Ah, Nintendogs, now there’s a reputation we haven’t heard shortly. The mega-franchise was final seen with Nintendogs + Cats on the Nintendo 3DS, the place it didn’t fairly hit as arduous because it did on the DS. Now it appears to be like like, possibly, probably, Nintendo is doing one thing with it once more.
Through the week, a brand new patent was launched from america Patent and Trademark Workplace suggests one thing could also be occurring. Now whereas it doesn’t say “New Nintendogs”, it does have some illustrations exhibiting a person utilizing their smartphone to position a canine in AR area. These patents are normally very broad and basic, so Nintendo may have simply used a canine as a result of – that’s what the individual creating the patent wished. The following half is the place it will get attention-grabbing.
On the identical day the patent was filed with america authorities, a trademark for “NINTENDOGS” was filed right here in Australia. Each of them have been filed on November fifth 2021. This trademark was noticed by Vooks alumni Oliver Brandt over on information.com.au
This capitalised NINTENDOGS is completely different from the prevailing “Nintendogs” (lowercase), and Nintendogs + Cats trademark. The newer trademark is barely completely different from the latter, with them being Class 9 and 41 emblems. The newer one is simply Class 41, a “recreation providers supplied on-line from a pc community”. Class 9 emblems particularly are video video games. It’s attainable that this new Nintendogs if it does exist, isn’t categorized as a recreation and extra a video pet or comparable, particularly because it’s now cellular.
There’s numerous conjecture there, however the patent, the trademark present and being filed on the identical day, get us – one thing.
We’ll let if something official is introduced.
