14 DAY TRIAL // Here's one to keep us going for a while. Word on the Internet is that the control system for Nintendo's Wii has actually been invented some eight years ago and not by a Nintendo guy, but by a Midway guy. Patrick Goschy hasn't sued the manufacturers of the Wii yet (claiming he is afraid) but he has chosen to go public with his story, as a first step in getting the credit he says he deserves for inventing the motion-sensitive controller for use with video games.
It doesn't take a smart person to see the incredible similarities between the Wii controllers (Wii Remote and Nunchuck) and the ones Goschy uses in the video below (not for young girls or jolly fellows). The fact that Pat had come up with the solution for an intuitive controller which later on probably became the Wii Remote and Nunchuck as we know them isn't even the big issue here. Why? Here's why.
Anyone could have thought of a motion sensing control system. That certainly doesn't make Goschy a mere Midway ex-employee. The man had vision indeed. With the passing of every generation in electronics, control addresses human senses in more diverse yet intuitive ways. We're left to believe that one day we'll be able to control a character on-screen using technology that reads and interprets brain waves. What seems to keep Goschy's story together is indeed his initiative to go public with it, let alone the proof that Midway was considering his ideas.
The fact that he got laid off just 5 months after speaking with the "black suits" at Midway about his project doesn't help Midway and Nintendo either. In fact, the latter even responded to the accusations in an interview with MyFox Chicago: "Mr. Goschy did not invent this technology or its use with video games". Yet the man does go as far as filming himself close to butt naked about it... "It is irresponsible to report or suggest that this invention relates in any way to the Wii System". Yet Goschy uses two very similar controllers in his video, one of which actually sports an analog stick just like the Nunchuck.
Not saying that the ex Midway guy is telling the truth here, but it certainly looks that way. What say you dear reader?