[mrfinn]

Yet another chapter of Nintendo's wrath against the people? How long the world is going to be dominated by absurd copy(made up)right laws?

PS. Even if that wouldn't be the case here, my POV stands. Current copy(made up)right laws don't even make tiny-little sense nowadays. FREEDOM NOW FOR HUMAN KNOWLEDGE once for all FGS.

[numpad0]

I think:

- Nintendo was probably _always_ like that, since 80s or 40s or however long ago: they were merely dormant outside the home country due to the famously enormous language barrier.

- Hypothetical defanged Nintendo that isn't like that probably holds little value: even Microsoft with -1 hardcoded as budget ceiling had been successful at forcing Nintendo into obsolescence. This suggests that Nintendo "being like that" is an advantage in itself.

[dfxm12]

Not sure about the 80s, but off the top of my head, there is clear evidence in the early 90s with lawsuits against both Galoob (game genie) and Atari (Tengen games without the 10NES chip).

[Sakos]

This is absolutely the case considering their insane lawsuit on Palworld, which is a patent dispute. Nintendo has clearly turned evil and this is only going to cause great harm and strife in the gaming industry long-term if they win. We've been largely free of patent trolling in gaming aside from the lawsuits against hardware technologies like vibration (which is itself insanity and harmful), but this would open the flood gates.

[bitwize]

> Nintendo has clearly turned evil

Astronaut 2: Always has been.

See: Nintendo v. Galoob, Atari and Tengen v. Nintendo, their predatory in general business practices throughout the NES era.

Just because Shigeru Miyamoto flashes his friendly Austin Powers grin and opens up another world of wonder playable on your Switch doesn't mean that the company doesn't or never had a dark side. Hell, the man himself cancelled StarFox 2 to pillage its 3D transform code for use in Super Mario 64.

[numpad0]

Updating a software patent application and then suing a competitor to strip profits is Nintendo's modus operandi. There was one settled for $30m(then) as recent as 2021, just not known outside the country.

1: https://kotaku.com/nintendo-s-lawsuit-forces-japanese-dev-to...

[gs17]

> Nintendo has clearly turned evil

They've been roughly like this for a long time. They're very protective of their IP.

[7734128]

Nintendo have been absolute monsters for a long time. The only thing preventing people from realizing this is the cognitive dissonance between their cute games and their evil behavior.