Nintendo has made a lot of money from the Wii, but sometimes all good things must come to an end. In Nintendo’s case, it must now pay $21 million to Texas company Anascape. The small gaming company specializes in making game controllers and Nintendo’s classic controllers were invented and patented by it.

Anascape sued Nintendo for using its patent in 2005 and now a federal jury has ruled against Nintendo, determining that the company should pay $21 million in damages to Anascape. Even for a company such as Nintendo this is not a small amount and would likely have been even more had the Nunchuk been involved too.

Anascape also sued Microsoft for the same reason, and PORTALIT explains what happened.

Microsoft chose the quick way out of the conflict and quietly settled with Anascape out of court. The terms of the settlement were not disclosed to the public. Nintendo chose to carry on and it was now left with a hefty bill.

Nintendo isn’y going to give up and doesn’t plan to leave court anytime soon. Here’s what Bloomberg reports.

The company expects the trial court to “promptly reduce the dollar amount of the verdict significantly” because it wasn’t calculated correctly, spokesman Charlie Scibetta said in an e-mailed statement.

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