
Original Gamer: "This June was an important month for Nintendo. At E3, they stole the show by showing that they, and the Wii U, weren't dead in the water. Prior to them winning the hearts of gamers across the globe at E3, they were in some hot water over a game that came out just a few days before. That game, Tomodachi Life, became the center of a world of drama that was not only unnecessary, but also filled with misguided rage spurred by professional antagonizers who hijacked a meaningful cause."

The rejection is non-final (and even when such rejections are labeled as “final”, the process is far from over, given that there can be, at minimum, an appeal to the Federal Circuit).
Good, as they should! A game mechanic like that shouldn't be locked behind a patent, and Nintendo didn't invent it either.
Nintendo wants to keep wasting money on bullshit lawsuits, real smart in this economy. They should put that money aside for other game projects. On the other hand, I don't care if they waste it all either, and they are screwed in the future maybe that will teach them a lesson.

Nintendo completed its share repurchase and set its secondary offering price at 8,347 yen ahead of March 16 delivery.

Nintendo filed a lawsuit in the United States Court of International Trade.
Nintendo of America is suing the United States government over the sweeping tariffs President Donald Trump put in place last year, according to a complaint filed Friday in the U.S. Court of International Trade and obtained by Aftermath.
LOL I read this on gaff, will they refund the money back to the gamers? highly unlikely. Didn't they just raise prices and pass it onto the gamers? Only Nintendo would send out the Ninjas to the US government.
I had to stop reading when the article mentioned the "patch" in the Japanese version. It's really unfortunate how misinformation gets spread around. There was no patch, it was players dressing up male Miis with female clothes and vice versa to give the illusion of same sex marriages in the game. Nintendo never patched out any same sex glitch because it never existed to begin with.
http://www.gamnesia.com/new...
edit: Back on topic, the cause was not initially a bad one. But I think it lost its credibility when it tried to make Nintendo look less like a bystander and more like a bad guy. Calling out Nintendo for homophobia was not the way to handle it because it simply wasn't true. We might as well call every game racist for not having any of the existing ethnic minorities, or some games sexist for not letting you play as a woman. Publishers and developers are not bad people for omitting things like that and it doesn't really take away from the core experience of the game.