They (Nintendo and Game Freak) don’t stand a chance, the only weak argument could be some similar monsters design, but otherwise there is no trademark nor copyright issue, also the derivative design of pals is a grey area where you need to prove two elements are indistinguishable from each other and we know they are.
I find it hilarious how the gap in sale between Xbox and PS cannot be excused but with Meta Quest and PSVR2, it’s very reasonable. Just heard the Quest outsold it 30 to 1.
Was it known that they were doing another Square game? I’m kind of surprised. Post launch it seemed like Square kind of gave up on Outriders and as of this past summer the game hadn’t made a profit, did it?
And this is a nice touch, to help non-Game Pass games find an audience too:
The first channel, which we’re calling simply “Featured Indies,” includes recent indie games that the ID@Xbox team recommends. These are games we’ve played and liked, and we feel positive indie game fans will enjoy too. Note that we’re not including titles that are in Game Pass here even if they’re fantastic, simply because they’re featured regularly in the Game Pass hub.
Apple is definitely getting scared that their monopoly is getting broken up after legal loss after legal loss (EU doing a lot of the heavy lifting when other countries are abdicating their duties)… come on universe, there’s a lot more balancing of the scales that need to be done (not just in the tech industry space ).
Now they just need to let us purchase Xbox games in the app without giving them a cut and we might finally be able to get the unified Xbox app that everyone wants.