Nintendo’s Monster Capturing Patent Got Rejected by Japan’s Patent Office Due to Lack of Originality
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Ah, yes. Just gaslight me. Real mature.
In your mind I’m sure that makes sense. Cheers.
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Imagine if only Need for Speed racing games were allowed to exist, or the only allowed shooter game was Call of Duty.
Fuck Nintendo.
Next up: Nintendo tries to patent jumping; citing Mario
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Patients don’t protect small inventors anymore. They are now just systems to protect large corporations from competition. Patients are instead now weaponized against local businesses and small inventors. We need major world wide patient reform.
Everything is owned by a few corporations operating umbrella companies that make up the illusion of competition
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Pokemon, as a franchise, is worth it to monopolize.
If they did something good with it sure… But they are like Lego… Not much value for the price compared to others…
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You’re completely missing/ingoring mine and the other user’s point.
Sure, they might focus on a certain demographic as theur customer, but that’s not what actually makes them money. They’re not paying attention to reality and it’s going to bite them in the ass
But be honest here.
Has it ever bit them in the ass?
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Nintendo doesnt care about the things you care about, and never will.
That’s exactly why Palworld has done so well. Nintendo/Gamefreak left that demographic untouched and ripe for someone to come along and cater to them. Nintendo decided that instead of competing for that demographic they would rather try to use the legal system to beat Palworld.
My point here is that this guy has supported Nintendo for 40 fucking years and now has finally stopped despite Nintendo always having been the way they are.
At no point have they been a good company, and likely, will never be a good company.
But now, after spending literal decades shipping the brand, he has stopped.
Its honestly hilarious.
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how about actually innovate your games, instead allowing Masuda to make slop after slop. from switch on, thier games largely degenerated in quality compared to previous generations.
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Why is Agent Smith in lotr? Damn, it really is a simulation.
he was also vulcan in enterprise, and a ocampan in voyager. RIP gary graham.
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Except kids don’t give a shit about Pokémon, and the only ones that do is because of their parents.
i feel like alot of the current customers are milleneals who grew up with pokemon, at least in the competitive scene, its all grown ass people fighting over a kids game, and scalping it.
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That just isn’t true. Pokemon never became unpopular, but only had some lesser years. I have a 13 yo half brother and pokemon has been an ever popular thing in his whole school.
i remember pokemon kinda fell off for a few years, before coming back with black and white.
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Yup, lemmy users frequently seem to have this strange idea that lemmy is somehow representative of the Nintendo customer base. I agree that I find Nintendo’s business practices terrible and their last Pokemon mainline title was frankly boring and uninteresting. But the reality is also that Scarlet/Violet was the second-best selling Pokemon game ever.
llikely due the pandemic, where nobody has anything to do at home, so naturally people are going buy pokemon games more than before.
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See this is where you ignored the last part of my comment. If you hadn’t you’d get why the Harley example makes absolutely no sense
Nintendo could make some pretty small QOL adjustments that would make older fans very happy and not really make much of a difference at all to younger fans.
I never suggested to make their games more mature. There’s plenty to do that’s still friendly to their target demographic that would still keep the older demographics engaged
the problem is masuda, he clearly stated he was going to make slop int the first iteration of the switch console(sword and shield), and every other game. and people still bought it and complained about it.
the card game is almost unplayable because of scalping.
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A simple demonstration of this are the Yugioh and Digimon franchises which consistently appeal to a wide age range.
pokemon just had better marketing, yugioh and digimon are much more complex than pokemon(probably too complex for the simplicity of pokemon).
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llikely due the pandemic, where nobody has anything to do at home, so naturally people are going buy pokemon games more than before.
How long until people can stop blaming the pandemic for things?
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Then sue the Olympics
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how about actually innovate your games, instead allowing Masuda to make slop after slop. from switch on, thier games largely degenerated in quality compared to previous generations.
It started with the Wii. What a garbage console that was.
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old timers (or geeks) help me:
Didn’t Rogue (which termed the genre Rogue-like) had a “monster capturing” mechanics? I know that Nethack has a pet system (you even start out with a cat or dog that follow, fight and even steal items for you).
Also, what about older text based games similar to Zork? any of them with monter capturing/battle system?
My point is that if we dig deep, we may discover “monster capturing” (or pet) mechanics way earlier than what most people think about what is considered the beginning of videogames (fliperama era games like NES, MegaDrive, Sega…)
Not exactly. In those, you just threw food to them and they became friendly. It wasn’t really a battle-capture quite like Pokemon.
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If they did something good with it sure… But they are like Lego… Not much value for the price compared to others…
Not sure I can go that far. Lego is vastly superior quality to other blocks. Though they have been heavily reliant on licensed IP over original sets.
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I grew up with Nintendo and Pokémon too. However, if you had an NES when you were 7, you are no longer Pokémon’s target demographic. We just aren’t. I like playing the games, but they’re targeted at a much younger audience.
I’m probably the same age or a bit younger than OP, but I think we ARE the target demography because many of us are willing to buy these games for our kids
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It started with the Wii. What a garbage console that was.
The Wii being one of the few actual good things Nintendo’s done in the past 20 years.
