As it turns out, whilst it seems that Nintendo wanted ARMS to succeed as a competitive game on the surface, in typical Nintendo fashion they also wanted to dictate exactly *how* it was played far too much and ended up going out of their way to severely hamper the game's potential for success in the end. I've linked a Twitlonger that explains as much in the Sources section of the description. Also I just wanna say I'm seeing entirely too many comments expressing this weird, hero-worship sentiment of "man, this company really went downhill once Reggie and Iwata left", like, no, that's not how companies work, lmao. Not to entirely undo their positive contributions to the industry because (particularly in Iwata's case) there's a LOT there, but Iwata was in power during a vast majority of the fangame takedowns and general events discussed in the video (as well as the Nintendo Creators Program, which I can not BELIEVE I failed to mention in this video, look it up) and Reggie was on The Game Awards board in 2016 (and I believe still is) meaning he would definitely have had a say in Pokemon Uranium & AM2R being removed from contention for their awards. Not meaning to slander these people, but also you should take them off your pedestal. It's weird, you don't know them, they're businessmen. The company hasn't fundamentally changed for the worst because 2 guys aren't there anymore, this is how they've always been. EDIT: Somehow people are finding a way to claim that I'm "defending" or "supporting" CptAlex? Which, no, I don't. Perhaps it should have been mentioned that he did not get permission from the family to continue forward with his project, and he has a couple other transgressions to his name that make him a slightly divisive figure, but the section wasn't about CptAlex so I didn't find it relevant. Regardless of CptAlex's actions, I still find Nintendo making legal threats over such a situation pretty reprehensible and that's what that section's about. -Brad #FreeMelee #SaveSmash

@thelastgogeta

3 жыл бұрын

Too early into the video to see if you make a correction, but Mario Galaxy was actually redistributed on the Wii U (in addition to the Chinese Nvidia thing), it will be a riot if you can buy it and Galaxy 2 by April next year but not this collection. I liked the video in advance of finishing for the algorithm and hope your New Year goes great.

@thelastgogeta

3 жыл бұрын

@@yzois Not to be a Nintendrone and say "Nintendo is better than the competition lol", but as far as censorship of 3rd party games... They are totally hands off in comparison to Sony over the last few years. Just look at how Gal*Gun is releasing on PC, Xbox and Switch (this one is physical) but PlayStation. The platform with 100 million systems which got earlier games is being ignored. There are a few strange cases like Dragon Ball Fusions (swords replaced with sticks for the west, a Bamco rep in DMs blamed NOA and Bamco higher ups apparently) and an assortment of third party games which Nintendo had a hand in but it feels like a footnote if you focus on that. There is a first party case which does stick out to me with Tokyo Mirage Sessions where the western censorship, missing DLC and new voiceover was forced into the Japanese release as well but that's not third party even if it is cursed. In less words, I don't think Nintendo are great. Heck even Steam and GOG have problems but you should make your complaints more specific since Nintendo picked with screwing 3rd party releases decades ago.

@baddragonite

3 жыл бұрын

Nintendo doesn't understand grassroots

@nascour5991

3 жыл бұрын

I mean I don't think arms was a great game anyways but that's still a very stupid thing to do with a competitive fighting game.

@Zylefer

3 жыл бұрын

GET THIS MAN TO 50K SUBS Anyways the fact that Nintendo took the code for Mario All-Stars from an emulator (this is factual and the side-to-side comparisons are exact) is most disappointing.

"dont emulate our games" ok then produce an alternative to piracy and provide a better service ">:( no"

@basalt8151

3 жыл бұрын

homestuck

@lettucexp7123

3 жыл бұрын

housetrapped

@RED-jg6mt

3 жыл бұрын

nintendo goes full brainlet mode

@reddabos

3 жыл бұрын

What they want you do to is to be a good consoomer and blindly play their new games and only play their new games.

@RED-jg6mt

3 жыл бұрын

@@reddabos yeah except people arent robots and they like old stuff sometimes

Fun fact: If you emulate Devil World for the NES in America Miyamoto will appear behind you and snap your neck.

@tropicarls

3 жыл бұрын

finally, an easy way out

@Abomdosnow

3 жыл бұрын

I'll only do it if I get to hear the DBZ instant transmission sound effect as he does it.

@hostiusasinhostilityhostil7853

3 жыл бұрын

europeans: i'm four parallel universes ahead of you

@Spit1990

3 жыл бұрын

"You havo madue a beegoo mistaku." "MIYAMOTO, NO! PLEA-" **snap**

@TheAnimationStationTAS

3 жыл бұрын

It's true, this happened to me!

Don't forget, Nintendo were the buggers who created _Region Locking._ Let that sink in for a moment.

@GoulartGH

3 жыл бұрын

i didnt know that, ty for the info! and also, one shouldnt forget the forced exclusivity on the NES era, basically making it impossible for competitors to exist

@AkameGaKillfan777

3 жыл бұрын

Region Locking? As in, one of the many things that happened during Iwata's presidency?

@datdamndog389

3 жыл бұрын

Isnt that *not* a thing on switch?

@yannatoko9898

2 жыл бұрын

It's not on the Switch or DS though.

@diablostriker4793

2 жыл бұрын

Region locking wasn't a thing on handheld Nintendo devices until the DSi I believe

Just to be 100% clear, _all "Virtual Console" is emulation._ Every bit of it. The effrontery of their behaviour regarding emulation and modification is just phenomenal.

@joshshrum2764

3 жыл бұрын

There only okay with emulation if there the ones using it.

@bludanoob6799

3 жыл бұрын

It's not even their rom dumps either

@blok3133

3 жыл бұрын

(Techinally wii vc on wii u is not emulation iirc and gba vc on 3ds isn't emulation)

@WillowEpp

3 жыл бұрын

@@blok3133 That's an interesting topic. Like, the Wii U's Espresso CPU is register- and bus-compatible with the Wii (and GC) and just gets downclocked in vWii mode; the GX is a separate block and _probably_ doesn't share any hardware with GX2; DI is a compat mode on the AHCI controller. But VI? Emulated in software on a sneaky extra microcontroller in Latte. Font ROM? Uses spare RAM now. And even then, is a software mode that disables two CPU cores and downclocks the system so as to _appear like_ the previous hardware for the sake of the software not emulation? It's not a pure software instruction-by-instruction translation layer, sure, but neither is it like transparently running your 2015 PC games on your 2020 PC. If anything, it's more like... running old DOS games with Windows 98SE's DOS compatibility layer? (And the insanely high speed you get out of that for things that don't frame-limit properly is an expected side effect then.) From what I recall, the DS/3DS situation is similar, taking a block-wise hybrid approach for DS mode emulation.

@kumicables

3 жыл бұрын

"Emulation is a crime, unless it's us" -Nintendo, probably

Nintendo basically said the drift is a feature. Their self-playing games feature sure is handy

@kittykatastrophy2872

3 жыл бұрын

It comes in handy when I want to walk off cliffs or miss a target.

@Ephraim225

3 жыл бұрын

I mean, they did patent the Super Guide

@MrPenetroso

3 жыл бұрын

I need to play dark souls with drift. It will be very handy!

@AcidArrestB

3 жыл бұрын

It helps me down air off a cliff in smash ultimate, it’s weird but I’ve gotten used to it

@thevioletskull8158

3 жыл бұрын

I-

This video is a banger in every way. Nintendo is mind-bogglingly terrible to its consumers, and are almost actively afraid of making money sometimes while willingly milking money in other ways.

@ProdCashhier

3 жыл бұрын

Yes connor

@jdweck14

3 жыл бұрын

Drake

@lrgogo1517

3 жыл бұрын

So it's a banger because you agree with it

@ifknlovecoryinthehouse

3 жыл бұрын

pantsies 2020 lets gooooooo

@pikasso2432

3 жыл бұрын

I hate their "Games are for everyone" philosophy

Nintendo really is the Disney of Japan. Both companies are geared toward “everyone” and will tear you down if you don’t comply. It’s not that hard to see why Squaresoft wanted to get out from under there thumb back in the day.

@CarloNassar

3 жыл бұрын

I am so sick of comments like this. Disney is actually much worse. Most of their movies (usually in the live-action department) have gotten horrible ratings *from audiences* and are barely remembered, compared to even Superman IV: The Quest for Peace. The Nutcracker and the Four Realms? Artemis Fowl? Judge Dredd? The "Honey, I" movies? I'm only scratching the surface right now. I'm not counting any Star Wars or Marvel movies, which were only distributed by Disney. Also, at least Nintendo isn't as close to having a monopoly in its competition as Disney is. You'll find plenty of people talking about Disney owning too much, compared to very few people on how little Nintendo owns.

@MarcusSanchez2525

3 жыл бұрын

@@CarloNassar believe me man I know Disney is far worse and I hate how they own pretty much all of the entertainment industry but I said Nintendo is japan’s Disney. They literally are one of the biggest and most wealthiest business over there geared towards family and kids and they take advantage of it. I could talk about the similarities for a long time but we would be here all day. although Nintendo and Disney are not the same they are similar in lots of ways and they don’t fully appreciate their fan bases if at all.

@CarloNassar

3 жыл бұрын

@@MarcusSanchez2525 I still have to disagree. If Nintendo was known for making bad games, then they'd be Japan's Disney.

@MarcusSanchez2525

3 жыл бұрын

@@CarloNassar I will agree with you there, Nintendo always makes a good and sound game. Disney literally destroys anything they get their hands on. I would say the thing I hate Nintendo for doing is needlessly changing good video game formulas like Paper Mario just as an example. But they still make games that work.

@star_toast

3 жыл бұрын

Which is funny since now Sony are the ones being super censorship happy with their 3rd party games.

Best part is people are still gonna buy nintendo games day one, smash dlc, and pretend they're boycotting lmaoooo

@arturoehr

3 жыл бұрын

You just described the dumb cod players

@rndmzr153

3 жыл бұрын

I still haven't bought a switch yet [Quietly buys ACNL]

@MrEffectfilms

2 жыл бұрын

Nostalgias a hell of a drug, and when you grow up loving something and are exposed to how corrupt they are removing the rose tinted glasses can be difficult. So most just don't do it.

@mikkelstrumer8628

2 жыл бұрын

And not only that, but defend them too

@fbyi2940

2 жыл бұрын

Good job, you just described Apple, Rockstar games and Chevy owners.

