>…”Among the elements Nintendo is seeking to patent are Link’s Ultrahand and Fuse abilities, various game mechanics, non-playable characters’ (NPCs) abilities, and even loading screens. Technical elements enabling Link to interact with the game world, such as standing on moving objects or gripping onto ledges, are also included. The significance lies in Nintendo’s desire to secure these mechanics for potential future iterations of the Zelda series and other games. Interestingly, these patented elements may not be immediately apparent to average players, but they reflect Nintendo’s commitment to safeguarding its unique concepts.”
Why is this shit even a thing? God I fricking hate corps.
The only thing I have to say on the matter is that it reminds me of when Bandai Namco copyrighted loading screen minigames
Man frick that shit.
I find it funny that as soon as their patent expired, they stopped using it altogether.
more like loading screens went by so fast now that there's no point
They almost always do thart for some reason.
>Nintendo literally had the best dpad patented
>forced everyone else to use shitty knock offs for years
>patent expired over 15 years ago
>everyone continues to make shitty ones including Nintendo themselves now
The best one is from the SEGA Saturn JP.
It was Atari. You could play pong while loading in test drive.
namco's patent wasn't even valid because there had been minigames during loading screens years before namco got the patent. Prior art invalidates patents, but someone would have to spend money on lawyers to contest it.
so fricking gay bro
we were robbed of so much kino
Software patents were a mistake
>Patents were a mistake
FTFY
Patents were a great idea. Rather than keeping an invention a trade secret, you inform the public about it at the cost of having a limited monopoly.
Software patents are the problem. It's not an invention, it's stuff like "minigames during loading screens", which is like trying to patent the fricking wheel.
Software patents are fine. Just because a novel solution or invention is computer code doesn't make it less valuable. The problem here is that Nintendo is patenting shit that's clearly been around for years which is supposed to be disallowed but the boomers in our government don't know any better
rip traditional zelda
frick ubisoft open worlds
Should Nintend𐐬 sue Microsoft for Nuts & Bolts?
This is what I was going to bring up. How are they going to patent it when there are multiple games that already use the same mechanics?
Answer:
>They patent it
>New game comes out that uses mechanic
>Nintendo sues them for patent infringement
>Despite the defendant being 100% in the right and having a solid case, Nintendo litigates them into the ground financially ruining them
Nintendo brought a fight against the entire industry and now they will lose badly.
Mainly because this also affects Valve and Microsoft, and those aren't that kind and have the entire Supreme Court judges and layers worldwide at their side.
Even japan who found this right now is bashing Nintendo.
is this going to be like when warner bros patented the nemesis system then did frick all with it
You betcha. Just like when the Sanity system from Eternal Darkness was copyrighted and they did nothing with it. (Though I believe the copyright ran out on that one at least.)
It's just israeli behavior. Your dev team comes up with a cool mechanic, you have no intention of making a sequel game utilizing said mechanic, so you hope some other company will be foolish enough to get 2 or 3 years into a dev cycle before realizing they either have to pay you 500k or scrap a major game mechanic that would be a main selling point for the title.
No, if anything it cements that the Zelda series will be nothing but BotW-likes from now on.
We're never going to get another classic Zelda, are we?
good
lolno
I've been saying this since BOTW came out. If you release a game that is literally 80% copypasted content and end up getting so many amazing reviews and selling so many copies, why the frick wouldn't you do it again and again? Your fanbase clearly likes eating shit so just keep selling them shit to eat. It's free money.
Exactly, Nintendo got their CoD title. All they have to do is throw around assets randomly in an algo generated world, model a couple new characters, and write a standard "great evil awakens" story and make a billion dollars every couple years.
It's funny seeing drones viciously defend the game from any criticism/backlash forming against it, which is the only hope of Zelda not staying in this rut forever. Their dedication to eating slop has doomed the creativity and soul of the series.
>only hope of Zelda not staying in this rut forever
Thankfully we got out of it when the OoT clones died.
What oot clones? New Zelda is just a garry's mod clone.
>What oot clones?
TP and SS.
>garry's mod clone.
You never played Garry's Mod nor Zelda. It's cute causal idiots pretend they know vidya.
