Ex-Midway employee is the real inventor of the Nintendo Wii tech. Nine years ago.

[Werewolf]

This is just starting to hit a couple of the game sites I go to.

Adding motion sensing to what is basically the Gamecube brought Nintendo from distant last to first place in the industry and give Ninty a license to print money. The thing is a Midway employee actually invented it nine years ago. It is eerie watching him play Ready to Rumble exactly like Wii Boxing on the Sega Dreamcast on a nearly decade old video clip.

This guy really got boned.

YouTube - Interview with Pat Goschy, the Nintendo Wii Inventor

[toys2cool]

wow they jipped that poor guy,that idea was definitely his

[kingdom warrior]

Holy crud! This guy got royally Boned indeed!...but this doesn't surprise me....Big companies do this to small guys.

[Bill]

Motion has been used for years, it's getting the developers to make it a functional part of the game instead of making it an interesting gimmick that Nintendo was able to harness. The past two Nintendo systems were plagued with a horribly small library of games which really hurt them against the huge collection of other systems. Nearly everything of interest had to be either directly inhouse or from a very close 3rd party team. They seem to be letting the reigns slack up a bit.