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@jake1421 every business has loss prevention procedures.

Game key cards are an excellent idea. Saves the cost of an expensive cart and still retains a resale value. But people will still bitch and complain.

@iLikeUrAttitude no. Very little. I don’t throw pearls to swine.

@AstroTheGamosian What are you talking about? No one can "appeal" from the grant of a patent. You can object during the granting process, but no one did.

@Lowdefal That's how it started. Just because everyone needed to borrow from prior art doesn't mean its now acceptable.

@AstroTheGamosian every game draws its origin from previous games. The problem with all of your examples is that they all come from an era where you could not patent video games. We are now in a timeline where patents can be granted for video games.

There are certain aspects of games that are common elements that cannot be patented. Then there are specific game genres and specific series in those genres continue to innovate from prior iterations. The innovations within that genre are what is being protected, not the use of that particular game element across the board.

@iLikeUrAttitude I didn't use logic. It's often a marker to a poor argument to use "by your logic..." Try actually developing an argument that meets mine rather than resorting to red herrings and straw men.

@w1p3out amazing riposte. Yeah I don't understand the meaning of a commonly used English term. Palworld literally took existing Pokemon designs and ripped them off. Even the name of the Company responsible for the game is a rip. If it didn't look like Pokemon it wouldn't have seen the light off day.

@Pillowpants How about developers just come up with their own ideas? Taking someone else's formula and passing it off as your own is not moving the games industry forward.

@EvenStephen7 Or you know, Nintendo does something and you act like it's nothing. Kinda telling how you can find fault in everything.

@NFrealinkling Why are you assuming local coop? The Switch version had online play.

When this goes on sale, I'll grab it. $20, is just not a good value proposition.

@Pillowpants Nintendo absolutely should protect its IPs. Palworld is a blatant ripoff. There is nothing added to the gaming world by copying existing ideas.

@gabrigoes hahaha 😂

You have no idea what you’re talking about. The only thing that can be patented is an invention. I’m a lawyer. Think again about arguing on a subject matter over which you hold little competence.

@Matl well maybe you should not be so flippant in your comments?

@Ogbert and you still don’t understand how patents work. There is no need to patent something in order to provide protection for others. The prior art doctrine does that.

@Ogbert why are you trying to espouse an exegesis on patents? Do you think you are telling me things I don’t already know?

There is absolutely no reason to post this as an article. Find better things to write about.

@Zuljaras Allow me to let you in on something. This is how patents work, you make a list of claims and steps, including the inventive ones, and the END PRODUCT of those steps is what gets the Patent protection, not each of the individual steps that are not inventive.

@AllBLK Must be so satisfying to wipe them out.

@Ogbert Why do people who have no idea how patents work make these types of comments?

@tobsesta99 HAHAHAHA. Except it is. Developers took the risk to develop their product for market. They get the exclusive right to sell their product and that means preventing criminal low lives from pirating.

@Spider-Kev You still own the system. You can decide to sell it if you like. What you can't do is try to work around the protections in the system to maintain IP protection. And this isn't new. Even the record companies were suing the makers of dual tape decks back in the 80s. If you want to be able to change your OS, keep your system off line, and don't expect new software.

@Matl No you don't understand the law. Irreparable damage has nothing to do with the size of a company. It means that damages cannot be properly calculated and if the conduct is allowed to continue more damages would occur. You're not a lawyer and you are arguing with one. Stop.

@JohnnyMind that is exactly what it is. This is a nothing burger. The author has no idea.

Another article about Nintendo protecting its IP without basic understanding of how Trademarks work.

@Zuljaras because you don’t understand how patents work. It’s not a patent over each of the individual steps. It’s a patent protecting any new game that relies upon ALL of the steps.

@Lizuka no it’s not. If someone invests money in inventions they deserve protection. It actually promotes new ideas too, because developers are forced to come up with their own ideas rather than just copying.

Who's the boss? Must be a Klingon.

@Truegamer79 This particular author seems to like reminding everyone that the Switch 2 doesn't have the specs of the PS5 and current xbox. Like we all somehow forgot.

We have a portable console, its never going to have the specs of a stay at home. Quit the lazy "journalism."

@Cathalm It's a legal standard required for the issuance of a permanent injunction, and yes there was irreparable damage here per that standard.

@Matl You don't understand the law, so maybe you shouldn't talk about it.

Good. Pirates know what they are doing is against the law, so why take the risk?

@Mikey_205 NIntendo has sales. It used to discount games too, the Player's Choice versions being the example. Nintendo just realized after the runaway success of the Wii, that certain of its games are evergreen sellers and they don't need to discount to move stock.

@Mikey_205 developers need to cover their production costs. Once those are covered, and the early adopters have made their purchase they put the game on sale. Standard market rules.

@Duncanballs most competition laws require significant market power as a prerequisite. I don’t think Indies have that market power.

It will never cease to amaze me that people will complain that totally optional purchases might require a bit of extra money, but that extra money is for things that can be used for other things AND if you decide not to splash the extra money you can still enjoy your purchase.

@Volmun Problem is that many of these patent trolls are corporations with zero assets.

There is another $60 Nintendo is going to take out of my wallet.

How about NOA teams up with Best Buy to supply more Meta Knight Amiibos?

droooool. When am I going to find the time???

Its a chicken and egg relationship, Pew doesn't get any clicks unless he is playing video games and those games are copyrighted in the first place. He can't complain about having to pay his fair share of the revenue generated when he has to exploit someone else's IP in order to get the revenue. Let's face it this guy makes a fortune for basically recording his own pass-times. His complaints ring hollow.

@Danrenfroe2016 Except it's not socialism, it's protectionism. George W Bush placed a steel tariff in place in 2002, no-one would ever call him a socialist.

@Vineleaf Nintendo have stated no plans to make game specific amiibos. Indeed they have said amiibos will work across multiple games.