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Palworld Developer Reveals The Pokémon Patents Nintendo Claims It's Violating (kotaku.com)

submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Looking up those patents, the first alludes to a system where a player aims and fires an “item” toward a character in a field, and in doing so triggers combat, and then dives into extraordinary intricacies about switching between modes within this. The second is very similar, but seems more directly focused on tweaking previous patents to including being able to capture Pokémon in the wild, rather than only during battle. The third, rather wildly, seems to be trying to claim a modification to the invention of riding creatures in an open world and being able to transition between them easily.

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[+] [email protected] -14 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Not sure why you got downvoted, you're absolutely right. While Nintendo is prolific in this subject, they're far from unique.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

There are many developers (indie, AA and even AAA) who don't engage in this BS. They focus on ... wait for it ... making good fun games that sell well!

Imagine that!

Far from unique is irrelevant.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

How many of those developers are also hardware manufacturers, though? Because that's what we're talking about.

The Big Three all do this.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

From the relevant thread comment:

All consoles and** developers**.

Valve to my knowledge doesn't engage in patent trolling and so it's not all hardware manufacturers.

And even with Sony and Microsoft? Do they engage in bottom of the barrel patent trolling? If anything MS has definitely been on the receiving end of patent trolls. Do they go after people who stream/make video content with their games?

Don't get me wrong, I am not defending Sony or Microsoft. But it's a bit strange to engage in volunteer PR for a company just because you're a fan of the Mario series (not saying this applies to you, but this is not an unreasonable statement with respect to Nintendo fans in general).