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Nintendo's 'Summon Character To Fight' Patent Rejected By US Patent Office
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I hope Palworld will fuck them good when they exit early access.
this post was submitted on 01 Apr 2026
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after 30 years shouldn’t the patent have expired?
They patented it in like 2020
then I really hope they cancell it because prior art clearly exists
Good. Software patents are bollocks.
I don't feel bad for Nintendo or GameFreak. They had more than two decades to grow and improve the franchise, but instead rested on their laurels from early success.
If you don't innovate, the next guy will.
I haven't seen innovation in their consoles since the Wii. Nintendo is a joke.
The Switch was unquestionably innovative. So much so that there are many, many imitators now. The Switch 2 is just more of the same.
My four year old Steam Deck is light-years more versatile than the Switch 2.
Nintendo got me back in 2017, but lost me to Valve in 2022.
Same, except they sold me on a Steam Deck after revealing the Switch 2. Glad they did then, since they've been out of stock for months!
Nintendo manages to really leverage their 'dainty' hardware with excellent designers and programmers.
And it works. I'll take games that are actually fun over the latest RTX whatever bullshit that you need a GPU the price of a used car to run and still there's fuzzies and blurriness. Fuck that noise.
There is innovation in every Nintendo system.
The Wii U had dual screen and asymmetric games.
The 3DS had a 3D screen, a couple AR games, and Street Pass.
The Switch is the first console with a docking station and being able to dynamically change the graphics settings without having to restart running software.
The Switch 2 has multiple mouse controls.
All of them are a bit gimmicky, none are totally original, and most of them did not really catch on, but you cannot fault them for trying. What innovations have there been in PC, PlayStation, and XBox? VR headsets and DLSS?
I absolutely refuse to get a Switch 2 considering so much of what Nintendo has been doing especially lately, that being said the mouse controls I felt were potentially huge and I'm surprised to hear they're not catching on. Nintendo's own gimmick game for it obviously looked okay at best but more realistically a tech demo, but I felt like it could have been fantastic for plenty of genres.
FPS games on the S2 now could have much better viewing controls while still having analog movement (primary reason I use gamepad for GTA on PC is because I primarily play with vehicles and I vastly prefer analog movement instead of WASD for driving and flying), games that have occasionally intense menuing can swap between using the joycon and mouse mode quite easily (for instance MH when building armor sets), and games that are almost exclusively menuing (RTS's effectively dead as they may be as a genre) could control much better on console than they historically have before.
I felt like the mouse sensor had a lot of potential for making existing games feel so much better to actually play especially for PC players as opposed to things like the dreaded joystick controlled cursor or slow viewing rotation in comparison to potentially very snappy mouse controls.