Yokai watch in its peak sold similar units to Pokémon in Japan fam (yo kai watch 2 for the 3ds did 1.2 million first week, cant believe im writing this, these are peak monster hunter numbers). Nintendo in response made yo kai watch themed 3ds and bundles lol, they only care about palworld because it got so popular by stealing pokemon designs.

Nintendo had also patented ocarina of time's z tageting decades ago for example, look how many games, that sold more than that game even like elden ring, have the same mechanic.
Look how much astro bot (from the devs own admission) took inspiration from 3d mario, and yet they werent sued.

I agree its not right because art shouldnt get patents, and in general patents as a concept are very capitalistic, but imo we havent seen in decades any action from Nintendo, despite having the means to do so, to actually enforce these on anybody.

I don't know much about how patents work, so i don't know why any of these companies file these when they don't really enforce them, i guess they're so specific that any infringement would be literally copying one to one whats laid out in them, and that doesnt really happen from what i know.

I remember reading how much of a scandal was when the nemesis system from that lord of the rings game was patented, but i don't remember seeing anything about that since, nor any similar system being affected by it

I think Malamar might be my favorite new mega design

We haven't seen them going at large to mid size companies, but they definitely use their copyrights and patents to beat up on fan games and smaller dev companies all the time. Most of those cases just go unreported by gaming media.

It's so bad that Nintendo has a whole website dedicated to following their lawsuits. The funniest one is them suing a small local supermarket company in Costa Rica that was named "Super Mario" they lost that case and the supermarket is still called "Super Mario" lmao.

Same, love malamar and the mega is even better. All the megas besides dragonite are amazing imo

Oh i know about copyright lawsuits, but i think thats a different thing altogether.
I think ima have to look more into how patents work actually cause its been a somewhat hot topic for years at this point

I just want gen 10 to be the same as gen 9 but heavily polished and with somewhat better direction for the free roam world itself and fix the online raid issues, and that's it.

They could add 0 new pokemon, 0 new gimmicks, and maintain all of the battle + stat modifiers added into gen 9 and it would be the greatest pokemon game ever made to me. With pokemon masters being a thing coming soon, I absolutely hope this is going to be what they do

As we see with Z-A, those fools still don't know how to do level curves that would be tied to the badge you gain. So I'm just hoping the game is polished at this point and have cool new Pokemon.

I prefer it that way so I can build teams for each badge instead of being forced to use the same team

Plus you can just level cap yourself like you would in a nuzlocke

No one's forcing you to not switch up what pokemon you use

That Cynthia fight in Brilliant Diamond was hard af. Took me four tries. Mostly because I had nothing on my team that could beat Garchomp

And there go the Kalos starters megas lol can't believe this game leaked like this.

And there's Mega Raichu too lol

Mega Raichu? Where at

edit: nvm

Pokemon Animal crossing.... Pokotopia

Waiting for them to upload a trailer to post. Lol

Mega Raichu X and Mega Raichu Y for DLC of the game.

That mean Mega Hoopa and Mega Zeraora might not be cut after all.

announcing dlc for a game that isn't even out yet

Z-A looks really good, the leaked and revealed megas all look amazing
Arceus was one of my fav Switch games, so this is a day one cop for me tbh

Releasing DLC same day makes me wonder if the main game isn’t very long/rewarding.

They lost their way years ago lmao

Oh damn I didn't even think of this.

Mega Delphox and Mega Chesnaught look intriguing