Nintendo and The Pokémon Company seek injunction against Palworld plus fine and damages, developer says

Still it would be best for Ninny to lose this one hard.

First: if they won't there will be more to come for other games, stopping any innovation in this genre.

Second: Their lawsuits are hitting other software developers (see Yuzu/Ryujinx cases), players and content creators and we need some case where they lose so they don't go even wilder

I mean if they help children grow when they have no real parents...

How do these not apply to the majority of games, these sound so insanely broad. Patents are so stupid.

Holy hell.

Even by the standard of "all software patents are nonsense", these are a fucking joke.

Hold my bacon, one can patent the idea that a game character switches mounts depending on a given state? (Image 3)

The solutions here don't seem to really be solutions in my opinion, especially the third one. It's like if the problem a patent solves was "being able to individually package sandwiches on a conveyor belt" and the solution was "have a machine that recognizes where one sandwich ends and another begins so it can stop and start packaging appropriately." Like, no kidding, but how?

So the first two seem to deal with throwing a capture item at a creature (wild pokemon) and/or releasing a character's own creature to fight it (essentially first seen in Legends Arceus, tossing a ball at a pokemon to aggro it and then fighting it with your pokemon). The third one is, as others have said, Mount transitions (at least in pokemon, also first seen in Legends Arceus if you only count ride pokemon; if vehicles are included I believe the first would be Sword/Shield). Though if vehicles are included Nintendo would have a hard time fighting that one. Vehicle transformation, especially in racing games, has been around forever.

Why are there dates in the corners?

If these were stories I was picking up to implement I would be asking the BA to elaborate some more 😂

Looking through the first one's content and it seems reasonable? The patent's abstract is supposed to be as widely applicable as legally permitted, so it's like a completely different language on top of legalese.

Yet people keep buying from them

Nah fuck them. Got a switch + games. Account hacked. Wrote to tech sup. Nothing but automated answer. Gave that shit away never again

I've stopped giving Nintendo money for anything, it's been about 5 years now.