13/6/08 - It looks like Nyko's nunchuck controllers for the Wii could possibly be getting a whole lot more limited, at least if a recently filed lawsuit plays out the way Nintendo would like. As Bloomberg reports, Nintendo is claiming that Nyko's wireless Kama nunchucks not only infringe on its trademarks for the Nunchuk name and packaging, but that they wholly appropriate the "novel shape, design, overall appearance and even the color and materials used in the Nintendo Nunchuk controller." For its part, Nyko is not surprisingly only saying that it has "not knowingly violated anyone's intellectual property," and that they're "still examining this.

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The nunchuck is an almost exact replica of the Nintendo chuck.

Part of the reason 3rd party controllers aren't shaped like their 1st party counterparts is because of lawsuits like this one. WTF were Nyko thinking? :huh:

Maybe Nintendo is thinking of releasing their own wireless Nunchuk? Hence the lawsuit ..

All these controllers are knock offs of the originals, they HAVE to be to even work.

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Wouldn't that make every third party controller ever made a knock off? Or is it because, as Robert said, most third party controllers are slightly different than the original and if they're not they're infringing on copyright? Still, it seems silly to me to sue someone for supporting your console...

Thing is Dave, 3rd party support for accesories like these, aren't really supporting Nintendo, as they don't pay Nintendo any royalty fees in order to have the device work on the console. It's not like 3rd party software.

So there is no third party wiimotes?

Also, when will Nintendo have an eject button on the wiimote?