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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!
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joint owned copyright
I think it should be "trademark"...
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Maybe we won't see the PlayStation 5 after all.
I like how the story is down even before any comments. Somehow I don't trust my news from www.consoletalk.com.
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Sorry....
My guess is that they will have to drop any backward compatability with the older playstaion consoles when the produce the new model without the "playstation" name tag...
That'll cost em..
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That would be a trademark, not a copyright.
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Thanks in advance.
Considering that the PS2 has been responsible for SONY staying in the black for the past couple of years, this is huge. Even more for Nintendo. Given that the average age of the game player is increasing, methinks that Nintendo better start creating content (love that phrase) for adults pretty soon.
am I ever glad I bought the cube...my friends who bought playstations are gonna be underwriting some games development for my system, and my friends who bought the xbox's are bored with now that they have finished Halo...
Also not sure if Consoletalk is the most reliable site, given that its main news in XBox live Beta impressions. XBox live came out over a month ago.
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Does anybody else find it "funny" that they waited until not only the Playstation was successful, but it's successor as well?
"I know guys, let's let Sony do all the work by making a system using this name that we own, then when it gets huge, sue them for it!"
Poor buisness ethics or cunning buisness strategy?
Question everything
I knew it started off as a joint consol ages ago, but I never knew nintendo wanted a piece when they went their different ways. I don't think they are going to have to worry about money for a long while :)
obviouslly playstation is a huge huge brand for sony and its synanymous with sucess so it'll be interesting to see if Sony actually moves away from such a trusted brandname. I mean, if you were one of the biggest entertainment companies in the world and had one of the most valuable gaming idenities would you change it if it only cost you 10% of your revnue? Just think of the sheer cost of what itd take to rebrand a system... (ie Xbox's XXX Millions)
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We killed their php already, story has been up 5 minutes.
We were all warned a long time ago that MS products sucked, remember the Magic 8 Ball said, "Outlook not so good"
That Sony will change the name to JUST PS2 and in the next revision PS3, not PlayStation at all. They've put way too much into branding PS2 to let it all go, but they also can't give Nintendo all their earnings.
So look for the new PS3 in 2003 - 04.
A fool throws a stone into a well and a thousand sages can not remove it.
I'm sorry but this is bullshit, something like this would be major news especially considering that Sony is a publicly traded company and would have been obligated to inform it's investors that it was being sued.
Sorry guys, no news here move along, it's bullshit.
This type of billion dollar settlement is a typical artifact of high-technology management
styles for conflicts. I doubt that anyone over
at Sony that caused this problem will take any
fallout from it.
More likely, this conflict slowly progressed where no product manager wanted to take the sales hit for moving away from the protected PlayStation brand. After all, the loss of brand recognition would be felt immediately in the sales figures that measure the success of a product manager and the current settlement is only felt long after those product managers have been promoted.
A good dictator could have fixed this problem before PlayStation was such an entrenched brand.
Why is it that Nintendo only gets to reap the benefits of the Playstation name? Can't Sony countersue for Nintendo to cover some of the liabilities associated with the Playstation name?
Yep, this is definitely true. A major story like Nintendo getting 10% of past sales from the PlayStation brand would definitely be only reported on an unreputable site like ConsoleTalk, and not on, say, Yahoo News, CNN, or Reuters.
And as for no news from Nintendo and Sony about this? That's just because they're slow in getting the press release out. Right.
This isn't true. How about doing some small amount of research next time before publishing the article.
This is related to the "Megaton" announcement from Nintendo coming soon. Some sites say it's Capcom being bought by Nintendo, some sites say it's Sony paying Nintendo money for the PS brand, some sites have equally ridiculous stories. All sites are rumours and aren't true (so far), as no announcement has been made.
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I totally agree on a shift of scope on the part of nintendo. I just finishe mario sunshine, and while my gf and myself enjoy playing animal crossing, I would really like to see something above the 'kiddie' market. Im not sure where i read it but i saw a blurbabout the head nintendo game guy focuses on kids games and they were gonan try to coax him to making more mature stuff.
copywrite? COPYWRITE?
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Another tiring live performance. These performances always took a lot out of Jennifer Lopez. Dancing and running across the stage for this amount of time was always exhausting.
But besides being exhausting these dynamic performances sometimes also had another effect on Jennifer. Because she moves so much and so fast on stage for such a long period of time, sometimes the latina's "pipes" would loosen up to the point where she needs a half hour of "retreatment" into the ladies' room to relieve herself. So as soon as she got off stage, she went straight for the girly potty room. She went inside, the usual sweet scent of a ladies' room penetrated her nostrils. She went into a stall, closed the door, lifted her miniskirt and lowered her panties. The wetness of the panties she had grown accustomed to. The movements were causing the crack of her ass to sweat and after two hours of dancing, the panties were lodged completely into her brown crack, soaking up all of the sweat present. Jennifer sat down, and allowed her insides to do most of the work. But for some reason this time it didn't go too well. Where usually the bowel movement was quick and smooth. This time it was like it struggled against being forced out. So Jennifer applied some pressure on her lower body, but it wouldn't help.
"This is going to be a long one," she said to herself, after which she heard the door to the ladies' room open. A woman, probably one of the dancers, went into the stall next to Jennifer's. The sultry singer and actress heard the woman sliding down her panties, snapping the elastic band. As Jennifer struggled to push the content of her guts toward her backdoor, she couldn't ignore the sounds being made in the stall next to hers.
The lady was moaning, the crackling of a turd sliding out was loud enough to be heard, and Jennifer couldn't deny a smile as she heard a fart thundering in the hollow sounding ladies' room.
"Whoa, that sounded like a real birth," Jennifer said casually to the mysterious lady in the next stall.
"Like you wouldn't believe," a womanly voice answered. "I've been holding this up for over half an hour."
Jennifer knew the voice. It belonged to Natasha, a stunningly beautiful black dancer, recently added to the group.
"Yeah, I can sympathize. I've been holding up myself. For over an hour."
"So you must be relieved to get rid of it then, huh?"
"I wish. For some reason it just won't go as easily as it should."
Jennifer heard the girl wipe her privates, pull up her panties and flush the toilet. Then she spoke again.