Nintendo is really intriguing as a company. Their developers are really talented and passionate, and some of their games definitely show that and push the industry as a whole; however, their legal team and upper management have grimy practices, all for profits or the threat to profits. From cease & desists and DMCA violations on popular fangames and mods, to limited-time releases to "combat" piracy or drive up cost, to making lackluster collections or online software with the bare-bone essentials, to not rereleasing previous games in any form, to covering up major issues with their hardware. There's a huge divide between their products and their practices, which is unfortunately sad and counterintuitive to their business.

@mistake1197

3 жыл бұрын

It's to the extent that I believe this is because of a personal vendetta a higher up in nintendo has.

@ramburgervalentine7621

3 жыл бұрын

They are runned by old japanese old man. They take ages to adapt to new technologies

@yuuhyakuya3863

3 жыл бұрын

That's because Nintendo exists on two different entities. The developer side that actually cares about their product and wants people to be happy. Then there's the business side who is super protective over everything they make and only cares about money. It's like having a loving mom and a dad who's strict as fuck and doesn't care about you. And unfortunately Dad is in control of the family.

@YounesLayachi

3 жыл бұрын

So far most if not all of this legal bullshit seems to come from Nintendo of America, not from Nintendo... Reminder that Nintendo of America don't make any games. They're just here to advertise, sell poorly localised games, and piss people off

@mistake1197

3 жыл бұрын

@@YounesLayachi it all makes sense now.

"Sega does, what Nintendon't"

@MyOwnHandle22

3 жыл бұрын

It’s genesis bro

@Evixyn

3 жыл бұрын

Goes bankrupt for the worst.

@TheChoujinVirus

3 жыл бұрын

yeah, at least Nintendo doesn't DMCA videos discussing old games over wanting a new game being top on the search results

@cmwaves

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah make games like sonic 06 and sonic forces. At least Nintendo knows how to make good first party games

@bororusrooroo8010

3 жыл бұрын

Except for super monkey ball

People give Nintendo a pass for their dystopian practices because they grew up with Nintendo. Same thing with Disney's and their tyrannical and predatory practices

@CarloNassar

3 жыл бұрын

I grew up with Nintendo and I don't give them a pass.

@hadooken1194

3 жыл бұрын

@@CarloNassar you are a real man

@Ralph2k20

3 жыл бұрын

@@CarloNassar Same

@CarloNassar

3 жыл бұрын

Also, most people don't give Disney passes, but that's because they actually went woke.

@jeromyperez5532

2 жыл бұрын

@@CarloNassar Most people? Idk if we're living in the same world. Most people definitely give Disney a pass. But we've all been raised to be braindead consumers and just buy buy buy to make the bad feelings go away.

"Mother 3 will be a thought crime" Let's fucking *riot.*

@RED-jg6mt

3 жыл бұрын

this

@antenna_prolly

3 жыл бұрын

A censorship more real than everything any conservative is capable of complaining about combined.

@zombies4evadude24

3 жыл бұрын

Mother Fans unite! :3 “That’s a great idea, let’s start a riot.” **Bowser and Furukawa get chased out of the movie theater* “I told you that company was terrible.”

@henrycrabs3497

2 жыл бұрын

@@antenna_prolly 🤡🤡

@MarxBoi48

10 ай бұрын

​​@@antenna_prolly 🤡🤡🤡

"They unknowingly created one of the most enduring competitive games of all time... much to their dismay" lmfao nintendo would love nothing more than for melee to drop dead, which is incredibly sad your games can't be for "everyone" if you actively go out of your way to discriminate against people that play it a certain way

@lamihadamshareef5270

3 жыл бұрын

Hello once again

@64bitmodels66

3 жыл бұрын

games that pertain to a specific audience tend to be a lot better than games that try to be inclusive to everyone

@YightLagami

3 жыл бұрын

@@64bitmodels66 ? Melee didn't pertain to a specific audience

@64bitmodels66

3 жыл бұрын

@@YightLagami it didnt but then nintendo decided to streamline the games after the fans found new more fun ways to play them

@YightLagami

3 жыл бұрын

@@64bitmodels66 So it got worse because Sakurai tried to pertain to a certain audience?

Best part is, they have everything to gain from completely ignoring melee, and they still try to kill it constantly.

@welcometowallys8158

3 жыл бұрын

They also got deals for smash circuits that other companies would kill for and Nintendo still declined even though it would gain from it

@dragonmaster3030

3 жыл бұрын

Nintendo great at making games, terrible at business decisions

@grimboishungry9218

3 жыл бұрын

Not to mention ultimate. They canceled a ultimate tournament for literally no good reason. Free advertisement for their game and their new dlc that just released and they cried about it, and killed it

@dragonmaster3030

3 жыл бұрын

@@grimboishungry9218 and they add dlc characters no one really asked for

@elnerdo5455

3 жыл бұрын

@@grimboishungry9218 "Not to mention ultimate. They canceled a ultimate tournament for literally no good reason." Elaborate on this.

IP is "Intellectual Property", not "Independent Property"

@counterfeit1148

3 жыл бұрын

And it should not exist

@thejjdm1126

3 жыл бұрын

@@counterfeit1148 it protects artist from ripoff

@standinggoat9016

3 жыл бұрын

@@thejjdm1126 yes but it gets exploited easily

@chilln0648

3 жыл бұрын

@@standinggoat9016 While I definitely agree, there are a lot better solutions than just getting rid of IP entirely.

@standinggoat9016

3 жыл бұрын

@Chilln0 ofc ofc but I'm just saying there should be regulations to how much of an extent it can have until it becomes an abuse of it

I thought the title said “A history of Nintendo and anti-communism”

@cristianmastrocicco4552

3 жыл бұрын

Goddamnit, you stole my line

@marcfatimania

3 жыл бұрын

Then boycott animal crossing and play papers please instead.

I've had idiots in arguments tell me, "The Switch doesn't need voice chat cuz it's a console for kids." EVERY console is for any age. I don't see how Nintendo gets to be the slowest to putting things in their consoles that older consoles have been having for years. That's really the dumbest argument I've heard.

@tixontoxin6429

3 жыл бұрын

Video games are by definition, toys. They are inherently appealing to kids. Just because Nintendo has more colorful, family-friendly games at the forefront, doesn’t mean they have that much larger of an appeal to youngins than XBox or Playstation do.

@Chloelol

3 жыл бұрын

This argument doesn't make much sense at all. (And I get your frustration!) The PS5 launched with BugSnax as one of it's main games in its lineup, a game aimed at younger audiences. The Switch has games like Doom/Doom Eternal, Bioshock, and Mortal Kombat 11, all of which are aimed at older audiences. There's markets for both younger and older generations in every console.

@KStarPR

3 жыл бұрын

When the Switch launched, most ads showed young adults, who realistically were the majority of people knowledgeable, excited, and wealthy enough for the Switch. The Switch was initially marketed towards adults, with Nintendo even marketing more adult oriented games coming to Switch soon after launch.

@rayminishi689

3 жыл бұрын

PS3 and 360 days, we used skype. People just don't want to adapt. They wanna be spoonfed. Lmao

@Buglin_Burger7878

3 жыл бұрын

​@@tixontoxin6429 If you're talking about kids you need to do A LOT of research into psychology. Everything is appealing to kids! This weird pill mommy takes looks weird but fun, maybe I'll try some? Daddy's gun has this weird hole looks cool, I wonder what is inside? It isn't appealing per say, rather kids explore and look at everything. It is part of how we learn. If you hear anything is "for kids" it is a lie for lack of effort... it has been proven that kids did learn from dark fairy tales, it taught them things while not placing them at the teeth of the wolf in real life. The exception to this is things lacking drugs, sex, and extreme violence/hate which kids shouldn't be exposed to.

To be fair though, copyright law is corrupt nowadays. It used to be 28 years which already is ridiculously long. But now it's 70 years after the death of the author (unless it got extended again since I last checked), on request by Disney who apparently writes copyright law nowadays. Some people are quick to point out that this motivates authors to produce but they forget that no author can produce anything in a vacuum. No matte rhow motivated, authors need the public domain to produce good things. By drying out the public domain we sabotage authors by production. There's actually a balance to this. The longer the copyright the more incentive, but the shorter the copyright the more possibilities. It's likely that 28 years is already far too long to hit this balance, but 70 years after authors death is beyond crazy. Nintendo has a legal right to shut down all those projects but that's only because the law is corrupt. It's a corrupt legal right. Also noteworthy is that beautiful art existed and was plentiful long before copyright existed. There are many ways to financially benefit from producing art or other works without copyright. In fact, history actually suggests that copyright actually tends to limit art, indicating that the aforementioned balance between providing enough incentive and providing a rich enough public domain to draw inspiration from may be struck with a copyright term of exactly 0 years. But that's copyright when viewed from a solely pragmatic perspective. Copyright contradicts the right to property so ethically there are objections to it as well. Intellectual property does not exist. It's a physical impossibility. E.g. how can you own the concept of Super Mario 64? Where is the concept? we have many instances of the game, but as far as I know there's no magical Platonic world where the perfect essence of the game exists. Unless you can prove that such a metaphysical world exists and that through it's divine powers it powers all our copies, there's no evidence of intellectual property. The proper term is "intellectual monopoly". So-called "intellectual property" is the right to tell other people how they are not allowed to use their own means to production. E.g. Rearranging the bits on my hard disk to create something resembling Super Mario 64 is nothing but me using my own means of production. I would need no special tool from Nintendo to do this. I would need no metaphysical concept of Super Mario 64 because I could do it using my memories, my computer, and my programming skills. They are all mine. But because Nintendo owns an intellectual monopoly on Super Mario 64 they have the corrupt legal right to tell me that I'm not allowed to use my own skills and resources in this way. It's their monopoly. In fact, "intellectual property" was actually called "monopoly" back when it was though up. It's only a while after it was invented that it got rebranded from a "monopoly" to "intellectual property" because the latter sounds more fair. It sounds fairer because it's a different concept that is fairer. Unfortunately few people think it through well enough to realise that and thus most get fooled by the marketing. It's a clever marketing move but it's very disingenuous. I'm not really bashing Nintendo for using their corrupt legal rights. That's the fault of our corrupt government; and in this case also Disney and their hypocritical lobbying. Still, Nintendo is being an asshole about it and the fact that they are doing so using corrupt legal rights does add some insult to injury.

@wesnohathas1993

3 жыл бұрын

However long they say copyright lasts now, it can really just be safe to assume that, as long as Disney exists, nothing created after Mickey Mouse will ever enter the public domain.

@danielaguilarrodriguez1091

3 жыл бұрын

That is another reason (mainly the most important) why I became libertarian. A property is literally something that you own and someone can not. And yes, it has to be physical. If it is something intangible, it would mean I would have to lobotomise you to steal that "property". If take your mobile phone, then you would have no mobile phone. If I instead take your newly created Puyo Puyo 20th Anniversary hack (mentioned just because I made one, available at romhacking, translation section, number 5811), then I would have it but you too (always as long as I do not delete all your copies). In the other hand, Nintendo has always (at least since 1980) behaved like a Yakuza division.

