6mo ago

Nintendo applying for anti-Palworld patents in the US with a whopping 22 out of 23 rejected, but "they are fighting"

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6mo ago

Nintendo applying for anti-Palworld patents in the US with a whopping 22 out of 23 rejected, but "they are fighting"

www.windowscentral.com /gaming/nintendo-applying-for-anti-palworld-patents-in-the-us-they-are-fighting

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Fuck Nintendo. Vote with your wallets and don't buy a Switch 2, get a Steam Deck or other similar portable gaming handheld.
- Switch 2?
  More Like "Switch to Steamdeck" ( ☞˙ワ˙)☞
- I'm going to buy a switch two, which they usually sell the hardware for close to cost. Then I'm gonna leave it in the box and wait until a mod chip comes out that lets me play every game for free.
  
  Just get an emulator for the steam deck
  
  It's cheap becuaus it's as powerful as an old phone.
  
  Just get an emulator on PC / Steam Deck. The most likely reason Nintendo went so hard on Switch emulators last year is because they will be able to emulate Switch 2 games with little tweaking (probably just new keys / BIOS). They've confirmed it's backwards compatible with Switch games, which strongly supports this hypothesis.
- It's frustrating how often people need to be reminded of this. Nintendo has repeatedly shown incredible hostility to their greatest fans over the years, and they show no signs of stopping.
  They've also done immeasurable harm to game preservation, to their own library and others. I cannot ever forgive them for this. Unless you play games in whatever specific way is blessed at the time, they will make every effort to sabotage it. Please do not enable this behavior.
  
  Well said, I agree 100%
- I really want to grab one of the new handhelds, seem so nice, I feel guilty almost playing games on my pc, when I could be using it for other stuff, playing on consoles fine so it might be time to transition to a linux handheld for the ocassional pc games.
  (Like it could be rendering for my other hobby with 3d, instead of the gpu going to games)
Good god they're such fucking losers.
Are you trying to make everyone hate you, Nintendo? Give it up already.
Palworld wouldn't have been half as popular without Nintendo's constant push to take it down.
- It's the literal reason I bought it and have never even played
Palworld does what Nintendon't
Nintendo is quite literally patent trolling
- Why "quite literally"? Did they hire an actual troll for a lawyer?
  
  Patent troll means to get patents for purpose of litigation rather than to produce goods.
  
  Yes
Fuck Nintendo.
I would love to learn why this isn't completely stupid, if anyone has a way of explaining. We'd be down entire genres of games if developers didn't copy each other's homework.
- It is completely stupid. There are mountains worth of prior art that easily negate any patent Nintendo would be granted by this point.
  Nintendo is a Japanese company, and the one thing you can rely on Japanese companies doing in recent years is not understanding that Japanese law only applies in Japan. They seem to think that they can apply Japanese law to US citizens or companies that conduct business in the US, so whatever strategy they think they can use will be swatted aside by the US government automatically. We have seen this already when Nintendo tried to sue Galoob Toys and lost.
  
  Well, to be fair when it comes to not understanding that their law doesn't apply world-wide Americans are also right up there in the top ranks.
- Suing for patent infringement is the nuclear option. It's a long and expensive legal process that can very much blow up in your face, so companies aren't rushing to do it unless they really want to.
  It's not a great system.
- I saw this video a while back that explained Nintendo's behaviour and strategy. It's a bit long and not a direct answer to your question but I found it pretty interesting.
  https://youtu.be/8apzrwv75i0
  
  This was really revealing. I didn’t know Palworld was now Sony’s. It basically now makes this Nintendo Vs Sony.
- It is completely stupid. There is a reason the stereotypes about Japanese businessmen are what they are.
First half of my life it was completely by accident I didn't own anything nintendo, but I'm glad the second half of my life I've actively avoided it, so not a single cent has gone to those greedy motherfuckers.
I wonder if PocketPair (Palworld devs) could flip a giant middle finger to Japan's entire system by refunding all Japanese customers for the game and refusing to sell it in Japan anymore. Japan is the only country where Nintendo could get their way in a patent lawsuit, so fuck 'em
- Wouldn't work. This has nothing to do with Japanese customers or Japanese laws. These aren't even in Japanese courts. It's US patents.
  
  Nintendo's patents, or the single one i should say, wouldn't hold up or even apply to palworld in America, they will in Japan.
  
  The only enforceable patents they have are Japanese. This is an attempt to get US ones.
One of the many reasons I will never spend money on Nintendo again! Their hardware blows anyways
Great way to win patent war is making patent claim after their oppenent :)

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