{"id":597,"date":"2025-03-25T11:15:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T12:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philfiddyment.com\/?p=597"},"modified":"2025-03-25T14:04:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T14:04:00","slug":"new-nintendo-patent-is-all-about-2d-visuals-but-dont-jump-to-any-remake-conclusions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/25\/new-nintendo-patent-is-all-about-2d-visuals-but-dont-jump-to-any-remake-conclusions\/","title":{"rendered":"New Nintendo Patent Is All About 2D Visuals, But Don&#039;t Jump To Any Remake Conclusions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>As much as we want to see it&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s nothing like a bit of patent discussion to get us Nintendo fans all excited, eh? While the latest legal bagsy from the Big N isn&#8217;t quite as juicy as the potential hardware features we&#8217;ve seen in recent weeks, it does speak to a visual style that combines the worlds of 3D and 2D \u2014 and no, that doesn&#8217;t necessarily mean HD-2D remakes are in the pipeline (thanks, <a href=\"https:\/\/nintendowire.com\/news\/2025\/03\/24\/nintendo-has-reportedly-filed-a-patent-for-something-similar-to-square-enixs-hd-2d\/\">Nintendo Wire<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Patent <a href=\"https:\/\/ppubs.uspto.gov\/dirsearch-public\/print\/downloadBasicPdf\/20250090952?requestToken=eyJzdWIiOiJiYTY4YzQ3My1mZjgyLTQwMTctOTFmZS0xYzkxNmE2MDM4YzAiLCJ2ZXIiOiJlNjFmYjlhZC05OWU4LTQyNmQtYmQyZC00NzVlNjNjOTFlODciLCJleHAiOjB9\">US 2025\/0090952<\/a> was approved in the US on 20th March 2025 under the catchy little title &#8216;Non-Transitory Computer-Readable Storage Medium Having Game Program Stored Therein, Game System, Game Processing Method, and Game Apparatus&#8217;. That makes no sense, we know, but the central thrust of it describes a program that can render a 3D virtual space in a way that <em>feels<\/em> two-dimensional.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2025\/03\/new-nintendo-patent-is-all-about-2d-visuals-but-dont-jump-to-any-remake-conclusions\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As much as we want to see it&#8230; There&#8217;s nothing like a bit of patent discussion to get us Nintendo fans all excited, eh? While the latest legal bagsy from the Big N isn&#8217;t quite as juicy as the potential hardware features we&#8217;ve seen in recent weeks, it does speak to a visual style that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=597"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":598,"href":"http:\/\/philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/597\/revisions\/598"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/philfiddyment.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}