Nintendo won his trial against Colopl Studio - News - Nintendo

Nintendo and Colopl announced that he found a dispute brought by the first named on December 22, 2017. The conflict concerned the five-patent violation by Colopl, including his popular mobile Shironeko Project mobile game.

After years of debate and although Colopl has always claimed not to have violated the slightest patent of Nintendo, justice has given reason to the small craftsman, so that Colopl has granted compensation of 25.5 million euros (3, 3 billion yen) to the complainant. "_Self the terms of the agreement, the Company will pay Nintendo a total of 3.3 billion yen as a regulation of legal action and Nintendo will withdraw its complaint.", Can we read on the Colopl Communiqué, Who does not get away so bad since Nintendo asked up to 75 million euros of damage and interest.

Nintendo reproached Colopl for violating five of his patents, including a "_ a special technology used to operate a joystick on a touch screen". At the beginning 2020, to appease the situation, Colopl had changed the control scheme of Shironeko Project , a popular RPG action-RPG in the Japanese mobile landscape that celebrated its 7th anniversary on July 14th.

This fine has already been taken into account in the results of the quarter April-June of Colopl as exceptional loss and has not been without consequence since the company accuses a net loss of 11.2 million euros for this quarter .

Nintendo and Colopl are also partners

Paradoxically, Nintendo also contributed positively to the turnover and operating income of Colopl. And for good reason, the latter acquired Mages in March 2020, studio that developed Famicom Detective Club on Switch. In its results, Colopl also qualifies with "good" sales of the compilation exit anywhere in the world last May.

Despite this conflict, Colopl also works on Shironeko New Project, a switch declination of its flagship franchise. If the project has never been shown since its announcement in July 2018, Colopl has not later confirmed that last month that the game is always in development.