Nintendo sues everyone they encounter in the faintest context of their IP with the power of a thousand suns. See also, the failed launch if Dolphin on Steam. Valve is justifiably cautious here.
Wait but why is Valve involved at all, then? Not like it’s their fault that some people they have nothing to do with are building a game based on those APIs, so shouldn’t Nintendo approach the developers of the port directly instead?
mint_tamas@lemmy.world 5 months ago
woelkchen@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Valve is justifiably cautious here.
Valve doesn’t distribute the port.
mint_tamas@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Doesn’t matter
woelkchen@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Doesn’t matter
If fact it does for the claim that Nintendo would sue Valve otherwise.
viking@infosec.pub 5 months ago
Valve holds the copyright to Portal, so Nintendo probably just “encouraged” them to pull some strings.
woelkchen@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Nintendo have their own litigation-happy lawyers. With the exception of the Portal Collection release for Switch, both companies have nothing to do with each other.