Nintendo Secures Another “creature-capture” U.S. Patent Against Palworld
Nintendo Secures Another “creature-capture” U.S. Patent Against Palworld
by johanas25
27 Comments
Gom8z
Hopefully the outcome of all is this is some common sense fairness. Palworld did feel like a straight up rip off but in defence that’s because i dont think there was ever many games similar to pokemon. If you only ever had one war fps game like battlefield. You may think the same thing about call of duty, counter strike etc etc
Wrong_Revolution_679
Yeah I’m going to being honest here and say that I’m going to ignore this whole situation till it’s over and not care what the final results are.
And the main reason why is because I just don’t want to hear all the idiots make comments on this without knowing what they’re talking about
DSMidna
“I do not have the necessary legal expertise to form an opinion on this issue.” – not a single person on the internet.
boktobw18
Brace yourselves; here come the uninformed masses!
CGGamer
Nintendo/TPC just stop, you’re embarrassing yourselves
and-its-true
I want to be excited about the switch 2 but they make it hard when they remind me that they’re pulling this obnoxious asinine bullshit.
RhythmBlue
intellectual property is a morally bankrupt concept
Thresse
Trading items with players is patentable 😂 good times ahead
Suspicious_Stock3141
how about, and this might sound like a far out Idea: HIRING A STUDIO TO HELP FIX THE CURRENT POKEMON GAMES.
there’s no reason that a game from 2022 on more powerful hardware should look worse than a game from 2014 on the Wii U
Inevitable-East-1386
F Nintendo.
NoMoreVillains
Stop following for this click bait nonsense. It’s embarrassing. Nintendo, Sony, and other devs have been securing patents for decades. Nintendo literally has patents on aspects of Metroid. These patents were filed years ago, but they can take a long time and be rejected a lot of times and none of that is unusual or uncommon
None of this has to do with Palworld specifically and the fanboys of that game need to stop acting like the game is a bigger deal than it is
smulfragPL
people on this sub are hillariously bootlicking lol. Anyone for this is just insane
the_gr8_one
cant wait for pubg to use this as precedent to kill fortnite /s
Payton_Xyz
I’m just gonna say this. I’m a fan of Pokemon, and a fan of Palworld.
I know nothing about how patents work beyond the most bare minimum and I have zero expertise in law.
I do think Palworld has a couple of instances with designs that are pretty similar to Pokemon, and they could probably be changed in all fairness.
But Nintendo going after PocketPair only after Palworld took off is definitely underhanded. Craftopia does a 1 for 1 with BotW’s opening and they couldn’t care less.
Even more so when they’re on platforms that Nintendo has no affiliation or stake in, ie PC, Xbox, and Playstation. From what I understand, they don’t like competitors of any kind and rather than try and outdo them, they’d rather tear them down to make themselves stand on top.
At the end of the day, this feels like just a bunch of petty crap on either side
stickyquestions
The lengths to which Nintendo will go to not have to improve the quality of Pokemon games truly knows no limits. Like if you have ANY justification for this ridiculous anti-consumer, anti-gaming behavior, you’re the problem.
ImFromDaBurghNat
Nintendo has now spent more on legal fees than the actual Pokémon games in the past decade
mattymattttt
Say it with me folks.
“Patenting game mechanics is scummy”
SintSuke
If you can’t beat your competition, sue them. – Nintendo Every fucking year.
Anna_Nimus_95
Nintendo “fans”: “F nInTeNdO! I’m NeVeR bUyInG aNoThEr NiNtEnDo PrOdUcT eVeR aGaIn!”
Also Nintendo “fans”: Proceed to buy Nintendo products anyway
FieldOfFox
I’m with the other comments.
You can get a patent for basically ANYTHING except a perpetual motion machine.
It doesn’t mean PalWorld has actually infringed anything, that’s what courts decide.
PocketTornado
Patents on game play mechanics is 100% wrong and indefensible.
-Game dev.
BrandonJams
Nintendo isn’t looking too strong in the lawsuit considering the U.S. rejected 22 of their 23 patent trolling claims. If this stays within Japan, Palworld should be fine.
alphatango308
Nintendo: Stop having fun with other people’s games. You can only have fun with our games.
BrandonJams
In 2025 we have Valve supporting their own SteamOS on 3rd party handhelds and Nintendo litigating of gameplay mechanics.
If Nintendo was smart, they’d understand that Palworld existing on the Switch 2 would be great for business.
