Surely not. Surely it can't be true. This can't be anything other than a bad, bad dream. A dream where Microsoft has turned into a blatant rip-off merchant, set to lower itself to outright thievery to gain dominance in the console market.

Or not, as the case may be. Site 8bitjoystick is reporting that it's really true, it's in development, and its codename is 'Newton'. Legally, Microsoft is fine doing all this - it's licensed the technology from a company named Gyration, whom Nintendo invested in a while back and licensed various patents for their Wii remote. So Nintendo doesn't own the patents, meaning that Microsoft is absolutely free to do as it pleases with the tech.

It just seems very, very cheeky and not a little cheap to me. Whether it will help MS capture that elusive casual market remains to be seen. But I'm convinced that we'll see some utterly cringe-making adverts desperately attempting to ape Wii's hugely successful 'lifestyle' marketing, and a raft of worthless minigame compilations that singularly fail to understand why the Wii works as an alternative to the 360.

Wii60 is a great combination - I just think MS should stick to its strengths in providing the best software line-up of the current console generation (and surely even the most ardent fanboy can't deny the 360's quality in this respect) without resorting to this degrading nonsense.

Source: 8bitjoystick via Videogaming247

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