“Call it the clash of the titans,” Damon Brown reports for The New York Post.
“Two of the hottest tech companies – Nintendo and Apple – appeared headed for a showdown after Nintendo moved to patent its tilt sensitivity on its best-selling portable system, Nintendo DS – essentially to turn it into mobile Nintendo Wii,” Brown reports.
“That sounds a lot like the motion-based accelerometer in this year’s other media darling, the iPhone,” Brown reports.
“Meanwhile, Apple has been secretly plotting its foray into portable video games for months, looking to add games to its hot iPhone, according to various on- and off-the-record sources,” Brown reports. “…If so, that would put the two tech titans in direct competition.”
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