The studio also names the weirdly small damages Nintendo is seeking

Looking up those patents, the first alludes to a system where a player aims and fires an “item” toward a character in a field, and in doing so triggers combat, and then dives into extraordinary intricacies about switching between modes within this. The second is very similar, but seems more directly focused on tweaking previous patents to including being able to capture Pokémon in the wild, rather than only during battle. The third, rather wildly, seems to be trying to claim a modification to the invention of riding creatures in an open world and being able to transition between them easily.

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If this kind of thing bothers you, you need to stop gaming altogether. All consoles and developers.

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Have you been lobotomized or do you just work for Nintendo?

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The rabid insanity towards such a non offensive post… You ok guy?

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He’s just a generally shitty person in every thread he goes into.

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It’s so surprising from an account named nuke the whales

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I first read it like a sonic character name and thought wtf you were saying. Its less cool now.

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Absolutely not true. All the console creators, sure, but not all developers. There are so many good developers, especially indie.

There’s issues with purchasing anything in capitalism. We have to deal with that as long as that’s the case though. It doesn’t mean Nestlé isn’t significantly worse than other campanies though, for example. There are different degrees of bad, and Nintendo is basically the top for gaming.

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Not sure why you got downvoted, you’re absolutely right. While Nintendo is prolific in this subject, they’re far from unique.

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There are many developers (indie, AA and even AAA) who don’t engage in this BS. They focus on … wait for it … making good fun games that sell well!

Imagine that!

Far from unique is irrelevant.

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How many of those developers are also hardware manufacturers, though? Because that’s what we’re talking about.

The Big Three all do this.

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From the relevant thread comment:

All consoles and** developers**.

Valve to my knowledge doesn’t engage in patent trolling and so it’s not all hardware manufacturers.

And even with Sony and Microsoft? Do they engage in bottom of the barrel patent trolling? If anything MS has definitely been on the receiving end of patent trolls. Do they go after people who stream/make video content with their games?

Don’t get me wrong, I am not defending Sony or Microsoft. But it’s a bit strange to engage in volunteer PR for a company just because you’re a fan of the Mario series (not saying this applies to you, but this is not an unreasonable statement with respect to Nintendo fans in general).

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