>Level design bad
>Assassin's Minecraft good
>New product better than old product, buy now
>Level design bad
>OoT and its clones
>level design
You can't even take these posts seriously anymore.
The dungeons were always bad anyway. Right, fellow gamer?
>The dungeons were always bad anyway.
Correct. 3D Zelda dungeons are garbage. A series of disconnected rooms and corridors filled with filler about focused pushing square blocks and forced actions on overly telegraphed markers isn't good level design.
OoT remake maybe
lol no. Might get some more chibi remakes of old games but no mainline flagship Zelda will be classic style in the next 20 years
OoT isn't "classic Zelda", OoToddler. You're not a real Zelda fan.
The newer zelda games are just ac creed like open world slop with much worse graphics.
>The newer zelda games are
good unlike OOT and its shit clones. Thank God Nintendo doesn't appeal to casual idiots anymore.
I bet you look up Zelda and classic Zelda in the archives just so you can find threads like this to b***h about it you obsessed homosexual.
>I bet you
have low standards. Let me tell you, that's factually correct.
is OoT in the room with us right now?
Yeah, OoT isn't a Zelda game. You're completely right.
everything after OoT was derivative shit with dogshit gimmicks attached so who cares
>everything between TLoZ and BotW was derivative shit with dogshit gimmicks attached so who cares
FTFY.
At least the nemesis system was a truly novel idea, here nintendo's trying to patent ancient basic gameplay mechanics. Grabbing onto ledges has been a thing since prince of persia back in 1989
I still play shadow of war just because the nemesis system is so much fun. if they didn't patent it, there would be so much potential for new games to improve on it. I hate this gay earth.
the nemesis system is so good but FRICK the movement in that game, I have no idea who decided that Talion should control like fricking arthur morgan instead of MGSV snake
can i patent running animations? now every game will have sliding characters
Not so fast, I patented sliding characters
>Ripoff garry's mod mechanics then patent them
Kek. I mean I guess it's not surprising considering they plagiarize so much music and steal emulator code and roms off the internet.
I feel bad for the guy who made the original mario maker. Nintendo just ripped him off 1:1. Surprised they didn't sue him too
Mario Maker was based on their internal level design tools.
And yet it can't hold a candle to contemporary versions of Lunar Magic, let alone modern ones. If that's really what Nintendo's internal level editor is like things must be in a sad state
>Lunar Magic
For me it was SMBX.
>SMBX
that shit was the best, they even had full lua scripting. shame it was super unstable and the most stupid object interactions would hard crash
The israelites fear the samurai because they're even greedier than israelites
I hate intellectual property I hate intellectual property I hate intellectual propertyI
When this inevitably passes you Nintendcucks will be to blame
They learned that anything they don't patent, snoy will steal. Blame snoy for this.
Surprised it took 13 replies before a nintentroon showed up to defend this while crying about sony
You should see how fast the seethe replies at nintendo threads are.
>B-B-B-B-BUT SNOY!!!!111
Rent free.
what now homosexual
>snoy will steal
In that case, it's Ubisoft and Mihoyo
Steal fricking what? Open worlds? Tower climbing? Ledge shimmying? Dungeons and Dragons has a mage hand spell which is literally ultrahand should they legally not be allowed to use it anymore? Goddamn why does sony live rent free in your brains? They don't even make similar games.
Stuff like this has already been passed. WB Games patented the Nemesis system from Shadow of War. Nintendo will probably get away with this. Bideo games are so fricked.
Nah, I blame the patent system for allowing this to happen in the first place so now a company has to ensure they won't be prevent from using a mechanic they created because another company patent it first. Because seriously, the patent system needs to be upgraded to the modern era but greedy corporations refuse to do so because an updated system would frick over their stranglehold over their IPs.
if for some reason they never use these mechanics again they'll renew them like the eternal darkness sanity patent.
genshin buck broke nintendo
>such as standing on moving objects
So... vehicles?
No, any moving object. If your game has moving platforms, you obviously stole the idea from nintendo.
Sounds like those braindead creatively bankrupt slant-eyes are just begging to get destroyed in court.
And as we all know, court is where the justice is.
If Nintendo had proof that George Floyd worked for them they could literally patent having speech or humans in their games.
Nintendo will be sued to oblivion because this fall into patent trolling over SOMETHING that exists since Ever.
