Nintendo just patented Summoning systems in games (Retainers, Summoner jobs etc)

[MsQi]

Considering how litigious Nintendo are about suing their fans and anyone else they feel like suing, Is SE legal ready to deal with challenges to FF games with systems based around summoning systems and sending minions out to fight and on missions? Re: Retainers and Venture's, Summoners and their pets any Necromancy style monster or future job's, Minion battles such as Lords of Verminion? (Nintendo now 'owns' those systems and doesn't want other games using them)

I know this isn't entirely based on Final Fantasy considering its about an action Nintendo has taken and the knock on effects of that action, But id really like to know that SE has a plan in place so we don't lose these systems after a Nintendo patent lawsuit against SE.

Posting this after watching this gaming news entry by YongYea. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxG1GueybuI

Feels like one of those patents that never should of been aloud to be accepted due too how broad it is and how many long existing games will be hit by it and open the devs up to Nintendo Lawsuits not too mention the future creativity it will stifle in the gaming industry as a whole.

You can't just patent something that has been around for decades out of the blue that you obviously didn't invent. It's pretty hard to patent a game mechanic in general, unless it's particularly novel, which this is not.

[Catwho]

You can't just patent something that has been around for decades out of the blue that you obviously didn't invent. It's pretty hard to patent a game mechanic in general, unless it's particularly novel, which this is not.

Exactly, SE has 30+ years of prior works to show that what they patented is neither novel or unique.

(Although the first FF games were on the NES, the company was not a first party developer, therefore Nintendo cannot use the claim that the FF game summons belong to them.)