I wonder if PocketPair (Palworld devs) could flip a giant middle finger to Japan's entire system by refunding all Japanese customers for the game and refusing to sell it in Japan anymore. Japan is the only country where Nintendo could get their way in a patent lawsuit, so fuck 'em

Deck 2 probably won't come out before the next generation of chips at least

and bot detection for TF2

First half of my life it was completely by accident I didn't own anything nintendo, but I'm glad the second half of my life I've actively avoided it, so not a single cent has gone to those greedy motherfuckers.

Why "quite literally"? Did they hire an actual troll for a lawyer?

Wouldn't work. This has nothing to do with Japanese customers or Japanese laws. These aren't even in Japanese courts. It's US patents.

Patent troll means to get patents for purpose of litigation rather than to produce goods.

It's the literal reason I bought it and have never even played

I owned all sorts of Nintendo products growing up. Around 2005, Nintendo went crazy against roms and hacking, and then when I stopped buying Nintendo products. I bought some used stuff and... Bypassed security to expand my libraries. But usually it was after the game was like 10 years old.

Nintendo, a Japanese company in Kyoto, using American courts to stop Pocketpair, a Japanese indie studio in Tokyo, from selling Pal world. What the hell.

I know you mean it well, but... Nintendo was always like this. Like the jokes about the CEO handing the African kid 300 million dollar lawsuit because he drew their console on paper is very old. Yet people still buy their shit.

Nintendo's patents, or the single one i should say, wouldn't hold up or even apply to palworld in America, they will in Japan.

They opened the way for all the gaming handhelds, tons of options

I really want to grab one of the new handhelds, seem so nice, I feel guilty almost playing games on my pc, when I could be using it for other stuff, playing on consoles fine so it might be time to transition to a linux handheld for the ocassional pc games. (Like it could be rendering for my other hobby with 3d, instead of the gpu going to games)

Yes, to spread out their business. It's not a nice thing to do, it's logical and calculated move.

Forget that, it'll have TF3.

(You're good, steam deck 2 soon is very unlikely)

Can someone explain the cultural difference between Japan and the rest of the US around copyright law?

Just get an emulator on PC / Steam Deck. The most likely reason Nintendo went so hard on Switch emulators last year is because they will be able to emulate Switch 2 games with little tweaking (probably just new keys / BIOS). They've confirmed it's backwards compatible with Switch games, which strongly supports this hypothesis.

The only enforceable patents they have are Japanese. This is an attempt to get US ones.