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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[–] LovingHippieCat 176 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

People need to stop supporting Nintendo at all. They're lawsuit happy assholes who have been doing everything they can to piss away any good will they might have had. They're the only game company out there who refuses to make enough of many of their products, like their mini NES and SNES, to meet demand because then its "exclusive", they are the only company trying to destroy all type of emulation for Nintendo consoles, and they're the only company who seems to actually want their older games to disappear into the ether. Edit: Oh and they fucking refuse to put their games on sale or lower their prices years afterwards. BoTW is still 60 bucks even though it's 7 and a half years old. Fucking insane.

Fuck Nintendo.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

trying to destroy all type of emulation for Nintendo consoles

Only emulation used by others. They're happy to kang all' the ROMs and emulators off' a site before destroying it for everyone else, then not even sell most of the damn things. Absurd. There's nothing good about that, not even for Nintendo themselves.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 hours ago

Then not even sell the damn things

Sorta true. Nintendo has been monetizing emulation for years, ever since they started releasing "virtual console" games on the Wii web shop.

The Switch now offers NES/SNES games as a benefit of their online service, and has released a handful of games as standalone releases which are literally just nicely-packaged emulators (Mario Sunshine and Galaxy 1/2 bundle for example)

If emulation and "piracy" of old consoles is allowed, then Nintendo fears it won't be able to charge as much to repackage identical technology as full-price game releases.

[+] Nuke_the_whales -78 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 17 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

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

[+] [email protected] -14 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] Agent_Karyo 7 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

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

The Big Three all do this.

[–] Agent_Karyo 3 points 12 hours ago

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).