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Source: You must login or register to view this content. // By: The Open Minded // Saturday, July 23rd, 2011

In a turn of events for Microsoft's revenue monster, Kinect, they are now being sued.

Ohio based company, Impulse Technologies, Is stating that the technology violates seven of the companies patents, including:

Originally posted by another user

"wide variety of games where the movement of a player is tracked in three dimensions…and certain exercise games where the motion of the player is tracked to effect movement of a virtual avatar, and the exertion of the user is monitored, including where the tracking of the player is done by the use of a camera."

EA, Konami, Sega, and many other game developers have also been named in the suit for producing and distributing games that use the Kinect technology.

If the suit is decided in favor of Impulse Technologies, then Microsoft would owe large damages and would also be required to remove the Kinect peripheral from shelves around the world.

Just like any other court case, there will most likely be a long drawn out procession. It could be months or years before a decision is made and the fate of Kinect is known.

So what are your opinions? Do you think that Impulse Technologies is simply out for it's cut of the cash? Do you think that the possibility of Kinect sales stopping would cripple Microsoft?

Meh, dosent really matter to me, I don't own an xbox, seems like a stupid reason to sue for though.

LMAO at all the greedy little b****** these days that try to get money in the most retarded ways. Honestly, I don't think this will affect Microsoft at all as I have never even heard of this other company, so I doubt they can afford lawyers like Microsoft can...

I think it will fall through unless because Microsoft will have about 300 lawyers xD

Lose Microsoft LOSE MWAHAHAHA

....jk i already have kinect and i'd like to use it more and for more than a year
well hopefully when the court case closes it will be when Ps4 or so called xBox 720 is released

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300 ? THIS IS SPARTA
they have billions so say 300,000 lawyers and yes they have for every section about 10K lawyers

i have a kniect but i dont care about micro

if they really had these things patented then they should definitely win, it's the law

Shoulda got a PS3 :megusta:

Wouldn't the Eye Toy (for Ps2) violate the patents?

I hope microsoft loses :carling: