Nintendo Awarded Patent for Instant Messaging

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday June 9, 2006 @06:36AM from the seems-a-little-vague dept.

Zwzo writes "Nintendo has been awarded a patent for a video game messaging service that utilizes a buddy list and can display information about game activities and user status." From the article: "Initially filed in 2000, a year before the release of Microsoft's Xbox and two years before the official launch of Microsoft's Xbox Live Internet service, Nintendo's patent is relatively broad and could potentially lead to litigation against other major players in the game console market. Although the text of the patent itself refers to the Nintendo64 and Game Boy Color by name, some have speculated that this patent could portend an instant messaging system for the Wii."

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Interesting... by Valthan · 2006-06-09 06:56 · Score: 0, Redundant

This is interesting becasue that means that they could potentially throw it around at M$ and XFire and the like, although if they did I think it would just be bad PR and a lot of people would lose faith in them.

But how cool would it be for them to totally screw M$ over... anyone, anyone?

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