[Photo] Miyamoto at the E3 Xbox booth: Notices the "Mii-too's".

No-one was really surprised when Microsoft announced their new avatar system, mainly because they have already been leaked to the net a few weeks beforehand, but also because they looked strangely familiar.

It seems Miyamoto didn't get the memo, and needless to say, he doesn't look to impressed.

"Miyamoto as he realizes Xbox's Avatars are a total rip off of the Miis. "

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RabidChinaGirl | July 20, 2008

Face it, everyone's just copying each other now. I'd be annoyed if I were Miyamoto, but then Microsoft should be getting upset over all the changes to PSN that emulate LIVE (while Sony blatantly makes remarks about how LIVE only has games nobody wants to play, so on, so forth). It's not about originality anymore, just who can do the better job.
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  Final Blade | July 21, 2008
  
  _{Thats not a bad thing, in fact thats a good thing. Which means they have to really think and out due the competition. There's originality but not to the extent your thinking of. Take the Wii-remote the motion sensoring has been done before just didn't work, Nintendo made it work with their hardware.}
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    RabidChinaGirl | July 21, 2008
    
    Nice, someone thumbed me down. Trigger happy little-...
    
    Anyway, I didn't say it was a bad thing. Far from it, I don't think people should really go around pointing fingers about Trophies ripping off Achievements or the new avatars ripping off Mii's (which some people are). Just stating the trend as I see it.
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BANDITO ATTACK | July 20, 2008

while the idea alone is obviously a carbon copy, the M$ avatars don't look a damn thing like Mii's. quit beeitchinnn
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  Capn Droid | July 20, 2008
  
  M$ is smart. If it were exactly the same, Nintendo'd sue.
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    Slumpy monkey | July 20, 2008
    
    Why, Does Nintendo own the idea of a virtual avatar?
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      therealNgamer | July 21, 2008
      
      Because Nintendo was the first to integrate them into video game hardware.
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      Slumpy monkey | July 21, 2008
      
      So what? They have no legal ownership of the idea. Therefore Nintendo have jack to sue for.
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Akira_EX | July 20, 2008

Did you really have to copy the GAF title? Really?
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  Cruxis Mana | July 20, 2008
  
  I don't have a very good imagination ='[
  
  ... Plus it was fairly humorous, as are most things from GAF.
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Zeon I | July 20, 2008

Microsoft Avatars > Mii's, tbh. I'm saying this after I made like 50 celebrity Mii's, too.

Well, at least on Microsoft's, I can put Chuck Norris in a Cowboy suit and call him Walker, Texas Ranger.
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therealNgamer | July 21, 2008

Why is that Microsoft representative rapping at Miyamoto in the second image?
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therealNgamer | July 22, 2008

quote slumpy monkey
So what? They have no legal ownership of the idea. Therefore Nintendo have jack to sue for.
I never said Nintendo has the right to sue. I'm merely asserting the fact that Nintendo was the first video game company to integrate virtual avatars into their hardware interface so it's blatantly obvious that after Microsoft does the same thing, they got the idea from Nintendo. Sure, Nintendo can't sue, but that doesn't mean that Microsoft didn't rip the idea from them.

Also, sorry for the double post-Grep wouldn't let me reply to slumpy monkey's comment.