Nintendo loses $10 million lawsuit over Wii Remote technology
During the height of the Wii’s popularity, Nintendo was printing so much money that its executives surely filled a number of swimming pools, but it looks like whatever monkey’s paw made that success possible is finally turning the tables on Nintendo. As reported by Rolling Stone’s Glixel section, Nintendo has just lost a $10 million lawsuit against a company called iLife, with a jury ruling that the video game company had infringed on iLife’s motion-sensing accelerometer technology. iLife had designed its tech to “help prevent sudden infant death syndrome and the elderly to watch out for falls,” but it argued that the technology could be used for “other applications”—like, say, Wii Remotes.