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- animalmuther76, on 07/30/2008, -23/+94Unfortunately despite microsoft's valiant attempts, some idiots have still bought a PS3
- airwalkery2k, on 10/12/2007, -1/+66So, it basically attaches itself to every electronic device in your house for more power? I believe there was a Dawson's Creek trapper keeper that did this.
- chris9902, on 10/12/2007, -3/+55if you didn't know any better would you buy a PS3 or Xbox 2?
see why they called it the 360 now? - chrissg, on 10/12/2007, -4/+34Xbox 720?
- cmallette, on 10/12/2007, -1/+25Filed: October 14, 2005
- ZebraCrew, on 10/12/2007, -1/+24no, 720 would be correct since they went from XBox to XBox 360 skipping 180. however, if i didn't know better the titles would make me think that nothing was changed because a 360 leaves you right where you started.
- ihavebeenseen, on 10/12/2007, -3/+26skate or die
- anagoge, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15XBox 1080
Three revolutions. - Wrathernaut, on 10/12/2007, -5/+15I may be mistaken, but I think that this has already been done. Twister holds prior art:
"A gaming system [Twister mat] including HANDheld devices [hands] and conSOLE [feet] devices has variable functionality [2+ players] and processing performance [ages 3 and up] as determined by the number of components [# players] in the system." Gaming components [players] can be combined [interact] wirelessly [speech is wireless communication], by wired connections [physical contact], or a combination thereof. The processing capabilities and functionality of each gaming component in a combination are augmented by the processing capabilities and functionality of other gaming components in the combination. [The more, the merrier.]
I could go on, but I think that will prove sufficient. - mt066, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12It will be Xbox McTwist
- horward, on 10/12/2007, -2/+12philhatesyou:
I believe Nintendo has a rather lengthy history of corporate misbehavior as well.
http://www.gamersgraveyard.com/repository/oddities/nintendosuits.html - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11kozo:
We don't want Microsoft to control the industry. What we want is extremely intense competition from giants like Microsoft and Sony and Nintendo. Competition breeds innovation. Innovation means we, as gamers, WIN. - ShoulderKnight, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11"Xbox Service Pack 3"
- ShoulderKnight, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Lighten up, just a lame joke. Xbox 360 owner with 20 games. 3 copies of Vista Ultimate as well. Troll my ass.
- BobsYourUncle, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8Would make the iPod an interesting new product... Soundwaves through the cornea? Sweet!
- ReptileKing234, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I use my gaming consoles to talk to aliens in outer space. Playing games - meh - too oldschool for my gaming consoles.
- u2wedge, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5sounds like bittorrent for gaming.
- BobsYourUncle, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6Because you only file patents on stuff RIGHT before you release it. It's called 'covering your ass'.
- ray901, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6""What’s interesting is that Microsoft doesn’t restrict what these devices are""
Of course they dont!
That is what I would expect, they would define their patent in the widest possible terms, and their implementation is the thinest. - imacashew, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7@philhatesyou
" and probably with less security problems!" - http://digg.com/security/Apple_Patch_Fixes_25_Security_Vulnerabilities
Microsoft may be guilty of stealing some ideas, but generally they take existing ideas and make them even better. They aren't the only copiers either...Apple TV = MCE = MythDora - Murdats, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6not to forget sony's numerous violations.
rootkits, numerous baseless lawsuits, breaking various countries trade agreements and shutting down lik-sang
these are just the ones off the top of my head.
(and if you say that most of these arent by the gaming division, the things microsoft is being bashed for above werent by their gaming division either, but its ok, bashing M$ is what all the cool kids do) - beckerist, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4There's nothing preventing this "technology*" from being used with the current 360...
*note: "technology" is just a technical term, meaning "enough difference between this and the last guy's mashup that the luddite retards at the patent office deemed worthy enough to award a patent to" - unloud, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4"What’s interesting is that Microsoft doesn’t restrict what these devices are"
You say that as if limiting their future product options and leaving things open for others to patent and screw them with serves their purpose. - earthceltic, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3When do we get the octagonal box?
- Xelxon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Was the patent image enhanced with Adobe® Photoshop® image manipulation software?
- jazh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Sounds about right..Can't wait..
Microsoft did a spectacular job with the 360, given that they had a reliable, good and relatively cheap product out a year before everyone else and cheaper. It's quite remarkable given the fact that Nintendo, Sony (and sega) had dominated the market for decades.
It's pretty clear that the entire market will now follow Nintendos lead to give some kind of motion-control functions to gamers. - KoZo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@doctorsax
The problem is, you are looking at the past. Please tell me Nintendo and Sony can enter the console market today and loss $4Billion and not fold up? no, if you also look at the OS wars, there wasn't any dominant platform for how many years until Microsoft launch Windows and then the OS became Microsoft territory. You are closing your mind if you believe Microsoft will not triumph again this time. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3so the way i'm reading this, they want to be able to hook up devices to the console and all the devices will contribute their processing power and capabilities to the consoles usability.
sounds to me like the trapper keeper episode of south park. - Murdats, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4we get it phil, you are an anti-microsoft zealot. please pack up and leave now, we have seen the light about how microsoft is the scourge of the earth, we would all by living in the matrix thanks to our saviours (apple I presume is your saviour of choice, maybe linux) if it wasnt for the blight of the planet that is the microsoft corporation, entity of pure evil that it is.