"You know, this might sound odd. But I have a successful method on how to make it go more smoothly, if you're interested off course."
"Well, I don't want to spend my entire day in here. So if it helps, I'd be happy to know what that method is," Jennifer said honestly.
"Okay. But in order for me to help, you'll have to let me in there."
Jennifer unlocked the stall, and saw Natasha entering. Once again Jennifer was in awe of the beauty of the girl. Her chocolate skin was shiny from the sweat of the performance. And her face resembled that of Brandy Norwood, the R&B singer. Wide eyes and a wide smile.
"Can I...you know...take a look to see if I can see the problem?" the girl asked in a light innocent voice.
Jennifer felt somewhat awkward. Although she was a closet bi-sexual. And had been in this position with several guys and some girls, she still felt a bit weird. But the girl wanted to help her out with her problem, so Jennifer leaned back against the wall, lifted her legs, and placed her feet on either side of the girl against the door of the stall. Natasha made no hesitations in dropping to her knees and staring at Jennifer crotch area. Without Jennifer noticing or realizing, the girl took pleasure in looking at Jennifer's great looking pussy. Shaven at the sides so no hair would be visible in bathing suits, but hairy on top and on the lips, lips that were long and thin. Looking further down her breathing went faster as she looked straight at Jennifer's asshole. A dark, wrinkled pucker that was pouting outward.
"This may sound a bit strange, and if you don't want to answer you don't have to, but...do you ever put your finger in your anus, for instance when you masturbate?" the girl asked while never taking her eyes off of Jen's asshole.
"What? No! No...I mean, I've never thought about doing that. Why do you ask?"
"Well, because my experience is that if you regularly finger your anus, you will experience far less constipation. You see, by fingering your...ass, your muscles learn to relax when pressure is applied. And it loosens up easier."
"I never knew that. So what your saying is that...if I finger my asshole, I should have no problem relieving myself?"
"That's right. That's why porn actresses have enemas before doing anal. So that it doesn't become a mess after the guy pounds her hole so long."
"I don't know. I've never done this. I don't know what to expect."
"You know it's actually quite nice, once you get used to it. If you like, I could try."
Jennifer thought about it and started smiling. "I would like that."
"Okay, first I wet my middle finger in my mouth like this"....... "Then I lubricate the outside of your anus with my saliva to make it slippery".... Natasha rubs the tip of her middle finger all over Jennifer's asshole, which contracts and relaxes under the black girl's touch.
"Then I enter." Natasha now slides her finger all the way into Jennifer's ass to the knuckle. Jennifer closed her eyes and couldn't suppress a moan, she just couldn't. Natasha noticed and knew she gained the desired effect as she started sliding her finger in and out with increasing speed. At one point there were even faint sounds of sloppiness as Natasha was really frigging Jennifer butt. "UUUHMM...that feels good," Jennifer moaned. "Please keep doing that."
"I intend to," Natasha said with a husky tone in her voice. "As a matter of fact, I think you're ready for a little something extra." The ebony girl slid her finger out of Jennifer hole, took a whiff of it, obviously liking the smell, and stuck the digit, along with her index finger into her mouth. After wetting the fingers with lots of spit, she drilled them into Jennifer shitter with one move, and started to rapidly fuck the Latina's ass with them. Natasha knew she had the singer almost where she wanted her...on the edge.
"Oh shit...your fingers feel so good in my ass. Keep fucking me with your fingers. That's it. I never knew it would feel this good."
"Puffy never did this to you, huh," Natasha asked with irony, "He probably thinks it's dirty. Well, fucking a beautiful ass like yours with my fingers is never dirty to me."
Natasha started twisting her fingers around inside Jennifer's ass and felt her ass become more slippery. She took her fingers out again and saw that Jennifer's asshole remained open for a short period. She then looked at her fingers and noticed her fingernails had a little bit of shit on them. She stuck her fingers in her mouth and licked Jennifer's shit from her nails.
"Now it's time for your reward," Natasha said and buried her face in the crack of Jennifer Lopez's ass. She lapped over Jennifer's pouting pucker and used a tongue full of saliva to lube the latina's shithole up. She then started butt-fucking Jennifer with her tongue like a real ebony butt slut. My God, how she enjoyed the sweaty, musky smell and pure, bitter taste of Jennifer's asshole.
Sloppy slurping sounds emanated from the tongue-asshole connection as the black beauty licked and sucked away at Jennifer Lopez's ass with abandon. Jennifer looked down at that dark face between her gigantic butt cheeks and shivered at the sight of that soft pink tongue grinding into the swollen rim of her rectum. She reached out and ran her fingers through Natasha's black hair, before grabbing her by the back of her head and pulling her face tight against the moist crack of her wide, beautiful ass.
"Oh my God. Natasha, you're licking my ass so good. I never knew a tongue in my ass would be this nice. Just don't stop. Keep fucking my butt with your tongue. Oh yeah, that's it."
As Natasha kept drilling her tongue deep into Jennifer's anal orifice, she closed her lips over her pucker, and started sucking on her ass with force. The smacking sounds of her lips on the latina's asshole filled the ladies' room, and it continued to do so for minutes.
"Shit, I feel something. Oh Natasha, I have to...I have to fart. Your sucking of my asshole makes me have to fart. Quickly, take your mouth off my ass."
But Natasha didn't budge. She kept on sucking right until an enormously loud, wet-sounding fart simply blew her lips off Jennifer's pucker. The odor of the hot gas penetrated the black dancer's nostrils and had her so over the edge, excitement-wise, she lost control of her calm self and started yelling.
"That's it, you fucking slut. Fart in my face. Fart that smelly shit right in my face. I love to smell that shit."
Jennifer needed a few seconds to understand what drove Natasha to enjoy something like this, but soon understood that the sheer depravity of it, the perverted nature of all of this, is what drives someone like Natasha wild, and Jennifer decided she was starting to like this nasty stuff as well. She could never deny to herself that she immensely enjoyed the feeling of someone sucking her ass. And knowing that same person actually gets wet smelling her farts.
Natasha had turned down the volume of her voice again and plainly spoke to Jennifer.
"Now that you farted, it means that it won't last long for the rest to come."
