discussion Nintendo & Pokémon announce they are officially suing Palworld

[Talento]

Filing Lawsuit for Infringement of Patent Rights against Pocketpair, Inc.

Nintendo Co., Ltd. (HQ: Kyoto, Minami-ku, Japan; Representative Director and President: Shuntaro Furukawa, "Nintendo" hereafter), together with The Pokémon Company, filed a patent infringement lawsuit in the Tokyo District Court against Pocketpair, Inc. (HQ: 2-10-2 Higashigotanda, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, "Defendant" hereafter) on September 18, 2024.

 

This lawsuit seeks an injunction against infringement and compensation for damages on the grounds that Palworld, a game developed and released by the Defendant, infringes multiple patent rights.

 

Nintendo will continue to take necessary actions against any infringement of its intellectual property rights including the Nintendo brand itself, to protect the intellectual properties it has worked hard to establish over the years.

 

https://www.nintendo.co.jp/corporate/release/en/2024/240919.html

 

Edited September 19 by Talento

[Totami Legend]

We don't care just announce switch 2 I'm going insane 

[LovingDays]

But forcing Game Freak to make a good playable game is too much effort? 

[mons†er]

Well if GameFreak was smart they would sue and take all the mechanics and aspects people love of Palworld and incorporate them into the new Pokémon Game. But they won't. 

[Kimmo]

Stop suing and start releasing Donkey Kong 64 version for Switch already…

[Bewitched]

I mean it was inevitable like they literally look like recolored Pokémon 

[Trash]

3 minutes ago, Bewitched said:

I mean it was inevitable like they literally look like recolored Pokémon 

Just did a quick google search, it pretty much is a mix between Pokémon and Digimon

 

I'm giggling at these lil guys

 

 

[Rabbit]

end them  

[Poxy]

Palworld, "the Pokémon killer" 

[Jotham]

Took them long enough. that one Lucario ripoff

[45seconds]

Nintendo would find a reason to sue an orphan cancer patient on their last day if it was possible. 

Edited September 19 by 45seconds

[Rune]

I feel like they waited for the hype to die down so they'd get less negative reception for doing this.

 

Everyone saw this coming but they chose to fly too close to the sun anyway.

[Space Cowboy]

It's interesting its a patent lawsuit, not copyright. 
 

That implies tech, design, and features. It isn't just similarity of characters.

[JBJT2786]

10 minutes ago, Rune said:

I feel like they waited for the hype to die down so they'd get less negative reception for doing this.

 

Everyone saw this coming but they chose to fly too close to the sun anyway.

They literally waited til the company made millions to sue. Smart but also kinda evil....

[dumbsparce]

1 minute ago, JBJT2786 said:

They literally waited til the company made millions to sue. Smart but also kinda evil....

Still less evil than what the other party did. They literally took their designs and altered them a bit thinking they'd get away with it. There's no way possible this could be spun against Pokemon & co.

[Johnnyboi]

They are pulling an Al Capone on them. I would feel bad if it wasn't A.I. slop. 

[Raichu]

1 hour ago, mons†er said:

Well if GameFreak was smart they would sue and take all the mechanics and aspects people love of Palworld and incorporate them into the new Pokémon Game. But they won't. 

They need to make a good new Pokemon game period, but I don't think Palworld was revolutionary or something to take note of for them by any means. It really was just a fad game

[Alldeezy]

Palworld was so good tho if pokemon did a game like that on PC. Not everyone can be bothered with the switch

 

This is coming from a pokemon fan since pokemon yellow. 

[Comedor]

We stand with Nintendo.

 

[Sugar-Rush]

Good. I'm usually not a supporter of litigation, but many of the "Pals" were so blatantly rip-offs of Pokemon designs that I'm surprised the Palworld developers thought they could get away with it. BTW teas

[loveisdead9582]

1 hour ago, Space Cowboy said:

It's interesting its a patent lawsuit, not copyright. 
 

That implies tech, design, and features. It isn't just similarity of characters.

Interesting. I never played Palworld since it wasn't on switch. I knew it was somewhat similar with some blatant rip-off monsters but idk about the other mechanics. 

[Dolce Vita]

wrdgaf just announce switch 2 with animal crossing as a launch title

[YouSmellLikeHospital]

Why do the bootleg Pokemon have machine guns 

[Katamari]

is this where the budget for peach's game went 

[tost1]

21 minutes ago, YouSmellLikeHospital said:

Why do the bootleg Pokemon have machine guns 

They're American