@SammyNeverEver

3 жыл бұрын

I disagree with the balancing part. I believe that with copyright there are only tradeoffs.

@danielaguilarrodriguez1091

3 жыл бұрын

@@SammyNeverEver With tradeoffs you mean that we (as users) do not win anything and lose things (such as liberty of use or creation), right?

@adamchoquette1937

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, I remember learning about this from a law class when I was taking engineering. The original intent of the law was to give the original creator time to earn money off their creation. Now it is done to keep properties under the ownership of large corporations indefinitely. Mickey Mouse, Batman, etc will never be public domain. The laws will always be re-written to protect the companies, there is simply to much money at stake. It sad because imagine how many amazing and awesome stories could have been written about Batman, had the copyright passed to public domain in 1945 (1915 +30 years).

We can also see another example of Nintendo’s anti-consumerism in their denial of access to their official soundtracks. I mean come on Nintendo, there are so many people willing to buy them and it would be a great way to introduce new fans to the classic series but nooooo let’s keep on with the copyright striking...

@thebravegallade731

2 жыл бұрын

a lot of them are available. just in japan. and japanese music companies are something else...

@eriottomakurashi

2 жыл бұрын

Actually the copyright takedowns weren’t from nintendo. They were from an impostor, but the fact that we believed this was possible is at another level

@dragonmaster3030

2 жыл бұрын

@@thebravegallade731 what exactly do you mean by something else, I know things in Japan tend to operate quite different than over here so what exactly do you mean by their music companies being "something else"

@zooms7889

2 жыл бұрын

@@dragonmaster3030 copyright laws in Japan are MUCH stricter than in the USA

@bailujen8052

Жыл бұрын

Maybe give Nintendo a copywrong Stroke

"Mother 3 becomes a thought crime" punched me in the gut

What’s the deal with having no virtual console, but then selling 3D All Stars for an entire $60? It’s like they both love and hate money at the same time.

@prcr364

3 жыл бұрын

Slowly depriving fans until they release it at full price.

@PhayzinOut

3 жыл бұрын

That's how they get the desperate folks

@muzaky515

3 жыл бұрын

Schrödingers Game Comapany

@filleraccount1262

3 жыл бұрын

It has the original soundtrack released

@andrewherrera7735

3 жыл бұрын

Cheap digital deflates the brand. They are saying that these games are still worth 50ish like when they originally came out.

What do ya’ know, that “Nintendrone” joke became reality.

@pacoramon9468

3 жыл бұрын

Memes are based on reality.

@j-meister3284

3 жыл бұрын

Even when they're ahead of their time.

@20tigerpaw20

3 жыл бұрын

wait what? how?

@supermakermatic2111

3 жыл бұрын

@@20tigerpaw20 Look up “Nintendo Ninjas”, you should find a tweet by a guy called Z E F.

@20tigerpaw20

3 жыл бұрын

@@supermakermatic2111 what the hell....

Sakurai himself is actually starting to warm up to the idea of competitive smash since Smash 4. It’s a shame Nintendo hasn’t.

@CarloNassar

3 жыл бұрын

It's like he should be the CEO.

@RFLCPTR

3 жыл бұрын

No, he isnt.

@bobcole8516

3 жыл бұрын

Sakurai himself needs to get over himself....I truly am sorry he’s sick, but if your too sick to take time for Waluigi, you should ALSO be too sick for Pirhana Plant. The whole “control” thing he’s really sticking to is not cute or amusing, going out of your way to troll fans when you could’ve taken the time to give them something good is a bunch of shit

@Anthony-xv2eu

3 жыл бұрын

@@bobcole8516 Waluigi is just a meme, and Sakurai also doesn't have the final say on which character joins.

@ansrfururactions

3 жыл бұрын

@@bobcole8516 well think of it THIS way. Did you care about Waluigi BEFORE the memes? Did he ever make an impact on the gaming industry? No? Then that's why he's and assist trophy.

So basically I’m gonna continue pirating the games.

@mistake1197

3 жыл бұрын

As you should.

@professorcube5104

3 жыл бұрын

yo ho ho frick nintendo

@CheddarVG

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, you do that. I actually support piracy, because think of it like this: Piracy makes a copy of the original file. while theft removes the original entirely. Imagine if somebody stole your car while you're sleeping, but the car is still there in the morning.

@ArjunTheRageGuy

2 жыл бұрын

Don't make piracy be gone. Make it still there, to not have lost media.

@LazyGamerPerson

2 жыл бұрын

Get extra external hard drives to store your troves.

Youre gonna talk about valve and not acknowledge that they literally let people sell fangames of their own ips for real money on their own platform?

@sonario6489

3 жыл бұрын

Wait, what? Holy shit, Valve really is fucking amazing!

@notTLWO

3 жыл бұрын

@@sonario6489 valve is great, but they still have their fair share of faults, though moral issues definitely isnt one of them.

@Grgrqr

3 жыл бұрын

The only real bad thing I can think of is the massive amount of shovelware on steam

@notTLWO

3 жыл бұрын

@@Grgrqr not only that, they are very poor with communication, and have outdated work policies

@lepapanouwel4663

3 жыл бұрын

@@polocatfan Well Portal Mel was considered as a masterpiece and Freeman was considered as "please never again" so at least the consumers can make their choices

This video is the most necessary video ever made about Nintendo's shitty philosophy. Thanks for actually making it, man. I was just thinking about how New Super Mario Bros Wii still goes for full price even today meanwhile I just bought a number of 2020 games on PS4 for $20 a pop

@Red_Ranger_Wien

3 жыл бұрын

A CIB copy of NSMB Wii averages about 27 US dollars these days. A bit more then I would spend on it but hardly full price.

@klulikxd

3 жыл бұрын

Look at the new prices of games on PS5 90$ vs. 60$ Nintendo Switch games...

@stuff1487

3 жыл бұрын

@@klulikxd Ps5 games are 70 dollars and PlayStation games price drop after like half a year. A year later they’re usually like what 20 dollars. Pikmin 3 Deluxe is a 7 year old game for 60 dollars

@klulikxd

3 жыл бұрын

@@stuff1487 I mean PS5 games

@stuff1487

3 жыл бұрын

@@klulikxd Yep, I do too.

"Nintendo appreciates the love and passion of the fighting game community" lmao no they don't

A friend of mine once said: "Nintendo, as a company that has game development studios under it's command, is marvelous. But talking strictly as a business company, they are horrible towards consumers". And he is right.

@welfare_king

2 жыл бұрын

Woah! That has NEVER been said before and is a totally original and unique comment on the company!!! How did your friend think of that one??? Wow...he should start a TED talk career or something...his thought process is insane.

@Nathan-rb3qp

2 жыл бұрын

@@welfare_king God you're such a sarcastic a-hole.

@bailujen8052

Жыл бұрын

Nintendo is even making bad games

The Switch catalog is 85% WiiU, as a guy you bought the WiiU in 2015, I feel cheated.

@SonikkuAtrue

3 жыл бұрын

THIS

@123miffy123

3 жыл бұрын

Bro your so right, even the Wii didn't mostly rely on re-releasing Gamecube games, the library was mostly Wii titles. Why can't Nintendo rerelease these 8-year-old games as virtual console and not full-price games, and yes. these are remastered, with + DLC games. My point is that they should try and be more original with 85% and not put these 8+-year-old games on full price

@MisterSpeedStacking

3 жыл бұрын

almost as if the wii u was great and the switch is horrible

@y2commenter246

3 жыл бұрын

Mood.

@PipeGuy64Bit

3 жыл бұрын

Would you really want most of the worthwhile Wii U games trapped on that console that usually forced you to use the Wii U Gamepad?

The crash/spyro remake was 40$. The Mario collection is fucking 60$

@user-fy1nq3nf1q

3 жыл бұрын

"B-but those games arent even that good compared to my precious mario" Mario 64 is stiff and clunky, and sunshine is worse. The only one worth really replaying is galaxy

@Skallva

3 жыл бұрын

Mega Man Zero/ZX Legacy Collection is only 30 USD and it includes six amazing games, options to ease up the difficulty, a music player, a gallery, brand-new art and tracks done specifically for the collection, achievements, Zero 3's e-Reader and ZX's GBA port functionality, an option to replace some tracks with new remixes, a time attack racing mode with global leaderboards, different screen layouts, filters, multiple backgrounds, the games were even fully ported instead of being emulated to address the issue of input lag that was present in the X Legacy Collections, am I missing something?

@user-fy1nq3nf1q

3 жыл бұрын

@@Skallva Amazing would be putting it highly tbh. There's definitely more good than not game quality wise though. Otherwise you're on point

@Skallva

3 жыл бұрын

@@user-fy1nq3nf1q Nah, I straight-up believe the Zero series is the best platformer series there is, especially Zero 3.

@user-fy1nq3nf1q

3 жыл бұрын

@@Skallva zero 1 is more alright than anything good, it's got its cyber elf and e crystal droprate thats utterly terrible, even with some grinding (which I dont see why youd need to grind in a speedy platformer anyway, includingthe weapon star system, and also in spite of whats in place to negate some grinding for your weapons) amongst the retry chips or some parts of stages just being bothersome, also the useless shield and triple rod, they just kinda exist. Ive seen recent flak given to zero 2 with its at times god awful screen crunch (its several improvements aside) and it might be worse than zero 1 with that alone. Have yet to play zero 2 in a while but I saw retropolis zone stream it and I saw some issues I hadn't seen before. All that aside zero 3 and 4 are definitely pretty good, and their music (alongside zx and zxa's osts) kick major ass

This isn't depressingly bleak or insufferably cynical. It's humor is well-regulated and confident, without too heavily leaning on irony. The voice is clear and the script is concise. This...is a fantastic video. Thank you for making it. You deserve more subscribers.