Worse are the troontendo drones desperate to claim that the SCOTUS or any court wouldn't rule against nintendo when Valve got them on their side against the rotchild patent trolling.
>when Valve got them on their side against the rotchild patent trolling.
QRD?
Valve got the Supreme court at their side against rotschild patent trolling and surprisingly valve got all the proofs against them.
Is there an article or something detailing the case for plebs?
All i can find is some court archive about Valve v Rotschild but it looks like lots of legal talk you need to know how to understand.
pretty much, is everytthing related to the SteamDeck and machines, and even valve's own servers
Remember when Capcom tried to own punching and kicking in video games because of SF2.
Steal ideas and patent it, israelitetendo strikes again
>be trantendo
>release mediocre game with some interesting mechanics (that weren't even particularly original)
>a bunch of weeb chinks take those mechanics and make an actual good game out of it
>they make 100x more money from their game
>seethe and cope by filing a bunch of troll-tier patents that chinks can just ignore anyway
mihoyo's games are bigger than nintendo's, nintendo should be begging them for ports.
>Genshin Impact
>an actual good game
I’m a Genshin gay but I’m not delusional enough to pretend it’s remotely better than BOTW.
I'm not a genshingay, have never played it, but it'd have to be pretty shit to be worse than botw.
Why would you assume that? They're not valve. Nintendo doesn't give a frick, the less effort they have to put in the happier they are.
>it'd have to be pretty shit to be worse than botw.
I don’t know what your tastes are as far as video games go, but BOTW has better exploration, Genshin has a more diverse (but not quite as polished) combat system and also the rewards for exploration in Genshin actually matter if only by virtue of it being the gacha currency.
The main drawback of Genshin is large portions of exploration content is locked behind hours of not skippable enough cutscenes.
>BOTW has better exploration
That's one of the things I thought botw did very poorly. I don't really understand how anyone thinks it has good exploration, unless they're conflating it with traversal. It's not fun running around huge empty spaces knowing how little variety and new discoveries there actually are in the game. The plateau was by far the best part.
>The main drawback of Genshin is large portions of exploration content is locked behind hours of not skippable enough cutscenes
Surprised it's not the gacha aspect.
>Surprised it's not the gacha aspect.
Surprisingly yeah, unless you’re super autistic, a Waifu-gay, or a genuine gambling addict with no self control, you can absolutely get by being a f2p player.
I’d argue the game is better if you’re f2p since spending money can make the game piss easy, eliminating what little challenge there is in the combat.
Oh also, even with 3 years of patches and content updates, Genshin’s world map is only just over half the size of Hyrule.
>im a genshin gay
cm on now, we all know botw is not even close and thats why genshin succed so much, hell new totk is an ok game at best, i got bored tru it several times and many streamers dont even finish it unless they are zelda niuntendo only fans lmao anyone with higher standards drop it
Speak English, Chink.
Casuals are something else. You guys are genuinely funny.
>a bunch of weeb chinks take those mechanics and make an actual good game out of it
Where?
homie you can't even jump attack in that shitty game did they pay you a pixel of primogen to post this?
>chinks made a good game
when? how? name one kino
>spend over half a decade creating and fine tuning mechanics and physics other companies go "you can do that?!!"
>not patenting it
They'd be moronic not to.
Black person its literally garrys mod and nuts & bolts. Nintendo didn't invent anything new
that game's name? garry's mod
Why didn't they do this before the game released
Unironically, because people can see the patents and it could potentially spoil the game.
>another crying about nintendo thread
All these mechanics are not unique at all
It's not necessarily the mechanic or what you see in-game but how it's programmed.
Well unless someone is committing corporate espionage and stealing code from Nintendo, anyone else wanting to implement similar mechanics will need to develop their own solution. If that solution ends up being similar to Nintendo's, then that's pure happenstance, and it's not like you could know anyways without examining code from both games.
>hate corps
>not the governments that empower them
corps have bought the government. unlimited campaign funding became a thing in 2010, it's why everything has gone to shit so quickly.
What was stopping them before 2010?
there were laws in place preventing it. citizen's united was a supreme court decision to get rid of that and allow corporations to spend as much as they want. the supreme courts said corporations should be counted as people and started to expand corporate rights. very good article explaining it here:
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/citizens-united-explained
your face when the Power Glove returns after a 30 year absence.
