KhanCipher [none/use name]

Since early ygo is all about 4 star cards with good atk power

I was thinking “that doesn’t sound like goat format to me” then you mentioned Summoned Skull then it hit me that you’re probably in a format predating Jinzo, the Monarchs, Chaos Sorc, and BLS.

Ah yes, time for my depression to start kicking in yet again, reminding myself that I know full well that the likelyhood of me ever finding anyone that would ever tolerate me may as well be 0%…

So to explain why this lawsuit is happening, we need to talk about Pocketpair’s partnership with Sony Music Entertainment Japan, and SMEJ’s subsidiary, Aniplex. And also some major context on the relationship between Nintendo and Sony (hint: they don’t like eachother at all)

Pocketpair essentially entered into a relationship with Sony, about the same kind that Gamefreak did with Nintendo way back then. At that point this is no longer the smol bean indie dev getting bullied by a big company, this is now a big company trying to take a piece out of another rival with the lawsuit being the retaliatory strike. Now as for why Sony and Nintendo don’t like eachother, this has a lot to do with the original playstation, the cd based SNES, that one. So if Nintendo never backed out of that deal (and went to go work with Philips which brought the CDi into existence), Nintendo wouldn’t be the household name it is today.

Why is this important to know? Because after that moment Sony resents Nintendo for not becoming their prize, and Nintendo resents Sony for attempting a hostile takeover action against them. Fast forward to today, and with Palworld, Sony is effectively being handed a way to get back at an old rival on a silver plater, and they’re taking the shot at knocking Nintendo down a peg. For Nintendo, they have to answer what is in organized crime terms, a blatant encroachment of their territory by Sony, and it just so happens the only avenue to do so is a patent lawsuit. Which are notoriously known for being very long, messy, and insanely risky propositions, like to the point that nobody wants to actually do them. So for Nintendo to go for a patent lawsuit against Pocketpair, they are viewing the risk of invalidating their own patent as significantly less than the damage that Sony can do to them if unanswered.

This is what the entire lawsuit is about, it’s not Nintendo vs. Pocketpair, it’s actually Nintendo vs. Sony in this lawsuit.

They lack the identity and focus of older games.

My entire thoughts on MW5:Mercs and Clans. After stumbling onto the flash in the pan that is a 9-10/10 pvp game (that happens to be stuck behindthe most meh/10 developer imo) in MWO, PGI went and spent two games trying to do everything they can to distance themselves from MWO.

Palworld was successful enough to be seen as a threat.

Counterpoint: Digimon, which is owned by another big company, Bamco. However Bamco and Nintendo are on good relationship terms as evidenced by Smash Bros. Sony and Nintendo however, have some history with each other, history that makes them not exactly see each other on friendly terms. Let’s just say that if the original playstation plans had gone through, Sony would very likely have a major ownership stake in Nintendo today.

Again so much of the advertising, and marketing of Palworld was done by Sony, so this whole case is Nintendo trying to get Sony to back down, or at least make it very costly for Sony to take any territory from them.

Game Freak/Nintendo get to destroy the competition, which is what this is really about.

Yes and no, you see Pocket Pair had partnered up with Sony, so because of that partnership Palworld is now the metaphorical equivalent of a mob family (Sony) encroaching on the territory of another mob family (Nintendo). Had Pocket Pair not partnered up with Sony, I’d bet you that Nintendo wouldn’t have cared one bit.

Yes that’s what the whole thing is about, it’s about Nintendo protecting their territory from in their eyes a very blatant encroachment by Sony.

Gaming peaked with the Mega Drive Playstayion 2.

Fixed that for you.