"I wasn't even a fetus in 1995" oof. Way to make me feel old mate. Lol

Nintendo: You need a separate app to have voice chat Sony: The dual sense has an integrated microphone in case you don't have a headset

@Pabmyster

3 жыл бұрын

@Marc Carran the switch controller comes attached to the console, why not stick a microphone on there if you want to be particular? It's a pretty close comparison lol

@KeyBladeMaster-Dan

3 жыл бұрын

@Marc Carran Considering that the friggin PS Vita has voice chat yeah I do think you can compare X'D

@galacticcorgi1258

3 жыл бұрын

@Marc Carran why does it matter if it didn't sell well the person is using it as an example of how a portable console can have a microphone

@anibalrodriguez2626

3 жыл бұрын

@Marc Carran You got owned fam

@kaphizmey6229

3 жыл бұрын

@Marc Carran nintendrone alert

Man I miss the Wii U era. Yes, it was a failure for Nintendo, but it was great being a Nintendo fan at the time. All their best selling games got labeled as “Nintendo Selects” and were priced at $20. Free online. Good eshop. So many consumer-friendly things. Now that they’re successful with the Switch, they don’t need to be consumer friendly and have since dropped many of these features. It’s disappointing. I miss being a Nintendo fan in the Wii U era.

@JacksonWitsell

3 жыл бұрын

I loved the Wii U. Yes, they were making many mistakes and the game release droughts were unbearably long, but it did feel like they were trying their best to make quality experiences for us. They sold out hard when the Switch came along.

@namelesswanderer3759

3 жыл бұрын

That's because it was a company where Satoru Iwata was president. Arguably one of the best presidents of any company. Fun fact: when the Wii U was sinking Nintendo, he literally took a pay cut instead of laying off anyone. There were also a lot more games then than there are on the barren Switch eshop. Only the third party studios like Square/Neo Geo/Sega give a shit about that now. Where is Earthbound and Mother 1 on the SNES/NES Nintendo?

@AkameGaKillfan777

3 жыл бұрын

@@namelesswanderer3759 Read the reply above you

So apparently a lot of the good business decisions that came out of Nintendo were not due to the lack of sales although that could have played a part, a large part was Satoru Iwata specifically being consumer friendly. Nintendo's poor business decisions were due to their business oriented leadership prior to and following Iwata, but while Iwata was on top Nintendo was at it's most innovative and consumer friendly

Seriously, it seems so absurd for me to think that there are people out there who are like "oh, I don't have my GameCube anymore, and the game I had in my childhood that I want to play again has become rare and is just too expensive nowadays, so it would cost me A LOT of money for me to be able to play it (legally) again. I wonder how many more YEARS am I going to have to wait for Nintendo to re-release it in any way, if they ever decide to do it, just so I can acquire it legally and finally be able to play it for probably only a few hours. What? Download it and play it through an emulator? Heavens, no! That's illegal!"

I can tell you Arby's DOES care about their customers, I had a friend that was denied the Meat Mountain by a local store and the online customer support was swift in helping him attain justice.

@Shalakor

3 жыл бұрын

If you consider being allowed to order and consume something called a Meat Mountain a kindness, anyway. One's stomach may or may not agree.

@dragonfruit8884

3 жыл бұрын

Wtf is a meat mountain

@will_of_europa

3 жыл бұрын

Unlike Ford or Wendy's. I need to revisit arbys. Always liked them.

@Ferdig_Vibes

3 жыл бұрын

The online team started with the triforce, I remember that a long time ago. I love the taste of their sandwiches, but for some reason I always get sick afterwards. Haven't had them in years because of it.

@unnecessaryapostrophe4047

3 жыл бұрын

But do they sell hamburgers?

they know theyve got their fans by the balls thanks to nostalgia. no matter how much the new pokemon game sucks, it will still sell well. no matter how shitty of a port they make for old mario games, it will still sell well. they know they can do whatever, hence they go out and do whatever. theyre becoming the kanye of video games.

@TheChoujinVirus

3 жыл бұрын

and yet the other side, those critical of them, usually end up raging against Nintendo when it doesn't benefit them. Also, making crappy fan games or making them grimdark is not a fun thing

@TheChoujinVirus

3 жыл бұрын

@Olivia 757 really? from what I've heard BBND failed miserably

@klulikxd

3 жыл бұрын

Game Freak makes this games not Nintendo (they only buy Pokemon to be exclusive on Nintendo Consoles)

@123mymegamen

3 жыл бұрын

@@klulikxd nintendo owns the IP alongside gamefreck and the pokemon company but gamefreck makes the games nintendo publishe it and the pokemon campany makes the card game and the other products

@tpayne7020

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheChoujinVirus What's BBND?

"If they can make money, they will do everything in their power to make as much money as possible." Except rerelease classic titles that literally everybody and their mother wants to play. The thing that I find the most ironic is this; I played AM2R just before playing Samus Returns 3DS. The games aren't similar in any way, other than overarching narrative. Both are great fun and AM2R doesn't encroach at all on SR. Yet Nintendo, in their wisdom, instead of buying the game and making it official, DMCA'd it. Makes absolutely NO sense to me.

I'm pretty sure if Ninendo were willing to, they'd send a kill-switch update to the Wii U and Wii, to completely brick their own systems to make sure you ONLY play the switch. I assume the only reason Kill-Switches aren't present in their consoles is because of a law or something. also friendly reminder that Emulators aren't illegal. the ROMs are a legal grey-zone, but Emulation is protected.

@professorcube5104

3 жыл бұрын

ahh no not my poor wii, they don't deserve that fate

@ianeons9278

3 жыл бұрын

@Mr. Cube *Wii U

@professorcube5104

3 жыл бұрын

@@ianeons9278 meh don't give a shit about my wii u

@switchthornsandroses440

2 жыл бұрын

Nah, NWFC is dead

@RiahGreen

2 жыл бұрын

Game dumps (roms) are not legally grey at all.

Some small notes: Smash Ult online isn't bad because of P2P, it's bad because it's delay-based. Dedicated servers would be worse. Maybe not in extreme cases of 3+ players that are max distance apart but objectively worse in 1v1s since the distance becomes equal to or longer than P2P would be. Slippi doesn't require a disc. You need the game ISO which can be ripped from a disc like any ROM or downloaded (that's the piracy concern). But Nintendo intentionally uses incorrect info because according the them, you can't make your own ISO from your own disc since they don't authorize you. US software copyright laws prove them wrong. They indirectly reference this specific law by using certain phrasing on their site (the "authorized copy" part) but they just blatantly lie on what that authorization means. The authorization in the law is referring to you authorizing someone to make a copy for you with your disc, like if you didn't have the hardware to do it yourself. Nintendo has no say in the matter but they pretend like they do.

"Our voices need to be heard and address" Na, that thing do shit against nintendo. If the pr lower a bit and the competitive game disappear, nintendo will be the same.The only way to show discomfort is not buying anything of the game.Buy them anyway with a frowny face also does not work.

@arieljourdan2375

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly. Also important to remember that bad publicity is still publicity, just look at how the Sword/Shield boycott backfired (the fact that many people who complained bought the game definitely didn't help too). It's as simple as voting with your wallet. That's the language companies understand.

@SammyNeverEver

3 жыл бұрын

Buy used

@VicGeorge2K6

3 жыл бұрын

@@SammyNeverEver Buy a used Switch if you want to stick to using it mostly for cartridge games on the off-chance that the particular unit is banned from the Nintendo eShop.

@marcfatimania

3 жыл бұрын

Then buy a xbox or a 3ds, that will help you.

@sessaku9361

3 жыл бұрын

You are right but in business, reputation still does matter. This is way a ton of businesses that are technically too big to fail invest into crisis management, like Starbucks when it was discovered they broke their mission statement. Nintendo does have a public presence and that public presence has an effect. After all it doesn't just finance itself through customers but also equity investments. And while Nintendo may fragrantly ignore its customers, this noise is not invisible to the investors. Making noise is important. Shooting down loyalist fans defending every step Nintendo takes is important. The growing dissatisfaction of a group of customers has long term negative effects on equity. It scratches at the confidence of investors. Because let's not forget: The biggest investors are looking for a secure investment with consistent and safe output. And that doesn't just go for the competitive aspect, which is actually rather small. This goes about the even more severe aspects like Nintendo constantly downgrading its quality on hardware and software and their anti-consumer pricing and sales strategies. We really live in a wonderful age of market and consumer transparency where this is so much more to the question of investment than just black on white numbers (which however of course still are very much relevant!). And I think a good example to look at for this is EA stocks, which are dropping since February right now. So in conclusion, you are right that the buy or don't buy decision is a primary factor. But it's not the only factor, especially not in regards to a long term investment.

can we also talk about how nintendo is trying to take down youtube videos and channels for uploading the soundtrack of their games, that if they weren’t on youtube, wouldn’t be accesible literally in any way possible?

@jxwong_3982

3 жыл бұрын

Psst, I use Soundcloud for all my video game OSTs these days, and have done so for the past 2 years. Don't let the dickery of Nintendo's legal content filters on KZread bar you from listening to the best work of their creative staff!

