Nintendo is determined that Palworld won’t become a successfully large franchise and has taken steps to quickly try to obtain a patent for a Poke Ball-style capture-and-release mechanic for touchscreen devices ahead of the release of Palworld on mobile platforms. While the Kyoto-based company has been trying to fast track the patent they have been unsuccessful so far in their attempts. Kotaku says that Japan’s Patent Office has denied the application because it doesn’t include an “inventive step” or add any sort of new innovation beyond already common, established mechanics. They will appeal this.
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You cannot be serious, this is genuinely pathetic.
Yes, palworld is pathetic and i’m not even that big fan of Pokémon.
Palworld is a great game if you played it “Kid” or probably in your case “Man Child”
Kudos for describing me so well.
Now take this 🍭 as your reward.
Put the fries in the bag.
There’s always the one guy who just hates how his daddy company is crashing out and has to pretend he understands what behavior constitutes “pathetic”. Our man is projecting, let him be mad in the corner with his pikachu plushie.
nintendo is giving sore loser vibes
jk
My gosh, leave Palworld alone! This is so stupid.
got to agree i played pslwotld and its way better than pokemon. its about time pikachu and the frachise retired!
This is just sad.
My headcanon is that this is all initiated from the Pokemon Company and Nintendo just has to go along with it.
Screw Nintendo for this really, they are @ssholes for this
Pokémon executives have had a Beedrill in their bonnet since this Palworld released. Now they’re just Intent on scorched earth tactics
It’s blatantly obvious how Nintendo copied palworld, traveled back in time and claimed all of it as their own.
Nintendo has 33% ownership of Pokémon, all copyrights and trademarks, and owns the consoles Pokémon exclusively runs on. Pokémon company has literally almost no say in anything that happens. They’re only there to design Pokémon according to what nintendo wants and cash in some checks.
One of bazillion of reasons you all shouldn’t be supporting the Current Pokemon Company.
Oh fuck off, Nintendo
i hope this is a bad joke. In which case, it’s pathetic… It’s not like Palworld is overshadowing them… it’s like Microsoft 30 years ago…
Maybe Nintendo should focus on releasing their games on mobile instead. It doesn’t even have to be their new and shiny titles. So many people use emulators on their phones. If they’d port older classics like they did on the Switch with Fire Red they’d make so much money.
They just announced a mobile game today. It’s not pokemon themed, but I think it’s funny that nintendo literally announced a new mobile game the same day this happened. Palworld got competition lol.
Yea they’d make money from mobile releases, but lose even more because no one would ever want to buy a switch for Pokémon when they can buy $10 joycons for their phone.
What exactly are they trying to patent? Nintendo barely has any mobile games, let alone any that play (or look like) that Mobile game.
Can Nintendo sue those hentai games or something other than palworld? I love Nintendo, but I hope this patent will fail! This is literally the same as if they patent the metriodvania genre and then sue hollow knight.
The patent has failed they are just appealing in Japan. This is just flagrant nonsense on part of The Pokémon Company. Your brand is big enough to NOT take a hit from something, unless… palworld becomes what pikemon should have evolved into long ago.
Read the room Nintendo…… fuck off of Palworld
I think it’s time for them to retire the idea of trying to keep suing them until they win.
They’re not trying to sue until they win, they’re suing until they either immobilize their progress, or financially drain them with lawsuits and appeals, forcing them to either pay lawyer fees or court fees. Nintendo can shell that money out no problem. But a company releasing a F2P game while also being in a constant legal battle is difficult.
Some Bigger Companies use a strategy keep taking Smaller Companies and Groups to Court because While it Costs Nintendo Money it also Costs Poketpair money unfortunately. Big companies sometimes do this if they can’t when so they try to make the Smaller Group spend all of it’s money until they have nothing.
Really pathetic and unethical that they are really doing this to take it out off the market.
Good rivalry is what can make games, and genres of games, better. The Pokémon company should just let them be.
Game journalism sensationalizing a routine patent strategy and exaggerating what it is. It took something mundane, which is trying to get patent derivatives finalized before the window to file derivative patents closes once the parent application is resolved locking them from ever even attempting the patents later.
The truth is, most these patents are essentially a shotgun (they make many derivative patents, knowing many will fail hoping some will stick) and this patent was not written in a way that was meant to really directly aim at a specific game. It was just meant to cover something easily derived from the earlier patent, and see if it goes through or not.
The reason it is suspect is simple that of timing, problem being, if it was meant to directly confront Palworld (or Roco Kingdom) it would probably fail, because those were announced prior to the filing in question. Any Lawyer would know that would not be a worthwhile venture and cost Nintendo rather than Pocketpair. For clarification, you cannot sue a prior announced project with a newly penned derivative filing, and this is not equitable with the first time they sued Palworld, which used continuance rather than derivative patents.
TLDR: This is probably just a standard patent procedure to preempt their previous patent concluding rather than meant specifically for Pocketpair
Boy, PalWorld just lives rent-free in Nintendo’s heads now, doesn’t it? At this rate it’s only a matter of time until they try to patent the very air the PW devs breathe in order to stop them.
Wow nintendo is truely evil…
Everytime they reach a new level of low