The beautiful black woman again started drilling her fingers in and out of Jennifer's swollen poopchute, and noticed the grimace of wanton lust on the latina's face.
"You horny bitch. You sure like this, don't you? Helping you take a shit, my ass! You couldn't wait to feel my fingers and tongue up your ass. You probably farted in my face deliberately. Blowing that shitty hot gas into my face as I sucked on your shithole. Tell me! Tell me you were dying to have me come in here and eat out your ass."
"Oh God. You're so right. You're so fucking right. I heard you shit, and smelled it. And I loved the smell of your fart. I was so hot imagining what you would look like taking a shit. Seeing the turds being pushed from your black ass. I love this. I love your fingers in my butt. Your tongue in my butt. And I loved farting in your face. It's so nasty. It makes me feel so hot and nasty doing that. I would love it so much to shit here as you watch my ass. The thought of you watching my asshole up close as I shit drives me crazy. Will you do that? Will you watch me shit?" Jennifer was shivering on the toilet bowl as she spewed the most perverted, depraved language. She had never talked like this. The nasty black dancer had brought out a side in her she never knew existed.
"I wanna watch you shit, Jennifer. I wanna see those turds popping from your nasty brown hole. Here, watch this, Jennifer. Watch as I pull my fingers from your ass and enjoy the taste."
Right after the final words, Natasha slid her fingers from Jennifer's ass, and showed them to Jennifer. Jennifer saw Natasha's fingers, coated in her shit, and then saw the ebony woman starting to lick her fingers. Looking straight into the celebrity's eyes and with a wild, wanton expression on her face, Natasha licked the layer of dark-brown crème right off her fingers, casually taking her tongue back in her mouth now and again to experience the taste, and letting the sticky shit slide down her throat. After she had completely cleaned her fingers, she looked at Jennifer with a serious expression.
"You're ready. Now push your shit out. Here, spread those legs wider so I can have a nice look, raise those knees. Support yourself and let me hold those ass cheeks spread for you. Now do it."
Jennifer never felt so utterly exposed in her life, sitting there on a toilet bowl with legs spread and knees raised, with a black woman's face mere inches from the sweaty crack of her ass. But the depravity of it, the nastiness, it made here feel so damn lewd, so hot. Jennifer pushed, and pushed, and an earth shattering, meaty fart blew from her pucker, right into Natasha's face, who squealed with joy. And then, it rolled. Jennifer felt the warm content of her bowels slide down towards the opening.
Natasha was still lingering in the mind-blowing smell of Jennifer Lopez's fart, when she saw a thick brown turd sliding slowly out of her ass. The crackling sounds were almost deafening to her as the pungent scent of Jennifer's shit filled her nostrils. The latina singer groaned aloud as she looked at the black dancer's face, and pushed a long turd all the way out, until it broke off and plunged into the bowl, leaving a brown shitty ring on the rim of her asshole. She was completely in the same mind state as Natasha now, as she whispered: "There's more where that came from. But I want you to SUCK it out."
Natasha looked into Jennifer's eyes with a surprised grin, as if she won a lifetime achievement award and didn't expect it.
"Suck it out? Oh Jesus. That's so hot. I'd love to suck the shit from your ass."
"Well then. What are you waiting for?"
That was Natasha's cue. She fused her open mouth to Jennifer's greasy brown asshole and sucked hard on the latina's pucker. Slurping sounds filled the stall and Jennifer groaned increasingly louder as she felt the ebony girl sucking on her sloppy butthole. Natasha enjoyed the bitter taste of the sticky shit that she sucked into her mouth.
"Oh Jesus Christ. That feels so fucking good. I don't care anymore if anybody hears me. JUST KEEP SUCKING MY ASS. SUCK THE SHIT FROM MY BUTT! YES!."
Natasha complied and kept slurping away at Jennifer's dirty ass, when all of a sudden she felt a spongy, warm nugget slide from Jennifer ass into her mouth.
She looked Jennifer straight in the eyes as she moaned and ate the latina's shit.
"Oh God, yes! Eat my shit. Do you like it? Do you like the taste of my shit? Better savor the taste, because it was the last piece."
Natasha chewed the brown piece and after squashing it enough, swallowed it.
"You done with that," Jennifer asked huskily, "then open your mouth, because I've something for you to drink to wash your mouth. Open up for mommy."
Natasha was wondering what the sultry singer meant, but opened her mouth as she had her face inches from the latina's steaming crotch.
"Oh yes, I feel it coming. Get ready."
And when that last word was uttered, Jennifer let go of her bladder, and a steady, yellow stream of warm piss arced from her pisshole straight into Natasha's face. The black dancer squealed in delight as she felt the smelly warm liquid splash her face, and moved her face so she caught the forceful stream straight into her mouth. The hissing sound of the piss leaving Jennifer Lopez's cunt and it hitting Natasha's tongue and roof of her mouth was like music to their ears. Natasha swallowed wave after wave of Jennifer's salty piss and continued to let her tongue be drenched and her mouth be filled.
"Christ, you look so hot drinking my piss," Jennifer whispered as a thunderous fart once again crackled out of her brown asshole.
All good things come to an end, and this includes the content of Jennifer's bladder, as the stream decreased in its strength and it lowered until the last spurts just gushed over the crack of Jennifer's ass.
"Now please clean me," Jennifer said.
Natasha continued her earlier job and again lapped through Jennifer's crack, licking the piss from it and licking off the remainder of shit on the swollen rim of her bulging asshole. After about 2 minutes Jennifer was squeaky clean and pulled her panties up as she looked Natasha in the eye.
"You made me fell better than I have ever felt. Nobody has ever gone this far to give me a good time," Jennifer said.
"It always was my dream to pleasure you," Natasha responded, "I just had to grab this opportunity. My wildest dream was to suck your ass, and you made my fantasy come true. And I just want you to know, Jennifer, that if you ever want me to give pleasure to your pussy or ass again, you just have to tell me."
"Natasha, I would like it very much if you want to be my buttslut. We can have crazy times together on the road. As far as I'm concerned, you can taste my ass whenever you want, because I just love the feeling of your soft, wet tongue fucking my butt."
"Oh Jennifer, you just made me happy. But I have a question. Would you like to service certain body parts of mine just as I service your ass?"
