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Nintendo's Playstation Settlement Bombshell (or not...updated)
Magamo writes "Console Talk has the story on a settlement between Sony and Nintendo over the rights to the "PlayStation" name, which was originally a joint owned copywrite, given to a CD and Cartridge based system to play SNES games. The settlement is for 10% of Sony's proceeds, past and present on the "PlayStation" name, currently amounting to approximately $2.3 billion. Nintendo is allowing Sony to pay it off in installments over the next 20 years. Nintendo currently plans on using the money to create a new game studio comprised of members of some of the biggest in the japanese industry, in order to create titles exclusively for the GameCube. Hmm, my guess is that Sony's next console will be shying away from the PlayStation moniker..." CD: It seems that I might have fallen for a hoax. Doh!
Maybe we won't see the PlayStation 5 after all.
from news.google.com: Your search - sony playstation nintendo trademark - did not match any documents.
That's bullshit. It does too match a story, "Nintendo's Playstation Settlement Bombshell," posted 5 minutes ago on Sl... dammit.
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copywrite? COPYWRITE?
"Quoting famous computer scientists out of context is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming." - K
There is no mention of this "settlement" on either the playstation or nintendo sites.
In the words of Kent Brockman: "Do we have a source on this?"
Acaila
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In other news, a 45 year old italian plumber named mario, sues nintendo, for defamation of character, and slander.
"Copywrite" was even more wrong!
Random is the New Order.
Well, I'll check news sites tomorrow, but lots of them are going to be unreliable as they will likely be getting their information from the current news source.
Time will tell if this story is faek or rela.
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...stereotyping of me and my profession. Plumbers rarely venture into pipes to fight mushrooms and turtles, especially fire-breathing ones at that. People now ask me all the time what it was like to drop the drawbridge from under the 20-foot tall hammer-throwing snapper turtle. I can't stress it enough that we of the plumber's profession take out jobs, and out butt-cracks seriously. They both need to be properly polished and shown to all the right people."
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Note to self: evidently "Informative" can also mean "moderately convincing lie."
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It would be even more funny if this would have propelled the story to be displayed on the google news front page.
However I suppose google's AI code would look for corresponding sources before alerting it's readers to something major like this.
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In other news, a 45 year old italian plumber named mario, sues nintendo, for defamation of character, and slander.
Isn't he still in rehab for that shroom habit of his?
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...EDITOR first check STORY!
I was able to find an article on elitewarezandsex.com that goes a long way towards confirming this bombshell. The bulk of the story is highly technical legalese but towards the end there is an interview with Sony CEO Nobuyuki Idei.
CATS> How are you gentleman
Nobuyuki Idei> It's you!
CATS> What happened?
Nobuyuki Idei> Somebody set us up the bomb
He goes on to elaborate on the structure of the settlement, which will be paid largely in B class shares issued specifically for that purpose. I've submitted the story to Slashdot I just thought I'd fill everyone in before the inevitable posting.
I guess the next system from Sony won't be a "box", "cube", or "station". How about "Sony Girlfriend Eliminator"?
Go here for teh [sic] funny.
First we get stories that are duped.
Now we are getting duped by stories.
Introducing Microsoft Vacuum 1.0 The first Microsoft product that doesn't suck.
I've been reading Slashdot for years and I've never seen so many dupes and bogus stories as I have this past week or so here.
;)
Something is very wrong when Fuckedcompany features more useful and reliable news than here
Ron
ADMINS - NIX THIS AS A HOAX IMMEDIATELY IF YOU CAN'T VERIFY THE STORY.
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Google News and now The Inquirer (http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=6816) have now sourced the article on
It's spreading.
The good news is that we'll probably get less dupes the more they start making stuff up.
Hmm, my guess is that Sony's next console will be shying away from the PlayStation moniker..."
Um, providing this article were true, why wouldn't they use the name? They just paid 2.3 billion dollars for it.
Doesn't hold a candle to FastHack'em for the C=64!!
Word. One time, I tried to copy Spy Hunter on the C-64 using an early version of FastHake'em and when I loaded the copy up, instead of saying "(c) Midway Games" on the bottom of the screen it said "We Prosecute Pirates". Me and my brother got scared the FBI was gonna show up! (I was 9 years old so don't laugh).
Carl