company Nintendo
We from Nintendo would appreciate it if you stopped inventing things immediately. Innovation is a protected activity.
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Mac@mander.xyz 6 days ago
company Nintendo
company Nintendo
We from Nintendo would appreciate it if you stopped inventing things immediately. Innovation is a protected activity.
If only it was just Nintendo
SomethingBurger@jlai.lu 6 days ago
And Namco (minigames in loading screens, started in Ridge Racer), Warner Bros (Nemesis system from Shadow of Mordor), SEGA (GPS arrows from Crazy Taxi)…
I know “Nintendo bad” is a popular narrative but they’re far from the only one.
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 6 days ago
The Namco one ran out in 2015, right on time for SSDs. Though I guess we could still use them for shader compilation 😴
Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de 6 days ago
The biggest annoyance is that patents doesn’t prevent usage… Just require permission… they could ask anything or nothing, it just would need to be acceptable. And well here we are.
Signtist@bookwyr.me 5 days ago
Why rely on someone else’s go-ahead if you can just do something different? They didn’t patent it for no reason - they want a cut if someone using it makes a bunch of money, and likely won’t give you the go-ahead without that guarantee.
Tartas1995@discuss.tchncs.de 5 days ago
Ofc, but that is the issue. Make the cut reasonable about some devs will be willing to pay the price.
Drekaridill@lemmy.wtf 6 days ago
The GPS arrow is patented?
GraniteM@lemmy.world 6 days ago