The end of November period brought just about the worst possible news for Nintendo: The latest Pokemon games sold a dazzling 1.5 million units in Japan during launch week.
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.
The fact that you have ANY disagrees will forever baffle me. And to the (apparent) MAGA contingent that exists on this website, enjoy your 8-9 dollar gas.
Yes, they had better be pissed after Trump told them the way they rip off the USA is over.
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.
That’s what I was thinking, imagine them winning hypothetically, getting a s**t load of money back which they would have lost if they hadn’t raised their prices and it’s business as normal.
It would just mean people paid more for no reason since they got the money back anyway.
A lot of companies partially passed the cost to consumers instead of all of it. They would still have to at least pay that back to gamers, but we know that won't happen. What's also sad is that prices won't come back down after the initial hike caused by tariffs.
People didn't understand the full repercussions of tariffs. That alone should have cost him the presidency if people knew it was a permanent price hike for consumers
Naw they should sue the government for forcing the tax to begin with. No one reasonably expects these companies to absorb the taxes. Many smaller companies tried and were shut down or faced to increase prices to try to maintain their business. The tariffs effect everyone.
I meant it mostly as a joke cause we all know the costs of these tariffs were passed onto the consumer. But it's seems no matter how vocal we are here in the states our "representatives" don't seem to care enough to represent us. And things are about to get worse.
The companies were doing what the law required then to do, the tariffs however were illegally implemented. Usually it's criminals we punish, you seem to have different ideas 🤷♂️
Just make a few mobile games ffs Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft have done it along with Sega and other publishers. People aren't going to think you're a mobile company now just because you release a few games on them.
Aside from the already baffling argument that mass financial success of high-quality games are somehow "killing" Nintendo, this article is trying to make an argument without any support aside from a poor interpretation of Nintendo's success.
Enough with the mobile market argument. Why? Because Nintendo's livelihood is very dependent on their portables. Regardless of what your views on the Wii U are, you can't deny that the Game Boy, Nintendo DS, and Nintendo 3DS lines have given Nintendo a huge amount of success. In order to play a great game like Super Smash Bros. 3DS or Pokemon, you need to buy a Nintendo system. That's a game AND a system sale to Nintendo. That's money in their pocket. Doesn't hurt that the games are awesome.
It's the nature of exclusives in general. People buy PS3's to play Uncharted. They buy Xbox's to play Halo. Taking away exclusivity is a really easy way to make your system much less essential and much less appealing to the consumer.
I think it's especially baffling that this article was written in a time when Nintendo's actually on the rise again.