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