>Nintendo’s commitment to safeguarding its unique concepts.”
Mega Man Legends had ledge gripping back in 1997
what the frick is nintendo on? homosexuals of the industry.
Its Naive to think they are doing this because of modders. They are doing it specifically so that Genshin cant steal their game ideas anymore.
why should china give a flying frick about western ip
Because their games would not be available anywhere outside china.
China doesn't have to listen to shit coming from Japan they barely have an my ties
>standing on moving objects
>gripping onto ledges
????? How the frick can you patent something that's been in use for 30+ years at this point
Literally just killed all non-nintendo platformers and platforming mechanics in any other genre.
>????? How the frick can you patent something that's been in use for 30+ years at this point
You can patent basically anything if you have enough money, it's an absolute joke of a system
They will get raped in court if they actually try to leverage such a generic patent against another big game developer though, so I don't really get what they're trying to do. Bully indies?
Going to court to shoot down a bad patent costs a lot of money, far more than indies or small studios can afford. Sure, big devs are going to be fine, but it's a great safe way to screw over the little guys
>try to leverage such a generic patent against another big game developer though
That's assuming the publisher even feels it necessary to go to court over it. It's very possible they'd just scrap the whole game if it's too reliant on patented mechanics, or just not include them in the first place.
>Bully indies?
They have had a habit of going after fan projects in the past, but those were all f2p I think. It would definitely curtail indie devs.
Patent it first so other companies can't. We've seen enough patent trolls that basically force any companies to pay up before they can go ahead with their product. As long as the case hasn't been resolved, they can't sell their products so the trolls will win in the end.
Nintendo got a judge to rule that phones are gaming devices and got a 30 million dollar settlement from an old ass DS patent they had sitting around a couple years back. They love to sue and patent troll.
https://archive.is/bnEUo
>phones are gaming devices
I mean We can play Nintendo games in them..
>kotaku
have a nice day Black person
Because that's how the patent system works. The best hope is the patent doesn't get approved, but if it does say goodbye to hanging from ledges and other shit unless the game is from a big dev who can pay up or go to court.
That's the entire basis of the stealth genre, Ubisoft will very quickly shut them down for it
>steal ideas from everything else
>I MADE THIS
jej
At this point might as well just cut to the chase and try to patent the ability to control on-screen characters with input devices. Can't have competition if competition is illegal.
All of you trannies have spent the last few months crying about how all these features sucked and made the game worse and now you're crying that your favorite hack devs can't copy them. What gives?
"moving platforms" is maybe one or two steps below "jumping" in a platformer, anon. Remove head from ass, please.
So the sky is falling. This is all very scary news, Henny Penny. Thanks for keeping us all updated
Are you mentally moronic?
it is sad to see nintendo become creatively bankrupt in my lifetime.
>https://automaton-media.com/en/news/20230808-20590/
better article than the one in the tweet which seems to just be a shitty AI summary
I assume part of the reason for this is to stifle competition from other consoles. If so they probably won't stop here and will be patenting other mechanics down the line.
Imagine 10 years from now where the Nintendo console is the only one with platformers, RPGs, sidescrollers, and 3D action games, while all Xbox and Playstation have are CoD and sports titles.
Will valve sue them?
they have a shit ton of patents similar to all the big name tech companies. its more of a means of self defense against patent trolls than to actually abuse them for a quick buck. they learned their lesson from not patenting controller rumble and now everyone has to pay out the ass for it.
>um actually patents encourage creativity
Frick the shills for this game.
>Nintendo’s desire to secure these mechanics for potential future iterations of the Zelda series and other games
lol every nintendo game is going to be botw
oh god oh man they are seriously trying to patent basic 2000s phsyics shit and nuts n boltz
Not surprising, given there's been multiple nutjobs who have tried to patent the concept of cooking
When you got shit like Monster Energy constantly trying to sue people over use of the word Monster like they think they own it, Nintendo pulling shit like this is hardly surprising. A good chunk of patents and trademarks don't go through anyway, but Nintendo is certainly seeing what they can get away with.
