OnLive comes to Ouya, Controller Makes Full Frontal Debut

Re:OnLive comes to Ouya, Controller Makes Full Frontal Debut by teamonkey on Friday July 27, 2012 @10:32AM (#4301582)

Personal opinion about game controllers aside, I'm worried about infringement. Game controllers are heavily patented and designmarked and their design is as much about avoiding legal pitfalls as making a good input device.

Similarly, doesn't their console UI look dangerously close to the current Xbox dashboard? Surely this infringes on Metro in a big way?

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Re:OnLive comes to Ouya, Controller Makes Full Frontal Debut by drharris on Friday July 27, 2012 @10:52AM (#4301683)

Metro is a design philosophy, not anything that can be infringed. Microsoft is actually heavily evangelizing Metro, and would probably be pleased to see the competition playing catch-up for once. That said, individual interactions can be patented, and OUYA would definitely have to steer clear of this. I would say the biggest issue might be the colored button graphics representing the actions to perform; this looks and feels like Xbox, and would probably be a grey area for sure.

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