They’re ridiculous and pathetic. This will only ensure that I’ll never buy anything Nintendo, and instead buy Palworld, even if I don’t play it immediately.
Patent No. 7545191
- [Patent application date: July 30, 2024]
- [Patent registration date: August 27, 2024]
- Relates to a player character throwing an item at a character in the field, which triggers combat.
Patent No. 7493117
- [Patent application date: February 26, 2024]
- [Patent registration date: May 22, 2024]
- Basically an extension of the above, relating to being able to capture Pokémon in the wild rather than just in combat like previous generations.
Patent No. 7528390
- [Patent application date: March 5, 2024]
- [Patent registration date: July 26, 2024]
- Relating to being able to ride creatures in the open world.
Note that every single one of these patents was filed after palworld was released, and they’re all awfully vague about what they actually cover.
I’m starting to wonder if Nintendo paid some patent officer off. All of these should have never been approved.
Relates to a player character throwing an item at a character in the field, which triggers combat.
Minecraft lets you throw snowballs at monsters.
Relating to being able to ride creatures in the open world.
Time for every game with horses ever to be sued by Nintendo.
By the third patent: Elden Ring, WoW, Everquest, Neverwinter, SW: The Old Republic, Final Fantasy, and many many others have infringed Nintendo patents. Fuck Nintendo.
Nintendo: they violated our patents!
Court: which ones?
Nintendo: (scribbling furiously on paper) these ones!
Checks out.
