“The settlement of this lawsuit will have no impact on the Company’s consolidated business results for the fourth quarter of the fiscal year ending Septemand beyond.”Īnd with that, the Nintendo and Colopl legal saga comes to an end.
“The terms of the agreement are that the Company will pay Nintendo a total of 3.3 billion yen as a settlement for the lawsuit,” Colopl continues, “including future licensing, and that Nintendo will withdraw the lawsuit.”īecause of the settlement, Colopl will record “extraordinary losses” in the third quarter ending on September 21. “Subsequently,” Colopl writes in a release announcing the settlement, “the Company determined that it would be best to resolve the matter as soon as possible through a settlement, and has now reached an agreement on the settlement.” By April, the amount had apparently increased to over $124 million. As a reminder, this game is a real-time co-op action RPG with an anime theme, and as the game. Back then we provided you a list of tips, albeit mostly on the general side of things. The argument was that Colopl continued to violate Nintendo’s patents since the lawsuit was first filed. It wasn’t too long ago when we told you about Colopl’s new action-RPG called Colopl Rune Story, which is available for Android and iOS mobile devices. Earlier this year, as analyst Serkan Toto pointed out, Nintendo asked for more in damages, increasing the amount to the equivalent of $64 million, up from the original $57 million.