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Written by cancel on 2024-09-19 at 01:57

Nintendo: a bunch of big shitty whiny babies, filing suit for violations of video game design software patents.

https://www.nintendo.co.jp/corporate/release/en/2024/240919.html

(because they don't like this game that lampoon's Pokémon, even though it targets only an adult audience, on PC only, and doesn't actually infringe any IP, but Nintendo wishes it did, so I guess this is all they have)

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Written by zwei kreise on 2024-09-20 at 21:55

@cancel the whole thing is ridiculous, i assume what happened is nintendo scrutinized every pixel of the thing and found out they couldn't get them on the character designs so they patented (after palworld came out no less) some tangentially related gameplay mechanics because it's all they had lmao. you can just hear them seething from halfway across the globe it's just so monumentally dumb

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Written by zwei kreise on 2024-09-20 at 21:58

@cancel nobody is saying "patent trolling" because it's nintendo, but this is somehow even worse because they didn't even patent any of those things beforehand

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Written by cancel on 2024-09-21 at 00:48

@zweikreise Technically it’s not patent trolling because they are actually participating in the market instead of just grifting with patents

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Written by zwei kreise on 2024-09-30 at 23:49

@cancel true, we need a new name for this though. patent weaponizing?

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