Koei Tecmo Final Appeal in Capcom Lawsuit Rejected by Supreme Court
Koei Tecmo announced that the Supreme Court of Japan had rejected its final appeal regarding the patent infringement lawsuit filed by Capcom. [Thanks, 4Gamer.]
The final appeal settlement brought a complete closure to the lawsuit, which was filed in 2014. Capcom sued Koei Tecmo for infringing a couple of game-related patents owned by the company. The first one involved unlocking more content by reading the disc of a previous game, commonly seen in the
Xtreme Legends expansions of
Dynasty Warriors and
Samurai Warriors games. The other handled controller rumble to convey information not visible on the player’s screen, was used in the
Persona 5 Strikers exceeding sales expectations in Japan alone (and finally coming to the West in February), they’ve given us some remarkable games and for this feature, we’re taking a look at how it all began.
Contextually, this recent reputation is quite fitting when you consider that Dynasty Warriors was a spin-off series too, coming from turn-based strategy series
Romance of the Three Kingdoms (for brevity, let’s call it ROTTK).
Early entries could be found on NES/SNES,
ROTTK IV being the last one, but like many third-party developers, Koei mostly drifted away from Nintendo during the N64-era. It only truly returned in 2007 with