"Just name it," Jennifer said in anticipation.
"Tell me, Jennifer, would you like to suck and lick my toes from now on?"
"Natasha, as far as I'm concerned, you can fuck my ass with your big toe, and I'll clean your toe with my tongue."
Jennifer Lopez and Natasha would have many crazy, lustful adventures from that point on.
I am in total disbalief that an upstanding bullshit free site such as slashdot as posted this article. For one, Nintendo has never had ANY stake in the playstation name. Nintendo and Sony's partnership on the then dubbed "SNES CD" ended without the project going anywhere. Because of Sega CDs flop, Nintendo pulled out extremely early in the process and left Sony to develope it alone. AFTER Nintendo left the partnership is when Sony took up the PlayStation name. Check out Copyright.gov if you dont believe me. 3. Registration Number: VA-759-813 Title: PlayStation. Description: Computer graphic. Claimant: acSony Computer Entertainment, Inc. Created: 1994 Published: 10May94 Registered: 2Apr96 Title on © Application: PS device. Special Codes: 5/S The official copyright database says NOTHING ABOUT NINTENDO. There is no way in hell that Nintendo could POSSIBLY win this suit, and there's no way in hell they are dumb enough to pursue it. I have lost much faith in my beloved slashdot for posting such total unofficial rumored bullshit.
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Here's why:
I would expect Sony's stock price to have plummeted and investors would be made aware (no evidence on Yahoo Biz).
I would expect that Sony's website would mention this issue (here's the press release site for the Playstation http://us.playstation.com/news/PressReleases/ and Sony's official press release site) Note the lack of this story.
Google turns up no results either.
Don't post stories like this without checking them.
I think we know how Nintendo plans on stay in business......
Let's keep in mind that Sony is the one who has to fork out the settlement, not just the gaming division. The good thing about being a big fuckoff conglomerate is that you have enough collective resources to take a hit like this every once in a while. Also, keep in mind this is 2.3 billion over 20 years -- that's about 11 million a year, a bearable dent in Sony's multi billion dollar annual profits. Although I'm not denying the fact that they don't probably like this; 11 million is still a lot of money, especially since they've been taking a lot of other losses recently.
and sony will make the platform.
nintendo designed games on the playstation??? ouch.
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That's a lot of clams.
Sony, you've been owned, have a nice day!
What's next, news items ripped from The Onion?
Supposing this story is true, why the hell is *consoletalk* the only rag picking it up?
Even though I'm an adult, I still find the same things fun.
It's not like I suddenly stopped finding Metroid fun. Metroid will always be fun. To actually say something that implies you stop enjoying certain things once you get past a set age, well.... I call bullshit.
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This is all pure speculation related to an upcoming "megaton" announcement Nintendo is supposed to make in the near future. The speculation ranges from this story to Nintendo buying Campcom and Sega. It's all been a contest to see who can get their page linked the most with the most outrageous story, and it looks like this site won.
As for the actual announcement, please don't post any more news on it until you see it on nintendo.com
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?"
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In other news, a 45 year old italian plumber named mario, sues nintendo, for defamation of character, and slander.
The highest "story id" consoletalk has in their news section is 145.
Gee, wonder why 146 doesn't work. Could it be because this story is bullshit?
Click the fucking links before you post the stories chris.
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wcbarksdale, thank you for posting that link... that's the funniest thing I've read all week, and I wouldn't have known about it if you hadn't posted it.
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Doing a search for 'Nintendo Sony'on News.Google.com to see what I could pull up, I was ammused to see that Slashdot's own posting of this story was in fact the only reference to its existence.
While there were certaintly other stories pulled up containing the words 'sony' and 'nintendo' in them, Slashdot's was the most recent news story on the subject (posted, at the time i did the search, 19 minutes ago).
If for no other reason, it's interesting Slashdot is one of the sites Google News searchs.
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http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?sect ion_name=pub&aid=998
uh? This is an old rumor. Fuck, its damn near ready for snopes. chrisd: Dont just post cause it looks cool, check it out first.
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Well, I really like their games.
the article is gone. removed from the site. move along for more interesting news at theonion.com!
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When asked about the 2.3 billion dollar fiasco, a spokesman for Sony had this to say:
"Oops."
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This story is confirmed as 100% BS not true at all. Once again, /. editors are really careful when posting stuff.
In other news, I sued Microsoft over the use of the "Windows" name because I came up with it and sent Bill the idea by snailmail. They have agreed to pay me 10% of all past and future profit!
Would Nintendo continue to get money from PS2 games (PLAYSTATION 2) and consoles and such? Will PS2 have to change it's name? Even more importantly, how will this affect the release of PS3 (I guess it will be called something different now : P)? They may need to bump it out early, to gain the much needed cash, and also to get rid of the (possible) Nintendo money earning Playstation 2... Paying them off for 20 years makes it so they can EASILY afford to keep making consoles, and risky games (that may or may not pay off), for a hell of a long time....given that the average lifespan for a console is 5 years, that lets em make em until at LEAST another 4 consoles, plus they're getting a huge new studio of talented developers....damn, i wonder how much the Big N's stocks went up (just the rumours alone would have skyrocketed the fuckers....shit, 2 billion in profit helps stocks rather nicely!)
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Well I don't think(TM) I will support(TM) Nintendo(TM) in the future(TM) by purchasing any of their consoles(TM) or games(TM). Nintendo(TM), as well as many other companies(TM), should be ashamed(TM) of profiting(TM) from applicable language(TM) or combinations of root(TM) words in any language(TM) to make dispute(TM) their own profit loss(TM) and use such immoral logic(TM) as leverage(TM) to steal(TM) money(TM) from other(TM) companies(TM). In an ideal(TM) world(TM), a company(TM) should(TM) be able(TM) to name(TM) their system(TM) anything they want(TM) and their skill(TM) or talent(TM) is what determines the lifetime(TM) and demand(TM) of their product(TM). When will a company(TM) name their console foo(TM)-bar(TM) 2600.1(TM) or will they be sued(TM) also?