CadeMan011
Christ, the amount of ads on that page is ridiculous.
jomcmo00
People are so dramatic, lol. Its their intellectual property, this is how it works for patented or copyrighted material, What else are they gonna do? They’re a massive corporate body the same as every other.
Coccquaman
I don’t necessarily like what Nintendo is doing here, but that the same time I simply do not care about PalWorld, so it’s kind of a wash.
27 Comments
Hopefully the outcome of all is this is some common sense fairness. Palworld did feel like a straight up rip off but in defence that’s because i dont think there was ever many games similar to pokemon. If you only ever had one war fps game like battlefield. You may think the same thing about call of duty, counter strike etc etc
Yeah I’m going to being honest here and say that I’m going to ignore this whole situation till it’s over and not care what the final results are.
And the main reason why is because I just don’t want to hear all the idiots make comments on this without knowing what they’re talking about
“I do not have the necessary legal expertise to form an opinion on this issue.” – not a single person on the internet.
Brace yourselves; here come the uninformed masses!
Nintendo/TPC just stop, you’re embarrassing yourselves
I want to be excited about the switch 2 but they make it hard when they remind me that they’re pulling this obnoxious asinine bullshit.
intellectual property is a morally bankrupt concept
Trading items with players is patentable 😂 good times ahead
how about, and this might sound like a far out Idea: HIRING A STUDIO TO HELP FIX THE CURRENT POKEMON GAMES.
there’s no reason that a game from 2022 on more powerful hardware should look worse than a game from 2014 on the Wii U
F Nintendo.
Stop following for this click bait nonsense. It’s embarrassing. Nintendo, Sony, and other devs have been securing patents for decades. Nintendo literally has patents on aspects of Metroid. These patents were filed years ago, but they can take a long time and be rejected a lot of times and none of that is unusual or uncommon
None of this has to do with Palworld specifically and the fanboys of that game need to stop acting like the game is a bigger deal than it is
people on this sub are hillariously bootlicking lol. Anyone for this is just insane
cant wait for pubg to use this as precedent to kill fortnite /s
I’m just gonna say this. I’m a fan of Pokemon, and a fan of Palworld.
I know nothing about how patents work beyond the most bare minimum and I have zero expertise in law.
I do think Palworld has a couple of instances with designs that are pretty similar to Pokemon, and they could probably be changed in all fairness.
But Nintendo going after PocketPair only after Palworld took off is definitely underhanded. Craftopia does a 1 for 1 with BotW’s opening and they couldn’t care less.
Even more so when they’re on platforms that Nintendo has no affiliation or stake in, ie PC, Xbox, and Playstation. From what I understand, they don’t like competitors of any kind and rather than try and outdo them, they’d rather tear them down to make themselves stand on top.
At the end of the day, this feels like just a bunch of petty crap on either side
The lengths to which Nintendo will go to not have to improve the quality of Pokemon games truly knows no limits. Like if you have ANY justification for this ridiculous anti-consumer, anti-gaming behavior, you’re the problem.
Nintendo has now spent more on legal fees than the actual Pokémon games in the past decade
Say it with me folks.
“Patenting game mechanics is scummy”
If you can’t beat your competition, sue them. – Nintendo Every fucking year.
Nintendo “fans”: “F nInTeNdO! I’m NeVeR bUyInG aNoThEr NiNtEnDo PrOdUcT eVeR aGaIn!”
Also Nintendo “fans”: Proceed to buy Nintendo products anyway
I’m with the other comments.
You can get a patent for basically ANYTHING except a perpetual motion machine.
It doesn’t mean PalWorld has actually infringed anything, that’s what courts decide.
Patents on game play mechanics is 100% wrong and indefensible.
-Game dev.
Nintendo isn’t looking too strong in the lawsuit considering the U.S. rejected 22 of their 23 patent trolling claims. If this stays within Japan, Palworld should be fine.
Nintendo: Stop having fun with other people’s games. You can only have fun with our games.
In 2025 we have Valve supporting their own SteamOS on 3rd party handhelds and Nintendo litigating of gameplay mechanics.
If Nintendo was smart, they’d understand that Palworld existing on the Switch 2 would be great for business.
Christ, the amount of ads on that page is ridiculous.
People are so dramatic, lol. Its their intellectual property, this is how it works for patented or copyrighted material, What else are they gonna do? They’re a massive corporate body the same as every other.
I don’t necessarily like what Nintendo is doing here, but that the same time I simply do not care about PalWorld, so it’s kind of a wash.