Nintendo Files Patent for Wii Football Controller

[thenumberthirteen]

Nintendo REALLY need to get a new artist for their Patent applications. I mean those things are important so get someone who can draw.

 

[chimmers]

this is almost as pointless as the saddle peripheral

More pointless, in my opinion. Where most people don't have easy access to a horse, anyone can get a football for what, $15?

This is all very nice, but why not just play football?

By that logic, why play sports games at all?
Or life sims etc

 

[Froobyx]

Oh, American football football... Well completly lost interest now, I can't even play NFL on my DS so I'm not gonna try with the wii..

Whats wrong with a normal football? You know, the round ones.

 

[TheBarefootBandit]

Oh, American football football...

Whats wrong with a normal football? You know, the round ones.

Nobody knows.

As for the Wii, until there's physical feedback (like vibration) then motion controls aren't as good as they can be.

 

[AceDiamond]

I love how people freak out about every time something is patented (especially from Nintendo for some reason), conveniently forgetting that one of the reasons you hold a patent on something is so that if someone wants to create something you have the rights to, you can get royalties in exchange for allowing them to build such a thing. Again. They just have the patent, they don't have so much as a prototype of the damn thing.