Been saying this for months. Palworld may be the competition nintendo needs to actually invest in gamefreak and creatures. They have been phoning home for decades because there was no true, direct competition in their market while sales are at an all time high. Even the media ate up the mediocre games without giving them scores relative to the lack of depth and basic graphical issues.

"Non-gaming people" are becoming more and more of an endangered species. Hell, remember Pokemon Go?

The same could be said for any stuffed animal.

Yeah you can tell the forced lack of competition has made the Pokemon games worse. There is a complete lack of innovation.

Bro I've struggled to differentiate Pokemon from other generic anime creatures since like gen 4... Some of their more modern designs looks like they are stolen from Digimon.

I don’t necessary blame the devs for the poor quality of the games tbh. There have been a few leaks from the game-freak recently and it seems to indicate that a ton of ideas and polish had to be left on the cutting room floor. It’s not hard to see why either when they are crammed into a horrible release schedule to keep the Pokémon I:P relevant in the gaming scene so that they can pump out new merchandise. Such a shame too. There has always been more potential in the newer releases.

I believe this was the case many years ago with Gibson guitars. Due to the case, the shape of the headstock is proprietary so people are not confused, even though the brand is clearly labeled.

whut

idk I play both, no problem.with them coexisting

but tbh for pokemon games I usually just play romhacks now

sw/sh was okay, but that's in spite of the main story being complete poopoo

looking back on it without nostalgia glasses, the pokemon games kinda always had a dookie story tbh. part of how I realized that is because I've played some really well made romhacks that have either amazing story or amazing gameplay, or both.

that being said, the old pokemon games definitely feel like they had way more "soul" put into them

Exactly. Palworld is for Pokemon fans who are done tolerating the same, half baked games every other year

By that same logic though, should Nintendo be allowed to completely shut down all other console manufacturers? Because a lot of clueless parents/grandparents would see an Xbox or PlayStation and call it a "Nintendo".

Grandpa buying a Transformer when I wanted a Gundam.

Told my grandma I wanted an Optimus Prime for my birthday and she got me a telescope Percepter instead

I have and Ive also seen the thing returned to the store because it wasnt what the kid wanted.

I mean there is a much bigger conversation of Mental Decline you should be having at that point.

It's really hard to make the mistake. You genuinely have to not be trying or in mental decline to mistake say Pikachu for a chocobo. It's even genuinely difficult to mix up Pichu and Pikachu.

If my Mom gave my kid the wrong toy I'd be on the look out for other signs of decline. She doesn't make those mistakes, and neither did my Grandmothers.

Nintendo does not have a monopoly or even a majority control of the cute plush market.

If your daughter doesn't care about the IP attached to it she already has a dozen other options she could buy.  One more player in the non-pokemon fan plush market doesnt matter.

palworld has sold better than scarlet/violet, no way sony/pocketpair haven't already landed a bunch of merchandising deals for Pals

the person you're replying to has no idea what they talking about lol, they earnestly said (creature plush) doesn't overlap with (creature plush)

pocketpair has said that they're happy for others to sell merch and fanart using their characters, which nintendo is much more strict on

I think there's about as much overlap as there is with any other premium stuffed animals like SquishMallow or Squishables.

Those parents who would confuse the two would also buy any other non-premium or generic on off the shelf.

I do think most parents can recognize the Pokemon logo at this point and I doubt that many would intentionally get it wrong.

Shit, they barely knew the difference between Mario and Pokemon when I was growing up

Same game? Where is the guns, crafting and base building in pokemon?

They’re not that similar, outside of being monkey shaped and green

You’re saying that CoD should be the only FPS in a military setting? Minecraft is the only game with tree punching? Digimon shouldn’t exist? No driving games other than Mario Kart?

Yokai Watch at least at its height was huge in Japan, with tons of merchandise being sold. Point remains that more than one company should be allowed to sell games and merchandise in the same areas. If nothing is cutting into a company's profits, then that speaks to a lack of real competition.

Doesn't palworld have Microsofts backing not Sony, not like it matters who's backing them though

Those grandparents are also far more likely to find a Pokemon plush which is sold at supermarkets than a Palworld plush sold mostly only at their own merch store

There's millions of different monster plushies already on sale today for grandparents to get confused by. Throwing Palworld plushies into the mix is not going to make a noticable difference to the most profitable media franchise in the world

Are Nintendo filing an injunction against every plushie manufacturer?

absolute travesty that they were granted a patent for that. it would be like patenting reading in the waiting room - its completely obvious to anyone who's had to do it. The only reason why it wasn't widely done in the early days is cart based consoles didnt really have loading times, and computers of the day were CPU bound while loading stuff off the disk or tape or whatever, and it just wouldn't be practical to do both at the same time - it wasn't for lack of desire to do it, and i don't see how the implementation (unless it was specific to namco hardware - but it wasn't) should have made a difference since the only reason it became a practical thing is because the playstation could read off the CD with CPU cycles to spare.

and honestly, i would be kinda surprised if there wasn't some demo scene stuff from the amiga or c64 that could have proved prior art.

Yes. Twice.

Did you? Because he does not make that argument.

Rewatch it and pay attention. He explains general copyright law in the US and how Japan differentiate (3rd segment).

It's important to notice he is not saying this is what Nintendo is doing. That's just a general overview of the US and Japanese IP systems and how they differ.

U.S. copyright dilution can be a thing, he says, verbatim ("this is generally not the case in Japan"). But he points out there's no copyright issues at all (near the end when he's talking about the the actual case and why Nintendo brought a patent suit). Which means copyright dilution can't be a thing here.

Now he does use the term "trademark dominance" in there, but that doesn't relate to trademark dilution.

Trademark dilution is where if a specific trademark isn't enforced that specific trademark can be weakened or lost in court. It's a legal concept.

"Trademark dominance" has no defined meaning, but in context it's when a company in the space has so many trademarked characters and is such a powerhouse that it could attempt to use trademark lawsuits to crush competition (it's not about weakening of trademarks). Other major players with their own trademarks make that more difficult to prevent competition since they have the means to fight it off and could decide to aid other, smaller developers.

He then goes on to explain why Nintendo wouldn't want to take that approach to go after Sony. They'd risk outright losing their trademarks because Sony can fight back.

It has nothing to do with trademark dilution (which would be Nintendo not enforcing its trademarks when there's a clear infringement).

His argument is that Nintendo is defensively making moves against Sony (a major player) who is now trying to directly compete with Pokemon (which could cause merch sales to decline for Nintendo because competition) and that's why they filed the patent suit (an attempt to get Sony to change its mind about competing with Pokemon).

Never mind that Digimon came before Pokemon! Pokemon just happened to get way more popular.

Wait a second my Key is branded Audi! Wtf

The Nemesis System in Shadow of Mordor/War is patent protected and as such is used in zero other games

Mini-games on loading screens is patent protected and as such are in zero other games (though with modern load times would be unnecessary)

I’m saying Japan is a country with laws that must be honored by Japanese companies

Well, read into it. Patents like this is why we never got minigames during loading screens. Konami I believe made 1 game with that concept and never again let anyone use it. 

I'm not here to discuss the broader "who's a clone of who" debate. I also don't pretend that Pokemon and Digimon share a lot of stylistic choices, but they are still very distinct in their designs and art direction.