Nintendo Trademarks Prompt Speculation

An article being run by GamesIndustry.biz discusses a pair of recent Nintendo Trademarks. These trademarks would seem to indicate new product lines for the Big N, but exactly what the products would be remains up in the air. From the article: "On 7th December 2004, Nintendo registered 'Nintendo V-Pocket' by itself, while Nintendo and Pokémon series developer Game Freak jointly registered "PCGP" on the same day, according to reports."

Re:Nintendo abusing the hype machine

[Ian_Bailey]

Well, Nintendo doesn't even throw this into the hype vaccuum. They are patenting ideas they have for names in advance of releasing them, so they can protect these names when the product is actually released.

I don't know if you've heard these "trademark filing" stories before, but they are frequently junk names either discarded at the last minute or purposely filed to surpise competitors/the media.

The fact that people are continously checking these trademark filing for "Nintendo" or "Sony" probably says more about the gaming media (and masses) more than the companies.