>>56922050It's not about direct competing. It's about the market. The lawsuit was announced around the same time as the Palworld IP was starting to have the same properties as Pokemon
>Collectable creatures game>Discussions of an anime adaptationAnd the most important factor: Merch. The moment they started to enter the merch market is when Nintendo dropped the L bomb. Not over the designs but over patents on game mechanics.
Palworld may not be able to compete with Pokemon but if there's something to be taken away from this lawsuit and the timing, it's that TPC hates the idea of alternatives to their IP. Palworld was/is becoming one. It might be a comparable one or not in terms of sales but still an alternative of the monster collecting genre.