Thank you so much for this in-depth video. It's very appreciated after I've seen plenty of people being shocked about Nintendo pulling all these anti-consumer moves last year as if New Nintendo being anti-consumer is somehow a shocking new departure from the way Old Nintendo used to function. They've been like this for years and only now are their actions starting to get widespread attention. Hell, even in the old days they were notorious for bullying other game developers and driving away third parties with very restrictive deals. I can only hope they treat their workers better than their fans these days. A few points: - Some more examples of corporate Nintendo taking down fan projects: The Pokémon Company (partially owned by them) took down a themed party hosted by a fan named Ramar Larkin Jones 5 years ago, pushing him to seek crowdfunding for his legal fees and putting him off organising any more fan parties ever again. Even years before that there was the Zelda fan movie, which also got taken down, and this was when Iwata was still around. So between this and the issue with Melee at EVO, the times before Iwata's passing weren't some kind of golden age of appreciation for fans, despite what some people may think (though Iwata was, of course, still a wonderful leader). Nintendo has also taken down a small business offering real-life Mario-themed karting experiences on the streets of Japan (though given the potential traffic risks and the fact that they were charging for it, this decision makes more sense). - Nintendo's official reasoning for SM3DAS (and presumably FE1) disappearing in March 2021 is because they were only intended for the anniversary, according to what Doug Bowser said in this interview: www.polygon.com/2020/12/17/22180318/nintendo-removing-mario-games-35-anniversary. He also said they had no plans for what would happen after that, but the whole thing seems kind of flimsy to me. - One reason why some of Nintendo's attitudes to online play make me upset is because they, and others, have shown that they can do so much better than that. There's no reason why Fortnite can support proper native voice chat on Switch while the creators of the Switch cannot. Hell, they even know about rollback netcode considering that ARMS has it working properly and the Smash team was apparently considering it at one point for Smash Ultimate, though Sakurai mentioned that it was scrapped for some "adverse side-effects". We'll never know what those were, but we almost got rollback netcode in Smash Ultimate! - Similar to the above, but on Nintendo's attitudes to competitive communities: The Pokémon Company has organised and even sponsored a myriad of official tournaments in the games and TCG, including prize pools (!!!) and they've been open for competitors of all ages, so you could even see children competing in them (and achieving high placings, for what it's worth). I feel that this ironically gets forgotten about in all the discussion of Nintendo's attitude to competitive communities where Smash takes centre stage, which makes it all the more irritating because Nintendo has shown that they can support competitive Smash (and all their other eSport communities for that matter), and do it very effectively. They just don't want to. - The Nintendo Creators' Programme, which defied all the benefits of allowing content creators to freely produce let's plays and related video game content by demanding they hand over a cut of ad revenue to Nintendo. Thankfully this has been revoked, though the "freedom" allowed to KZreadrs is still somewhat tenuous as can be seen from takedowns of some Nintendo-related videos like the Boundary Break one last year, and randomly dropping KZreadrs from their ambassador's programme without any explanation. Also, the soundtrack uploads on KZread that they keep taking down (which is why I mainly use SoundCloud for listening to video game OSTs now, as well as it being way easier than KZread). - Not even Twitch is safe sometimes. Last year, Nintendo banned Twitch streamers who were streaming Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity in the early hours before the US release when they purchased the game legally in regions where it came out a bit earlier, such as Australia and Japan. - Nintendo never publicly stated that Joy-Con drift wasn't a problem in public and that information only comes from a message from the lawyers arguing against them in court who asked for the video evidence. This was after Nintendo's president publicly apologised for Joy-Con drift. This either means that the opposing lawyers were misrepresenting Nintendo or that they continued to have their lawyers argue against taking real change in court while pretending to commit to solving the problem in public, which doesn't really paint a good picture of how they operate. - On the topic of clunky controls in SM3DAS, several of Nintendo's games have drawn criticism for being inaccessible to disabled gamers. One prominent example is Pokémon Let's Go, where the motion controls for Pokémon catching prevent disabled fans from being able to play but can't be turned off because of "immersion". - In the same vein as the blocked EarthBound book, Nintendo of Japan stopped a pitch for an Archie Super Mario comic book series by Ian Flynn, the same guy behind the Mega Man and Sonic comics, effectively killing the project and preventing it from ever reaching fruition. Nintendo of America liked it though, while the guy himself doesn't seem to take too much issue with this, and has admitted that the initial pitch had some flaws in its portrayal of the Mario series in his view. You can read more about it here: twitter.com/IanFlynnBKC/status/1166822538242117633 - The creator of Fire Emblem, Shouzou Kaga, fell out with Nintendo after the release of Fire Emblem: Thracia 776 and left Intelligent Systems to make his own spiritual successor, Emblem Saga, for PlayStation. This was before Keiji Inafune and Koji Igarashi did the whole "leaving parent company to make spiritual successor" thing. In response, Nintendo sued him multiple times for copyright infringement, even after he changed the name to Tear Ring Saga and removed all references to the original series, and basically Unpersoned him from any mention of the series' origins to date. - Nintendo ignores blatant ripoffs of their games that are clearly intended as cashgrabs while taking down fan games that are intended to be labours of love, as you said. This isn't as big of an issue to me considering that the smaller bootlegs are probably too tiny to even get noticed by the corporate bigwigs, but just putting that out there. - Another smaller-scale issue would be Nintendo's heavy use of the gacha model in their mobile games, which has received its fair share of accusations of being manipulative and exploitative. It's pretty close to gambling but marketable to all ages. Now this isn't a solely Nintendo issue and many Japanese mobile games linked to major franchises like DBZ, Final Fantasy and One Piece use this model, and of course the quality of these games and the extent of their shadier aspects has varied. It's bad only if you engage heavily in the microtransactions (which I stay clear of) but the risk is there. - One of the Project M devs compiled a long list of articles, posts and videos on Nintendo's various transgressions in a blog post, which can be viewed at press-z-or-r-twice.blogspot.com/2020/12/accounts-of-nintendos-crimes-against.html. Your video is linked from there, along with far more examples than one could fit in a KZread comment like this one. I disagree with hardcore Nintendo fanboys who want to defend them for everything, but I think I can understand where they're coming from, as Nintendo makes good games that they've grown attached to and then become tied to their identity. They then experience a kind of denial upon hearing how scummy Nintendo is as a business, because Nintendo the business and Nintendo the creators have become interlinked, and the love they carry for the games has imprinted onto the corporate side itself, so they feel the need to defend Nintendo on everything they've done. Seeing the widespread reactions to Nintendo's anti-consumer moves last year honestly reminded myself of the time I first realised they weren't the rosy, friendly creators I thought they were when I saw them mistreating KZreadrs and taking down fan parties. That was when I learned to separate Nintendo's unsavoury actions as a business from my opinions on Nintendo as creators, and I hope these people learn to do the same. At this point I don't know if complaining online will do anything, considering that they've met with this kind of backlash before after some of their previous decisions and rode it out without changing their ways on the basis of their strong reputation. One can only hope that the large-scale criticism they got this time around will push them solidly into making a change. Hell, I still like Nintendo's games a lot, which is why I really want them to change and be better than this. Anyway, buying used games is still a available option for if you still want to play the games but not send money to the creators, and just because Nintendo's taken down a few sites doesn't mean emulation is gone for good. If you're a fan of the games but not the business, all the games can be obtained without sending a single cent into their coffers. I do have concerns about the effectiveness of boycotting to solve a more overall problem with the way they operate as a business, considering that gamer boycotts rarely work and Nintendo would be likely to interpret the boycott as occurring because of a problem with the specific product rather than their general business practices, but businesses respond to money and I've gotten too tired of venting on Twitter and just seeing more of this crap come from them to want to do it any more.

Honestly, I do not support or respect intellectual property rights as they stand now. The “rights” are so massive and absurdly powerful to reduce creative endeavors, I hate them. _If a company cannot deliver a better product than the fans, they don't deserve anything._ I purchased many Nintendo games over the decades and now I really whish I pirated them. I do think Nintendo hates fan creations because they embarrass them.

It becomes harder and harder to support them as time goes on, which is a shame since I love their games so much.

@jacobmonks3722

3 жыл бұрын

You can just buy all their games/systems secondhand, so Nintendo doesn't get a cent out of you.

@Yipper64

3 жыл бұрын

Eh for me, ill support Nintendo through thick and thin, its mostly the legal team not the dev team, but I am starting to get extremely annoyed with the legal team side of things. Im not going to boycott Nintendo, but I will support the communities that have been hurt by Nintendo's legal team, because I want to see Nintendo do better.

@jacobmonks3722

3 жыл бұрын

@@Yipper64 It's come to the point where the executives aren't going to change anything until they either retire or start noticing decreased profits. I'm not going to chastise you for buying from Nintendo. That's not my business and I'm not trying to tell you what and what not to do. But I think the most effective way to get our voices heard by them is to hit them in their pockets.

@Yipper64

3 жыл бұрын

@@jacobmonks3722 Yeah im going to be honest, i agree the best way to hit them is in the pockets, but I honestly dont care quite enough to go through with that. Its a nice idea, but its not really going to do much at the end of the day. I still refuse to buy pokemon sword or shield but its not going to change how gamefreak makes pokemon.

@darkmoon2503

3 жыл бұрын

I've been feeling the same way, recently. There just seems to be too many crappy decisions and strange behaviors to really feel all that comfortable with supporting them.

4 guys in their apartments make better online than a massive company bruh

Joy-con drift is like a ticking time bomb

@marcfatimania

3 жыл бұрын

And also a uncontrollable plane, just like what happen to Japan Airlines flight 123.

And then the day after everything comes out about how they literally hired a bunch of people to stalk a 3DS hacker.

@angeldariogaribaydelatorre6395

3 жыл бұрын

???

@diegomedina9637

3 жыл бұрын

I mean... That was quite obvious seeing how they were able to successfully patch the FreeShop.

@goGothitaLOL

3 жыл бұрын

and he's not even pirating, just homebrewing

@AkameGaKillfan777

3 жыл бұрын

@@diegomedina9637 Yeah, that sounds like Copyright Infringement to me

Nintendo somehow has a reputation for milking legacy content (churning out new games of old series, e.g. Pokemon and Mario) without actually letting us enjoy the games that made the legacy that they're milking

@pharoahcaraboo9610

3 жыл бұрын

i dont think nintendo understands how much i'd literally kill to see GBA and DS games on switch. fuck remakes, i'd just love to play fire red and platinum as they are on switch. not to mention gamecube games NOT in a very expensive bundle i'd rather not get bc i have no interest in sm64, already own a wii and galaxy, so... why not just buy sunshine hand-me-down or use dolphin, ya know?

@peluquin98

3 жыл бұрын

The strategy is milking nostalgia, we have seen that since 3ds and wii u came. How many times have we seen a reference to a 64 game or something from the 8-bit era?

@flockstep

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah but instead all they do is give us 2-3 usually shitty nes games a month, and maybe if we're lucky we'll get 2 good SNES games every 3 months!

@MidnightCapricorn2696

3 жыл бұрын

@@pharoahcaraboo9610 I, being both a Pokemon and FE fan (not hardcore), would die to play Pokemon Pearl and any GBA FE games on Switch. Especially since I got a foreign (US when I am in a PAL region) Pearl cartridge, found a full-odds Shiny Staravia, Levelled it up to a Staraptor, and the game cartridge died. I also don't want to pay like £70 to play HG/SS, of which I was in the same situation for cartridge. As for FE, I just want to experience older FE games, and learn how to strategize more.

I still hate that they took away the scans of old Nintendo Power magazines from the Internet Archive, just to do absolutely nothing with the magazines anyway.

The reason you don't hear about crunch culture in Nintendo is specifically because that kind of work culture is normal in their eyes. It's depressing, but you'll often hear tales of game devs in Japan sleeping at their desks because they worked late into the night and they can't catch the train back home. Their culture can be summed up by the phrase "the nail that sticks outward gets hammered in." People who make a fuss are forced to conform again through various means.

Actually I would argue Nintendo doesn't actually have the right to take down not-for-profit fan games since they're transformative and doesn't seem to cause any damages. It's just that if the billion dollar company decides to follow through on legal threats it'll be way too costly for any normal person to fight. Seems like an abuse of the legal system. I'm no lawyer though so eh

@Niki_0001

3 жыл бұрын

afaik, the main problem with fangames like pokemon uranium and am2r is that they use nintendo's trademarks, not necessarily that they infringe on nintendo's copyright. (I'm not a lawyer)

@TheLazyGamer91

3 жыл бұрын

They actually have every right to do so when use of trademarked intellectual properties are made without their consent. Fair use doesnt apply to things like this. It may be a fan game and not made for profit but the unauthotised usage of licenced branding is illegal thats why you dont see companies like sony and xbox making pokemon games for their platforms because they would get sued into the ground for infringement.