This is a sad(TM) world(TM) with blatently immoral(TM) contractual laws(TM) of "COMMERCE" that any good-natured(TM) bunch(TM) of people(TM) wanting to put food(TM) on their tables(TM) should not need to deal(TM) with. I do believe(TM) this(TM) is all British(TM) Law(TM) running amuck(TM).
And to think(TM) our own names(TM) are considered intellectual(TM) property(TM), yet we are all named after the same(TM) people(TM) over and over again(TM) that only in-breeding-naming-conventions(TM) of the Ozark(TM) Mountains(TM) determined the future(TM) of our children(TM) to be addressable. For example(TM), how many(TM) Billy-Bob's, Billy-Joe's, Billy-Jane's, and Billy-Pat's do you think there are and how far will it continue(TM)?
But I'm sure you already Gnu that.
It's like worrying about redhat buying a microsoft. Hello, Sony has couple times the $$ power than nintendo. May the lawyer with the biggest mouth wins.
While it is apparently true that the (defunct) Super NES CD-Rom addon project was a joint effort between Nintendo and Sony, and was codenamed "Playstation," this story is a hoax.
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It's on Google News! ;)
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What about the playstation 5!!!
:P)
(it has a trinary processor
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I wonder how much it would cost for Sony to buy Nintendo outright...? No royalties if you buy the plantiff.... That way they keep the playstation moniker and get some cool game stables (mario, metroid, etc) .02
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Bad spellers of the world untie!
it'll still possibly drive Nintendo stocks up, just due to the rumours.... 2.3 billion dollar rumours = $$bling bling$$
Defender of Microsoft and Communism!!!
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On both mozilla and netscape 4.77. I am all out of browsers since I don't want to fire up VMWare...
The artical you're talking about was on slashdot just one day ago. And no one is going to do any coaxing.
In any event, nintendo has been trying to change their demographics for a while, but they havn't been able to.
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And the Holliday rumors begin!
Oh can I start my own, like I already have a level 99 Final Fantasy XI Character? Or that I installed Linux on the XBox Live System? Again, if the story is true, why does everything just point back to Slashdot, and nowhere else?
Gottla love a troll.
2002-12-17 23:54:49 PS5 ready for Christmas ... 2016 (articles,news) (rejected)
I used to love comic books, video games, and TV. I still enjoy video games once in a while, but my desire for all three of those things has really gone down. I now find Comic books way overpriced for 3 or 4 minutes of plesure, and TV just knaws at my brain.
People really do grow out of things, but it's not like throwing more blood into a video game is going to make me want to play it more. The only stuff that kind of thing apeals to are 12-15 year old boys.
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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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No company whom's livelyhood is in an industry as volatile and sudden as gaming would agree to a "20 year" payment plan. That is absurd. I could see a massive corporation like Canon agreeing to maybe a 10 year suit of this magnitude with a much smaller company like Hewlitt-Packard/Compaq (in case you didn't know, Canon has patents on almost all laser printer and camera technologies, and builds almost all of HP's printers and the components that go in cameras - such a suit could be concievable if HP slipped up). This is because Canon knows that it will be around for at least another 20 years, and HP at least 15. But 20 billion from Sony over 20 years? Not likely. Nintendo would rather have 3 billion right now. The market in which Nintendo thrives would demand it.
Why post rumours when there are real stories worth posting?
The original poster was trying to imply that any game with bright, primary colours, or any game with Mario, had to be a kids game. That such games were only of enjoyment to kids. Ludicrous!
;)), but I still enjoy Mario Party 4, Super Monkey Ball, Smash Bros, etc. Games marked as "kiddy" by some. I play the crap out of them until my controllers don't work anymore. Is there something wrong with me? Not at all. I also enjoyed Monsters, Inc -- another "cute" movie which happenened to have depth, and a great execution.
I still enjoy video games a lot. Granted, I don't have nearly as much patience for jumping puzzles as I used to (which could also be linked to the greater numbers of games I own
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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.
And it's a "copyright"; "copywrite" is something a "copywriter" does.
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.
Sony invoked the DMCA to prevent all sites from publishing information about the former console saying that it lacked copy protection.
-- somebody had to, and I figure this is as good a thread as any to fuck around in.
I think before a story appears on slashdot its better to warn the target website admin that the server is gonna slsahdotted.atleast the admin can put the text only on another server to be devoured by us.
me and the nizle bizle wardrive, using wifi to scan for open ports; when we find an open one, we know the nizlles aint living in forts
Open source users everywhere were stunned by the VA Linux announcement that it was filing for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy. This reporter dug through the Enron'esque' books to find the cause of such a rapid decline, but it seems several Slashdot editors had indeed purchased the Brooklyn Bridge. Large sums of money were transfered to a mysterious Vinny Flumputchinato who's only address is "Yellow Cab on Broadway"
Stashed away in the Slashdot offices under the mound of free AOL cd's was found a brown paper bag with "Joe's Market" on one side, and in crayon "This 's the deeed to the Brookline Bridge." When questioned, Slashdot Editor Chrisd replied, "When I was last in New York this guy driving my cab asks me if I want to buy the Brooklyn Bridge. I thought to myself, Holy Shit, the Brooklyn Bridge is for sale, I've got to make that the headline Slashdot. But then I said to myself, wait Chrisd If you don't post it right away, but instead buy it now and then sell it later don't you think you can profit????"
At present, this reporter has been unable to locate Mr. Flumputchinato for comment.
Introducing Microsoft Vacuum 1.0 The first Microsoft product that doesn't suck.
Rubik might sue Nintendo for using "Gamecube" ;)
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That is an interesting idea. But if you wanted the Sega hardware engineers, why not just hire them after Sega stopped making hardware? I think most of those people would have been out of a job and available. If Sega has some hardware IP that Nintendo wanted, I expect it is available at fire sale prices, no need to buy the entire hardware division, or the entire company.
OTOH, buying Sega for their software writing ability sounds like a better reason, though I would be surprised if they did.
Don't moderate flamebait as Troll. Know the difference or you will be Meta-moderated.
:s/Bombshell/Bollocks
:s/stuff I just made up/Cool News?
What, you're taking editorial lessons in publishing groundless fanboy bollocks from fat Harry at Aint It
I can't remember. Can companies sue rumourmongers if said rumours drive down their stock price?