>Nintendo retroactively trying to patent the Garry's Mod welding gun as a hand
kay
What happens to preexisting things that were suddenly patented by a 3rd party? Do you retroactively owe them money for using it? Like what happens if automobiles were never patented and I patented the idea of a 4 wheeled vehicle that's powered by an internal combustion engine, do I just get to suddenly sue every single car manufacturer on the planet?
Nintendo has always been litigiously trigger happy. This feels like they're just throwing out wall of random bullshit to see what sticks. And then sue more.
>Like what happens if automobiles were never patented and I patented the idea of a 4 wheeled vehicle that's powered by an internal combustion engine, do I just get to suddenly sue every single car manufacturer on the planet?
No, you can't patent inventions that are already out there in the public, unless you or your company released them less than a year ago. These patents will fail if they are claiming things that existed in previous Zelda games.
Theoretically, patents aren't supposed to be granted to things that already exist, and shaking someone down for things that happened before the patent was granted isn't supposed to happen either. In practice, both happen all the time. The trick is, getting a bad patent invalidated takes a lot of money. As long as the patent holder's demands are significantly lower than court fees for getting the damn thing tossed, most companies will just pay the nuisance fee.
this is the shadow of mordor shit all over again, basically if they ever get these patents they're going to be ridiculously hyper-specific
Yeah, they'll be useless. The main purpose of these patents is to justify the existence of Nintendo's IP division.
reminder that you aren't actually allowed to patent gameplay mechanics and these only get through because the patent office is asleep at the wheel.
write complaints to your government representative and the patent office.
>want to copyright basic physics interactions
>want to copyright hanging off ledges
>want to copyright standing
Nintendo is a disease of a company
>gripping onto ledges
pic related: Ubisoft seeing Nintendo trying to take away Assassin Creed's ledge grabbing
Why the frick anyone is a fan of modern nintendo is beyond me. Scummy as shit, brainwashd apple tier cultists at this point.
You can patent bird puzzles?
noooooo how will i get a japanese bird game now?
>japanese bird game
about making spaghetti?
>we need to prevent others from making good games
lol
That will never pass when Garry's mod exists
>unique concepts.
kek they ripped this shit off from Banjo
>literally patenting mechanics from Garry's mod and Banjo
Absolutely fricking disgusting
Shit, when will some absolute gigachad patent gachashit in videogames?
It's not just garry's mod and banjo, indie games have these types of physics and interactions in droves, but no marketing budget to pay people off to fellate them. Hell, look at scrap mechanic, it's an even more robust system and it came out before botw, let alone botw 1.5.
Nintendo doing what Nintendo does best: rip off others and claim you made it.
>trademarking mechanics that were present in games older than yours
Another Shadow of Mordor level event.
do those patents ever expire if they refuse to add the mechanic in a new game?
No
corporations shouldnt be allowed to hold patents
patents should strictly be so a small guy making something new for the company doesnt get buttfricked
20 years, unless they do some kind of evergreening. Not sure how that would even work with software, it's mostly a problem on the pharmaceutical side
>2 threads about this
Is the discord going to make threads about this tweet for the next 2 weeks?
I hope so. If Nintendo wants to suck fat wiener, people can point and call them and their rabid little ankle biting defenders out as the fricking homosexuals they are.
Patents for patents, OP?
garbage, and I bet resetera is praising Nintendo with shit like "The devs worked for over SIX years, they deserve to patent it"
That's likely. They used to ban anyone who complained about that time Nintendo patented sanity systems in videogames. Utter cesspit of a site.
Are they going to patent selling the same game twice?
Money and it's consequences on the human race have been catastrophic
im going to patent every japanese name so they are forced to name their child "suck my dick" in japanese.
Isn't the entire point of modern Zelda to "inspire other devs to make better open world games"? What's the point if you're gonna lock everything behind patents?
The entire point of modern zelda is to reuse as many assets as possible and then charge more than the previous product
Genshin mindbroke Nintendo so bad. I bet they have constant meltdowns over the fact that a mobile game mogged and makes more money than BotW every month.
Kinda funny tbh.
>Link’s Ultrahand and Fuse abilities
Is Nintendo really trying to own the concept of a Gravity Gun?
I just patented jumping. Mario is now mine.
Considering how devs shat their pants over these mechanics, I imagine the world is better off without poorly made knock offs.
