Nintendos behavior is why I won't be buying anymore of their shit

They even tried to patent relative physics recently. Meaning to calculate an object's speed based in the speed of another object, which is absolutely crucial for decades now to avoid issues when something sits on too of something else.

(Remember old games freaking out when you jumped on a moving object? Calculating each object's velocity indipendently from each other in relation to the outside world instead of each other was a bad idea)

Which means that the patents are void to start with. But they can still be used to bankrupt a smaller company with court battles regarless. The fact that patents with obvious prior art get granted so easily is a wild.

Copyright is not that similar to a patent