They’ve got pockets up the ass and the HIGHEST SELLING IP IN THE WORLD, and they use it to cosplay as an indie dev team to release games with so many bugs Bethesda would get jealous and now they want a monopoly on a genre they didn’t even invent in the first place.
(MegaTen came out in 1987, nearly a decade before Pokemon Red and Blue came out)
Yes and no, you see Pocket Pair had partnered up with Sony, so because of that partnership Palworld is now the metaphorical equivalent of a mob family (Sony) encroaching on the territory of another mob family (Nintendo). Had Pocket Pair not partnered up with Sony, I’d bet you that Nintendo wouldn’t have cared one bit.
Yes that’s what the whole thing is about, it’s about Nintendo protecting their territory from in their eyes a very blatant encroachment by Sony.
Yes and no to you too! Nintendo were fine with games like Nexomon (which is basically a 1:1 pokemon clone in all the was that matter), because Nexomon was small and non-threatening. Palworld was successful enough to be seen as a threat. I think they would’ve done this regardless of if they had partnered with Sony.
Counterpoint: Digimon, which is owned by another big company, Bamco. However Bamco and Nintendo are on good relationship terms as evidenced by Smash Bros. Sony and Nintendo however, have some history with each other, history that makes them not exactly see each other on friendly terms. Let’s just say that if the original playstation plans had gone through, Sony would very likely have a major ownership stake in Nintendo today.
Again so much of the advertising, and marketing of Palworld was done by Sony, so this whole case is Nintendo trying to get Sony to back down, or at least make it very costly for Sony to take any territory from them.
I don’t disagree that Nintendo is trying to squash potential competition, though when digimon came out, Game Freak actually was the small indie company they pretend to be today, and wouldn’t have had the resources to sue Bandai-Namco, even if they wanted to, and since this lawsuit is claiming to be about game mechanics, digimon has nothing in common with pokemon, except that there are cartoon creatures and you battle them in a (usually) turn based way. The original Digimon world for Playstation didn’t really have any overlapping mechanics with pokemon apart from standard RPG mechanics. So the circumstances are radically different, which is why I used nexomon as an example, as it is mechanically identical to pokemon, but isn’t seen as a big enough threat to warrant a lawsuit (Putting their game on nintendo consoles probably helped with that)