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[MagusMajul]

Sony might be in for a legal battle after this, Nintendo sued pal world will they sue sony next?

 

[Wooxsvan]

 

[tmlDan]

please stop this

 

[HAYA8U5A]

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

...........

we live in strange times, anything can happen.

 

[Zannegan]

Did they arguably violate any patents Nintendo holds? Because if Nintendo was going to sue them just for having a cute platformer, Sackboy would have been the one.

 

[Kacho]

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

 

[James Sawyer Ford]

Activision suing Nintendo for Splatoon for copying Call of Duty.

 

[MagusMajul]

Did they arguably violate any patents Nintendo holds? Because if Nintendo was going to sue them just for having a cute platformer, Sackboy would have been the one.

maybe but sackboy wasn't so critically acclaimed, I saw in an article that Nintendo's legal team picks and chooses it's lawsuits. I love Nintendo and Sony games I wish developers didn't live under this threat

 

[angrod14]

Sony to Nintendo if they try something:

 

[Zannegan]

maybe but sackboy wasn't so critically acclaimed, I saw in an article that Nintendo's legal team picks and chooses it's lawsuits. I love Nintendo and Sony games I wish developers didn't live under this threat

True, but they still have to have a leg to stand on, legally speaking. And it's not like Sony would be intimidated by Nintendo anyway.

Plus, picking and choosing cases probably has as much to do with making sure they winnable as making an example.

 

[POKEYCLYDE]

Wouldn't surprise me if Nintendo tries to patent a lot of the mechanics shown in the video.

 

[Cornbread78]

WTF...

 

[DaleinCalgary]

I’m dumber after reading this

 

[HAYA8U5A]

Did they arguably violate any patents Nintendo holds? Because if Nintendo was going to sue them just for having a cute platformer, Sackboy would have been the one.

And then Sony countersue for Mario Maker having a level creator and online sharing like LittleBigPlanet. The suing shall never end!

 

[El Muerto]

 

[HogIsland]

Nintendo doesn't use lawfare against major corporations who can put up a fight. They use it to stomp smaller entities who can't. Scumbags.

 

[Gamerfan81]

 

[Topher]

 

[Bonfires Down]

Meh. This thread should have been about whether Nintendo and Sony will be in more direct competition after Microsoft’s exit and the more powerful Switch 2. I believe they will be and I’m interested to see how it all shakes out.

 

[MDSLKTR]

Does Nintendo know what they're up against?

Spoiler

 

[West Texas CEO]

 

[Robb]

Of course they won’t.

 

[Herbspiceguy]

Interesting comparison. So Astro Bot is both a homage to Sony IP's as well as to the worlds and mechanics from Nintendo's classic 3D games.

 

[Three]

So your prediction is that Nintendo is just going to turn into a patent troll?

Maybe, but I doubt it.

 

[darrylgorn]

 

[ahtlas7]

It is Nintendo (please don’t sue me for using your name)

 

[Cakeboxer]

If Rocksteady or Ubisoft couldn't or didn't want to sue Sony, i don't think Nintendo can or will.

 

[blacktout]

Did they arguably violate any patents Nintendo holds? Because if Nintendo was going to sue them just for having a cute platformer, Sackboy would have been the one.

This. You can't (successfully) sue just for taking inspiration from existing games. If you could, the entire industry would have been consumed by lawsuits decades ago. There needs to be provable copyright or patent infringement.

Note that Nintendo is not even suing Palworld for its borderline plagiarized faux-pokemon designs, presumably because it doesn't think that case is winnable, but for patent infringement, which is much more clear cut, since the original patent application lays out, in some detail, exactly what it's supposed to protect.

So, no, there's a zero percent chance Nintendo is going to sue Sony over Astrobot.

 

[SweetTooth]

Even if Sony took Mario and put it in Astrobot, Nintendo wouldn't dare to do anything.

 

[StueyDuck]

Palworld is multiplatform now... no need to defend it anymore. It's a pretty crap game, baby's first unity project type of crap.

Nintendo will either win or lose and life will go on. The game had it's 2 weeks of popularity, that's more than 90% of indie games out there.

 

[Dafegamer]

That's like saying Id tech should sue Bungie for Halo. Palworld situation is different as you could mistake the designs for actual Pokemon

 

[sono]

 

[clarky]

Looks like the OP picked the wrong week to stop smoking crack.