Nintendo's Pokémon Catching-Related Patent Has Been Rejected In Japan

[Sephiran]

Phenomajp13 said:

Zippy6 said:

Some Nintendo fans are still blindly salty about palworld being a "Pokémon copy" when it has far more in common with something like Ark. Weird how they were never salty about games that actually follow the Pokémon formula like Cassette Beasts, Tem Tem, Coromon or Evomon. As a game palworld is nothing like Pokémon.

But I guess when you sell 12m copies on steam in 2 weeks, faster than any Pokémon except Scarlet/Violet, that's when people start getting mad.

No one is salty over Palworld lol. It's entire success is owed to Pokemon. I've played the game and yes you are correct it's a more fun ARK to me. The poster said something silly like if you can't beat them? The butthurt has always been from Palworld fans being jealous of an ip bigger than GTA despite all its flaws, suing some clowns over building a brand on the back of Pokémon. You are literally comparing an exclusive to a game going viral on multiple platforms (lightning in a bottle by the way)? Yet Pokemon fans are jealous lol, this will be the only metric between Pokemon and Palworld even remotely close between them. Imagine what a Pokemon game would do if it wasn't exclusive? Pokemon is a juggernaut that Palworld can't even dream of being. Palworld will sell 50 million in a 10 year time span at best including its explosive launch. Pokemon will add another 200 million sales in that span lol, no one is jealous but hurt Palworld fans mad at Nintendo.

Palworld fans also spread anti-Nintendo disinformation, acting like patent lawsuits aren't a thing for other game companies. The truth is that other Japanese game companies like Capcom have sued Koei Tecmo using patent lawsuits. So Nintendo is just like any other Japanese publisher. But due to PC gamers loving Capcom and hate Nintendo, they have to act like Nintendo is behaving in ways that other Japanese companies aren't, which is an entirely false narrative.