>ultrahand
>fuse
>npc abilities
>standing on moving objects
>gripping onto ledges
these are all things that many games have done before
And many companies, mainly Microsoft, Valve and Sony have enough proofs against nintendo at court because of that.
They really went full moronic this time, because this shit also cripples gaming development in general for any company.
And no one is going to pay royalties to fricking nintendo.
>to secure these mechanics for potential future iterations of the Zelda series and other games
In no way does a patent indicate this. It simply means Nintendo doesn't want anyone else doing it. I don't know of a single time in the history of the games industry that a patent filing ever amounted to anything beyond trolling potential competitors and their customers.
disgusting
>Among the elements Nintendo is seeking to patent are Link’s Ultrahand and Fuse abilities, various game mechanics, non-playable characters’ (NPCs) abilities, and even loading screens. Technical elements enabling Link to interact with the game world, such as standing on moving objects or gripping onto ledges, are also included.
>patenting gmod shit
is nintendo fricking serious lmao
Nintendo is the the greediest of the three console companies.
They sell outdated trash hardware to their costumers and still sell the games full price.
They even want you to pay up for old roms.
>still sell the games full price
lol what price is fair then? are the gamedevs supposed to work for free?
>They sell outdated trash hardware to their costumers
why does it have better games than xbox, playstation and pc?
quick someone patent the hookshot and lock nintendo out of their own idea!
if they wanna be bastards, we'll be bigger bastards
didn't aonuma say the game could have come out in 2021, but he spent all of 2021 and 2022 just making sure the physics just worked?
why wouldn't they patent something they beta tested for years?
Because you would prevent other developers from using basic physical reactions, like standing on a moving vehicle?
You need to be an absolute greedy fricking butthole if you block physical reactions from the real world with a patent.
The thing they are actually trying to patent is Ultrahand and how it plays with the environment interaction (physics/chemistry).
Ironic because plenty of Americans on Ganker were saying that if the South Korean semiconductor was real, America should just break the Korean patent and steal it.
Yeah but at that point, you're not patenting anything anyone would really use or mistakenly copy; you're patenting two-years of beta testing and a gameplay feature which would take the similar amount of time to implement in other games. It's not like a one-single-line-of-code a programmer could just jimmy in the matter of an hour accidentally, it's a lot of collision detection, placement and debugging that's probably worth hundreds of lines of code. Why would anyone need to use that as free domain?
>Nintendo wants yo trademark stamina climbing
But it's ok when nintendo does it
Prior art? Garry's Mod.
> Don't allow other companies to copy the few one they created
Frick this shit
Is the Wonder prostitute game still in development?
Cuz i am still butthurt about the Nemesis System
Imagine if Nintendo managed to patent Mario 64's mechanics.
>No Bubsy3D
>No Gex 2
>No Croc 2
>No Crash
>No Spyro
>No Jak
>No Sly
>No Ratchet 2
>No Pac-Man World 2
>No Billy Hatcher
>No Ty
>No Hat in Time
>No Psychonauts
>No Ape Escape
>No Kao Kangaroo
>No I-Ninja
>No Vexx
>No Spongebob: Battle For Bikini Bottom
>No Yooka Laylee
>No Fall Guys
>No Demon Turf
Don't even get me started on Ocarine of Time...
Respect the hecking intelectual property, chud
If Microsoft or Sony just patent beeing a dumb moronic homosexual that likes childrens games then Nintendo would go bankrupt because they would no longer have a userbase.
>Patent Ocarina's mechanics
>No more lock on
>No more rolling
There goes your precious Souls games.
>vidya would be infinitely better
Frick you Nintendo. You could've saved gaming.
Bros
What if Kojima patents the camera?
Most of the things they want to patent has already been done before, I wish them nothing but death. Gaming is genuinely dead
>these patented elements[...] reflect Nintendo’s commitment to safeguarding its unique concepts.
>these patented elements are unique concepts.
literally none of it is an unique concept, none, ALL of the elements Nintendo is patenting is stuff that has appeared at least once in other games before TOTK, and most of them are literally common mechanics since decades(and no, they didn't first appear in Nintendo games).
