irpacynot

Oh, boo hoo! "We're not the target audience anymore"? Gimmie a break, will ya'? Arcade junkies said the same thing in the late 70s when the Atari 2600 took off -- "death of video games!" You whiners are like a revolt at an old-age home -- "they're discontinuing tapioca pudding -- raid!" Get with the program; stop complaining. The games Nintendo are producing are more fun than ever. Who gives a rat's ass who the "target audience" is?

This doesn't, at all, sound like a frivolous lawsuit. When you pay for something -- which, in this case, was obviously a huge investment -- and the folks you buy the product from decide to use it first, make a ton of money, and then give you your product late to the point of rendering it now useless, that might tend to piss some people off. It's also a form of theft, in the same way that someone at a job is "on the clock," but is standing around doing nothing or something un-job-related.

The jury's still out (it actually isn't even in yet), so we don't know what's true or not. But if the allegations are true, then Silicon Knights has every right in the world for recompense.