Gaming

Nintendo and The Pokémon Company filed a lawsuit against Pocketpair in Japan last year, alleging that Palworld infringes on three patents that are related to monster catching gameplay, including summoning Pals by throwing Pal Spheres, and using Pals as vehicles like gliders.

Indication of how protective vs aggressive Nintendo uses it's patents.

How similar vs novel do you feel pal world is to Pokemon?

Just want to remind everyone that PalWorld is a really good game. Its still getting major updates and has an insane amount of high quality content to explore.

lol what a fucking joke

The patent system is broken as fuck.

Once again, showing why Nintendo is a POS company.

Compete by making better games and stories, not by patenting basic role playing game mechanics and suing your competition.

Fuck Nintendo.

Specifically, the patent describes a situation where:

• A console or other system is being used to run a video game from storage
• The player controls a character in a “virtual space”
• The player can perform an input command to make a “sub character” appear (i.e. summon another character)
• If there’s an enemy where the sub character appears, the player can control a battle between the sub character and the enemy
• If there’s no enemy where the sub character appears, the sub character will automatically move around
• The player can move the sub character to a different location on the field, and if an enemy is there they can control a battle between the sub character and the enemy

Fuck Nintendo!

Did they ask Digimon when they made the patent?

Man fuck nintendo

Wonder what Blizzard thinks of this.

You can expect they will only "enforce" this with a competitor that gets too popular and all the other niche indie games like a cassette Beasts and TemTem they will leave alone

Amma try summon demons irl to battle each other and get Nintendo to sue me for the most excellent court case.