How are they even allow to do this? This is like some company trying to copyright a common word cause they use it in their slogan, any court would reject the request, and they have done so, so why is Nintendo allowed to patent common mechanics?
Remember when some YouTubers tried to copyright reacting to videos?
patenting game mechanics seems incredibly close to patenting game -rules-, which you actually can't do in the united states exactly because of the reasons listed in this thread. it seems insane to me that anyone was ever allowed a patent on a game mechanic to begin with.
Just patent walking. Or even better, just patent title screens and the ability to continue be buttons, voice or waggle.
Fricking cancer corps and lawyers
You could actually patent jumping and walking in video games, but programming a jump with collision and physics is so easy that it would be no different from patenting the video phone: competitors would just design their own and innovate around it until the original patent is obsolete.
Greedy nintendo thinking they can trademark crafting lmao
Americans deserve this due to all the American patent trolls Nintendo has spent decades fighting and killing
This thread is hilarious. Dozens upon dozens of people thinking they understand the specifics of patenting. Yeah, geniuses, they're patenting the concept of crafting, welding, etc. It's the gameplay elements included that are being patented. Absolute brainless fricking morons. You aren't smart.
This is news to Ganker?
This is unironically LITERALLY the reason totk took so long to release. They were filing patents. Genshin Impact is literally just botw with gambling mechanics
Any concept that can be described in two sentences should not be patented. It should be a novel implementation that would require 1000+ words to describe.
Can they patent microtransactions and gacha shit instead so all the cancerous shit killing gaming can just go away?
They can't patent mechanics that have existed for over a decade
That's not what they are doing. It's how Ultrahand works so the Chinese don't steal it.
Holy frick you trooncels really are MINDBROKEN over Genshit existing
Casual idiots, especially of the Chink variety, are something else.
Jesus fricking Christ they really want Sony to kill themselves by making story driven games huh
BRB while I make a two minute RPGM game and patent the health bar and turn based game mechanics.
Did they even invent that shit?
> A game that fully plagiarized anime movies don't want other to steal from it.
>Patenting 25 year old game mechanics
>Tendies will defend this
>patenopolizing anything
You're a moron implying you would defend this regardless of the age of the thing.
Anyone can protest and stop a pending patent, even anonymously. You or I could do it. Just send them proof that they are trying to patent something that's already been done
https://www.patenttrademarkblog.com/challenge-oppose-patent-application
>they reflect Nintendo’s commitment to safeguarding its unique concepts.
>interact with the game world, such as standing on moving objects or gripping onto ledges
Behead all Nintendo worshipping homosexuals
>Nintendo is killing gaming again
Guys i got it, i'm patenting videogames as a whole and saving us all from this hell.
>…”Among the elements Nintendo is seeking to patent are Link’s Ultrahand and Fuse abilities, various game mechanics
I hope Microsoft opens a case against them for literally ripping off their IP's mechanics. Shitendo needs to learn their place.
>Technical elements enabling Link to interact with the game world, such as standing on moving objects or gripping onto ledges, are also included
LMAO Zelda invented AssCreed now?
nintendo has a bunch of patents, have they sued anyone over their game mechanics?
No I don't think anyone has used the Sanity Meter (not even Nintendo)
Frick Nintendo.
Why has almost every cancerous thing Nintendo has done been under his leadership? Nintendo turned into an EA-tier villian overnight when he took over
At least ToTK isn't pozzed and censored unlike XB3. Returning to form. It doesn't have unisex design,enby. Except for princess being ugly(BOTW's princess is not so different though), and Hero having girl's name like Zelda.
>Ultrahand and Fuse abilities
Are they going to try to sue Capcom for the weapon fusing system in Dead rising 2 now?
>patent
Reminder that the reason charging your laptop sucks is because of Apple and it will remain that way for another 2 years
japan is such a shit hole
Apple started the smartphone patent cancer in the first place and Apple is American
This is only for Japanese devs I know China certainly wouldn't give a shit
Good, everything about the game is revolutionary, we don't want cheap thieves to copy it
Nintendo is the only company making actual video games that are worth a damn so I support this. Frick sony, frick Microsoft, heil Nintendo.