"Information wants to be paid"
Seriously, the stories in most commic books are extreemly trite. If they cost 10 They might be worth it. 1/3rd the price of a move for 1/20th the entertainment isn't much of a deal... especialy when most of the stories are lower quality then free entertanment on the boob toob.
Yeah, I never really looked at the supposed literary greats of the comic world... but there the price diferential is even greater. I could pay $8 for a Gibson (for example) novel that would take me 18 hours to get through, or $3 for a comic that would take 10 minutes if you were lucky...
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Not only is copyright misspelled, but it's not even about copyrights, it's about trademarks. Bravo.
"STEEEEEEEEEE-RIKE TWO!!!!"
Nice going, chrisd.
Plan something BIG for number three, would ya? If you're going to get booted as a Slashdot "editor" (even with quotes, I can't believe I just juxtaposed those two words...), your final act should be something really monumental.
Seriously, though: Is this, like, the earliest April Fool's joke in history? I mean, past mistakes aside, I never figured you for a dumb guy. Are you really telling us that you read this submission, and you seriously thought it seemed plausible?!?
Otherwise, you should be thankful you posted this at 1238AM. Imagine if you'd posted it mid-morning, and every Slashdotter had run straight to Ameritrade to sell his/her shares in Sony. Imagine what might have happened, at least temporarily, to Sony's stock. (In this climate, a small blip can be interpreted as a relatively large spike...and before you can say "Open Source," stockholders are assuming that "spike" represents information they don't have, and they're scrambling not to be left behind.)
Now imagine what the correspondence from Sony's attorneys might have looked like, when it arrived in your office the next morning. Does the name "PairGain" ring any bells?
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I'd make a perfect Ghost of Christmas Future.
Taunting kids all day long with stuff they can't have.... ahhhhhh
I know I'm fundimentally evil, but at least I'd be good at the job.
In SOVIET RUSSIA, the stories dupe you !
... they did a kick-ass job!
Has anyone else noticed that, the more hyperlinks a submission includes, the more likely the Slashdot editors are to take it seriously?
If I were to submit a story including links to a commercial real estate firm, eBay, and a picture of the Brooklyn Bridge, would you post my story about how I'm auctioning it off using a zero-feedback profile with a "Buy It Now!" of $19.95?
It looks to me like "Magamo" figured out exactly how to slip one through your blind spot, chrisd. Better work on your tells.
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Please don't read my journal
For a minute there, I though it might have been April 1st already. I was was ready to wait on other funny stories, like Red Hat buys Microsoft or something of the like, when I came to my senses and realized that someone posted a story that simply isn't true. Maybe those looking at the submission pile are five months ahead of us. Poor bastards.
Ignore the rantings above. Poster is an idiot.
yeah, that's like 115 million dollars per year to pay that off... i think some other news sites would've covered this if it's this huge :-/
come on guys, april fools is still many months away!
I sure wouldn't want to be the guy(s) who came up with the name 'Playstation' for Sony's new console. Ouch, that's a lot money :P
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So now google's AI code is more reliable than a live editor. Remind me why I'm supposed to have faith in human intelligence again?
Few people realize the jump between PS2 and the original Playstation. I know the halfly informed will jump out and say "yeah the old one is 33MHz, new one is several hundred," etc. But in this case the MHz (just as in intel/amd world) says nothing.
in every PS2, the "PS1" portion is not even another chip, let along anything they had to work hard for: there was no signal routing on the circuit board, no data passed between the new and the old (gfx proc, new cpu), and I don't even think it usued the memory (might be wrong on the last part, though).
The PS1 portion is but a corner of the I/O processor. (I/O processor handles (duh) I/O - but also sound - so PS1 core pipes the audio directly through.) So pretty much PS1 is running on the "sound card" portion of the PS2, if you will. I highly suspect that they had a lot of chip area left when making the I/O processor (or adding on the entire IP core of PS1 costed minimally) so they just said fsck it let's put that on there.
In desktop terms, this is equivalent to, say, running a Pentium II system using your SCSI card controller. (which, btw, the higher end ones from adaptec actually do use a P2 for the microcontroller)
Contrastingly - while that's not possible for the PS2 to be integrated into a dusty corner of a new-gen console for now - by the time P2 retires, I would not be surprised if they can pull the trick again - or if it proved to be costly then, they will probably just skip it.
Not sure if this is coverable under NDA, as it should be pretty common info via developer kits; but i am posting AC anyhow.
As a "news site," how liable is Slashdot for posting this story should it turn out to be total fiction? There was apparently zero editorial checking, and since the story isn't there, you have to wonder if it ever was. Did some Slashdot editor just see a cool story and "OK" the submission? If that's the typical way things get done, it's awfully unethical.
The ONLY way /. can maintain a SHRED of credibility on this one is to post a FULL RETRACTION in a SEPERATE POST. None of this Update: we !@#$ed up crap this time guys. This makes you look like a total joke.
IBM ask for their $2.3 Billion for violation of the PS/2 mouse and keyboard connectors.
That must have hurt Sony. However, this shows how important the "brand"/name is to a company. Hmm.. I wonder if Micrsoft will get sued by some sextoy company for using "XBox".
This case is very interesting though. There was no news about this "Playstation" controversy. Doesn't a company have to run through an agency before it launches a product of a particular name?
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I distinctly remember news articals from the early 90s discussing the SNES-CD, and they said it would be called the PlayStation.
As far as copyright.gov goes, well.
1) it's not a copyright, it's a trademark.
2) The deal was made in Japan, not the US.
3) Trademark law is a bit diffrent, in that you can start using a term, and trademark it later. As long as you've been 'trading' under that name, you get protection. So even with out legal ownership nintendo could still have a case.
And lets not forget 4) Slashdot is not a bullshit free site.
Anyway, the artical is total crap for reasons other people mentioned, but so is your post. Your history is warped, and so is your understanding of Intelectual Property.
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Don't you think the trademark of relevence would have been filed in japan, not the US?
