Nintendo UK General Manager David Yarnton balked at Sony's recent inclusion of motion-sensing technology for the Playstation 3 controller in an interview with UK publication MCV published Friday.

The electronics giant last week announced that the PS3 controller will include six-axis sensing system to detect controller movement in real-time.

The product was largely seen as an imitation to Nintendo's Wii Remote controller.

Yarton claims that Sony opposed Nintendo's motion-sensing Wii Remote upon its reveal at the Tokyo Games Show last year.

"I’d love to dig up some old Phil Harrison comments and say ‘hang on a second – six months ago when we launched our controller you said one thing, and now why are you doing this?’" said Yarnton. "I don’t know what their decision making process is but I think if you look back, any innovation that has come in gameplay has come from us."

Yarton also struck back at Sony's lack of force feedback in the PS3 controller, claiming the company's strategy to copy and rather than innovate.

Force feedback company Immersion sued Sony and Microsoft in Feb. 2002 for patent infringement related to rumble technologies used in their game controllers. Microsoft settled with Immersion in July 2003 for $26M and rights to use the technology. Sony has appealed a ruling to award Immersion $82M in damages for patent infringement.