FUCK IP LAW FUCK IP LAW FUCK IP LAW FUCK IP LAW FUCK IP LAW
How tf do you patent "the movement of movable dynamic objects placed in the virtual space is controlled by physics calculations, and the movement of the player’s character is controlled by user input. When the player’s character and a dynamic object come in contact in the downward direction relative to the character (in other words, when the character is on top of an object), the movement of the dynamic object is added to the movement of the player’s character.”
Lol I'm pretty sure that's how a lot of games calculate standing on a vehicle. Nintendo being patent trolls for no reason no way this gets granted
Next Nintendo patent: "The player is able to see a render of the game as pixels on a screen. Input from the player affects the render, giving the illusion of movement the player controls."
Adversarial legal system. Most people can't afford to fight you, so you can bully whoever in to submission.
Nintendo's comparably greedy, ruthless, and cruel (their legal team is up there with Disney on this part) with EA and Ubisoft but has Bill Gates style slick marketing and an army of credulous
that have good feelings about wholesome nostalgia product that often leap in the way of criticism of the company. 
A notable exception to this is the Smash Bros community which likes the games but recognises Nintendo as utterly shit and literally hostile to them.
Actually I'm willing to bet other game communities with an "online" are also fairly hostile to Nintendo for making it awful too.
And fans of any content creators that used to make content but got pushed out by terrible attitudes Nintendo have to youtube and streaming.
Kinda feels like it might just be the Zelda community that doesn't hate Nintendo?
Kinda feels like it might just be the Zelda community that doesn't hate Nintendo?
If that is the case, that's especially unjust because of the brutal life-crushing lawsuit that a Zelda modder/hacker got putting multiplayer into a Zelda game. If the average fandom member wasn't as recursively reactionary and conservative as the setting's endless P R O P H E C Y cycles, they'd be pissed about that.
People are turning on Nintendo fairly frequently these says in my experience, so thats good. But my favorite is actually people who acknowledge that Nintendo is currently doing bad things but hero worship Iwata and say this never would have happened under him despite the fact that most of the shitty draconian IP practices did in fact happen under Iwata.
Like ok, yes, the taking a salary cut so his employees didnt have to thing was relatively cool by CEO standards. That doesn't mean he wasn't still a corporate CEO of a AAA video game company.
