Nintendo may have to “take action” once again as yet another highly anticipated Pokemon fan game is slated to emerge, with “Pokemon Prism” (which has been in development for 8 years) offering players a fun new adventure that Nintendo will likely regard as a threat to their ridiculously renowned Pokemon Go.
The official trailer for Pokemon Prism:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEaUQJP_p1A
Pokemon Prism will launch sometime in December, if Nintendo doesn’t intervene before then.
Why do people freak out all the time. The Pokemon Company knows these games are around and they wait until they are finished before putting the kaboash on it. This being the internet killing the game AFTER it’s been released means nothing. You want any of the fan made games you can find them. If they really wanted it stopped they would have C&D years before they are actually finished.
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Came for the article…
…left with a Business Degree
Why don’t they just rename these fan pokemon games to ‘Pogeyman’ or something and pretend it has no relation to actual pokemon.
The pokemon uranium one didn’t even use the original creatures.
If a company does not at least make a claim against these kinds of things it creates a case of precedence that other, more derivative and infringing projects can hold up in court as an argument for fair-use. Even if nothing comes of this claim, they still have to issue it to protect themselves.
Because yes, international copywright law is just that sort of thing.
This game unlike the other ones is just a patch rather then them handing out the rom. aka even if Nintendo does drop a C&D they are under no obligation to stop because they are not breaking any laws.
This is not true at all. Go check out Project M. It is the exact scenario you are talking about, and after years of development, hundreds of thousands of users, and professional tournaments running, they had to stop development due to Nintendo threats.
A patch changes the game data. Which is owned and copyrighted by Nintendo. Good luck fighting a legal battle against a multibillion dollar company.
It doesn’t work that way. Changing game data is not illegal.
Of course a company could still issue a C&D like Square did with that one CT hack, but it’s not the same thing by far as something like Pokemon Uranium, which literally distributed copyrighted material.
Either way, Nintendo has never tried to sue creators of romhacks, not even highly publicized ones. Don’t expect them to start now, just because someone at Sankaku Complex thought it would make for a good clickbait article. 🙂
The patch is comprised of original content only. If they aren’t distributing the rom, they aren’t distributing copyright infringing content.
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looks like s♥♥t :I
it just for “classic” games fans :I
Love that 8-bit chiptune music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6c0GqWbCcyg