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I doubt they will shy away from using the name "playstation" because the settlement is only from past and present profits, not from future ones which I'd bet Sony now has all the rights to
Why not just build the next playstation inside the aibo? No more having to move it around yourself, and you can call for it and it will come to you. A logical choice for Sony of course ;)
Thursday 19th of December: Microsoft has won a lawsuit proving that the infact own the Slashdot name. The website Slashdot.org will henceforthly be transfered to the ownership of the Microsoft MSN .Net portal family. Users will receive MSDeveloper Network access and other great benifits. SlashdotXP.net will open for service on Friday the 13th.
George Michael is loving this right now.
Surely if Nintendo felt that Sony had screwed them over with the Original PlayStation (the SNES add on) then they should have said something back in 1994* not all these years later.
*Obviously this date is incorrect.
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Ironically enough, the 'Fortune' at the bottom of my page is:
People don't usually make the same mistake twice -- they make it three times, four time, five times...
So, we'll see a duplicate of this posted?
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There are 0x40000000 types of people: those who understand 32-bit IEEE 754 floating point, and those who don't.
Its a good thing I found a forum where someone posted the article...
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Nintendo drops the Megaton
Out of Tokyo this morning (mid-day in Japan) Nintendo has announced the move that could change gaming forever. had come to a legal agreement over the rights to the name 'Playstation'. The name, which was originaly given to a joint-venture CD rom based add-on for the Super Nintendo, was technically, a joint-owned copyright. Sony has agreed to pay Nintendo 10% of all past and future proceeds made off of the name. This ammounts to a whopping 2.3 billion USD in back-payments. Nintendo will allow Sony to pay the money back in installments instead of a lump sum over the next 20 years. However, Nintendo has plans for their new found source of income. They will immidietly finance a new game studio called 'The Artists Group' which will feature members of Sega, Nintendo, Namco, Capcom, Konami, Tecmo, Square-Enix and more to collaborate on projects for Nintendo systems, and exchange copyrighted properties. The first projects announced out of this new studio are a new RPG using various gaming icons as the central charachters, a new Smash Brothers game, featuring mascots from accross the companies, including Pacman, Megaman, Sonic, Mario and more, as well as a new Sega-AM2 developed racing game that will also feature multiple icons from the various companies. The final collaboration is the recently announced Viewtifull Joe from Capcom stuidios. Nintendo has also promised that completely original more collaborations between studios will take place in the future, but for now, they will be focusing on quality content showcasing the newfound bond between the various development houses. Contrary to internet rumors however, Nintendo has not as of yet purchased any software developers, and as such, all members of the Artists Group will be allowed to explore development on other systems of their own accord. More as it develops.
[UPDATED: Wednesday 2:17 18/12/2002]
Sounds like a massive amount of money to have to pay just for royalties of the *name*. It's not even that good.
What's in a name...? Everyone would still have bought it if it was called a "PS2".
Nick...
It really matters a lot to me that felt that way.
Oh wait, no it dosn't.
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I don't know why, but it's embarassing to me to think that this headline will stay up, UN-ALTERED all day on the front page of slashdot. Can't the put an 'oops' at the end, as they usually do with dupes? This is much more serious than a dupe (as in duplicate; not being duped, which is what everyone who reads this will be)...It's embarassing.
In related news, every /. user has to pay 10% of their earnings to Anonymous Coward, if they include the word beowulf in their posting...oops I did it my self!
Xbox live is still in beta test in Europe. It doesn't go live to the general public until March 2003. That's what I keep having to tell all the US ignoramuses I play against...
As they happen on slashdot.
Trouble with some modern journalists, is they sometimes research their information before they print it. Otherwise they get sued.
If I hadn't read and dismissed this one from uk.games.video.gamecube three weeks ago, and dismissed it as another bit of unlikely speculation on nintendos "big announcement" (which is more likely a Pokemon game), then I might have believed it.
More importantly the Sony stockholders might have believed it too, and the large corporations.
Ok, so maybe slashdot has the freedom to post an urban legend every so often, but do watch out, it might cost you a lot of money one day...
I'm sorry if that sounds harsh, but it's true. Chris, this is your JOB for God's sake! You get PAID to do this! This story is an obvious fraud. The site didn't get "slashdotted," you see, as other people have pointed out, there was no such story on Console Talk to begin with. The submitter posted a fake link. All it would have taken for you to realize this was fraud was to click the damn link!!! But you didn't even do that! What if it had been a link to goatse.cx?
And what about Console Talk? Because of you, thousands of slashdotters think Console Talk is full of shit, when in fact the bogus story was never on their site to begin with!
Chris, you screwed up, and you should apologize to Slashdot, and to Console Talk.
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.
visit here.
Funny... I didn't think April 1'st was until April 1'st....
I'll have something intelligent to add one of these days...
and put an extra $1USD per installment like my mom did will the mortgage payments.
Please don't let kids play with the submit button. They have problems with spelling and tend to believe most rumors.
Thank you.
Please also add definitions for the following: stupid, lazy, irrelevant, pathetic and adolescent.
All too often Slashdot links to bullshit/fake stories such as this. Used to be a good site for interesting news tidbits, but now you have to take everything that's posted on the frontpage with a grain of salt. They simply do NOT do their research anymore before posting a story.
the story dupes the editor!
Burn.
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In Soviet Russia,
Fake Slashdot stories post YOU!
This week we have decided to like CNN for not posting this story.
They even linked back.
We've already had at least one dupe story this week, and now slashdot is posting hoaxes / rumors from other sites. It's not that hard to check business sites (hell, with google it's trivial) to see if the story is true, instead of blindly posting it because it sounds cool. 2.3 Billion dollar settlements aren't made without the knowledge of the business world and/or shareholders.
-Chris
December Fool's Day!
heh, so now that this story has been branded a hoax/rumor/fake, don't you just feel like an ass-talking dumbfuck?
In Video Gaming, anything lighthearted and fun gets labeled "Kids," and anything edgy and violent gets labeled "adults." While an adult movie like What Women Want can be fun, very few adult games retain that sense of lighthearted enjoyment.
Kids games are also in digestably shorter bites, with more intense enjoyment up front, for the little one's attention spans. This is great when you are trying to grab a moment between work and a trip to the grocery store.
That's just my opinion, but I'm not wrong.
-C
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Bit of a low for slashdot rumourmongering this one. I don't know what's funny, posting this clearly untrue story or the people commenting here that appear to believe it.
