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.

I think you’re projecting and looking for something that isn’t here. Relax.

Ah, yes. Just gaslight me. Real mature.

Imagine if only Need for Speed racing games were allowed to exist, or the only allowed shooter game was Call of Duty.

Fuck Nintendo.

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.

Pokemon, as a franchise, is worth it to monopolize.

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

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.

Why is Agent Smith in lotr? Damn, it really is a simulation.

Except kids don’t give a shit about Pokémon, and the only ones that do is because of their parents.

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.

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.

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

A simple demonstration of this are the Yugioh and Digimon franchises which consistently appeal to a wide age range.

llikely due the pandemic, where nobody has anything to do at home, so naturally people are going buy pokemon games more than before.

Next up: Nintendo tries to patent jumping; citing Mario

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.

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…)

If they did something good with it sure… But they are like Lego… Not much value for the price compared to others…