Post by MasTaFUsionPrime on Mar 10, 2004 0:54:42 GMT -5
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JSR, Feel Free To Move This, Because This Is Not Directly Attentioned To GCN, but All Of Nintendo
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Here Is The Official Aricle From Ningc.com:
Nintendo being sued for seizure attacks
According to the family that's suing Nintendo, they failed to warn about seizure attacks in their games...
The family of St. Martinville Mayor Eric Martin and his son claim that the games Nintendo make contain defects that cause injury.
Richard Flamm, the company's general counsel testified some things Nintendo has done over the years to warn about epilepsy attacks.
Video games don't cause epilepsy or seizures. They are caused by a pre-existing neurological condition.
He also said that Nintendo has placed warnings about seizures in the back of the games and in the consumer booklets that come with each one of them, including the console itself.
Over 1.5 million copies of Star Wars: Episode 1 were sold and they received no complaints about seizure attacks. Nintendo sold 1 million copies of Yoshi's Story and there was only one seizure complaint.
Despite these facts the family still wants Nintendo to fund an anti-epilepsy campaign, rank all games according to their seizure risk, create an epilepsy refund program so that those who got seizures because of their games can get their money back.
This Law Suit should be in favor of Nintendo (they should win)! In the back of your GCN box, warnings are everywhere. Comment About This Here
JSR, Feel Free To Move This, Because This Is Not Directly Attentioned To GCN, but All Of Nintendo
*******************************
Here Is The Official Aricle From Ningc.com:
Nintendo being sued for seizure attacks
According to the family that's suing Nintendo, they failed to warn about seizure attacks in their games...
The family of St. Martinville Mayor Eric Martin and his son claim that the games Nintendo make contain defects that cause injury.
Richard Flamm, the company's general counsel testified some things Nintendo has done over the years to warn about epilepsy attacks.
Video games don't cause epilepsy or seizures. They are caused by a pre-existing neurological condition.
He also said that Nintendo has placed warnings about seizures in the back of the games and in the consumer booklets that come with each one of them, including the console itself.
Over 1.5 million copies of Star Wars: Episode 1 were sold and they received no complaints about seizure attacks. Nintendo sold 1 million copies of Yoshi's Story and there was only one seizure complaint.
Despite these facts the family still wants Nintendo to fund an anti-epilepsy campaign, rank all games according to their seizure risk, create an epilepsy refund program so that those who got seizures because of their games can get their money back.
This Law Suit should be in favor of Nintendo (they should win)! In the back of your GCN box, warnings are everywhere. Comment About This Here
