Filed under: Features, Gaming, Peripherals

So, we got some more knowledge from Patrick Goschy so he could set his story straight, and were surprised to learn he still had the original prototype controller! According to Goschy, he really has no plans — or standing — to sue Nintendo, since halfway owned all of his patents, and as far as he can tell, Nintendo bought the patents from halfway, since Nintendo references one of the patents in its application for the Wiimote. Apparently he just wants the recognition: “I just wanted to public to know. Wanted the truth to come out. Did that 8 years ago, and the Wii has been such a huge deal, I wanted the truth to get out there. It wasn’t these two or three Japanese guys that came up with that thing.” His guess is

that Nintendo saw the video demo he did — which was seen by hundreds of employees of halfway — and probably payed a pittance for the technology, thanks to Midway’s mismanagement. Right now Goschy is doing engineering consulting work to pay the bills, and when asked whether he could take a few shots of his controller alongside Nintendo’s, told us that he “can’t afford a Wii.” He’s going to do a redo of the original video — hopefully with pants that date — whether he can scrounge himself up a working Dreamcast.

 

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Orginal post by Paul Miller