A lawyer's analysis regarding Nintendo's recent patents, particularly about the automatically transforming mount and the summonable subcharacter engaging in manual or automatic battles depending on the context.
by DSMidna
Nintendo
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I don’t see how they could possibly enforce a patent on something that every other company has been using for decades, so I doubt they mean anything. Just a shitty power play.
Cute thumbnail.
My fear is that it will now start a race for every game developer to try and patent every game mechanic, stifling genres and indie game developers. For the industry as a whole, I believe this to be a bad precedence.
It becomes really unfunny how many Patents Nintendo files….
Whats next? A patent on Arcade FPS? Oh wait…..
How about throwing an object that effects a character? Oh wait again…..
Read through some of the patents myself (heck its dry to read that stuff) and have to say, Nintendo aint gonna get any money from me anymore, don’t care if thier games are good.
Just wished neither the fanboys nor the haters would put out click-/rage-/anythingbait but real information… would have spared me the dry patent reading……
Honestly the best video I’ve seen on the subject by far……. like it’s not even close
Here’s my opinion, I never and I do mean never took this whole patent scare seriously for a couple of different reasons
One is that games like digimon,persona/ shin megami, and monster hunter stories exist, specifically digimon matters the most here. Digimon is coming out with a new game this year, times strangers, and this patent was probably made knowing that it existed for awhile as well as several others for a long time now. So tell me why wouldn’t Nintendo make a patent that could possibly threaten one of Bandai namco’s biggest franchises and let me remind you that Bandai namco is possibly nintendo’s biggest partner in Japan. They work on a ton of games like the upcoming kirby air riders, the smash bro series, and several pokemon spin offs as well as support on games like splatoon. With that portfolio you’re expecting me to believe that Nintendo would make a patent that would hurt the biggest partner who makes huge games for them like that and whose games sell really well on their platform. Similar things can be said about companies like Sega or square enix or capcom with similar franchises like that. Nintendo are very close with these companies and have done a ton of businesses with them, he’ll they had monster hunter stories 3 and persona at the last direct, and they don’t want to lose that especially since that third party will probably More importantly now than ever for Nintendo with the switch 2.
Also another reason and this is a lot less important but most of the people who were fear mongering the situation are people I have no trust in what so ever. Them constantly talking about it and the way they made me believe that was nothing to be worried about from the start.