Nintendo sued over seizures.

these people are just tryign to get money. Nintendo is very good about warning people about seizures. Heck, if Nintendo gets in trouble for this, then MS and Sony are screwed since they do even less.

On the first page of EVERY instruction book for nearly EVERY game, there is a whole paragraph warning about epilepsy and that those who are prone to seizures should consult a doctor before playing. Nearly EVERY game; even Playstation games. They have been printing the same blurb since the NES days.

Sounds like something my bitch of a stepmom would do. Heh.

They have a warning on page three in the manual. It’s not Nintendo’s fault that people don’t read the manual.

Nintendo takes it a step further with the GC by having warnings on the back of the box.

BULL$H!T

I was thinking, it would be really bad if this goes through since it would set a precidence of being able to sue any company because their product could be harmful. This would be especially bad since this only affects a few select people who already have a condition. Not only that, but those same people can eba ffected by many other things, other than games. Such as the article says that even certain wall papers can cause this.

This is jsut great: “They want Haik to order Nintendo to put warnings about the possibility of video games triggering seizures on the video game packages and on the screen while the game is in use, court documents indicate.”

On the screen!? That’ll ruin video games. Nintendo and companies would be run out of business since people wouldn’t want to see a nice big warning on the screen while in use. Packages? Uh, Nintendo already deos that. Maybe if they actually followed their suggestion, this wouldn’t have happened.

This would be bad to pass. Everythign that could cause seizures would have to be labeled, such as wallpapers and TV shows. Things like tobacco products would have to have huge labels saying that it could cause cancer. With their thing about putting a warning while in sue of the game, the tobacco industry would have to put the surgeon general’ warnign each individual cgarette and other prodcuts to make sure that people know and those products affect people way more than games causing seizures. I’d be surprised anyway if it did pass. By this demand, fast food places would have to label all their food in wrappers saying that this food causes obeisity. Not very attractive.

This is just great: “They want Haik to order Nintendo to put warnings about the possibility of video games triggering seizures on the video game packages and on the screen while the game is in use, court documents indicate.”
Why? Those messages didn’t stop me from playing games, and they sure as hell wont stop anyone else. It has nothing to do with the messages anyway. If a kid has a seizure, he has a seizure. It’s not like they have timed “seizure attacks” programmed into their games.

Like you said, it’s just people wanting money.

I’m talking about the message on the screen while the game is in use. I don’t know about you, but I really don’t want a nice red “Warning thsi game can cause seizures” message in the corner of my screen while I’m playing a game. It would ruin the environment and modd of the game, take-up unecessary sceen space, and being jsut plain annoying. The warnigns don’t scare me off either, it would just be the in-game message that would piss me off.

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Originally posted by Infonick
I’m talking about the message on the screen while the game is in use. I don’t know about you, but I really don’t want a nice red “Warning thsi game can cause seizures” message in the corner of my screen while I’m playing a game. It would ruin the environment and modd of the game, take-up unecessary sceen space, and being jsut plain annoying. The warnigns don’t scare me off either, it would just be the in-game message that would piss me off.
I was talking about the on-screen one too, kinda. But, there’s already messages in the manual. At the very most they could put one before the title screen when they show all the logos and stuff. Other than that, there’d be no point. It’d only ruin the game. I don’t think having “Warning: This game may cause seizures. Oh wait, I should’ve told you that BEFORE I showed you all the flashing lights.” slapped onto the corner of the screen will do any good. If it’ll make one or two less people have siezures, then I’d be glad to wait an extra 5 seconds at the beginning of a game for a warning message. But they’re not going to have an on-screen one. It’d never follow through.

And as for the people trying to sue Nintendo, it was their responsibility to determine if their child was prone to seizures or not. It was not in the good will of Nintendo to give the same people they’re trying to entertain a seizure. The warning message is plastered all over their hardware, so they have no excuse other than their own ignorance. It’ll break my heart if Nintendo gets ordered to compensate for the stupidity of a couple of greedy bastards.

