Damarcusart

You mean you don't like every time you talk to someone?

Ah. Well hopefully that lawyer learns a valuable lesson about defending Nazis. Turns out they think they're above everyone else (including their lawyer).

Yikes. My parent's decision to never actually get me a nintendo 64 makes a lot more sense now lol.

With or without inflation? (I had a Sega mega drive and skipped the PS1/64 Era of games so I'll probably guess it wrong anyway.)

I want to say...$80?

Remember when an Xbox 360 game could end up being $120 at launch at EB games? I sure do.

I'm starting to think that this whole "free market" thing doesn't actually solve consumer's problems and only makes them worse...

But the deluxe edition gives you bonus horse armor!

Remember when people actually got upset about this sort of thing? When horse armor for the original oblivion was used as an example of game companies just being extremely greedy and blatantly anti-consumer? Haha, remember when gamers actually took issue with DLC and "upgrades" that did nothing but provide an empty cosmetic change to the game?

Yeah, no idea what Jobst's laywer was doing here, #1 thing he should've told his client is "shut up about the lawsuit and don't constantly make videos that could constitute slander or libel while you have an ongoing lawsuit regarding slander and libel.

I don't disagree that Nintendo is trying to squash potential competition, though when digimon came out, Game Freak actually was the small indie company they pretend to be today, and wouldn't have had the resources to sue Bandai-Namco, even if they wanted to, and since this lawsuit is claiming to be about game mechanics, digimon has nothing in common with pokemon, except that there are cartoon creatures and you battle them in a (usually) turn based way. The original Digimon world for Playstation didn't really have any overlapping mechanics with pokemon apart from standard RPG mechanics. So the circumstances are radically different, which is why I used nexomon as an example, as it is mechanically identical to pokemon, but isn't seen as a big enough threat to warrant a lawsuit (Putting their game on nintendo consoles probably helped with that)

Maybe new voice work since the original game's is so bad.

That's half of what makes oblivion fun though. https://youtube.com/shorts/eoztSnj_CcU

Yes and no to you too! Nintendo were fine with games like Nexomon (which is basically a 1:1 pokemon clone in all the was that matter), because Nexomon was small and non-threatening. Palworld was successful enough to be seen as a threat. I think they would've done this regardless of if they had partnered with Sony.

They know they don't have a leg to stand on with this lawsuit. They also know that the Palworld devs do not have the money to fund an extremely expensive lawsuit and will most likely settle out of court. All the money they made from palworld has gone into lawyer's fees instead of future games, and they will probably end up shutting their doors as a studio because of this. Game Freak/Nintendo get to destroy the competition, which is what this is really about.