[RUMOR] Several Wii U dev kits returned to Nintendo

[Videomanman87]

Something I don't think has been mentioned in this entire thread: It is probably in the contract they sign. Even if the kit was free, I am certain they sign a non-disclosure agreement. And I suspect if they don't use the kit, they have to give it back. Nintendo is not about to let the kits float around, not at this point in the game. I saw the one offered on ebay, I am sure that 1. it will be pulled before the auction completes and 2. Nintendo will be tracing its serial numbers. Remember Nintendo knows where EACH of those kits go and have a legal recourse if they so choose. And for a console that is not even a year old, you can bet they are going to choose to protect it any way they can.

Also keep in mind after singing a non-disclosure agreement, I certainly wouldn't want to take the risk of this tech falling into someone else's hands and have Nintendo come after me, if I wasn't using it anyway. Much easier just to say "here take this back, I don't want to take responsibility for having this". And even if it is not in the agreement, again it is simply not worth keeping and possibly loosing track of it. Then have the kit show up on ebay and Nintendo's lawyers on your doorstep.

 

[Bobbybangin]

you'd like them to have.

Here's the funniest part. You continue to say that MS AND SONY have done nothing but copy Nintendo.
Take a look at this.

Now p

eek at this
Must be a blatant ripoff in your eyes Amirite????

That post is worse than your first. The newest Wii U pro controller is still the same layout as the Super Nintendo's with just the joysticks on top. Since Nintendo incorporated the modern joystick on the controller with the N64 and has had one ever since, I would say your latest example only further proves my point. Just look at the Wii U pro classic controller if you need any more proof.

 

[JoostinOnline]

Layout is the same as it has always been for Nintendo, but the shape is similar to the 360 controller. Besides, as I said before, they totally ripped those lights off of Thomas Edison.

 

[grossaffe]

Layout is the same as it has always been for Nintendo, but the shape is similar to the 360 controller. Besides, as I said before, they totally ripped those lights off of Thomas Edison.

Actually, Thomas Edison stole the light bulb which had been around 50 years before he patented it.

 

[chavosaur]

That post is worse than your first. The newest Wii U pro controller is still the same layout as the Super Nintendo's with just the joysticks on top. Since Nintendo incorporated the modern joystick on the controller with the N64 and has had one ever since, I would say your latest example only further proves my point. Just look at the Wii U pro classic controller if you need any more proof.

Further proves your point? You didn't have a point in the first place. We've been over the innovation thing a thousand times now, I think the only one unclear about it by now is you.
You could literally say any controller is a rip off/ Improvement of the first. My whole point of MY post was to give the example that HEY, IF IT LOOKS SIMILAR. IT MUST BE A RIPOFF TO YOU RIGHT?!?!?!
And the funniest thing, Look at the wii U classic controller? Because looking at a classic controller surely doesn't mean it's going to be based off the CLASSIC thing it's meant to play like right?

EDIT: I just realized you didn't even quote the main part of my post, which had you done so, explains why I posted it in the first place. Let me re-quote it for you.
"And yet, Nintendo must have based every idea off the first random thing that popped into their head without any influence from arcade machines, or Atari... All innovation and ideas spread from learning from other people. Taking tech, an improving upon it.
There's a huge difference between blatantly copying, and massively improving. Nintendo is as much an innovator as Sony and MS are whether you believe so or not.
To say that Nintendo has Created every single game idea and then Sony and Ms have just been blatantly ripping off is a total Joke. Even Nintendo has INNOVATED or RIPPED OFF. Just not with as much success as you'd like them to have."

 

[the_randomizer]

Layout is the same as it has always been for Nintendo, but the shape is similar to the 360 controller. Besides, as I said before, they totally ripped those lights off of Thomas Edison.

We all know that when lights are copied like that, Edison rises from his grave and torments the people who do it.

Spoiler

I actually like the Xbox 360 design for controllers, it reduces hand cramps when I use it

Further proves your point? You didn't have a point in the first place. We've been over the innovation thing a thousand times now, I think the only one unclear about it by now is you.
You could literally say any controller is a rip off/ Improvement of the first. My whole point of MY post was to give the example that HEY, IF IT LOOKS SIMILAR. IT MUST BE A RIPOFF TO YOU RIGHT?!?!?!
And the funniest thing, Look at the wii U classic controller? Because looking at a classic controller surely doesn't mean it's going to be based off the CLASSIC thing it's meant to play like right?

EDIT: I just realized you didn't even quote the main part of my post, which had you done so, explains why I posted it in the first place. Let me re-quote it for you.
"And yet, Nintendo must have based every idea off the first random thing that popped into their head without any influence from arcade machines, or Atari... All innovation and ideas spread from learning from other people. Taking tech, an improving upon it.
There's a huge difference between blatantly copying, and massively improving. Nintendo is as much an innovator as Sony and MS are whether you believe so or not.
To say that Nintendo has Created every single game idea and then Sony and Ms have just been blatantly ripping off is a total Joke. Even Nintendo has INNOVATED or RIPPED OFF. Just not with as much success as you'd like them to have."

People are always quoting other people out of context...that's one of my biggest pet peeves to be perfectly honest. And you're absolutely right in innovation and what other companies do in the industry; there as similarities in different innovations and technologies (like controllers, etc), but nothing was blatantly copied, even I know that
There would be chaos if one company copied something from another company exactly, I personally have never seen it happen, so I'm not worried.