It’s not over yet, but it’s inching nearer to the end.
According to Games Fray’s Florian Mueller (via VGC), the non-final rejection — meaning Nintendo has two months to respond (or more if it choses) — the USPTO has rejected all 26 claims made in the patent, which essentially revokes it, unless Nintendo chooses to respond.
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.
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.
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!
Good. Nintendo didn’t invent the mechanic, nor Game Freak. Pokemon copied the mechanic. Outside the word Pokemon, and some creature names, very little if anything was truly original.
after 30 years shouldn’t the patent have expired?
They patented it in like 2020
