These bitches sat on their laurels for so long we’re done waiting. Its happening everywhere. Haste should have been thought up by Sega but they suck now. Palworld should have been on the sheets at Nintendo before anyone else could spit that out. But no, so the old blood is pissed because they can’t just sit fat anymore. People want these games and they are making them without the companies who refuse to make them.
To put the potential $30k settlement into context, Nintendo’s most recent annual report stated that it had made a $40m loss from patent litigation in its last business year.
Hey guys, I think I just figured out why first party Switch 2 games are $80 now.
You think $40 million is a dent in Nintendo?
Patents can be struck void if you don’t attempt to defend them. Paying $40 million to have the world once again say “ok Nintendo does have patent on that simple mechanic” is a steal.
Pretty sure it’s only trademarks that get voided if undefended.
Good. Those litigious little nerds should get back to making their overpriced crap.
Nearly 10 year old Switch games still having a $59.99 price tag is the real crime.
Last time I checked they were free on PC
yup still free
Why would Nintendo get anything? They were suing based on mechanics they stole from other games to make Pokemon
Let’s not completely forget they were suing based on patents that they filed after palworld was created for mechanics in palworld.
Which were just patents made based on extensions of previous patents and were dubious to begin with.
Which would be?
Using creatures to battle for you (Shin Megami Tensei), riding on creatures, etc.
The only one they mildly have a claim on is catching the creatures in magic balls, which is predated thousands of years by superstitious beliefs that you could trap evil spirits inside of crystals and other various rituals humans came up with.
Nope. The throw-ball-to-catch-creature, in the specific way it was defined by the patent, already existed in Craftopia (also made by Pocketpair) well before the patent
Creature capturing, battling, and riding weren’t directly under contention and are still in the game. The major features that got removed due to the lawsuit were being able to aim where you summon Pals (which Nintendo alleged violated a patent related to using a combination of a control stick and a button to summon a support character) and being able to see some Pals as gliders (which Nintendo alleged violated a patent related to automatically switching mounts or something). I’m sure there was a third patent I’m currently forgetting about, but whatever it was it doesn’t seem to cover anything that’s still in the game, because Nintendo amended their claim to only cover the time before the changes got made.
Nintendo would dearly love to be able to patent monster battling, etc. but all they’ve actually managed so far is to chip away at minor features.
And even if SMT demons aren’t the same as monsters, I recall DQ5 literally having captured monsters. That’s '92.
Eat shit, Nintendo
Winning the lawsuit would have just been the cherry on top. The injunctions already did all the damage that they needed to.
Hopefully mods can restore the sphere throwing animations