@charbomber110

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheLazyGamer91 For the longest time, I've struggled to understand why I hate Nintendo as a company so much though they still keep the legal high ground, but then someone put it in the best words I have ever heard. "Legality does not equal Morality". End quote. Also they were assholes to Square-

@vyor8837

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheLazyGamer91 brrrr, wrong dumbass. Fair use applies to everything, regardless of permission, indeed that's when fair use applies. Fair use is so broad that you can directly copy a piece of art and fucking sell it. Legally. And win in court for it. Let me be clear: Nintendo has 0 legal standing in the USA, Europe, China, Russia, Africa, the middle east, south america... The only place they could _hope_ to have standing in is fucking japan, and even there it's never been tested in court. Nintendo's threats are toothless were it not for their vast wealth, and even that wouldn't help them if someone actually tried to fight them on it.

@YightLagami

3 жыл бұрын

They are derivative products that are distributed to other people. No, those don’t have a legal case to stand on. Having your own personal mods/fan games that you keep to yourself is different from distributing it to multiple people

Minor correction: Regarding Smash Ultimates online, peer to peer is actually the standard for fighting games because introducing servers causes all manner of problems, so thats not why its online sucks. Its online sucks because it uses delay based netcode that was outdated almost a decade ago.

@masterwoo4359

3 жыл бұрын

delay based netcode isn't bad in all ways, its actually more fit for the casual scene

@Alice-jp1kl

3 жыл бұрын

@@masterwoo4359 In what ways? The casual scene is more likely to be on wi-fi, which causes delay based netcode to be completely unplayable, and Mortal Kombat, a game where most of its playerbase are casuals, has been using rollback for years now.

@masterwoo4359

3 жыл бұрын

@@Alice-jp1kl not entirely correct here, delay based netcode is actually playable in worse connections, unlike rollback, mainly because it basically eats your inputs to preserve time, in delay-based, a bad packet sent causes a delay in the program, however, doesn't actually eat your inputs. In rollback, it would eat your inputs, since the program assumes what you were doing if they dont get the packet. In a better connection, the amount of lost frames in rollback(UDP) would near 0 in a second, while in worse connections(like utterly terrible) it would near 40, therefore eating most of your inputs. in delay based(TCP), there would be no inputs eaten, however, the stutter will be extreme. for the record, i have been in both situations, and delay was a lot better with worse connections.

@Alice-jp1kl

3 жыл бұрын

@@masterwoo4359 Rollback doesn't actually eat inputs, what's happening when a packet gets dropped is the game assumes what your opponent was doing based on the last known input (which is correct 90% of the time), and then behind the scenes simulates the last several frames when it receives the lost input, so that the new gamestate will be reflect the inputs both players made. Conversely, with delay based netcode, if a packet gets lost the game will just freeze and no new inputs can be made until it starts moving again, resulting in very frequent dropped inputs. infil wrote a very good article on the subject if you're interested to learn the more technical details ki.infil.net/w02-netcode.html

@masterwoo4359

3 жыл бұрын

@@Alice-jp1kl I do know that they assume your input in a dropped packet in rollback. I have a pretty good amount of knowledge in online networks actually. Ok, I'll dig deeper on this now. "game assumes what your opponent was doing based on the last known input (which is correct 90% of the time)" This is true, but very misleading. The reason it is correct 90% of the time is actually because most of the time, the guess ur not going to press a button is correct. but when you actually bring up how responsive it is to a button input, the rates drop to what i mentioned. In a game recoveries are so prominent, this is a big nono. In a bad connection, the game lags for a pretty long time, which means you have the time to actually hold the button when it advances to the next frame, which means no dropped inputs "if a packet gets lost the game will just freeze and no new inputs can be made until it starts moving again, resulting in very frequent dropped inputs." This is why 1v1 good/moderate connection isnt good for delay-based, the stutter causes many dropped inputs due to the timing, while the rollback instead skips them, which is ok when it is less frequent. but progressively gets worse as connection gets better. Id say where the line cuts off is the bad-moderate connection area. To dig even deeper to this matter, there is lag lag(lost packet, slow connection) and input delay lag which are made due to different reasons, the former due to slow internet and the latter due to region differences. in rollback, it fixes the input delay issue by a lot as the input delay gets halved while delay based has more. This enables people to have a reasonable battle across regions. while delay based cannot. For this and some other reasons i have not mentioned, rollback is better in most cases and Nintendo should change it to rollback, (screw wifi warriors) but im just saying it also makes sense to use delay based

Nintendo also removed the capability of being able to backup your game saves locally via an external usb hard drive (or micro usb) something you could do on Wii U. The only way to get a backup of your game saves is to use the Nintendo cloud save features which of course they’ve pay walled behind Nintendo online. Not content with that, they’ve made it so that several of their FIRST PARTY games like splatoon or Pokémon can’t even be backed up online using that feature. Apparently they say that folks will use some exploit to cheat. Somehow Epic and several other developers have figured out a way to make cloud saves work. Yet Nintendo can’t be bothered. Furthermore, they also delisted several of the rereleases from their Wii U shop like DKCR: tropical freeze. They eventually recanted after backlash. But that’s the thanks you get for being a Nintendo fan and supporting the Wii U.

@danielaguilarrodriguez1091

3 жыл бұрын

I have been moving save files between Dolphin and my Gamecube Memory Card back and forth since I discovered how to do that on my Wii. And I was doing the same between DeSmuME and my R4 card. It was the most epic thing I discovered ever.

Can we also talk about how even when a Nintendo game completely flops the price stays EXACTLY the same as every other Switch game? I feel like this is just a bad business and anti-consumer build because I feel like people wouldn't mind playing a mediocre game if it had a much lower price, but for some reason Paper Mario Color Splash is still priced the same as Origami King, when Origami king is considered vastly the superior (and much newer) game.

Piracy actually saved my 3DS, it was dying on dust because 3DS games are still almost full-price and never get steam-like sales

@haydenchu58

3 жыл бұрын

“Oooh we’re Nintendo and our cartridges cost so much to make so we’re gonna charge 60$ for decade old games”

@Diwasho

3 жыл бұрын

Not to mention the region lock where even if I wanted to buy an overpriced game I couldn't because it wouldn't work.. Being an EU 3DS gamer was suffering since we didn't even ge many good releases that came out in America, let alone Japan (like Rune Factory 4). And then they had the nerve to parade the Switch with its region free approach like they're doing us a big favor. No Nintendo, region free is how it's meant to be, its existence doesn't deserve praise but its absence must be panned.

@ThePreciseClimber

9 күн бұрын

And now, 3 years later, piracy is the only way to play those 3DS eShop exclusives.

Maximillian Dood pointed out development philosophy that Japanese Fighting game companies have that makes then not want to use rollback netcode in games, because they dislike using things they didn't come up with themselves. Nintendo seems to have a similar mindset. Same with the Pokémon company as well. Hell remember the imfamous artist block that made it so that Flygon got no Mega evolution despite tons of ideas being out there.

@EnergyBurst2

3 жыл бұрын

Perhaps its lingering feelings of dislike for outsiders Japanese society/culture has traditionally had that makes devs and companies there dislike that which they didn't come up with and have that kind of closed mindset, hard to say for sure though.

@dragonmaster3030

3 жыл бұрын

@@EnergyBurst2 I mean america did kinda force japan to interact with the outside world dispite their wishes to remain isolated

@Skallva

3 жыл бұрын

In case of rollback, it's clear that Nintendo is simply being stubborn. A lot of Japanese fighting game companies are now realising the archaism of delay-based netcode and are switching to rollback, the most recent example being ArcSys hosting an open beta for a fanmade rollback update for Guilty Gear Accent Core +R, extending it indefinitely due to positive feedback and now officially adding it to the game. Worth noting that ArcSys is also now working on implementing their own version of rollback to Guilty Gear Strive.

@willkirsch6976

3 жыл бұрын

If we let them call it nollback retcode and pretend they invented maybe they'd concede

@diegomedina9637

3 жыл бұрын

Well... Last time japanese people trusted the west when it comes to videogames we got the entirety of Ps3/360 Era Capcom... Which we all know how that one went.

This just got a small feature on Linus tech tips!

@runterranger7398

2 жыл бұрын

yeah, didnt expect to see this channel mentioned as I casually watched a steam deck review lol

"switch online is cheaper than its competitors" Steam is free

**desperately searches for a .zip of AM2R to stick it to the man**

@netslamders6803

3 жыл бұрын

It’s a good one

@Saxoboneless

3 жыл бұрын

I presume you've probably found it by now, but if anybody else is checking this thread, you can find the game on the official subreddit

Fudj, not to rock the boat or anything, but maybe you get more views on videos like these because you are a really, REALLY good critic? I mean I understand that maybe you want to be silly funny internetman but I guess I'm just playing devil's advocate here: maybe stick with what you're good at? Because this video was SO awesome and informative, it even included some things that I wasn't even aware of Nintendo doing, and that makes me even more motivated to rise and overthrow this boomer company. That isn't to say I haven't enjoyed your other videos, I have. Just trying to out in my two-sense on what I think is a great channel. Honestly? Just make whatever you want and we will all probably love it. And if we don't then you got to make something that YOU liked, and that's valid enough.

@NocturnalFudj

3 жыл бұрын

I DO appreciate this and I hear ya, but I think it's moreso a matter of - these videos get more views because they appeal more to a wider audience really and it's as simple as that, so I'm pretty happy just continuing to try and maintain a balance. But thank you! :)

@Purvis513

3 жыл бұрын

@@NocturnalFudj I feel like if you did these videos constantly, it wouldn't feel as genuine and full of passion as they do now. You are good a critiquing, yes, but I appreciate the idea that you make these videos because you WANT to say something meaningful to you. It's a nice change of pace and it feels special when you decide to make a video like this. But then again, I'm just a YT commenter lol Your career is your own. This is just my 2 cents.

@Shalakor

3 жыл бұрын

Also, the KZread algorithm just recommends this content more, which is how I got here. Hi, btw, hopefully I check out and enjoy more of your content.

@SleepyMatt-zzz

3 жыл бұрын

"the Switch is for kids" argument always makes me laugh when I look the the amount of partnerships Nintendo has made with studios that focus on rated M games, Bethesda and 2K to name a couple. Have the people making those arguments never seen a Switch commercial? They're usually advertised for adults, by adult actors.