But Nintendo won't be able to copy Sony or MS if they never made Uncharted(standing on the ledges) or Banjo Kazooie: N&B(Ultrahand).
none of those things are new. theyve been in games for years.
based, so fricking based, nintendo finally getting ownership over everything they've invented
The only people worse than Nintendo fans are Nintendo fans
I hate all you gays
>another "fan" project
lol the disdain is insane.
Patent law needs to be fundamentally changed when it comes to video game design.
Jews do this all the time
Look up Leigh Rothschild
makes frivolous, moronic Patents and then sues and wins against big companies
https://insight.rpxcorp.com/entity/352299-leigh-m-rothschild
He's also why we cant have back buttons on any modern console controller
nintendo once again proving they're the israelites of japan
after Immortals Fenyx Rising can you blame them?
>after Immortals Fenyx Rising can you blame them?
Yes. Patents were a mistake.
yeah but even if people copy their crap they will always copy it in a worse way because everything is going to shit and the younger generation are so fillled with seedoils that their brain don't function normally and will only make shit copying older shit
>read source article
>they're trying to patent setting Link's speed equal to the object he's riding on
>they're trying to patent the map slowly transitioning from your starting position to your destination during the fast-travel loading screen
I fricking hate this
You know what bothers me is that Nintendo has the most high quality menu transitions and loading you don't really see anywhere else. I want to make a game one day and borrowing the polish that Nintendo has already done is going to be a b***h. Like you never see models popping in and in low poly mode after a blackscreen transition in their games, or bad menu transitions with no fade out or animation. It's really noticeable when they have other people working on their shit, like the rabbids devs and sometimes NLG and Retro.
zelda ended with these 2 games.
If it is passed, japan will pay.
Because Chinamen just ripped off BOTW and made a gacha with it which profited billions of dollars.
BOTW didn't invent those mechanics.
Are you moron?
Are you?
Are you? Patents wouldn't protect them from that kind of shit. Also since when has china given a single frick about foreign copyright?
They copied the UI which is a better argument.
I wouldn't say Nintendo owns those mechanics.
Shit like patents on the nemesis system, spiderman web slinging and now this is why the gaming industry will keep stagnating. frick that bullshit.
These things have been done though
>take 6 years to develop difficult gameplay techniques
>get mad when you want them to have protection over other people using them
maybe snoys should learn to be innovative and make their own original stuff?
They didn't fricking come up with any of this, you moronic nintenBlack person.
then their patent will get denied then. Simple as
Go back to dilating, you uneducated troony
>take 6 years
Ok degen pedo
>grabbing onto ledges
why not just patent walking? Or sprinting?
How about patenting horse riding too?
This is the stupidest thing.
The Nemesis system was patented like this and they did NOTHING with it but stifle games we could've had.
I don't like it, but I know for a fact that the vast majority of you would do the same as Nintendo.
OH BOY! I cannot wait for BOTW 3, same map, same shrines, same koroks, but this time I can explore THE FRICKING OCEAN!!!
Release soon in 2030!
>even loading screens
I'm already grateful for Namco making vidya loading screens fricking boring for everyone thanks to them patenting "minigames in loading screens" for two decades, I sure am looking forward for Take 2 on that...
What an evil company. Always seeking to patent what existed before it's shit version.
why do this, nobody else is going to put in the work to do the rain and heavy sunlight detection that TotK does. Its a shame about Ultrahand though, its a Green Lantern game in the making with the right adjustments
I'd be more pissed if every company wasn't doing the pandering for ESG money shit
Hopefully they get the patent and it’s ironclad and no one else can ever make a shitty Garry’s mod expansion pack to a 6 year old game ever again
Building dickbots and korok cars is neither fun nor entertaining if you’re not a homosexual moron, delighted by this wonderful news of these cancerous “ideas” essentially being locked away.
ok but where the frick is master mode nintendo you fricking hacks
I would prefer good open world, better sidequests, combat that doesn't suck and real dungeons over Fuse, Ultrahand and whatever else they are patenting
the game has all of these already
That sucks, hope you’re ready for 30 years of continuous disappointment
>file patents for a patent
>that they presumably already own
No source either that's odd.
trust the plan anon
Makes sense. Though no one would ever want to copy those. It's too much effort to implement
Nintendo seeks to be c**ts as usual.
Google says you can't patent a character's abilities. So how are they doing this?
they want the ibm audience