🚨 Nintendo got their bizzare & controversial patent for their Pokémon game mechanics.

Nintent recently received their patent, U.S Patent no. 12,403,397, for their Pokémon game mechanics which has sparked a controversy among gamers.
The patent basically covers the core game mechanics which includes summoning of characters and letting it fight - which is already used by many other popular games like Elden Ring, Digimon and Persona.

IP Lawyers and industry experts are calling it an "outrageous" and a big failure of the U.S patent system, and warn about its misuse and impact on creativity throughout the industry.

Meanwhile, Nintendo has already filed lawsuits over Palworld devs, Pocketpair over similar game mechanics, that they had to change them.

Critics says that this patent is very broad and will likely be ignored, given the decades of prior art.

Source: IGN