@kramer1254

3 жыл бұрын

I assume the reason he wants to do the "funny internet man" videos instead is because making 40 minute long documentary videos like this is immensely more time consuming then you'd think.

"A history of Nintendo and anti-consumer practices" or something like that would've been a better title.

@leaffinite2001

2 жыл бұрын

@Big Crunch anti-consumerism is like- a totally different thing from anti-consumer.

I’m not a graphics nerd, I don’t even notice emulation issues, and some of these topics I never even hear of until they suddenly came up. Me, I’m in the boat that’s like, “thank God they haven’t gone back to the Creators Program!” That damn program is the whole reason I can’t LP any handheld games

Personally, the first sign of how corrupt Nintendo became for me was the constant stream of Wii-U-to-Switch ports coming out in lieu of actual new titles. It's scummy as fuck how Nintendo goes out of their way to screw over anyone who actually bought the games when they first came out with new content exclusive to the later versions; you're basically being punished for buying them initially when Nintendo easily could have added the new content to the original versions too.

@RiahGreen

2 жыл бұрын

Actually this is really backwards. Nintendo most likely didn't have plans to port all the games that they did when they finished them up for wii U. A rerelease should have things like extra content.

@RiahGreen

2 жыл бұрын

My point is that they're not actively screwing over initial adopters. They still suck ass though

This means 100x more coming from such a place of frustrated love. Beautiful video. (Also thank you for the kind words at the end there. That seriously made my month)

I'm sure this has been commented somewhere down below already, but I'm writing it anyways. Take the following with a grain of salt, because I'm basing this on memory from when I was in school several years ago. From what I remember learning about Japanese business culture, the way they make things and how they view them after release is generally very different from Westerners. Westerners are generally much more forgiving when people modify and innovate on their creations, especially it seems, with video games. We see it as innovation, and taking our ideas to the next level to make them as good as they can be. When Japanese people or companies make something, in their eyes, the way they made it is the way it is meant to be enjoyed. Their way is the best and only way to use a product. A fan-remake of Metroid 2, or a totally new Pokemon game made from the ground up, doesn't fly in their eyes because these fans have "taken" their ideas and screwed them all up. These aren't the "proper" ways to enjoy Metroid 2 or Pokemon. Any changes to their creations are a blight on their product, not an improvement, even if they are indeed objectively better. The same things also apply to Slippi and Melee. Since it's still a modification of Melee, they think it's "wrong." It's similar to how little kids get angry when you start building with their blocks or legos or whatever. Even if you know how to build way cooler stuff with their legos, or you make their little lego racecar better, they throw a tantrum anyways, because "you built it wrong." It wasn't the way they envisioned it, so to them, you've messed it all up. I am not at all defending Nintendo's abuse of their legal power here. Just because they have the rights to their own creations doesn't make it right for them to shut down so many fans. I'm just hoping to give a little insight into Nintendo's and the Japanese people's thought-process.

@planetary-rendez-vous

3 жыл бұрын

Well when people improve upon their products and literally made them better... that's quite a childish reaction from Nintendo. More often than not, customizability and choices improve on your products. Anyway, thanks for explaining the thought process.

@dreamykid

3 жыл бұрын

That Japanese philosophy sounds rigid and narrow-minded, but I'm probably biased since I live in America...

@Ergeniz

3 жыл бұрын

Alright, but then what about stuff like Doujinshi? Why are conventions and even sales of Doujinshi using corporate IPs and such tolerated? Yet this isn't? Conversely, in the US companies like Disney, EA and Blizzard will call the special forces on your ass is you so much as even think of anything fan related regarding their games. I don't know if I can agree with your summary here.

Nintendo: Please stop emulating our games. Me: But I wanna play older Pokemon and Fire Emblem games, which you aren't profiting off of anymore. If you want my money then give me a way to play those games legally. Nintendo: >:(

The real crime was that Nintendo didn't celebrate F-Zero's 30th Anniversary.!

@CarloNassar

3 жыл бұрын

Probably because it wasn't popular enough to have one. I mean most people I've seen don't really talk about F-Zero.

@elchicharron9503

3 жыл бұрын

@@CarloNassar F-Zero was fantastic. I don't talk about it much, but I'd buy it in a second.

@CarloNassar

3 жыл бұрын

@@elchicharron9503 Don't get me wrong, I can see why anybody would love F-Zero. I'm just saying that it may not have been popular enough to have its anniversary celebrated.

@strykah92

3 жыл бұрын

To be fair, if F-Zero hasn’t had a new game in 16 years, it sure as hell wasn’t going to have an anniversary celebration.

@a-s-greig

3 жыл бұрын

@@strykah92 Still a perennial Smash Bros representative.

The weird thing is that in Japan, I can STILL walk into a department store today and buy a brand new Famicom Mini and Super Famicom Mini meanwhile in America both were sold out just filling pre-orders.

If you've got a switch lite & drift you're screwed. If you put your console in for repairs they factory reset your console while repairing it. To avoid losing... everything, they say you have to buy Switch Online storage or transfer to another console but even then they can't guarantee how long it'll stay fixed

Considering the fact that Project M was the main reason I even bought a copy of brawl in the first place, it has always been very weird to me how fervently nintendo go after fan made projects considering I essentially gave them money for a game that I had no intention of buying in the first place had it not been for the fans of the previous game they left behind. Their armchair lawyers at home can say whatever they want about the legality of the whole thing but personally speaking, I can't help but feel like these efforts could end up making them more money than losing it if they just embraced it more.

@YightLagami

3 жыл бұрын

Because you can now play those games for free on an emulator now so you don't even have to buy their consoles to play a modded version of their games :).

@MrMoon-hy6pn

3 жыл бұрын

@@YightLagami you CAN do that but a lot of people to try to stay within the law while also supporting the company that made the product, I try to when possible. But it's not always possible

@Shalakor

3 жыл бұрын

Fan projects and support is the only thing keeping Sonic Team remotely solvent at this point, so there's president.

@megasoniczxx

3 жыл бұрын

@@Shalakor *precedent* also when did I mention sonic team?

@Shalakor

3 жыл бұрын

@@megasoniczxx It was mentioned in the video, so felt it was relevant. And of course I'd have a misplaced homophone. Figures.

After sword and shield they probably realized that no matter how poorly they treat their customers people are still going to buy their shit

"Mother 3 becomes a thought crime." Best sentence.

Nintendo: Good games, bad company. Sega: Mediocre/bad games, but great company. You see the problem, we laugh at Sega but don’t think about their great consumer friendly practices. We “Love” Nintendo but don’t realize that they just care about themselves and the money THEY make, their fans are expendable to them.

@seanfooch6475

3 жыл бұрын

kinda grateful I'm a sonic fan, they calling us loyal while Nintendo fans aren't just loyal, they are mindless slaves that will buy anything Nintendo puts out, even if it it's just trash

@phoemix7043

3 жыл бұрын

@@seanfooch6475 I’m guessing that being a Sonic fan is hard, because of recent bad games. Am I correct?

@seanfooch6475

3 жыл бұрын

@@phoemix7043 yea ig

@welfare_king

2 жыл бұрын

@@seanfooch6475 I'd rather support a company that takes their franchises seriously over some joke of a company that throws a bone to their autistic fanbase for the lolz and good PR.

@seanfooch6475

2 жыл бұрын

@@welfare_king I'd rather support a company that actually cares for their fanbase rather than treating them like trash

Nintendo not liking that smash is competitive is just ridiculous, I can only theorize that a higher-up has envisioned smash as a casual party game for small kids, and people can’t deviate from this vision because it hurts this higher-up's ego.

@kimaster5893

3 жыл бұрын

I swear that's what it is. why alienate the hardcore fanbase and strictly catter to the casuals?

@trueblade3636

3 жыл бұрын

Sakurai wants to have a fun experience. He doesn't care about winning. That's f*king noble of him

@mistake1197

3 жыл бұрын

@@trueblade3636 nice copy and paste comment.

@AlexanderMartinez-kd7cz

3 жыл бұрын

@@trueblade3636 copypaste comment. Fucking cringe

@AkameGaKillfan777

3 жыл бұрын

@@trueblade3636 Did you even watch this video?

The worst part of this video is that it eventually ends. I love hearing the rightful Nintendo criticisms.

@kong732ify

3 жыл бұрын

Preach

virgin Nintendo: "don't emulate our games 😤" Chad valve: "do whatever you want with the steam deck, it's yours 💪"

I finally bought a switch yesterday and played Smash with friends. It was fun, but honestly the switch as a whole feels very lacking despite being out for years. Even the 3DS has a better selection of older titles for reasonable prices.

@maplemiles3381

3 жыл бұрын

KingEgyptian the switch is not lacking and it has a wide range of games to play on it even some 3rd party as well.

@KingEgyptian

3 жыл бұрын

@@maplemiles3381 Bro, the majority of switch games consist of inferior 3rd party titles (which I could easily play on either my Xbox one or PS4), ports from the Wii U, mediocre indi games, and all of the classic Nintendo games are locked behind online subscription (it's only 20 bucks for a year, but I want to own it and not have to stay connected online to play). So far I can think of 10 good games, but even those aren't all "switch exclusive".

@welfare_king

2 жыл бұрын

@@KingEgyptian I would expect the 3ds has more titles since it's been out for over a decade 😂😂😂 and yeah, most nintendo handhelds/consoles have 10-20 games worth playing with some filler/hidden gems/remakes/ports thrown in the mix. That's how it's been for decades, you're not saying anything people haven't been btching and pouting about since the 90s.

Major respect for creating this video. It takes recent events around #FreeMelee that I have been witnessing and puts it into context with Nintendo's broader history of frustrating consumer relations. And hey, it's funny! You did funnies! I audibly cackled at the salt & pepper joke. As a Project M player myself (and the head of a yearly rankings project, PMRank) I especially appreciate the section discussing that. The good news is that people still play the game and some regions are still holding online tournaments even without rollback netcode. It's gonna take more than a global pandemic and a hostile gazillion-dollar corporate entity to stop us from enjoying this game.

That Nintendrone joke is the peak of revealing Nintendo's true goal.

@haruhirogrimgar6047

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheMrfoxguy What do you mean trolls that mock Nintendo? The company has a huge plethora of issues and I honestly believe now that they have no handheld console on the market they are a toxic entity in the market.

This is why i always say, "I like nintendo when they're failing." It is when they offer good deals and try new ideas for their games and hardware. When they are doing great they kind of just rest on their laurels. The Switch came out swinging so hard because they had to after the wiiu now that it is doing well they've kind of just... stopped swinging.

