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[Ryuu96]

Mnementh said:

Ryuu96 said:

I feel like Xbox marketed Palworld more than Sony marketed stuff like Baldur's Gate 3 but Xbox fans are never satisfied and I know what Droid is talking about where some Xbox fans were like "Why hasn't Microsoft acquired Pocketpair? Are they stupid?" Lol. Guess who Nintendo would be suing right now if Microsoft owned Pocketpair? That's right, Microsoft.

And saying that doesn't defend Nintendo's decision, I hate that the lawsuit is around patents, I think patents suck and are a negative impact to progression but the fact is a patent lawsuit is a lot easier than a copyright lawsuit and Nintendo is almost certainly going to win this. Nintendo has one of the best legal teams in the world and have been preparing for months. Can't see this going anywhere other than a settlement in Nintendo's favour or Pocketpair being crushed by legal fees.

So yes it turns out that Microsoft not acquiring Pocketpair was a huge dodged bullet.

Actually, I think if MS acquired Pocketpair then Nintendo would've probably thought twice about that suit. Because that this is a patent suit instead of copyright/trademark infringement is already telling: they haven't found any copyright/trademark infringement. Patents can be much broader but are also much more unrealiable as a result in court. This lawsuit could end in these patents getting revoked.

But I think the more likely intention here is for Nintendo to not even get to court, but to endlessly eat time and money of the opponent through proceedings and then drop the lawsuit just before it actually made it to court. That is not unusual for patent cases.

So, what if Microsoft had acquired PocketPair? Microsoft has an army of lawyers so any tactic of overflooding them with judicial proceedings would be answered by even more judicial proceedings from Microsofts lawyers. This is a game they know and play all too well. More importantly: Microsoft holds enough bullshitty software patents of their own and as the nature of broad software patents is their lawyers would dig up potential infringements in Nintendos games in no time. So effectively Microsoft would just completely Stonewall such a legal attack by Nintendo.

As Nintendo knows this I am certain they wouldn't have sued in the first place, had MS acquired PocketPair.

Perhaps.

I actually think Microsoft would have just settled with Nintendo though, Microsoft often loves pretending to be the good guy, they try hard to maintain a certain image, even in the Activision-Blizzard acquisition they tried hard to not take this to court, Lol. Constantly trying to offer solutions which they probably didn't need to do by the law, heck I wouldn't be surprised if the FTC trial ends up with Microsoft still giving the FTC a compromise so that the FTC has a bit of a win.

So when it comes to Nintendo, one of the most beloved companies on the planet, I doubt Microsoft would get into a court fight with them just on PR alone, I think they'd just say "okay, I'll pay up, how much you want for us to use the patent?" and that's it (and pay anything extra to chill Nintendo out), Lol. Plus Nintendo is making the lawsuit in Japan IIRC so they will have an advantage there but maybe a lawsuit against Microsoft would be changed to an American court trial? Idk.

Nintendo doesn't strike me as being scared about anyone, they've always been hyper aggressive about their games, Lol.

Who knows, I think the uncertainty though is enough reason to keep Microsoft away.

Last edited by Ryuu96 - on 20 September 2024