Comment by jwagenet
1 year ago
How is this different than patenting physical designs in practice? If someone develops a novel game mechanic there isn’t really a reason they shouldn’t be able to exclusively capitalize on it if someone else can patent something “irl”. If Nintendo thought ghost cars offer a compelling advantage over other racers, that seems valid to me.
The patent length is a separate issue altogether.
novel is holding a ton of weight there. zooming a camera to different positions existed long before vitrua racing.