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[–] SoftTeeth@lemmy.world 9 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

If they spent half their lawyer money on making good games they wouldn't be losing money to competition

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 hours ago

Arguable, but I think they do both.

[–] b34k@lemmy.world 0 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

I think Nintendo first party games are great. And I certainly don’t think they’re losing money… the Switch has the most global sales of any current console by a lot. In fact, the PS2 is the only non-Nintendo console to have sold more.

[–] SoftTeeth@lemmy.world 0 points 2 hours ago

Strange that they targeted Palworld but not any of the other monster collector games that came out in the last 10 yesrs that weren't nearly as successful.

They don't need the money, but them wanting other developers money is what makes them do these petty lawsuits. And if they really wanted the money then they could have just made the pokemon game that Palworld ended up filling the niche for.

But they're lazy and greedy instead of a fun games company so they choose to hire lawyers to suppress real competitors