Nintendo Just Sued the Creators of Palworld...

Nintendo & the Pokémon company just hit Pocketpair with a lawsuit regarding Palworld.
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[@MrHulthen]

Can't say that i'm surprised. Pretty unfortunate tho. Also yes, I know i pronounced "patent" wrongly several times. I'm sorry alright - I'M SORRY! 🫠 Also to clarify what i said in the video: The lawsuit is obviously surrounding patent (what for we simply don't know at this point) - But as Pocketpair has taken atleast a few artistic liberties with their designs, I wouldn't exactly say that I'm surprised. Again, it's not about Copyright surrounding monster designs specifically - I just brought that up as an example for why Nintendo might have found a case for themselves and it could be any number of reasons. Sources: x.com/Dexerto/status/1836551578565681346 x.com/Wario64/status/1836548876108468345 x.com/Palworld_EN/status/1836692701355688146 www.statista.com/statistics/1447359/palworld-games-sales-worldwide/

[@aeli999]

You get a pass on patent. Lots of English as a first language people can't pronounce it either. 🤣

[@DarklordDespia]

I pronounce it the same way so yeh it is what it is 😅

[@georgehouliaras7239]

Never trust the yellow mouse, Commander. Especially if it can shoot lightning from it's cheeks.

[@UniversalChallenge4454]

Nintendo seems to fear competition

[@danteXcrossing]

Always have

[@ScytheNoire]

All corporations fear competition. That's why they get powerful government issued tools such as copyrights and patents, so ensure they can maintain control and dominance. Welcome to capitalism.

[@talimancern7724]

I hope Nintendo loses and Palworld gets more popular.

[@tyanajones8399]

They will WATCH.

[@thehucklebillyfenn]

Like one of those commenters mentioned, I think it is important to differentiate patent with copyright. Nintendo is not suing because the designs are copying Pokémon, that would be a copyright lawsuit. They are suing because of certain patents they think were violated, that would be closer to systems, executed concepts, or features. We don’t know what the alleged patents are, but it would be more similar to, “a system where you battle and catch fantastical creatures in magical balls where you can then reuse them in combat” rather than, “this pal has this specific trait recognizable to this x Pokémon.” I honestly don’t see how Nintendo could win given things like storing creatures and using them in battles is in no way specific to Pokémon. It will all depend on the revealed patents though. I also have no idea how Japan handles patent law and whether they will be fair to an indie studio compared to a multi-billion dollar franchise. I wouldn’t be surprised if the Pokémon company was trying to develop their own survival Pokémon game (an upgraded Legends game maybe?), and so they want to take down the competition. They are infamous for taking down roms and fan games right before game unveils and releases.

[@melonman6522]

It's probably related to Legends ZA, it is the next game they are releasing for the Switch

[@Zathurious]

Ironic, considering winning a lawsuit is only reason Nintendo exists as a company today. If they had lost the lawsuit with Hollywood studios back in the 80s, the company would not have survived.

[@apersonontheinternet8354]

If pocketpair fights it, I see 2 outcomes. A: (What seems most likely) Nintendo wins, pocketpair gets gutted and palworld gets wiped from all current platformed indefinitely. B: Nintendo loses, and the industry sees that Nintendo is not invincible, allowing people and inspiring people to try to make games that may be similar to Nintendo IPs without fear of the Nintendo scare tactics. I personally hope for B, but A seems like it will happen 99% out of 100%.

[@pixelmafiaxbl]

I hope Pocket Pair fight back and win. Nintendo are way too aggressive with lawyering up whenever there’s a sniff of competition. Palworld is obviously heavily inspired by Pokemon but it’s different enough to where it has its own identity. Also, it’s not hurting Nintendo or the Pokemon IP as it’s available on platforms where Pokemon isn’t being sold.

[@loneneko]

Where did game freak get their inspiration from? Why put hard work into your game when you can take millions from your competitors. If Nintendo thinks i gave pokemon money to palworld, they are as delusional as the Nintendo fanbase.

[@upstrock]

I don't think it Will happen. But if pocketpair actually managed to win the lawsuit, they Will Become legendary.

[@Alexis-vv5bk]

If they shut down this game I hope it destroys Nintendo's game sales forever.

[@MiguelGarcia-fk9ov]

The fact that Nintendo is scared of any game that resembles pokemon is so hilarious. They have been ruining the games snd series for years now of course they are scared other catching monster games are better wich they have been 😂

[@cecarter10]

Nintendo copied dragon quest...

[@HyouVizer]

I hate this meme so much lol

[@HistoryVideoGamesMiscStuff]

While Nintendo can't sue Palworld for the idea of capturing monsters in balls, as concepts can't be copyrighted, a lot of designs do make me think they went beyond "inspired by".

[@carlomolina7858]

Ironic since the former was the actual reason for this lawsuit (patents).

