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In an interesting turn of events, our wiimote wielding friends over at Nintendo are being sued for $21 million, you would think that this is something about the the wiimote but its not, it is instead about the Gamecube controller and its brethren the Wavebird and the Wii classic controller.

From what I’ve been able to gather Nintendo is pretty cool about the chunk of change they are forking out, so it should go down fairly smooth.

People are also speculating that this lawsuit may be the reason that the Wavebird was taken off the shelves, so maybe after this all settles down Nintendo will start making them again?

Who knows for sure, but until then check out what other people are saying

Nintendo Billed $21 Million For Patent Infringement [Law] - A federal jury has ordered Nintendo to pay Anascape $21 million for infringing on patents, and almost ironically, all of this has nothing to do with the Wiimote. Instead, their violations were for the GameCube, WaveBird and Wii Classic …

Update: Nintendo ordered to pay Anascape $$$ - The two year long Anascape patent infringement suit has finally been settled. Nintendo has been ordered to pay Anascape $21 million to cover their “patent losses”. A snippet of the official statement below… The jury found that Nintendo …

Nintendo ordered to pay $21 million to patent troll - Remember Anascape Ltd, the little “gaming company” which sued Microsoft and Nintendo back in 2006 for controller patent infringement? Well, it’s payday to the tune of $21 million after a jury found Nintendo’s Wii Classic, WaveBird, …

Nintendo Loses $21 Million In Controller Patent Case - Nintendo has been ordered to pay $21 million to Anascape for patent infringement. 12 patents were under dispute, all based on the force feedback properties of the Gamecube pad. MS had already settled for an undisclosed sum.