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The New York Times posted a good overview of the mixture of technologies that have made the Wii (and the Wiimote, in particular) such a sensation. Not a ton of detail here, but a good 50,000 foot view of what’s happening inside the Wiimote.

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Matt Richtel in the New York Times has a piece discussing Nintendo’s efforts to “Rein in the ‘Wiimote’” amidst customer complaints, bad press and perhaps the threats of lawsuits. Hidden at the bottom of this piece is the simple fact that the Wii is a runaway success, thus far, for Nintendo, with sales in November that were more than double those of the PS3 and nearly matching the more widely distributed and available Xbox 360 for the month.

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CNET has picked up on the lawsuit filed in federal court in Delaware by a company called Interlink

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, claiming that the Wii’s new motion sensing controller is infringing on its patents. We suspect that this is an area which will heat up over time, as other companies with intellectual property in this space come to the fore.
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