Nintendo's Pros: Great games Nintendo's Cons: Pretty much everything else

@avocadeous

3 жыл бұрын

Idk the hardware and adverts were pretty good too. With a bit of mods you can run windows XP on the switch

As a huge fan of this channel, Fudj- I know you want to make goofy content that’s lighthearted and wacky, and I completely respect that. In fact I avidly watch for your new releases and enjoy your videos regardless of their content, and enjoy your dry humor. (I have only you to thank for the realization that Antonio is, without a doubt, the best animal crossing villager.) But... *something* about these analytical ones. Both this and the competitive failings of smash video were so well done and speak such truth into communities that too often can get caught up in just mindlessly buying the games of Nintendo without truly acknowledging their imperfections and shortcomings. I make no exaggeration when I say the stuff you put on this channel has singlehandedly stopped me being a “simp” for Nintendo, for lack of a better word. I’m totally down to continue watching your channel, no matter what it ends up becoming, I’m really happy to see this channel growing. But know that your voice among all the others against Nintendo is *one of the loudest, most pointed and valuable we have.* Keep it up, and good luck 👍👍

One thing. Owning an emulator isn't illegal due to legal precedent set back in the 90's where a judge allowed play station one emulation software to be sold commercially. Getting roms or other game files from the internet for free is though. However; dumping game files from games you own and even circumventing copy protection to create archival copies "should" be legal due to precedent set when the motion picture association went after people doing the same thing with their DVDs and VHS tapes. However, the particulars of the ruling are pretty self contradictory and we'll never know for sure until someone actually fights it out in court.

Your comparison to Disney is more on the nose than you may know: Yamauchi famously saw Disney World and was inspired to shape Nintendo to become Japan’s own answer to Disney, with the hope that Nintendo would someday have its own amusement parks, etc. Nintendo has continued to behave like Disney ever since, whether purposefully or coincidentally.

A genuine love letter for a belove franchise, in a form of fangame: "DELETE THIS." A bootleg, that literally rips off the original game's code for cheap money: "This is fine actually! I don't care anymore!"

Did you know Nintendo stalked a person due to having homebrew on his ds. Called him a target. That is scary, this is a scary thought

@derichtech1533

3 жыл бұрын

Do you have a link to an article reporting this? If what you describe is accurate, then it is very scary.

@celry

3 жыл бұрын

@@derichtech1533 it was not just for having, but for developing 3ds homebrew techraptor.net/gaming/news/nintendo-leak-reveals-extreme-measures-taken-to-track-hackers

@thekremlingking8200

3 жыл бұрын

@@derichtech1533 Nope i heard from someone else, but it is probably online somewhere or maybe Nintendo took it down

@danielaguilarrodriguez1091

3 жыл бұрын

#BandaDeSindicalistas

@NanoNutrino

3 жыл бұрын

@@derichtech1533 In the nintendo giga leak there was documents which showed how they targeted people, there's even a term thats been used for years. Nintendo Ninjas.

I think that one of the main problems here is the fact that Nintendo's audience consists of lots of casual players. Nintendo youtubers forget about this group and think they are the main demographic. The casual audience won't notice these problems, so Nintendo ignores them. If every Nintendo fan was as dedicated as the community, maybe these problems would be fixed. It makes sense that Nintendo is ignoring the vocal minority. I suspect most players don't even get to the end of the main story, as so many of them are young children, and children don't think about these problems. If you want to, you can continue my point as a reply to this comment.

@MrMoon-hy6pn

3 жыл бұрын

I believe nintendos problems stem further than just not enough people speaking up. A lot of people criticise nintendo for good reason and they actively disregard the criticism a lot of the time.

@kevinm.5951

3 жыл бұрын

Casual players or not, it makes them as a company look bad. You can have your cake and eat it too. Just because casuals play their games doesn't mean ignore all criticism. Nintendo may have a lot of casual players but they also have a lot of dedicated fans. Tourneys and competitive smash and the other issues in this video have ZERO effect on casuals whatsoever

@superheriber27

3 жыл бұрын

Real talk, these people are a minority and insist in calling themselves "consumers" despite pirating most of their shit They are entitled manchildren that unironically believe a multi-million corporation owes them something just for being "customers"

@kevinm.5951

3 жыл бұрын

@@superheriber27 Vague argument ya got there....

@legrandliseurtri7495

3 жыл бұрын

@@superheriber27 Who are you even talking about?

this is by far the best video ive seen on this subject, this went through everything and did it great. I know you said you didnt want to make these kinds of videos but gosh, ya made a good one.

Fudj you obviously have a lot of fun making these videos, no matter how boring you think they might be, I can tell you they aren't, they entretain me instead of helping fall asleep which is why I always watch them at 2am even though I should't! Your videos are really Fun!!

Concerning the fan games taken down, perhaps changes to copyright law are in order. Maybe use of others’ IP could be allowed for noncommercial projects that don’t steal assets or other copyrighted materials. Though that may be too much power taken away from the rightsholders. I feel pretty certain, though, that we need unauthorized tournaments to be allowed. I just don’t know how to handle it.

@Fudj The Eticons thing turned out to be a cynical cash grab using dead people to make money. Guy is super sus, and quite dishonest. Etika's brother is also quoted in telling the guy to stop. edit: I see you addressed this in your pinned message _b

I think you’re gifted at making documentary style content. I watched four other videos explaining why “Nintendo Hates Their Fans” to try and understand this argument, but it was never more thoroughly and thoughtfully expressed than here. The problem with a lot of hate videos is they have more emotion than facts. You did a great job here.

The sheer amount of research and just the massive resource cache in the video description alone says a lot to the quality of the video

When it comes to limited releases, I feel like no talks about mythical legendaries in pokemon, they’re there too also make people buy the game in the first month and it makes my save file feel too sacred to overwrite if I want to replay the games.

@thelastgogeta

3 жыл бұрын

I've seen people talk about those but usually from the opposite angle that the giveaways are too easy and devalue the experience/mon. I see your point that many people won't want to replace their save though especially if they are playing most PKMN games which only have one save. It is a cunning way to make people value the save more whether they just need to enter a code or be an early adopter of the game.

@jacobmonks3722

3 жыл бұрын

Limited time Pokemon events are totally stupid. I understand that the Pokemon are meant to be rare and special, but I think that feeling would actually be stronger if there was some obscure and convoluted way to unlock them in the game itself. The "Mew under the truck" story gave Pokemon Red and Blue a tangible air of mystery and discovery, even if it was 100 percent fake. People were so convinced that the games had more secrets than they really did. Nowadays, there are no secrets in any of the games because all rare Pokemon are blocked behind paywalls or timing circumstances. This is a large part as to why the newer games feel soulless. It's not so much that the games themselves are poorly made (which is debatable), but that the marketing strategies with the games leaves nothing to the imagination anymore.

@SSKJ64

3 жыл бұрын

Just use Pokemon Bank/Home to transfer the mon to a newer game or a safe place

@namelesswanderer3759

3 жыл бұрын

The most egregious example of this is definitely Meltan/Melmetal which you need to level up in a completely different game. What kinda of stupid BS is that?

@YightLagami

3 жыл бұрын

@@jacobmonks3722 Limited time pokemon has been a thing since Gen 2? Celebi event was a limited time event. Deoxys, Jirachi, Arceus(which wasn't released outside of JP), Shaymin, Darkrai. Limited time events are stupid yes, but it has nothing to do with Soulless/soul memes. It's just stupid because people who want to play the old events don't get a chance to without hacking/modding/glitching. Mew was the same since you could only get Mew by glitches. Oh yeah forgot to mention that they had a Mew event and surfing/flying Pikachu event for the Gen 1 games.

I've always said this. Many things about Nintendo start to make sense when you look at it under the lens of them being a traditional, hierarchical, non-western-philosophy company. I have a bunch of Japanese friends and acquaintances and they all say things about their jobs/companies that ring a bell or two regarding company decisions, product limitations, etc. with what we see all the time with Nintendo. As much as Nintendo is an international company and has American and EU offices, they still (after 40~50 years) make games and products first for a Japanese audience, then export it overseas. Their philosophy as a company is still (and likely will always be) to produce things focused on a Japanese market. Because simply that's how it was when it went big and cemented itself. Then it starts to make sense why they take so long to introduce new features, to "hear the fanbase" (most of what the overseas fanbase discuss is, after all, overseas), why there is always so much cut content, or things that were never localized. Western satisfaction is not (and won't be) a prioritary concern. These kind of company objectives are usually immutable and a lot of respect towards senior succesful figures in the history of the company likely prevent from newer ideas and a more international-based focus to land in the long-term. I hope this makes sense, and I'd be happy to be corrected or to discuss this more; these are just my opinions/experience. (Edit: format, typos, spelling)

@superheriber27

3 жыл бұрын

Good, westerners are stupid and entitled Nintendo is open to new ideas, but hopefully will never focus in the international like Sony did (which is pretty much why Nintendo games ironically have less censorship than Playstation)

@legrandliseurtri7495

3 жыл бұрын

@@superheriber27 I mean, most of Nintendo's money comes from ''stupid westerners'', so I'd care a little about what they think. Also, you're a racist, but in the exact opposite way as another person I saw in this comment section. Fabulous.

@Pacman-9312

3 жыл бұрын

@@legrandliseurtri7495 got any statistics to back that statement up?

@legrandliseurtri7495

3 жыл бұрын

@@Pacman-9312 www.statista.com/statistics/1101901/unit-sales-nintendo-switch-region/ Yes. You can see on this neat little graph that the nintendo switch sold more in North America and in europe than in Japan.

@Pacman-9312

3 жыл бұрын

@@legrandliseurtri7495 Unfortunately I cant actually see the stats without an account, but I'm going to assume the first three bars are America, Europe, and japan, in order? While that's certainly interesting that so many more Americans bought the switch ( Europeans not so much), and I'd be very interested to learn why that is, its going to take more than the sales figures for ONE console to convince me of your statement of "I mean, most of Nintendo's money comes from ''stupid westerners'', so I'd care a little about what they think. " If you have any interest in continuing this conversation giving me the sales figures for the WII and the various DS's would help to convince me.

Incredibly well made. You always know how to approach things with lots of details and research. I especially like how you give possible doubts or counter arguments the viewer may have, and then address them as well. I should use you as an inspiration for my school essays!

The switch generation has me actively hating Nintendo and looking elsewhere for gaming. They began charging people for their unplayable online, 3 years later it's still just as bad. They insisted in court that joycon drift didn't exist, still charge ridiculous amounts for their hardware and games that can be found on other platforms for drastically reduced prices. People need to stop paying premium prices for subpar service.