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Microsoft Settles With Immersion Over Haptic Patent

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the wheels-greased-with-cash dept.

Dolly_Llama writes "Immersion settled their lawsuit against Microsoft over the use of Haptic vibration technology in the XBox controllers. Microsoft paid Immersion $26M to settle and to license Immersion's haptic patents. Immersion has a similar lawsuit still pending with Sony."

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  1. Why didn't they sue Nintendo? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    Oh that's right. Nintendo doesn't have any money. Shame they blew that Pokemon nest egg into R&D for the E-Reader. Oh well. I look forward to playing Mario 128 on my PS2 after the gamecube dies.