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First, Palworld has likely made over 500 million dollars just on sales of the game so they can easily fund any lawsuit. The point isn't to "bleed them dry" it's that Nintendo is mad and they are going to court. The fact they had to do an "oh fuck" update to one of their patents shows how little they thought the whole thing through.
Also, it's going to do nothing to stop Palworld since it's only in Japan and not the US (where they likely won't be able to get a lawsuit off the ground) or anywhere else. It also doesn't affect any other game like the farming sim or merchandising. It also does nothing about Mihoyo making a monster collector, a company that makes hand over fist on Genshin and Nintendo would never dream of suing. The whole thing was always a lose lose situation for Nintendo. The lawsuit was the most retarded option because they get so little out of a win and lose so much if they lose (since all the things they are suing over would be defacto OK). There is no grand strategy here. Nintendo has a massive ego and Pocket Pair bruised them.