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"'I think this will end bad for Pocketpair': Analyst says Nintendo's 'feared' legal team wouldn't sue Palworld unless it was confident of victory"
"Nintendo wants Pocketpair's cash, and 'as much of it as possible'"
"IP expert says Nintendo probably doesn't own patents strong enough to 'prevent Pocketpair from making Palworld,' and this 'may boil down to nothing but bullying'"
"The House of Mario can be a scary place"
"Amid the Palworld dispute, one analyst says Nintendo only strikes when it wants to because it 'could have sued half the gaming industry back in 2017'"
"'They have thousands and thousands of patents on other things'"
I like Nintendo's games well enough (though I haven't played one on an official system since 2014, and I haven't played any post-Wii games at all yet, on an official system or otherwise).
But I absolutely, utterly despise Nintendo's sue happy legal team.
Disclaimer: I have not played or even really looked at this Palworld game at all, other than what little I've seen about it via news articles in the past, so I really have no idea if Nintendo has a leg to stand on with this current shit. But, regardless of whether Nintendo does or does not have a case here, I still despise their sue happy legal team, just on general principles.
And, for what it's worth, I haven't played a Pokemon game since the original Red/Blue Game Boy version (can't recall which color I had, now), either, which I never even bothered to finish.
(Putting the "copyright laws are broken" tag on this, even though this is a patent thing, not a copyright thing. Just mentally replace the word "copyright" with "patent," in this particular case. Copyright, patent, trademark, whatever. It all basically amounts to the same bullshit.)
"Nintendo wants Pocketpair's cash, and 'as much of it as possible'"
"IP expert says Nintendo probably doesn't own patents strong enough to 'prevent Pocketpair from making Palworld,' and this 'may boil down to nothing but bullying'"
"The House of Mario can be a scary place"
"Amid the Palworld dispute, one analyst says Nintendo only strikes when it wants to because it 'could have sued half the gaming industry back in 2017'"
"'They have thousands and thousands of patents on other things'"
I like Nintendo's games well enough (though I haven't played one on an official system since 2014, and I haven't played any post-Wii games at all yet, on an official system or otherwise).
But I absolutely, utterly despise Nintendo's sue happy legal team.
Disclaimer: I have not played or even really looked at this Palworld game at all, other than what little I've seen about it via news articles in the past, so I really have no idea if Nintendo has a leg to stand on with this current shit. But, regardless of whether Nintendo does or does not have a case here, I still despise their sue happy legal team, just on general principles.
And, for what it's worth, I haven't played a Pokemon game since the original Red/Blue Game Boy version (can't recall which color I had, now), either, which I never even bothered to finish.
(Putting the "copyright laws are broken" tag on this, even though this is a patent thing, not a copyright thing. Just mentally replace the word "copyright" with "patent," in this particular case. Copyright, patent, trademark, whatever. It all basically amounts to the same bullshit.)
