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Nintendo filed a lawsuit against Pocketpair, Inc. (www.nintendo.co.jp)
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[-] PunchingWood@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

I played it and I felt like it borrowed a lot of elements from Pokemon. It wasn't Pokemon, but you can't deny it took like 90% of their inspiration from Pokemon and then added guns to it.

[-] towerful@programming.dev 13 points 9 months ago

That's like any FPS game ripping off any other FPS game.
Fight, capture, tame, train, breed animals.
Base building, research tree, enemy raids.
Exploration, resource gathering, survival.

I don't think Nintendo has a monopoly on enslaving animals.

I know what you mean, tho. It's always described as "Pokémon with guns and 3xE gameplay".
But does Nintendo actually have a case that will hold up in courts?
Pocketpair seems confident they can defend against it. So either they have done their research and are up for a fight. Or they (think they) are calling Nintendo's bluff.
But Nintendo has a whole pack of lawyers.

Unfortunately there are no details on what the patents being infringemed upon are, just that they relate to "Pocket Monster".

[-] PunchingWood@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

I don't believe Nintendo will hold up in court.

But it's the combination of it all, aside from guns and concentration camp levels of slavery, that make it look like they straight up copied ideas from Pokemon.

It's true Nintendo doesn't hold the specific style or gameplay mechanics, and that's where I think they'll fail to win a case, but just saying it's just so blatantly obvious where the inspiration comes from.

[-] olafurp@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

I have a feeling that this is going to be the case. Palworld is not copying anything so it's not copyright and doesn't even need a "fair use" argument for it. The patents of gameplay mechanics don't really hold up in court.

Nintento's legal battle chest is stuff of nightmares for smaller companies and they should be countersued for anti competitive behavior.

[-] frezik@midwest.social 2 points 9 months ago

Which, incidentally, would probably past legal muster. You can get pretty close to the source material, and as long as it's your own custom art, it's not infringement.

That said, lawyers can send a C&D letter for anything. Doesn't mean it will hold up in court, but they're betting the target won't want to pay that kind of money to fight it.

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