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One thing I'm wondering with these Switch 2 edition upgrades is whether the additional download is tacked onto the Switch 1 game and it's still Switch 1 emulation, or whether the Switch 1 game is kind of acting as a key, and the download is actually the entire Switch 2 game that runs as a native Switch 2 game?

@JohnnyMind First time hearing about Deku Deals - it looks so useful

@Erigen It seems to be on some kind of discount on the eshop every time I check. Last week it was 70% off, now it's 75% off.

@Jam777 Huh, never knew. I assumed it was basically the same experience. I think Twilight Princess was developed for GC and later ported to Wii - I had thought it was the same with BotW and so the Wii U version could keep pace.

I had a Gamecube but not a Wii, but I never got Twilight Princess, so I've never played it,

All these people (including me) voting for BotW forgetting that if it didn't exist on Switch you could still play it on Wii U.

Not that suprising tbh - it's been a bit of a weak year. On the plus side, the Switch has built up such a strong catalogue that a weak year is more about having a lack of hype than a lack of good games to play.

@GamingFan4Lyf Yeah, it's a bit loophole-y, but it's not ridiculous. If you file a divisional or claim priority from an older application, the thing that you claim (have legal protection for) has to have actually been present somewhere in the original older application. The benefit for the applicant (Nintendo here) is that maybe they wrote down a great idea, but didn't realise it was worth having legal protection for. Then someone else (Palworld) comes along later and puts that idea into practice. It's maybe not fair on Nintendo that they told the world about the idea first, and now Palworld are making money off it. So the divisional allows them to get protection for that eariler idea they've already told the world about.

The drawback of the system is that Palworld have have done their homework to make sure they weren't going to infringe any patents with their game, and then suddenly one appears after their release. It's just a balance of different party's rights.

Depending on the region, you might have just a few years to be able to file a divisional, so everyone else won't be scared of suddenly being sued 20 years down the line.

@anoyonmus Up in the article, automaton media. It says "As the parent patent of these four divisional patents was registered in December 2021, they are legally effective against Palworld, which launched in January this year. "

@anoyonmus The automaton link says they stem from a 2021 patent, so yeah, their legal date is 2021

@Madao Patents filed after the Palworld release seem to be useless unless they claim priority from an earlier application (the patents would be treated as having that earlier date) or Palworld introduced features after its release and after the patent filing dates.