They never hoped to win, they just wanted to drain Pocketpair's money with lawyer expenses
this post was submitted on 14 Jun 2026
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instead making pokemon slop games, including the card game. try to improve it instead. get rid of masuda, and deal with scalpers for the card area.
Remember to pirate a Nintendo game today
Its the only way to easily play much of their older catalogue anyway
Gonna go seed some roms.
Games Fray’s report claims Nintendo now has “zero chance” of prevailing against current Palworld versions under the revised scope, arguing that any injunction would apply only to older builds. The outlet also said the maximum damages at stake would be 5 million yen, roughly $30,000, if Nintendo succeeds on the remaining claims.
Oh what a return for the widespread disgust. No such thing as bad PR right guys? lol
Not really. Sometimes the process is the punishment.
No other game studio/publisher would want to lose a hefty sum in lawyer fees
No such thing as bad pr when your company has millions of brainwashed fans who have literally never played any other games.
I know a lot of people including me that haven't bought a switch 2 after owning every nintendo console released in their lifetime because they're disgusted with with Nintendo's behavior. I'm sure some percentage of them will cave eventually but it's definitely a non-zero amount of money they've left on the table by being like this
This. I was already losing interest, but I hard left Nintendo when Tears of the Kingdom came out and felt like an unfinished game
According to Switch 2 sales numbers, you are sadly the rare exception. Nintendo fans are gobbling up the stuff big N is churning out and asking for seconds.
That's me. I've been a day one customer of Nintendo systems for as long as I remember but they simply don't deserve my money now.
Hey that's me and my pokemon/Zelda/monster hunter stories obsessed daughter! Fuck you Nintendo, you used to be cool. Well...you used to pretend to be cool. Well...we used to buy your games and not think too hard.
I've now managed to pirate all the Switch 1 Pokemon games through an emulator.
Sooner or later, somebody's going to emulate the Switch 2. I can wait.
You're already not considered the average consumer by using lemmy
That's okay. Youtubers still buy the new Nintendo games and consoles day fucking one all in the name of "cOnTeNt". (RTGame, Poofesure, and others)
So basically good fucking luck trying to get anyone to change when you have people advertising for Nintendo basically for free.
Oh no like 1000 people buy them
Or we can watch those YouTubers to still partake in Nintendo games while not buying anything.
If you can help it, you shouldn't. It promotes the games to a wider audience if they get views/likes/comments. Nintendo doesn't deserve that free marketing, and you engaging with it makes it more effective.
I'm not responsible for other people deciding to buy shit.
I watch maybe 5 minutes of any of those Nintendo game videos because after those 5 minutes it becomes incredibly stale and boring looking at the same bright colors and round shapes all the goddamn time.
Also the fact that almost all Nintendo games amount to what is essentially a fancy arcade game with not a lot of depth to them.
This right here 1000%. Nintendo used to get a lot of my money. Not anymore, screw em.
I'm in the same boat.
I haven’t owned every Nintendo console, just Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Super Nintendo, Game Boy Advance, N64, Wii, New Nintendo 3DS, and Switch. But yeah, all the shit they’ve done recently means I’ll never buy a Switch 2, or whatever comes after it.
What are they gonna do? Hack into my PC and send a lawyer to my house demanding I remove the version that has round balls? Kiss my ass Nintendo!
Yes, they will.
Who do they think they are, WotC?
Magic The Gathering is known for it's 5 color card system. Red, Blue, Black, White and Green.
But the most dangerous color is Pink.
Expected a different
kind of pink
I don't know how it would work with the lore, but it would be hilarious if they added Pink. XD
Tell me about pink kryptonite
Well, it IS June...
Even the older versions were vastly different, and Nintendo's patents are both exceptionally vague and infringe on older works. Hopefully this keeps reducing until it collapses entirely. Any win for Nintendo, even minor, will give precedence for future lawsuits.
That's not how the law works. It's not a thing where this company sued another company for patents and won, therefore all future lawsuits on patents automatically win. There may be some precedent about specific details in the case, but there's no reason to assume a future judge in a future case wouldn't rule in the same way even if this case never existed. Seems to me precedence paranoia is just some internet lawyer thing.
The strangest thing about this case is that Nintendo didn't sue for trademark infringement or copyright. I assume Pikachu is trademarked and this company had a Pikachu with a machine gun on the cover of their game. Looks like an easy win for trademark infringement, given everyone referred to it as Pokeman with guns.
There is no Pikachu in the game. While it does take inspiration from Pokémon certainly, that is perfectly legal. Imagine the shit hole the art world would be in if you couldn't take inspiration from previous works. Their argument is about mechanics, and their mechanics aren't particularly unique anyway.
No, it's just a monster capture and battling game. Their issue most definitely losing Pokemon sales to this game but the lawsuit they went with is in relation to a patient on throwing a ball and a creature being summoned to do battle. So Palworld removed the ball throwing aspect and the creature now just appears which is why they are now focusing on older versions of the game that still contain that.