Some Palworld fans are threatening a boycott of Nintendo products, citing new developments in the lawsuit between the two parties. Nintendo officially sued Pocketpair, the developer/publisher of Palworld, last September, alleging patent infringement. The video game giant asserts that certain gameplay features in Palworld, including certain mechanics related to catching monsters and riding creatures, infringe on Nintendo's patents. Pocketpair has since altered how some of these mechanics work in a controversial update to Palworld.
Last week, the Nintendo-Palworld lawsuit got an unexpected update when it was revealed that Nintendo requested a correction to three of the patents involved in the lawsuit, changing the language around its patent on mounts. Screen Rant's coverage of this development drew a wide range of reactions, with comments that were too good to ignore as players questioned the legality of Nintendo's decision, with some even calling for a boycott.
User Monsters opened their comment with, "There is no way that this is legal[.] Nintendo just can't go and change a patent in the middle of a lawsuit." Now, as far as we can tell, it is perfectly legal in Japan (as in the US) to modify a patent mid-lawsuit, although only minor corrections are...