[@MegaDman16]

It's the exact opposite of what you said. It's a patent lawsuit because of how the pal spheres work in the game. Nintendo couldn't sue them because of the designs. Nintendo apparently has a patent for the concept.

[@sivithepony5171]

What about people making commission art of pokemon and charging for it? Nintendo going to sue everyone doing that?

[@ninja1man4u]

I hope the pocket pair devs offer players a go fund me for the legal costs

[@OrkDiktator]

Plot twist: Nintendo and Pokemon want to copy palworld and want to make sure Pocketpair won't be able to sue them

[@aeli999]

There's competition and then there's straight up copying with slight stylistic changes. And even if it isn't about that, if Nintendo doesn't enforce their patent or IP rights or trademarks or whatever, they could and mostly likely would lose those rights. That's one of the reasons Disney (besides being jerks) is so zealous about anybody making money from any of their characters, except ali express which I guess they can't do anything about. And Etsy, which is another story altogether.

[@Agherosh]

Then Nintendo should be sued due to their design copies.

[@TevyaSmolka]

Why is Nintendo even suing Palworld creators because isn’t this game a success.

[@uberculex]

The more successful it is, the more they can claim dilution of brand.

[@orangeoblivion]

You don’t sue unsuccessful people, they don’t have the money.

[@TevyaSmolka]

@@orangeoblivion agreed

[@deathmourne1]

It's all about patents man, recently submitted patents that are quite vague

[@XGiveMeLibertyX]

Man this just killed what little excitement I had for the switch 2. Haven’t played a Nintendo game since donkey Kong on the SNES and looks like I won’t ever play another one. Fuck Nintendo!

[@p.ookaa1]

Im sure Nintendo will really miss you

[@uberculex]

Sounds like you definitely were just about to buy a Switch 2 lol. "I swear I only needed 30 years and I was back on board."

[@Weiswolfe]

@@p.ookaa1 no they wont give you a switch 2 for defending them

[@astolfo2305]

@@p.ookaa1 they get mad if you use emulator so

[@nightchildkota_gaming3898]

LMAO what you are talking about is copyright and they aren't sueing for copyright they are sueing for patents also the designs are NOTHING alike yeah maybe anubis but that is really far fetched

[@zoltanschweifer4304]

Mybe not everything is lost don't forget they have Microsoft to back them up.

[@astolfo2305]

yea i just gonna use emulators for nintendo games

[@DarthWampa_]

I'm not surprised based on how much the designs were pretty much infringing on Pokemon designs.

[@HyouVizer]

a good amount of there were mixing like 2-3 pokemon or slight alt version. Plant dragon, goodra body, meganium face, and liligant petals on its head. Another looked like shiny eevee gigamax form.

[@MegaDman16]

They can't sue because of the designs; it's a patent lawsuit, aka Nintendo suing because apparently they ''own'' the concept of catching creatures in balls you throw and carry around.

[@almostfaceman]

Not into this game or pretty much any Nintendo game (since Donkey Kong - yes I'm that old) but still, thanks for the news. Have a nice day.

[@scanix100]

It was obvious and tbh they had that coming, because it was simply a theft and they should have sue them much sooner.

[@Zymemaru]

No it wasn't. Stop jock riding nintendo

[@intense103]

Easy win for Nintendo, the fact that every person, youtube video or review said oh its Pokémon or its a Pokémon clone. The public have won the case for them. Anyone that enjoys Palworld, play it as much as you can as it will be shut down once Nintendo get there.

[@talimancern7724]

You are joking right? It is a dumb patent lawsuit not copyright.

[@intense103]

@talimancern7724 patent lawsuits usually come with cease and desist orders. And Nintendo always will clamp down with cease and desists while claiming as much or nearly all profits made. It's pretty standard in patent law.

[@LilBeaniebby]

Monster tamer genre in shambles rn /s How many other games follow the principle of catching a monster with a ball/device and training them to fight each other with skills out there? I think the genre is too broad to just be going after that, maybe the patents of characters they’re going after since it’s obvious pocket pair either traced Pokemon or fed designs to an AI generator to spit out the designs. Yes I know they released concept art and early designs, but those can be faked with AI now albeit not to a great extent. This is probably why I saw a meme of pokemon copying Dragon’s Quest designs earlier.🤔

[@HyouVizer]

DQ to pkmn designs aren't 1:1 like some palworld monsters are to certain pkmn mixing 2-3 pkmn parts as a palword monster, that's the difference.

[@AnonIllumi]

JUSUS still playing pokemon in ur 30's

[@MrHulthen]

true gamers play every type of game no matter their age

[@HyouVizer]

There are loads of monster battle games, some even inspired being a pokemon-like, nexomon, coromon to name a few. But all these other games, their monster designs dont look remotely like direct pokemon designs. Thats the difference, some palworld monsters mix 2-3 pkmn design parts as one monster.