Nintendo Controllers In Jeopardy After Recent Lawsuit

A story out of bloomberg.com recently reported that Nintendo has lost a $21 million patent-infringement suit.

A patent held by Anascape Ltd. covers the rights to a "...certain configuration of the remote to control six types of motions at the same time."

For some reason this does not include the Wii remote or Nunchuk attachment, but does affect the Wii Classic controller, WaveBird wireless controller for the Gamecube, as well as the Gamecube controller itself.

This could mean that these products would have to be pulled from selves if Nintendo does not appeal this decision in a Federal Circuit Court - which they are already planning.

Interestingly enough the original patent held by Anascape Ltd. was lisenced by Sony in 2004 and Microsoft settled in a similar case in May.

It looks like the console war just got a little dirtier.