Fuck software patents.
How does that work exactly? You can’t retroactively sue someone over a patent before it was granted… in fact, once you realize the mechanic was already out there, and patent shouldn’t be granted at all.
I assume that’s why there’s a 95% rejection rate, they’re just fumbling to find any mechanics that haven’t already been used in other games.
And even then, the US patent office often will grant unenforceable patents, that then explode in the patent holder’s faces the first time they try to use them.
The granted one in this case is about “the process of aiming and capturing characters”, which they either had to make so specific as to not apply to anybody else, or general enough that there are piles of prior art out there.
Except anything they try to patent was already done by the GTA V Pokémon mod several years before any 3D Pokémon game
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.
The only enforceable patents they have are Japanese. This is an attempt to get US ones.
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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˙)☞
Steam deck 2 is just around the corner
Pure speculation
I hear it’s launching with HL3.
and bot detection for TF2
Forget that, it’ll have TF3.
Damnit… And I just got a steam deck on Monday.
(You’re good, steam deck 2 soon is very unlikely)
I hope so, I don’t even really need much more power, but I’ll be a day one buyer to support the platform.
I’ll hand the steamdeck 1 down to my wife for stardew, if she wants it.
Deck 2 probably won’t come out before the next generation of chips at least
What ?! Already a power boost / gen-gap to fill?
No. They have no proof. We know Valve’s working on something but they always are and nobody knows what it is
I think they are just baking a cake. Delicious moist cake.
Source: It was revealed to me in a dream.
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
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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)
Obviously there will always be new cool games, but also, there’s enough out there already (hell even just in my Steam library alone) to enjoy new content for the rest of several lifetimes. I don’t need Nintendo at all.
I don’t either, but Switch is incredibly nice as a family console. Nintendo has a ton of games my kids like, we can bring it on road trips and they can switch off or play together, etc.
So I have both. Most of my personal playtime is on my Steam Deck, my playtime with my kids is mostly on my Switch, with a fair amount on my PC.
Screw Nintendo’s legal dept, but they make a good product for families with young kids. Even my 4yo can figure out games like Kirby and Smash Bros.
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
They should force Gamefreak to make a better Pokemon game. That would teach Pal World a lesson.
Nintendo: But that’s haaaaaaard. Me money now.
I mean, TPC can just kind of leave and make mobile games.
Wait, that world be an improvement.
Can someone explain the cultural difference between Japan and the rest of the US around copyright law?
One of the many reasons I will never spend money on Nintendo again! Their hardware blows anyways
What about the last one?
Great way to win patent war is making patent claim after their oppenent :)
