The suit is effectively not about the money at all. It’s about setting a precedent in Japanese court to basically allow Nintendo to patent whatever they want, whenever they want, so they can go after and shut down competitors with ease. Pirate Software has a decent and short breakdown on their youtube channel iirc
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TxzK@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Aren’t they being sued by Nintendo rn? That’s some balls from both sides lol.
Lemjukes@lemm.ee 2 months ago
cyberic@discuss.tchncs.de 2 months ago
The patents were filed after the features were already in their other game, Craftopia.
ABCDE@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Does that mean they should stop functioning because Nintendo is suing them?
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
That lawsuit might take years, and the requested damages from Nintendo are only $66,000. Palworld isn’t going to be shut down anytime soon, even if they lose the case.
lowleveldata@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The request includes a term to shutdown Palworld IIRC
Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 2 months ago
There was a request to halt sales until the specific mechanics were removed, with the mechanics being throwing pokeball like items and riding monsters.
olafurp@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Trying do ban riding fictional animals is a tall order
QuadratureSurfer@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I looked through a few articles but couldn’t find anything about a term that would shutdown Palworld just because Nintendo won the lawsuit.
The worst case scenario would be something like Palworld having to change their “Pal Spheres” into “Pal Cubes” or prisms, or something similar.
echodot@feddit.uk 2 months ago
The Pallnoctahedron. “It’s a totally different shape and it’s just the fact that it’s very small, and we enabled smooth shading, that makes it look like we haven’t done anything to it.”
ms_lane@lemmy.world 2 months ago
In Japan.
With the money they’ve made already, they could move the team to US, where none of this would fly.
echodot@feddit.uk 2 months ago
They would still have to face the courts in Japan if they want to sell in Japan.
Your line of thinking is the same thing that X fell for with Brazil. Just because you don’t have your HQ in a particular country doesn’t mean the legal system can be ignored. Otherwise the EU wouldn’t be gifting fines to Google and Apple every 15 minutes.