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Nintendo and Pokémon are suing Palworld maker Pocketpair (www.theverge.com)

submitted 2 months ago by RarePossum@programming.dev to c/gaming

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Well that took a while but its finally here.

But also incoming Moon channel video now

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[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Nor the whole idea of capturing opponents to raise them and make them fight for you. That's from 1987 already, from the Shin Megami Tensei series; it predates Pokemon by a fair bit.

[–] t3rmit3 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Except they filed a patent for exactly that recently, so I'm guessing it is for the capture mechanics. It shouldn't pass muster in that case, but Japanese courts be wild (and very pro-Nintendo).

[–] lvxferre@mander.xyz 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I gave it a check. If Pocketpair plays it smart they can make Nintendo look like a herd of muppets in the court, and even potentially acting on bad faith. Pocketpair might also simply change a few elements of its own game through an update, much like PvZ replacing Michael Jackson zombie with a disco zombie.

I'm not even sure how much patents apply to games.

[–] t3rmit3 7 points 2 months ago

I really hope so. The last thing we need is Nintendo deciding that they own every game mechanic they've ever used.