The Pokémon Company Announces It Will ‘Investigate’ Palworld IP And Assets

It's been advertised forever. If there was a case, Nintendo lawsuit-happy lawyers would have taken them down by now. It was never a secret their design shared aesthetic with Pokemon.

If Nintendo would invest the money they pump in DMCA takedowns and lawyers in their games instead,
then perhaps they would have a chance to make something equally good as Palworld.

its ridiculous the number of fucking nintendo stans that are crying for nintendo to do something about Palworld.

Nintendo is the most litigeous company in the world (They fucking DCMA'd themselves for fucks sake) , If Palworld violated anything and Nintendo had actual opportunity to sue for anything.. They'd have done so long ago.

People white-knighting for Nintendo against a company that gave them an enjoyably Pokemon game.

Fuck game freak. Like they cant even fix there own games and shit.

Well, Palworld developer now have $200 million more than a week ago so now they can afford lawyers as good as the Pokémon company.

The statement sounds like PR speak for, please stop telling us about palworld, we've heard already.

I'm sure they have been inundated by panicked investors contacting them after reading the words, "pokemon with guns" in the news. The statement should reassure them that the company takes defending their IP seriously.

The game's been out long enough for them to write a cease and desist if they wanted to get litigious.

At this point it would be better for nintendo to buy palworld from the delveloper and make pokemon multiversal with palworld existing in an alternate universe.

That way they could cash in on the massive success, separate it from their actual pokemon IP all whilst appeasing fans of palworld by keeping the game alive.

Fuck the pokemon company

I wish that consumers would act as hostile to the IP of this company and its parent as it acts towards other companies.

We keep thinking about such IP lawsuits as "all or nothing" affairs because YouTube with their strike system and similar systems by other companies make it seem that way. Yet that's not the case.

In this instance, Game Freak and Nintendo probably cannot go after palworld as a whole but battle around and then have them change singular Pal designs. That's a super expensive thing to do and takes ages. So they'll only do that if they risk loosing the claim to some brand ownership or other.

[surprised pikachu face]

Imagine being one of those people who contacts Nintendo to report copyright infringement. If I woke up in one of their bodies I would kill myself.

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Do I need to play it now or never? I have a feeling this FOMO is driving some of their current engagement.

Palworld looks like shit, but it's still better than any Pokemon game in the Switch

Per copyright law in the United States, the designs must be 15% different to create one's own artistic copyright. They're several that are close, but 15% isn't that much. Obviously Nintendo isn't a US company, but it'll be interesting to set how this goes

Oh man time to bring out the popcorn.

Who in Palworld even allowed release of the game with certain assets that look so much like Pokémon? I mean, it doesn’t even need that.

The author of the article doubts Nintendo will do anything, but they certainly will.

I mean. The guy who "broke" the story of IP "theft" in pal world admitted he made it up. Basically scaled models etc to make them look similar on purpose.

https://screenrant.com/palworld-pokemon-asset-copy-claims-lies-apology/#:~:text=Claims that Palworld used assets,Pokémon in aesthetics and design.

GameFreak sucks big time, one of the worst first party devs Nintendo has in their roster, but Palworld is such a bland, uninspired and generic attempt at copying Pokemon that I still can’t fathom how it became so popular.