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Palworld confirms ‘disappointing’ game changes forced by Pokémon lawsuit (www.videogameschronicle.com)
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With the implementation of Patch v0.5.5 this week, we must make yet another compromise. From this patch onward, gliding will be performed using a glider rather than with Pals. Pals in the player’s team will still provide passive buffs to gliding, but players will now need to have a glider in their inventory in order to glide.

How lame. Japan needs to fix its patent laws, it's ridiculous Nintendo owns the simple concept of using an animal to fly.

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[–] Robust_Mirror@aussie.zone 1 points 22 hours ago

I don't think Nintendo has as many die hards as you think. The wii and switch had over 100 million sales. The wii u had 13 million.

Now look at switch game sales, scroll past their major IPs and pokemon games, and once again the sales show around 13 million or less.

On wii u mario kart had 8 million sales, and not one other game passed 6 million.

The wii, wii u and switch all had around 3 million sales in their first quarter and didn't really pass that 13 million mark in their first year.

If only die hard fans that buy no matter what buy it, I think it absolutely will be a problem for them. And I think it has a real chance of happening. Half my casual gamer friends didn't even know switch 2 was a thing, and the ones that did know about it said they haven't seen any reason to get it yet, especially at the prices they're seeing.

The reality is, the family and casual markets are what carried them whether they like it or not. Not the rabbid fans. And like with the wii u, if they don't appeal to those markets properly, they won't sell well.