Comment on Pocketpair Confirms Which Patents Nintendo And The Pokemon Company Are Suing It Over
RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Saw videos/articles online that this was the “end of gamedev” or whatever.
While patents for games are shit, theyve been around a long time and are hard to enforce. Palworld made it incredibly easy for one of the most ruthless companies to go after them. I expected they waited to see the final game before taking action, and until palworld made a ridiculous amount of money.
bassomitron@lemmy.world 6 days ago
How tf does Coromon get away with it? If say that’s waaaay more of a rip-off than Palworld.
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 6 days ago
Coromon didn’t get a huge media deal that could have the potential undermine the Pokemon franchise. Nintendo going after them would be just needless friction since patent lawsuits are hellish
Grimy@lemmy.world 6 days ago
I also thing location has to do with it. The dev team behind Coromon are in Europe while both Nintendo and the Palworld devs are in Japan.
From what I understand from a previous article, japanese patent laws can be quite strict.
Omegamanthethird@lemmy.world 6 days ago
What I always hear is that companies will send C&D letters to small ventures, because it creates precedence. Without that, a company loses the right to sue.
I wonder how true that actually is.
catloaf@lemm.ee 6 days ago
That’s more trademark law, not patent or copyright. At least in the US, I don’t know if Japan is different.
RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Funny you mention THAT game.
Not that I have anyyy insider knowledge, but great care was taken to avoid very specific things. Also who knows, had coromon exploded in popularity, maybe Nintendo would have bothered.
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 6 days ago
Probably just not big enough. Pokemon-like games are very common, palworld was just hugely successful and a lot of the media coverage for it was comparing it to Pokemon.