Nintendo, together with The Pokemon Company, filed a patent infringement lawsuit in Tokyo District Court against Pocketpair on September 18 seeking an infringement and compensation for damages on the grounds that the Pocketpair-developed Palworld infringes multiple patent rights, the company announced.
Nintendo did not specify which patent rights Palworld infringes, but said that it will continue to take necessary actions against the infringement of its intellectual property rights to protect the properties it has established over the years.
someone posted this in my server and some friends are responding with “good job, took long enough!” etc like
lol
trying so hard not to roll my eyes
There’s genuinely few companies that I wish to see burned to the ground with all executives locked inside, every time I read about Gary Bowser’s arrest and subsequent fining it makes me fucking seethe
I’m also curious about this. I’ve seen that theyve possibly stolen 3D models but I wonder if they’ve stolen code too.
I despise PalWorld (mostly for the character designs), but it was definitely something I wanted to be more of a court-of-public-opinion thing rather than legal consequences.
Also the fact that this is happening amidst the Switch 2 rumors most likely means they’re doing their usual maneuver of going absolutely ballistic on people, before “washing” away the bad PR with announcements
UGH and now THAT reminded me of Pixar absolutely gutting the Inside Out 2 crew, man, this has been a DIRE week for family friend companies being the absolutely worst
I too am curious to know what ““patents”” are being infringed, since it’s one thing for copyright (e.g. monster designs looking too similar, etc) but patent infringement??
Reminds me a lot of that recent Disney wrongful death lawsuit where even if they (Disney, Nintendo) end up backing down, it still looks fucking terrible for them that they were even going to try in the first place.
It has been pointed out elsewhere that, since the wording means “patent” its not the monsters (as that would be “copyright”) so the indication is that they’re going after gameplay mechanics which is FAR more damaging to creators as a whole
From what I’ve HEARD on J!Twitter (so take this with huge handfuls of salt) is that it has to do with the item-catching mechanic being based on chance, i.e. yeah throwing (Poke)balls
The guess that would have been Most Funny to me is “A mechanic or thing unrelated to a pokemon game entirely”. Like “Hey you jacked this thing from Mario Kart” type shit.
It being based off patents is so evil. Everyone knows the real ““issue”” is that Palworld just has straight out bootleg Eevees and shit in it but they’re going off patents instead and that’s SUCH a bad precedent if I was a monster collecting indie dev I would be actually terrified.
