This just seems pointless, I bet Nintendo lawyers will try to continue anyway as they already have a history of patenting things AFTER they've already been used by another game.
The basis for the patents issued stems from Pokemon Legends: Arceus, which is the 2022 open world Pokemon game developed in 2021.
That said, 'Pokemon with guns' was done in GTA V by a pokemon go mod in 2016. There's an argument to be made that Nintendo can't hold patents on something someone else did first.
(Of course, the GTA mod isn't japanese, but my point stands.)
This just seems pointless, I bet Nintendo lawyers will try to continue anyway as they already have a history of patenting things AFTER they've already been used by another game.
The basis for the patents issued stems from Pokemon Legends: Arceus, which is the 2022 open world Pokemon game developed in 2021.
That said, 'Pokemon with guns' was done in GTA V by a pokemon go mod in 2016. There's an argument to be made that Nintendo can't hold patents on something someone else did first.
(Of course, the GTA mod isn't japanese, but my point stands.)