Patent Infringement Lawsuit Could End the Switch

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So Nintendo is being sued by a patent troll again. This time, it's about the joycon on the Switch pad. Gamevice is suing Nintendo because it rips off some of their products such as the Wikipad. Their asking for damages as well as for Nintendo to stop making the Switch, stop selling it, and stop using it.

This news comes just as I have saved up enough money for half the price of a Switch. Will Gamevice win the lawsuit? Will this be the end of the Switch? Will Nintendo be forced to pay everything it has? Will this open a Pandora's Box for all sorts of patent trolling cases to take place.

Come to think of it, they don't make the Wikipad anymore and I think there's some devices sold on Amazon that're bigger rip offs of the Wikipad than the Switch is.

That sucks. I hope Nintendo wins because I am looking forward to their other games and I would hate to see Mario Odyssy cancelled and their upcoming games.

I did notice similarities with the wikipad and the Switch when I looked it up. I never knew those even existed. I wonder if Nintendo knew too?

I really hope this doesn't happen . I was planning on getting a Switch in a few months for Christmas!

Nintendo's a powerful company with oodles of money in its coffers. They could probably pay Gamevice a little extra to get out of their face, or offer to pay royalties or something.

Nintendo has been sued several times. Universal sued them for Donkey Kong because he was very similar to King Kong and he carries the princess up the ladder to another location but that sure didn't end Donkey Kong. They were also sued for the first Mario Party game due to rotating the joystick in some mini games and it would cause blisters on the skin and causing it to rip and that didn't stop them from making Mario Party games but they just didn't use the rotating joystick anymore for minigames and they offered gloves but they never re released the game again probably for this reason.

Maybe this won't end their new gaming system because there was still Mario Party and Donkey Kong. Those survived the lawsuits. The least that can happen is maybe a redesign of the system so there would be a second version of the Switch. Just my speculation.