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Nintendo plans to sue Palworld-maker Pocketpair (arstechnica.com)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/games
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Shitendo strikes again

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

~~Looks like it's over the game mechanics of 'releasing a creature into a 3d environment and having it perform a contextual task' & 'having a rideable mount switch to a different rideable mount depending on terrain'~~

~~I don't think either of these would work in the US, because you can't protect game mechanics here, but I'm not sure about Japan's take.~~

Edit: I missed that this was still under speculation at the time of the post:

https://bulbagarden.net/threads/nintendo-and-the-pokemon-company-jointly-file-lawsuit-for-patent-infringement-against-palworld-creator-pocketpair-inc-in-the-tokyo-district-court.303354/

Based on searching of Japanese patent databases, initial speculation is that these may include (but is not necessarily limited to) patents relating to game mechanics and gameplay features from Pokémon: Legends Arceus, and may include patents such as one for throwing and using Poké Balls in a 3D space (JP,2023-092953,A); and one for automatically switching between ride Pokémon as a player transitions between different terrain, such as between air and the ground (JP,2023-092954,A).

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

They haven't actually said what the alleged infringement is yet, so we can't know for sure what excuse they're going to come up with. They haven't even told Pocketpair!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago

You are correct, I missed that it was still under speculation.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Kinda wild that you could patent a super basic mechanic that pretty much anyone could come up with

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Pocketpair has a pretty good case against Nintendo here, I think, because other games have used these things before.

I know it was never actually released, but Scalebound had a mechanic that would have allowed a player to tell their dragon to perform a task, albeit, usually destructively.

Guild Wars 2 Added a mechanic years ago that let players traverse water and land by automatically a switching between mounts.

'Releasing' a creature into a 3d environment has been done by every minion-mancer class in an MMO since the dawn of the genre.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Okay they need to lose that first one wtf.