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Buzz! boss "flattered" by Microsoft's Scene It? copycat controller

The boss of Buzz! developer Relentless Software says he's flattered by the controller accompanying Microsoft's Scene It? Xbox 360 quiz game, which bears a remarkable resemblance to Buzz!'s own big-button peripheral.

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MaximusPrime - 799 days 23 hours ago

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Sony and Relentless Software should sue Microsoft. We all know that it is a copycat when it was announced.

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marinelife9 - 799 days 20 hours ago

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I don't think its going to matter because no one is going to care about the game.

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1.2 360_Rules | 799 days 16 hours ago - User only got 1 bubble - Show

doomsonyman - 799 days 23 hours ago

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microsoft has no shame

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power of Green - 799 days 23 hours ago

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PS3's design is based from XBOX and Xbox 360 they need to work on the online and SKU's thought!, PS3's "xbox like" functionality is coming along though.

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nice_cuppa - 799 days 23 hours ago

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3 - first guy to put red, green, yellow and blue buttons on remotes for tv,dvd games

says he's flattered by Buzz!'s big-button peripheral.

lets be real.

i have had remotes years before buzz with 4 colored buttons for quiz games.

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SimmoUK - 799 days 23 hours ago

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it looks exactly the same apart from they have round buttons instead of the longer rectangle ones which will be harder to select in a high speed game, complete copy of idea and controller they should sue for sure...

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nice_cuppa - 799 days 22 hours ago

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5 - number 3 makes a good point !

; )

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nice_cuppa - 799 days 22 hours ago

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5.1 - murr i am wrong and have no reply

i know....

i can press this button ha.

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

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Kylen08 - 799 days 22 hours ago

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hmm first time i saw this it seamed like a joke, MS are making me laugh:)

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fredy - 799 days 22 hours ago

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7 - ha thats like saying

Sony copied the snes controller but different shape with the Ps1.

blah blah blah...everything builds on its predecessor...

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7.1 DaEnforcer | 799 days 22 hours ago - User only got 1 bubble - Show

fredy - 799 days 22 hours ago

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7.2 - wtf you talking about

like they say the snes controller is the most influential. do your research will ya.

http://www.shamoozal.com/ne...

everyone copies someone...all im saying. different variations later on down the line.

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ShiftyLookingCow - 799 days 22 hours ago

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Caveman is flattered by how people have come to love and copy his invention ... Wheels

just kidding, seriously I don't care and I shouldn't be posting here

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Syko 360 - 799 days 22 hours ago

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It's a slow news day when people are in here flaming over this...Geez!

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power of Green - 799 days 22 hours ago

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10 - LOL

You dissagreed with my post. PS3 does or will do everything the 360 already does from this generation not from past generations(example MSFT comes out with HOME-like service and new 360 PS3-like motion controller).

#2 clowns on the natural evolution of harware ignoring that PS3 would Have 5th generation capabilities and function if it wern't for XBOX consoles.

Sony has no shame?.

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HBK - 799 days 21 hours ago

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The only big copycat is Sony, shame on them.

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DrRage77 - 799 days 21 hours ago

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if we go down this road, then microsoft should be flattered and sue sony for ripping off it's idea of using a harddrive inside of a gaming console.....lets not start stupid arguments like this since everyone has taken ideas from someone else and improved upon them.

Atari and Nintendo should be suing the pants off of everyone else if people draw the lines back to where the actual innovations for gaming came from....

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eagle21 - 799 days 21 hours ago

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13 - Phil Harrison has a picture of miyamoto playing playstation eye in 2003.

Nintendo steals from Sony and Microsoft ripped off buzz, point blank. So what? Why defend the truth. All these things come to light but competition is competition. Sony will not get mad, they compete. Same as Nintendo. No one has a dual touch screen, but when they do. ding ding!

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DeZimatoR - 799 days 21 hours ago

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14 - LOL Pile of Garbage!

Man that was weak...even by your standarts!

WTF was that about?!

MS copied Buzz's controllers, its a fact. If it was Sony though, this news would get 100 comments in less than a hour...because, y'know, Sony is 'teh evilz'! ;)

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Nameless - 799 days 20 hours ago

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You Sony Droids are acting like Sony is not guilty of copying other ideas. Shut the hell up

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Gahigiddy - 799 days 19 hours ago

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Aww poor baby. You can bi+ch about Sony in "Sony iz copy" posts. This is about MS blatantly ripping off Buzz i.e. not inspired by or based on, ripped off.

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mighty_douche - 799 days 20 hours ago

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16 - M$ COPYING SONY?!?!?

oh say it isnt so, M$ never copy anyone do they? arent the always the pioneers of new tech??? lol who care, buzzTV will own any rip off M$ come up with.

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PimpHandHappy - 799 days 19 hours ago

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17 - Sony doesnt copy

they look ahead and then make it happen! MS doesnt copy. They use ur idea and say its there own.

kinda like Windows OS

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DrRage77 - 799 days 18 hours ago

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so how far did they have to look when they saw microsoft use a harddrive inside a gaming console and then put one in themselves AFTERWARDS??

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Apocalypse Shadow - 799 days 17 hours ago

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sony had a bay for a hard drive well before microsoft released the xbox. http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

it is microsoft that copied the dualshock controller.they didn't copy sega's or nintendo's controller.

it is microsoft copying a system that plays cds and dvd movies.(xbox)

it is microsoft that copied the same target audience sony targeted(17-34)

it is microsoft that took sony's ideas of distributing content to gamers of music,movies and games.they just got it out first because sony was lolligagging with ps2.(cool word)and the hard drive tanked just like every add-on.

it is microsoft that tasks its developers to make games similar to sony's games like forza to GT.

copied sony's camera(eyetoy)

and besides all the other copying,microsoft copied the buzz controller.and next,they will copy something like singstar or motion control.

mag lev.......................

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