• inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2 hours

    Games Fray’s report claims Nintendo now has “zero chance” of prevailing against current Palworld versions under the revised scope, arguing that any injunction would apply only to older builds. The outlet also said the maximum damages at stake would be 5 million yen, roughly $30,000, if Nintendo succeeds on the remaining claims.

    Oh what a return for the widespread disgust. No such thing as bad PR right guys? lol

    • Ricky Rigatoni@piefed.zipEnglish
      2 hours

      No such thing as bad pr when your company has millions of brainwashed fans who have literally never played any other games.

      • Feyd@programming.devEnglish
        2 hours

        I know a lot of people including me that haven’t bought a switch 2 after owning every nintendo console released in their lifetime because they’re disgusted with with Nintendo’s behavior. I’m sure some percentage of them will cave eventually but it’s definitely a non-zero amount of money they’ve left on the table by being like this

        • Zahille7@lemmy.worldEnglish
          43 minutes

          That’s okay. Youtubers still buy the new Nintendo games and consoles day fucking one all in the name of “cOnTeNt”. (RTGame, Poofesure, and others)

          So basically good fucking luck trying to get anyone to change when you have people advertising for Nintendo basically for free.

          • CovertOperative@piefed.zipEnglish
            40 minutes

            Or we can watch those YouTubers to still partake in Nintendo games while not buying anything.

        • hperrin@lemmy.caEnglish
          52 minutes

          I haven’t owned every Nintendo console, just Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Super Nintendo, Game Boy Advance, N64, Wii, New Nintendo 3DS, and Switch. But yeah, all the shit they’ve done recently means I’ll never buy a Switch 2, or whatever comes after it.

        • Kongar@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          1 hour

          This right here 1000%. Nintendo used to get a lot of my money. Not anymore, screw em.

  • Dettweiler@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    2 hours

    Even the older versions were vastly different, and Nintendo’s patents are both exceptionally vague and infringe on older works. Hopefully this keeps reducing until it collapses entirely. Any win for Nintendo, even minor, will give precedence for future lawsuits.

    • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.caEnglish
      2 hours

      That’s not how the law works. It’s not a thing where this company sued another company for patents and won, therefore all future lawsuits on patents automatically win. There may be some precedent about specific details in the case, but there’s no reason to assume a future judge in a future case wouldn’t rule in the same way even if this case never existed. Seems to me precedence paranoia is just some internet lawyer thing.

      The strangest thing about this case is that Nintendo didn’t sue for trademark infringement or copyright. I assume Pikachu is trademarked and this company had a Pikachu with a machine gun on the cover of their game. Looks like an easy win for trademark infringement, given everyone referred to it as Pokeman with guns.

      • PyroVK@lemmy.zipEnglish
        2 hours

        No, it’s just a monster capture and battling game. Their issue most definitely losing Pokemon sales to this game but the lawsuit they went with is in relation to a patient on throwing a ball and a creature being summoned to do battle. So Palworld removed the ball throwing aspect and the creature now just appears which is why they are now focusing on older versions of the game that still contain that.

        • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.caEnglish
          1 hour

          I wasn’t aware that they had a ball throwing mechanic in the game. Considering the context they put a Pikachu with a machine gun on the cover, yeah they were just copying someone else’s shit.

          No, it’s just a monster capture and battling game.

          Do you really believe the similarities are coincidental? Like if Pokeman didn’t exist, they would’ve had the character on the cover look like that and would’ve had players collecting creatures with balls?

          They’re obviously just ripping off someone else’s ideas.

          • Grass@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            36 minutes

            humans have been trapping and taming and riding animals long before electricity, let alone video games. Flying on animals isn’t a thing in real life but its been in fables and myth. Cockfighting and other animal abuse is also a tale as old as time. You can’t legitimise patents for any of that and nintendo can get fucked.

          • Zahille7@lemmy.worldEnglish
            46 minutes

            Actually play it and give it a shot. You’ll see how unlike pokemon it actually is. And you may just have some fun.

  • tidderuuf@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3 hours

    What are they gonna do? Hack into my PC and send a lawyer to my house demanding I remove the version that has round balls? Kiss my ass Nintendo!