
When a console comes to the end of its life-cycle, or in a worst-case scenario breaks down, what do you do? Well to some people the answer would be to sell it at trade events or on eBay; but in some extremely rare cases people tend to modify the console and use it for something else.

The rejection is non-final (and even when such rejections are labeled as “final”, the process is far from over, given that there can be, at minimum, an appeal to the Federal Circuit).
Good, as they should! A game mechanic like that shouldn't be locked behind a patent, and Nintendo didn't invent it either.
Nintendo wants to keep wasting money on bullshit lawsuits, real smart in this economy. They should put that money aside for other game projects. On the other hand, I don't care if they waste it all either, and they are screwed in the future maybe that will teach them a lesson.

Nintendo completed its share repurchase and set its secondary offering price at 8,347 yen ahead of March 16 delivery.

Nintendo filed a lawsuit in the United States Court of International Trade.
Nintendo of America is suing the United States government over the sweeping tariffs President Donald Trump put in place last year, according to a complaint filed Friday in the U.S. Court of International Trade and obtained by Aftermath.
LOL I read this on gaff, will they refund the money back to the gamers? highly unlikely. Didn't they just raise prices and pass it onto the gamers? Only Nintendo would send out the Ninjas to the US government.
The docks and the tissue dispenser were dumb, but the headphones and usb drive were creative.
I hope no one reads this destructive article. People like me who collect these old systems need as many models floating around on market as we can get, working or no. Even empty NES cases are gold.
This article is arguing the same thing as if I said "oh your 1969 Ferrari doesn't run? Don't try to fix it or sell it to someone who will, turn it into a grill!"
My favorite use for old Nintendo hardware is playing games.
I would imagine that if you turned your console into a tissue dispenser you'd need to buy tissues a lot more often, because any time a gamer came over to your house and saw what you'd done they would cry.