How could I have been so blind and believed that they were a company, a very rich company with many dogs vying for its throat, but a company none the less? acting most commonly in ways company do (when they can) - magilbert82, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Look at the date the patent was filed...October 2005...it's old news.
- Twindagger, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3@philhatesyou -
Don't you have anything better to do than spew anti-MS FUD all day? Holy crap, I've seen more rational thought from my two year old. Microsoft may not be the most altruistic organization in the world, but can you really expect them to be? They are a public company. The CEO has a legal responsibility to grow the company for the stockholder's benefit. If you don't like it, don't buy their products and don't come and post your idiocy in these threads. - macko, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2as much as Microsoft's gaming division.
- OwdenBowden, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Agreed - those people are Idiots
- anamanaman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Xbox 3 revealed a long time ago by common sense
- IvanB, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Alternative descriptive link: http://www.unwiredview.com/2007/04/20/microsoft-gaming-system-for-your-zune-xbox-pc-and-pda/
- eth3l, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Not interesting. When you obtain a Patent, TM or (c) you need to find the perfect balance between a description which is both specifc enough to describe the device and braod enough to not limit the extent of your Patent.
- c0d3z3r0, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Some of this stuff already existed in the Original XBOX.
"7. A gaming system in accordance with claim 1, wherein a gaming component renders a display for another game component combined therewith."
Forza Motorsports had this on the original xbox where you can use another xbox to connect to the primary xbox and use it as alternate views (mirror, making a wider vision for the driver by connecting 2 consoles to serve as left and right side of the screen)
But something else on the patent said something about using another console and use it's processor, does that mean that they'll make an xbox cluster to process the folding at home stuff?
I think this patent is referring to the xbox in general (original and 360) and some of the features that MS is working on for the xbox 360, It's proably not meaning about the next-gen xbox since this patent is from 05, but I could be wrong... - xXShadowstormXx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Xbox 1337.
- krinthekuz, on 09/16/2008, -0/+1i don't see how dreamcast isn't prior art for this... with the whole ordeal of memory cards with LCD screens and playable mini-games that would actually sync back to your system game
- OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Microsoft scumbags.
- OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I think the big story here is that MS is planning some sort of hand-held console, or adding gaming functionality to a future Zune revision. It will use XNA, and probably Silverlight.
Ofcourse they will screw this all up somehow, but that's another topic. - imacashew, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1From the sound of this...this means that while you in your house...your PSPish device will have nearly the processing power of the Xbox so your games will look really sweet...then you leave home and it's back down to normal. somewhat cool idea but the fact is I don't use portable devices to play games in my house... still wouldn't even if they were as powerful as my XBox. That idea alone is kinda lame. I'm hoping they are talking about a little higher level of integration than this really describes. Imagine this: Playing Madden with buddies on a console w/ a big screen and using your portable game devices to play the game...BUT...you get to pick your plays and do your substitutions on your portable...this would work on lotsa other games too...rear view mirror of a racing game, weapons inventory and map of FPS's, etc. Screams innovation.
- zdiggler, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1xB0x 1080p
- badogg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1What would be really cool is be able to have like a gaming cluster or something. How about Xbox360 SLI/Crossfire edition or something. Maybe have your Xbox use your computers processor and/or video memory to increase graphics capabilities or something.
- Majin_Raditz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I honestly wouldn't be surprised if MS released a new "Next, Next" Gen console in 2 or 3 years.
- MerlynXLII, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Seems to be that claim 1 and claim 2 have already been done by Nintendo with the combinations of Gamecube and Gameboy... and was certainly done before the 2005 filing date. While Nintendo didn't (apparently) file a patent, given it was already public being used before the file date, Microsoft shouldn't have been granted this patent as written.
- fLUx1337, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Oh yeh, as games consoles used to be standard (mini-pc, discs/cartrages, memory card, wired controlers), their was no need to have patents, but now consoles have next gen features like "interaction with handheld console", they need to patent it....
This should be good! MS has patented it now, and sony cant use any of it!! mwa hahaha - fallenone05, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I use mine for a more useful purpose, cure cancer
- paulmike3, on 10/12/2007, -2/+3omghi2u !!1
- maranr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1The REALLY interesting thing is that it seems to be based on some Grid Computing concepts where processing power and other aspects are shared by the devices.
"The processing capabilities and functionality of each gaming component in a combination are augmented by the processing capabilities and functionality of other gaming components in the combination. " -
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