"Nintendo may be reaching" in its Palworld lawsuit, according to a lawyer who says it's "hard to imagine what patents" the survival game could have infringed upon
Their previous game, Craftopia, which I've actually played unlike Palworld, ripped off even more from botw but it was still a very different game. Kinda felt like it was trying to be every possible type of game at once.
Patents are the reason we don't have mini games during loading screens. The patent is now expired afaik but I guess we just collectively decided we don't care because nobody does it anymore.
If Nintendo can get a court to side with them, then it is totally worth it for them to own an entire genre. As a consumer/gamer, this sucks. There is a reason this game blew up and it has nothing to do with Nintendo.
It's a big deal because this is a patent lawsuit, not a copyright infringement suit. Nintendo isn't accusing Palworld of breaching Pokémon aesthetically or whatever. They are accusing Palworld of breaching their patent of a gameplay mechanic.
Even if this guy isn't the actual lawyer for the case, he's literally still a lawyer, he's not supposed to be imagining shit, his job is to read and reference.
Also weird that he would reference that Pokemon and Palworld are "such different games" if the actual patents in questions aren't known and if Nintendo have not named Pokemon as the game/franchise that contains the infringed patents.
The Pokemon connection just seems to be a conclusion people reached because of external similarities, but Nintendo could just be like naming a Zelda or Mario patent too, whatever they think might stick far enough to scare the Palworld lawyers.
nintendo shouldn't be allowed to sue anyone. I should be allowed to sue the developers of unfunny streambait games that look like shit that i have to hear about for a month.
I wish them the best of luck in this fight that everyone knew they were signing up for. I wonder if they had enough sense to strip everything of value out of the company already.