I mean, the only thing it has on Pokemon is that you capture creatures but it’s certainly not Pokemon. It’s a very specific Rock/Paper/Scissors and you can’t brute force your way through every Pet Battling with your level 99 Charizard.
Pokemon is fun. Pet Battling is awful and requires a wowhead guide to be open for everything because it’s so bad and unfun.
The engine can’t even handle an NPC walking twenty feet god knows how they’d manage mario kart gameplay.
Well they do have a patent on the concept of capturing monsters on a field using an item. So who knows what kind of patents they have.
This doesn’t feel very…wow…ish?
Can i use my sim racing rig and VR headset like in gran turismo 7 though?
Mario Cart is one of my all time favorite games!
To be fair, Atari had racing before Nintendo
I just leveled up through the Thousand Needles. It’s about time.
Nintendo doesn’t own cart racers
You jest but after seeing what they did to pal world… 
i know that but they can pull a patent out about drifting to gain speed if we have that or with the upgrading the carts type of thing
Soo, I won’t be able to use my Bowser biker transmog in WoW?
pops wheelie and drifts around corners
I dont see anything that looks like a mario kart lol
I don’t know Need For Speed had drifting and many other racing games let you upgrade your cars. Lets not forget about Gran Turismo as well, I don’t think Nintendo would have grounds for a patent at this stage.
you would be surprise if they had one
Nah, they would have gone after Crash Team Racing if they had one back in the day.
Nintendo’s ongoing lawsuit with Palworld developer Pocket Pair seeks an injunction and damages totaling roughly 10 million JPY (approximately $65,000 USD)
I mean, they sued them but it’s for an absolutely trivial amount in the grand scheme of things.
Pocket pair also changed some of their gameplay to not be infringing upon those patents listed in nintendo’s lawsuit.
so… 
The fact that they sued at all is insane.
Pokémon wasn’t even the first game to have the concept of having monster pets fight for you. 
It’s like saying you own the concept of space flight in a game or of multidimensional travel.
It’s just an attempt to scare devs away from the genre so they can maintain their foothold.
The funniest part of this is that they could have made their own version of palworld and raked in multi millions easily but didn’t for some reason.
apple owns a shape so i wouldnt put it past nintendo to try and fight it but just like palworld they will still lose. domestic nintendo can win the palworld problem but internationally they dont have a chance. it would probably be the same with this if they tried
yea there not the brightest business considering they go after fans streaming the game. hell there the only company that has gamers saying its morally correct to pirate. which is wild considering ea exist
Pocket Pair previously named three specific patents that are the basis for Nintendo’s lawsuit: 7545191, 7493117, and 7528390.
All three seemingly appear to be three versions of the same patent – protecting the gameplay concept of using a projectile to spawn a creature in a 3D environment, with the creature then engaging in combat on the player’s behalf.
It’s now obvious to see why Pocket Pair likely removed this from the game, but to date the developer hasn’t said a peep as to why they suddenly removed this functionality. Even more confusingly, the ability to throw Pal Spheres for catching Pals still remains in the game, though Nintendo probably hasn’t patented that yet.