It has come to light that Nintendo now has three years to use the Eternal Darkness IP or it could lose the trademark. The information was uncovered via a USPTO TSDR. Nintendo has been renewing the Eternal Darkness trademark for years, but has yet to announce a new game based on the acclaimed IP.
Thanks Mike S and Retrogaminglord
shadow of the eternals..
Shadows isn’t an official sequel. It gets around the trademark by never actually using any names or characters from Eternal Darkness. Hence the title is not Eternal Darkness 2: the [blank]ening or some such.
thx captain obvious
Use it or lose it!
Alright Nintendo, lets see Eternal Darkness for the Nintendo 3DS and maybe Wii U. I say that, because I want the game to actually sell. Plus Resident Evil Revelations worked perfectly for the Nintendo 3DS, so there’s some proof that it could work perfectly fine.
*nintendo has 3 years to renew the ip.
Buy fucking shadow of the eternal or make a fucking sequel!!!!
So… If Nintendo wants to keep the IP, they have to announce a new use of the IP in the next three years?
Release it on the Virtual Console – done.
Make a sequel – even better.
Both – yay.
^ This.
Hopefully this will be the kick in the pants Nintendo needs.
Nintendo for the love of the Great Luigi, PLEASE USE THIS
It’s an opportunity to make a hardcore game for the Wii U.
Put the first one on Virtual Console and plan a sequel!
THE DARKNESS MUST RETURN!!!!!!! HUGS!!!!!
Well Nintendo, we all on the interwebs know now, make a move or lose one of your most asked for IPs
I think a new Eternal Darkness game on Wii U would be awesome and probably boost sales. Think of all the sweet new Sanity Effects that could be issued in HD and on the GamePad… or in 3D (on 3DS).
Nintendo’s Eternal Darkness:
– Takes place in daylight.
– No blood
– No violence.
– Everyone becomes friends.
– No swearing
– No screenshots to Miiverse
– Delayed till 2016
Yay. Can’t wait.
Lol, sad but true.
Forgot to log back in. God damnit.
I know you are joking but i dont believe Nintendo would do that to Eternal Darkness. What i believe is that if they use the ip, they either let some other dev that is experienced doing games like this to develop a sequel or they do a remake/virtual console release or then they lose it. Things are definately gettin interesting though.
troll
only smash is showing pictures on miiverse and they are 2 years in development.
lol. no. likely 2015.
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2015 a new game…………
Nintendo, this would make for a brilliant Wii U game that would boost sales. You have the trademark, you gotta use use it!!
Hopefully they make a new Eternal Darkness, or qt least put the original in the virtual console or remake it in HD. Anything. Nintendo have so many fantastic IP’s that they sadly chose to completely ignore. It’s heartbreaking.
I would settle for an HD remake
You have to make a game of a trademark or else it will just go away automatically? I’m confused.
Nintendo can release the game on the Wii U as a VC, then make a sequel