More details have come out about the palworld-nintendo lawsuit, such as which if the many arbitrary patents they "violated" and the total sum
The sum is for some $32k per violated patent , so a total of a near $100k including any fees and an injunction against further sales of the game.
The patents are r-slurred, vague and in some ways already done by games that existed before any filings.
https://patents.google.com/patent/JP7545191B1/en
One involves "aiming" objects in real time in a virtual space during combat and firing it, or generally firing an object in virtual space.
https://patents.google.com/patent/JP7493117B2/en?oq=7493117
The second is just a 20 page Japanese document
https://patents.google.com/patent/JP7528390B2/en
The third seems to simply be RIDING CREATURES IN A VIRTUAL SPACE!
All of these patents were applied for in early 2024 and finally registered in late August, and all applied for AFTER PALWORLDS RELEASE
Total Nintendo Death
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If this works for them won't this just nuke the entire video game industry on a legal basis
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No because Nintendo only brings out the big guns when they get pissed. They are pissed because Sony is trying to turn palworld from just one Indie game into a whole media franchise of anime, cards, and merch. Pokemon is not the most profitable franchise in the world because of video games it's because of toys and plushies and underwear and lunchboxes and cards and notebooks and socks and all that junk.
!g*mers TLDR: Sony is trying to turn palworld into a true Pokemon rival with all the anime and merch, but Nintendo thinks they are entitled to a monopoly so they are using shady legal tactics to nip it in the bud before Sony can develop it.
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Which is crazy because everyone stopped giving a shit about Palworld 3 months after release.
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3 hours after playing it
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and with the financial backing of Sony and Aniplex (ever wonder why palworld ads have such good animation) they will be able to make anime to rival Pokemon's and heavily merchandise. This is why Nintendo has only gone after palworld and not other poke-likes: it's actively a threat to their real business model. If a kid thinks the palworld socks look cooler then Pokemon socks that's way more dangerous to their monopoly then just being an indie game.
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Already kind of happened, there were loads of patents people were afraid of violating in the early 2000s like renderware days. Like the crazy taxi arrow
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Crazy Taxi arrow, non-shit DPads, mini games in loading screens, and now the Nemesis system from Shadow of Mordor.
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Eh, I actually miss disk d-pads.
(Microswitched obv. Not that horrible crap that XBOX used to fart out)
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Didn't US at least crackdown on grifting Patent copyrights?
I remember that company were hit with random lolsuits and just settled because it was cheaper
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I'm still surprised that they never sued anyone on that z-targeting patent.
I suppose that it would only frick them over. They're the only ones that always insist on having really shitty second sticks (or just DEDICATED CAMERA BUTTONS
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I honestly hope Nintendo goes back and brings up lawsuits for every FPS ever made.
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yes
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