Nintendo is suing Palworld (Update: Palworld will fight back)

[TrishaCat]

‘Cold-Blooded Business’: Nintendo Is Patent Trolling Palworld Because It Got Too Big

Japan games industry analyst explains why Nintendo is going after Palworld, and why it’s probably going to win.

www.404media.co

Extremely good article on the topic. Mostly speculative, but very insightful as its an interview with the CEO of a Japan game industry consulting firm. Basically, Nintendo would likely not have done this lawsuit if they didn't think they could win, as they have never lost a patent lawsuit in Japan. They likely have been spending a lot of time building up a case which is why it took so long for this to occur, so Nintendo is almost assuredly going to win. Palworld won't necessarily have to go away, but they will have to pay licensing fees to continue existing should they lose. This was also very likely done to sabotage new releases (such as seemingly the upcoming PS5 version reveal) and general growth at Pocketpair.

 

[BroodCorp]

The meme of Nintendo being this overly litigious company is weird and implies they never have a point with any of these lawsuits.

Nintendo gets aped constantly. Sorry they have original ideas and are popular. If Sony and Microsoft operated with the same level of creativity they’d be suing copiers too.

 

[voke]

why do so many of you fetishize the idea of game devs being bought out by big publishers
No they shouldn't have????
Would just be another studio for Microsoft to close when investors are upset

We still feeling the impact of 2020-2022 when the only thing the hardcore space would talk about was who MS is going to buy next.

 

[Gods&Monsters]

And they released an official statement about it 7 months ago. Did you forget it was released on Steam too?

Turns out I was right. Nintendo chose this timing because the game was going to get announced on PS5 next week.

PS5 version of Palworld removed from list of titles to appear at TGS (Done before Nintendo Lawsuit)

Edit: Sal Romano from Gematsu: https://x.com/gematsu/status/1833751520828961126 Checking on Wayback Machine - it was indeed not there on Sep 11, 1PM UTC, while it was there on Sep 11, 7AM UTC. Though Gematsu never made an update on the tweet or the site that it was removed until right now...

www.resetera.com

Sorry Exanthus but sending an injunction takes 5 minutes. Anybody with eyes could tell Palword was a blatant ripoff. You don't need to build your whole case from A to Z for months before doing something.

The timing is fishy and that is that.

 

[RE4-City]

Turns out I was right. Nintendo chose this timing because the game was going to get announced on PS5 next week.

PS5 version of Palworld removed from list of titles to appear at TGS (Done before Nintendo Lawsuit)

Edit: Sal Romano from Gematsu: https://x.com/gematsu/status/1833751520828961126 Checking on Wayback Machine - it was indeed not there on Sep 11, 1PM UTC, while it was there on Sep 11, 7AM UTC. Though Gematsu never made an update on the tweet or the site that it was removed until right now...

www.resetera.com

Some one on resetera mentioned that this was most likely pulled do to the PS5 version not actually being announced yet but was listed on the show list on September 11th:


also I found this on resetera as well which is very interesting:


Makes me wonder was Sony Music is going to do about this:

https://www.sony.com/content/sony/en/en_us/SCA/company-news/press-releases/sony-corporation-of-america/2024/sony-music-aniplex-and-pocketpair-announce-joint-venture-palworld-entertainment-inc-to-expand-the-breakout-game-palworld.html

 

[Al Catone]

Turns out I was right. Nintendo chose this timing because the game was going to get announced on PS5 next week.

PS5 version of Palworld removed from list of titles to appear at TGS (Done before Nintendo Lawsuit)

Edit: Sal Romano from Gematsu: https://x.com/gematsu/status/1833751520828961126 Checking on Wayback Machine - it was indeed not there on Sep 11, 1PM UTC, while it was there on Sep 11, 7AM UTC. Though Gematsu never made an update on the tweet or the site that it was removed until right now...

www.resetera.com

And you clearly took the whole point wrong, but that's ok. Carry on.

 

[TrishaCat]

We now know what patents Nintendo is suing Palworld's devs over

Palworld Developer Reveals The Pokémon Patents Nintendo Claims It's Violating

The studio also names the weirdly small damages Nintendo is seeking

kotaku.com

Looking up those patents, the first alludes to a system where a player aims and fires an “item” toward a character in a field, and in doing so triggers combat, and then dives into extraordinary intricacies about switching between modes within this. The second is very similar, but seems more directly focused on tweaking previous patents to including being able to capture Pokémon in the wild, rather than only during battle. The third, rather wildly, seems to be trying to claim a modification to the invention of riding creatures in an open world and being able to transition between them easily.

Can I just point out that all of these patents were made *after* Palworld had already released?

 

[voke]

We now know what patents Nintendo is suing Palworld's devs over

Palworld Developer Reveals The Pokémon Patents Nintendo Claims It's Violating

The studio also names the weirdly small damages Nintendo is seeking

kotaku.com

Can I just point out that all of these patents were made *after* Palworld had already released?

yikes for nintendo tbh

 

[Systemshock2023]

Go palworld!!!