Nintendo and The Pokemon Company has filed a suit against Pocketpair (Palworld)

All the SMT games I think have monster raising. The first one came out in like 1987 on the famicom. And I think Dragon Quest 5 also has it. But Pokemon was the first game with the concept to be released internationally, so unless you grew up in Japan, most people on the planet, at least back in 1998, believed Pokemon invented the game mechanic. But they didn't

Doesnt surprise me weve got a few posters in here shilling for Nintendo

Is TPC honestly going to try to claim patent ownership over the concept of catching and raising monsters in video games?

All the SMT games I think have monster raising. The first one came out in like 1987 on the famicom. And I think Dragon Quest 5 also has it. But Pokemon was the first game with the concept to be released internationally, so unless you grew up in Japan, most people on the planet, at least back in 1998, believed Pokemon invented the game mechanic. But they didn't

I'm rooting for Palworld. I haven't even played it. But I don't want Nintendo thinking they own an entire genre, that they didn't even start. A lot of people in the west probably think Pokemon was the first, only because the earlier games didn't originally release outside of Japan back in the day. But Pokemon did not start monster catching and raising

nobody actually thinks they're suing because you capture monsters lol

unless i'm missing something, it's probably just for some monster designs or something

They probably have them nailed on the designs being directly derivative of their works, them building and testing that case probably explains the time before the lawsuit, but I don't know if they'll be able to successfully argue that their brand was damaged as a result. Japanese patent/Copyright law is a completely different beast though.

Did Palworld ever get a physical release?

You can't copywrite game mechanics, and whether you can patent them is a bit of an open question. Those who think you can generally force you into settling before a judgment by the sheer weight of dollars they bury you under.

Bruh, not to glaze Nintendo here, but last I checked, WB copyrighted the Nemesis system from Shadow of Mordor/War, Bloober Team copyrighted their two worlds at once gimmick they used in a single game and have since let rot, and freaking BioWare copyrighted the dialogue wheel they used for Mass Effect and newer Dragon Age games (though that one thankfully seems to have expired), so yes you can actually copyright game mechanics if theyre deemed innovative enough and you can prove you were the first to come up with them.

if this is them trying to claim they own the concept of monster catching yea thats fucked up and im 100000% against it

if this is over the fact several monsters are a clear rip off of existing pokemon then yea that is fair as palworld does blatently steal several pokemon

Nintendo should give whatever legal fees they're gonna throw at this 'patent infringement' to Game Freak so they can make an actual good Pokemon game because the last 10 years of games sucked

ESPECIALLY the most recent generation

Too many people making too many assumptions and then getting angry about it.

Lol

They should have done this before Palworld became successful. Now Palworld has the funds to battle this out, right?

I don't think they're going to claim that because Megami Tensei did it a decade earlier and Dragon Quest did it earlier as well. Pretty sure it's the monster designs. I don't know the details but I have heard it claimed some of the 3D models looked to be modified from data ripped from a 3DS game.

I doubt they'd go that far. I'm expecting this to be regarding using balls/spheres as capture devices(which is still absolutely ridiculous, don't get me wrong). Not sure what else they feel like they can sue over

You can't patent monster designs, and we know their patents, they were already linked in this topic

They should have done this before Palworld became successful. Now Palworld has the funds to battle this out, right?

Was there ever anything substantial with those model comparisons? Thats the only thing I would imagine would actually hold up in court if they did just trace over existing models for some of them.

While there were definitely some that are change a few words in a plagiarized paragraph level of creativity, I dont think there are any general designs that would be considered directly ripped off otherwise.

You can't patent a pokemon design, but certain mechanics you can probably do so. Which mechanics they are going to go after palworld remains to be seen.

I mean what mechanics can they claim?

Monster catching? Catching monsters in balls specifically? Using monsters in battles? None of them are really specific to pokemon

I mean what mechanics can they claim?

Monster catching? Catching monsters in balls specifically? Using monsters in battles? None of them are really specific to pokemon

Yeah, the person who made those comparisons later turned out to be a complete fraud.

I mean what mechanics can they claim?

Monster catching? Catching monsters in balls specifically? Using monsters in battles? None of them are really specific to pokemon

Could be design patents for the Pokmon designs