With the legal bout between Palworld developers Pocketpair and Nintendo underway, many are beginning to take a side, and top streamer Asmongold has made his decision—he wants to see Nintendo lose.
During a stream this week, Asmongold went over the finer details of Nintendo’s lawsuit against Pocketpair with the former seeking an injunction and “compensation for damages” brought about by Palworld and its supposed infringement of “multiple patent rights.” He zeroed in on the patents surrounding monster capture in games that Nintendo filed, suggesting these patents were created specifically to sue Palworld. Asmongold believes this strategy comes off as unfair at best, and at worst, deliberately underhanded.