Who cares. It’s not like these people will win.

They want Haik to order Nintendo to put warnings about the possibility of video games triggering seizures on the video game packages and on the screen while the game is in use, court documents indicate.

Fat chance. I can see the court room now.

Family representative: “Nintendo are negligent! They are a danger to society! They are quite willing to let eplieptic children play their games without a care in the world for their health!”

Judge: “Read page 3 of the instruction manual.”

Rep: “…Fuck.”

Originally posted by Hades Shinigami
[b]I was talking about the on-screen one too, kinda. But, there’s already messages in the manual. At the very most they could put one before the title screen when they show all the logos and stuff. Other than that, there’d be no point. It’d only ruin the game. I don’t think having “Warning: This game may cause seizures. Oh wait, I should’ve told you that BEFORE I showed you all the flashing lights.” slapped onto the corner of the screen will do any good. If it’ll make one or two less people have siezures, then I’d be glad to wait an extra 5 seconds at the beginning of a game for a warning message. But they’re not going to have an on-screen one. It’d never follow through.

And as for the people trying to sue Nintendo, it was their responsibility to determine if their child was prone to seizures or not. It was not in the good will of Nintendo to give the same people they’re trying to entertain a seizure. The warning message is plastered all over their hardware, so they have no excuse other than their own ignorance. It’ll break my heart if Nintendo gets ordered to compensate for the stupidity of a couple of greedy bastards. [/b]

One at the beginning would be fine, I just wouldn’t want it while I’m actually playing it. Good point about it not being in Nintendo’s interest to give its customers seizures.

This is bullshit

Bullshit. Pull out any Nintendo game and open up the manual to page 3.

Page 3 always includes…

Warnings for Copyright infringement
All events and characters are fictitious (Not included in sports games)
May provoke seizures in people with epilepsy

If this passes… oh man…

No way it will, though. Games already have the warning in the instruction, all that’s left to do is put the message at the game startup (or for PC games, during installation as well).

Having to put the message while playing the games would cause so much unrest from developers everywhere, it would make the judges want to commit suicide.

You know, when I had my first epileptic seizure, EVERYONE in my family was sure it was due to my video game playing. To be fair, I HAD spent the previous four days playing Dragon Warrior 7 almost nonstop (it was during Xmas vacations). Then again, my family (my older sister, mainly) has always disapproved of my “inappropiate” activities (for an adult, that is) and this seemed to prove them right.

However, after several tests (including a visual-estimulation test) it was resolved that I did NOT have photosensitive epilepsy. And, for several months, I seemed OK. (I decided NEVER to play any such gaming marathons ever again, just in case.)

Sadly, I started having seizures more regularly last summer. But, at least this time video games could not be blamed. And, the pills I’ve been taking have them under almost complete control.

So no, I don’t believe that video games cause seizures, UNLESS you ALREADY have epilepsy, of the photosensitive type. And it is our responsability to be careful, video games already have enough warnings.

But try telling that to cynical and/or greedy people.

:noway:

They want Nintendo to rank all games according to the seizure risk, reformat all its games to reduce the chance of seizures, fund a nationwide advertising campaign to inform the public about the chance of seizures, allow all game owners to trade high seizure risk games in for low seizure risk games and to establish a refund program so everyone with Nintendo games can get their money back, court documents indicate.

Can we say bankrupt? These measures are a bit beyond extreme. The ranking is whatever nobody will care. Reformating every game in their library alone would be next to impossible seeing as there isn’t some control panel in every game with a seizure dial, and just the act of having to go in to go in and make graphical fixes to every games lighing and textures is absurd. Trade in games? not only does that hurt nintendo, it hurts stores too assuming you can trade in at stores. A refund program, would devistate the company too. I feel bad for the what was it 6 people a year? But frankly there are 15-20 million people that aren’t having seizures thats like .0000004% of the consumers. It feels like they are trying to take Nintendo down rather than help anyone.