there's a lot of concepts like this that they haven't cashed in on that would make absurds amount of easy money

Everyone does, Sony and Microsoft included. You just don't see them online cause they don't make gamers angry like Nintendo lol.
Same thing with game key cards, like people forgot for how long physical games havent been fully physical, if at all

Once again, mega malamar's design has me seething the game's engine and gamefreak in general cant match their artists vision

They got the puzzle game, RPG game, card game, and MOBA.

Only thing missing is those Dokkan Battle/Genshin impact like money pit games. That s*** is incoming hot. Ho-Oh and Lugia summoning festivals lmao

They also don't have people like Wario64 misrepresenting everything they trademark. I'm positive this is probably some dumb mobile summoning mechanic.

😭 They can't keep getting away with this lmao

Its traditional stats and ability should still be in the files just like the new mons from Arceus were

I definitely wanna take some of these new megas on the ladder

I didn't really play that much but I know people who loved it as the only gacha game they'd play

Maybe that's a good sign...?

The year is 2075, the pokemon company owns Wal Mart and is the largest donor for political candidates. You clock out of your 17 hour shift ready for your day off you get every other week at the american pokemon plush factory and enjoy the $24 4 pack of bud lite with squirtles face on it.

You refreshingly let out an 'ahh' after your first sip, and say this is what freedom is about. Your rotom phone goes off though, it's your boss calling you in because a factory worker died from an overdose on caffeinated rare candies so you head back to work

Never been a huge Malamar fan but that mega is sickening

Yeah, but I wanted a more traditional Pokemon game. I'm not really a fan of action RPGs. They always feel repetitive after awhile.

Ok nevermind, this actually sound way worst than what Sony and Microsoft do.

Patenting summon and battle mechanics is kind of extreme especially since the patent is so broad and general it could effect other series like Final Fantasy, Digimon, Palworld, Monster Hunter Stories, and other monster battlers.

I thought it was just a summoning mechanic. Like if Sony came out an patented Bow and arrow combat or Microsoft patent gunplay combat I think it would get attention like when Sony did that weird Horizon patent.

If Pokemon ruin my Digimon Story Time Stranger

Oh i feel u. Im not even sure im getting this still lmao

Yeah I thought the game's battle mechanics was going to be more like Legends Arceus. I kind of like the switching between styles and the character moving around to avoid attacks. The battle system in Z-A hasn't captured my attention.

People who played a demo of the game posting how you can run into trainers with Pokemon 10 levels higher than you can can wipe your whole team kind of annoyed me lol. Like Game Freak just learn to do level curves.

we really won

Nintendo wont go after other games with summoning monsters.
They recently had trailers for persona 3 reload, Monster hunter stories 3, have had shin megami temsei 5 as an exclusive for years, helped promote countless indie titles like cassette beasts and temtem, and were heavily pushing yokai watch back when it was considered a serious threat to pokemon before level 5 ruined the series.
People are still hung up on palworld when i think we all know why they really got in trouble with nintendo

They literally had monster hunter stories 3 as the first big third party announcement in their first post release switch 2 direct why would they then threaten its existence with a lawsuit and scare capcom away

We don't know this. They RECENTLY patented this like last week. So bringing up what they had in their directs in the past is moot. They're doing this because their argument vs Palworld is junk. So it's no telling who they would go after with a broad and as general patent as summon monster and battle mechanic. They may not go after Digimon, Persona, MHS3 for now but who knows it's always in their back pocket.

It's going to always be something a dev team that wants to do something similar to Pokemon would have to keep in the back of their mind.

Also Nintendo didn't push back or hold off Yokai Watch. Level-5 fumbled thinking they could do dual releases like Pokemon and the games started to become bad as a result. Yokai Watch was murdering ORAS and Gen 7 Sun/Moon/USUM and Nintendo profited every bit from that because both was on 3DS.

Again, the Patent was granted September 2nd 2025. MHS3 was announced in the middle of them filing this patent. Already paid for that trailer announcement. But again, it's in their back pocket for when they FEEL like something is encroaching on their copyright.

They're only doing this because their lawsuit vs Palworld isn't going as planned.

Also not excusing any company. Sony and Microsoft are s*** companies too. I just think any company patenting generic mechanics/ideas is ass. You didn't create that mechanic or was even the first. You just want a monopoly.

Nintendo fumbling a easy Palworld lawsuit and resorting to this is kind of funny.

If they went after third parties like sega and capcom it would forever ruin their ties with them, like a lot more than what happened back in the 90s when yamauchi was president. We both know they wont do that. This is not even their first patent, not even their first Pokemon patent matter of fact.
Making game mechanics patents is stupid and unnecessary, but that doesnt mean we have to go in panic mode already.
I'll be with you if they ever sue somebody over these, otherwise meh

But again, you're getting mad at a hypothetical situation that hasnt happened, despite nintendo having already had pokémon/monster collecting related patents approved before this one.
I agree with you patents are unnecessary, i don't even think they should exist in general, not only videogames.

Bro, you're misrepresenting this. They didn't file for this patent to go after business partners. They filed this so they don't have other Palworld like competitors or games from China/Korea eating into their monster raising monopoly. Like you named games such as cassette beast working with Nintendo, this is why big corporations do lol. They squashed that game too. I didn't even know it released until someone brought it up in here.

But this patent is just in their back pocket for when they feel like a game is infringing.

if Sega, Bandai, or whoever make a monster raising game similar to Pokemon or use battle mechanics similar to it I don't put it pass them sending legal notice. Palworld scared the s*** out of TPCi.

I'm not mad at all lmao. I just think it's f***ed that they patented a generic mechanic that they can use against smaller companies whenever they want or feel threatened. They had Pokemon related patents. Like a ball or capsule capturing something. They never had a patent over an entire genre's battle mechanic so nah this isn't similar to before. Again, they only did this because they're fumbling the Palworld lawsuit. It's like when they did a flurry of ride mechanics that Palworld has now used against them because they're not suing other games with similar ride mechanics

This doesn't effect me one way or another, I don't even like Palworld and think it is blatant rip off, but it's also not right what Nintendo/TPCi is doing, that's all I'm saying.