Not really sure it’s for me but I am just happy that it really annoys Nintendo

Out ofthe loop here. Why does Nintendo care?

They plagiarized a bunch of Pokemon and used the publicity generated to bring attention to their game (which admittedly has nothing to do with Pokémon aside from the aforementioned similar-looking monsters).

Nintendo alleges that they plagiarized their assets.

The thing is, there was a solid argument to be made that some of the meshes for certain Pals were too similar to that of some Pokémon models to be a coincidence, but Nintendo didn’t bring any of that up in the lawsuit. They opted to go for the much more flimsy “riding a character” and “summoning a character by throwing a ball/sphere”.

And, somehow, fucking won. They forced Palworld to remove the ball throwing mechanic.

It’s fucking stupid.

And, somehow, fucking won.

No, they haven’t won a single patent case yet. And there’s still ball throwing in the game, but only for captures. The summoning via ball throwing was removed so that Nintendo couldn’t file an injuction against Pocketpair to stop their sales during the case.

If Pocketpair wins the court cases, they can undo the removals.