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"Nintendo has filed a lawsuit against Pocketpair, the developer of Palworld, alleging patent infringement related to game mechanics similar to those in Pokémon games."

Sony should have been mentioned in this description. Last I heard, they've been backing Palworld, in an attempt to get a lucrative not-Pokemon on their platform https://www.ign.com/articles/palworld-dev-signs-deal-with-so... It's an interesting proxy war

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I Was talking to a friend about Final Fantasy the other night and he bought up a good point: Chocobo breeding was the precursor to Pokemon breeding. FF7 development started in 1994 and was released in 1997, a year before Pokemon which started as a trading card game in 1996. Not sure if that is significant but its very similar.

Pokemon did not have breeding in the first few games. (but yeah, every artist/designer is influenced by everything)

Red/Blue/Yellow did in fact have breeding

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