What are your thoughts on Nintendo's New Patients in how they are going to effect the gaming industry?
I feel that it might impact the independent developers and stifle their creativity in certain ways. I think this has sent shock waves through the whole industry. I also feel that Nintendo has lost their way, not the same company that they used to be.
Quote from: retro junkie on September 20, 2025, 10:51:33 AMI also feel that Nintendo has lost their way, not the same company that they used to be.
Honestly, the more I think about it, the more I feel they've always been this way. The reason it's finally being shown who they are is because they have huge success with Switch and now Switch 2.
Over the decades Nintendo has been humbled just as often as they have been successful.
- The Virtual Boy
- the PlayStation debuting and outselling them after they decided to go with Philips for a CD attachment (Nintendo thought Sony was getting too much money from each CD sold)
- the GameCube sales (even though it's a great system)
- the Wii U
These are many different times where Nintendo had to take a step back and rethink their strategy (there are also more controversies that I can't remember.) Now that the Switch and Switch 2 are back-to-back successes, they are showing their over-protectiveness that they've always had. They just couldn't enforce it like they wanted to because a flop would disrupt them and take up their attention. When Nintendo is at the top, this is who I believe they are.
Quote from: CreepinDeth on September 24, 2025, 11:08:21 PMOver the decades Nintendo has been humbled just as often as they have been successful.
I agree with this. Honestly... though the game has changed a bit over the years. Nintendo (and other companies) really have gone to cookie cutter. You don't see attempts like the Virtual Boy anymore. And why should companies? It's a risk. Now, they have to have winners. Period. This has also killed a lot of creativity... that may or may not be successful.
His call out of WOW and Everquest is spot on... and patents like this potentially will cause genre rifts or they're going to have micro differences that will be recognized by the patent office as different enough.
These days, companies are finding value where they can. They're protecting whatever moat they can protect. So much is transferring to logical patents because there are vast opportunities in the logical space for patents. You're going to see this more and more. The interesting kicker is how AI may smash through a lot of these barriers.
The patents, in my opinion, are too wide and vast. However, it seems that the patent office has decided that's not the case. I'm curious how it will all shake out. I feel like this was a thing a year or two ago... did this just get approved? The video posted was from 7 days ago.