I curse patents
This will end badly and will hurt gaming. Remember when Nintendo made modding games illegal in Japan…
Still it would be best for Ninny to lose this one hard.
First: if they won’t there will be more to come for other games, stopping any innovation in this genre.
Second: Their lawsuits are hitting other software developers (see Yuzu/Ryujinx cases), players and content creators and we need some case where they lose so they don’t go even wilder
Nintendo are the baddies
Yet people keep buying from them
Software parents are such absolute horseshit.
I mean if they help children grow when they have no real parents…
Can’t wait for gamers to completely ignore this and buy their next console and pokémon game
Nah fuck them. Got a switch + games. Account hacked. Wrote to tech sup. Nothing but automated answer. Gave that shit away never again
I’ve stopped giving Nintendo money for anything, it’s been about 5 years now.
For reference, the allegedly infringing patents are these:
How do these not apply to the majority of games, these sound so insanely broad. Patents are so stupid.
Sony has a patent for an input device having two data streams at once
usb has more i think.
They only apply to games from Japan. This is the Japanese patent system.
But why in english if it’s (seemingly) domestic only.
Are they mandated to submit in English?
Holy hell.
Even by the standard of “all software patents are nonsense”, these are a fucking joke.
It basically hits any game with mounts or vehicles.
Hold my bacon, one can patent the idea that a game character switches mounts depending on a given state? (Image 3)
Seems like it. So when you come down from the sky on your flying mount and get close to the ground, you swap to a horse mount for example.
How can one patent this… wtf!
Nintendo sues everyone they can because as an IP holder of some seriously valuable properties, everything else in the gaming industry just looks like free real estate for them to colonize. I can make a game called “Dog Fighters” and I’m sure they’ll find a way to tell me they own that idea.
I’m kinda sure Palworld’s devs are ok with this. Makes them not having to finish the early access game, which their studio has like 4 others to finish anyway.
