Comment on Palworld removes Pal Sphere summons amidst lawsuit over Nintendo patents
Kelly@lemmy.world 1 week agoThis wasn’t as general as many people think:
- It applied only to “axillary games” so anything using the primary engine was e.g. running in the fog for assassins creed or practicing moves in a combat game.
- It applied only to US ans Japan so anywhere else was unrestricted. The entire PAL region was unaffected.
- The patent was held by Namco / Bandai Namco, they are a prolific publisher but made very limited use of there ability to use loading screen mini games freely.
- The patent expired in 2015, despite this very few games have used loading screen mini games since.
patents.google.com/patent/US5718632
I can only conclude that the industry just wasn’t that interested in the idea.