*cocksmoke* *your mother gave me head twice yesterday* *i will gladly fuck you in the ass tonight, as you requested*
Anyone remember copywrite and copyiipc?
I'm dating myself, but back in the day, these were the two major copying programs that everyone used to copy IBM PC games/programs, back in the mid-80's. They would break most floppy-disk protection schemes and new versions would be coming out, it seemed every few months that would cover more and more programs and games.
I think it was thanks to the efforts of those two programs that software companies finally gave up on trying to add physical protection mechanisms on the floppies and eventually give up entirely.
Now if only the RIAA and the rest of the music industry would just learn from the mistakes of the past, they would realize that all their stupid protection mechanisms are just a complete waste of time.
Did Sony actually sell it as the Playstation 2, or was it simply the PS2? Did they expect this?
SLASHDOT STORIES DUPE YOU!
And that's "comprising members..." not "comprised of members..."
Pffff.
And you guys are bitching about slashdot getting fooled because they got tricked?
How about
"Iraq sells nerve agents to Al-Qaeda"
next day
"Oops, sorry, that information was inaccurate."
YOU alone have the responsibility of confirming what "news" you believe.
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.
Here is an article decrying this story as a hoax; It's not really an article so much as a list of people saying "feh", but at least it's posted on something like a news site.
Slashdot would do well to create the right impression among it's readers; maybe having one of our friendly editors change the story title to reflect it's untruth is advisable.
Now waiting for the patent holder(s) of PS/2 interface to sue Sony for the shortname of PS2. IBM can sue for the name as well, since they had a computer called PS/1 and PS/2 Everyone wants a piece of action.... geez.. Maybe the inventor of the words Play and Station should sue them both for infringement of their name.
Yeah, this didn't sound right to me either, I thought the SNES addon CDrom that turned into the PSX was called 'Project Reality' or something (I could be wrong, I think they called the N64 that too....)
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Maybe it's time bring the Slashdot Random Story Generator back out. It seems to do a better job at sensationalistic fictional story-telling.
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slow news day. Rumors can be fun.
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nintendoland.com has a good explanation of the events from 1991 onward. The article is devoted to the SNES CD which was a separate project. The Playstaton was always an independent console that Sony devloped on their own to play SNES and CD games. The SNES CD or ND and it was sometimes called was an add-on to the original SNES console but their were a lot of problem incorporating the Sony version of the add-on. That is why Sony started the Playstaion project. They could not make their CD system work with the pitiful processor in the SNES.
sports, racing, GTA3, first person shooters, role playing (RE etc.)
What ever happened to an editor's duty to check factual accuracy of a /. story?
Magamo (user who submitted the story) is either getting a good laugh right now, or he's registering a new account here on Slashdot. ;P
hea hea !!!
Yep, anything PA touches turns to pure bullshit, so you're right.
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... is that this story will probably get dupe posted by someone within a day or so.
It's the notion that tastes must change in such a set way, so suddenly. I don't agree with a statement that says that I have to stop enjoying Mario games. I don't agree with a statement like "GameCube is a kiddy console" -- I was playing RE0 again last night on it. RE0 and Metroid Prime are the two most enjoyable games I have for it (and they consistently win out against my other consoles [I have all of them* with a respectable library for each] for my game time).
;)). You're right in that children won't always enjoy adult things, but I don't think that the adult enjoyment games are a separate set from childrens games; I think that the range of games you enjoy grows larger (admittedly, you do stop enjoying ABC/123 Sesame Street, but I never enjoyed that when I was young ;)).
:) NES, SMS, TG16, SNES, PSX, N64, Dreamcast (2), PS2, Xbox, GameCube, GBA.
There are plenty of games I love which, as you pointed out, I may not have appreciated as much 15 years ago. Shenmue, for example (I own Shenmue, Shenmue 2 eu import, and Shenmue 2x), or Ico (another game I happen to have at my house).
Recently I was actually talking with a person who was looking to buy some games for their children, and I thought about a few games I really enjoyed now (like Splinter Cell, and Sons' of Liberty), and I was wondering if I would've had the patience for that kind of game as a child (probably, since I played so many RPGs
* When I say I have all of them, I mean I have a lot
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Trademark for Playstation name registered to sony!
Could we at least double check info before posting it.
There's always a business trying to be on top. So I guess you can say now that Nintendo is a monopoly of the game consols. Because that is just annoying. New monopoly rundown MS is OS monopoly Nvidia is graphic card monopoly AOL is internet monopoly There are probably 3 or 4 I'm forgetting, but nintendo is now added to that list.
I find it difficult to believe a settlement was handed over this issue...but I don't doubt the name of their scrapped project.
One would expect more from a source that claims it's product is news (of any subject matter).
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Nintendo has been around for over 100 years, and Sony has been around for at least 50. And, while Nintendo is mostly games only, Sony has a lot to fall back on... Sony even made the Tape recorder Nixon used to erase the Watergate tapes :P. I'm sure Sony will be around for another 20 years, and I'm willing to bet Nintendo will be as well.
In fact, if Nintendo really needed the money, they could use the installments as collateral for a loan, and get quite a bit more then 3 billion dollars.
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...in certain cases a trademark can be copyrighted. Arghh!
Mickey Mouse is a classic example IIRC.
Apple's jumped in, too.
Some devious mind proposed, "Can You Patent a Copyrighted Trademark?"
No comment.
While I could see a trademark being copyrighted (say, a very elaborate logo), I haven't heard of it.
:-)
Neither of the articles you linked to contains, AFAI can tell, an instance of a copyrighted trademark. It's mostly journalists using language loosely.
In the Mickey Mouse one, Mickey Mouse works are copyrighted. Mickey Mouse himself (the famous silhouette, at least) is a trademark. The trademark does not apply to the works, and I'm fairly sure that the copyrights do not apply to the trademark.
And in the Apple one has the use of trademark in a non-legalistic way, unfortunately (a distinctive characteristic rather than a registered symbol) in "copy its copyrighted trademark themes". Even more unfortunately, it *also* mentions trademarks (in the legal sense) in the same article, which is a bit confusing. Now, the themes in question contain both copyrighted images (like Apple's famous "glassies") and Apple's "apple" logo, which is a trademark.
May we never see th
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