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[–] [email protected] 117 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Japanese company applying Japanese law to global consumers. This needs to stop. Its fine to apply Japanese law in Japan to Japanese consumers, but not other countries.

Nintendo, I used to love you, and now you are the single biggest contributor to me hating you.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Unfortunately that's only gonna stop when social media companies enable country blocking for streamers to prevent their content from being shown to Japanese audiences.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago (4 children)

You really think they would stop in that case?

Nintendo is writing their own laws through terms of service, enforced with kill switches built into their games.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Supposedly this is how the animetuber community were able to get relief from copy strikes after TNM took a public stand against the practice when his one piece series got struck

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

No kidding? I haven't heard of this, but I wouldn't be surprised. Got any links (re: killswitches)?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

So a fair amount of this is conjecture on my part, but what is known is every switch cartridge has a unique certificate that checks in with Nintendo servers.

At the moment it’s used to detect if the same game is running on two systems, for banning consoles involved with piracy.

But, technically there’s nothing stopping them from just manually blocking a specific cartridge from running once identified.

https://wololo.net/2024/01/19/the-mig-switch-works-as-advertised-for-the-most-part-but-concerns-remain-around-ban-risks/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Nintendo is writing their own laws

No, they aren't.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Nintendo, knows they can coerce YouTube into destroying peoples channels, by sung them in Japan, so they get to write any rules they want.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

Not sure how Japanese law has anything to do with this. I'm pretty sure under US law (the one that ultimately matters for streaming) leaves all the rights of recorded videos of the game with the right holders of the game. That you're allow to record/stream games at all has no legal precedent, it's just a wise business decision by publisher to not forbid it (anymore).

And legality aside. As a dev I wouldn't want racist or bigoted streamers to show my game and make money off of my work. Same with leakers. Sure for a big company I don't care but if someone leaked an indie devs work, we would consider it a dick move as well.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 8 months ago

Thanks Nintendo! You're giving me even more reasons to not buy any of your crap. It's been years since I bought something from you and I'm happy you keep doing your best to help me with my decision.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 8 months ago (1 children)

How long until grandpoobear is banned from posting their content for having poo in their name, just like they deleted all his Mario maker levels for having the word poo in them?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Nintendo already hates him. Remember how they twice deleted his Mario maker levels without explanation?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

That makes sense. They already deleted his Mario maker levels without explanation... twice!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

It' s outrageous. And the worst part is that twice in the past Nintendo deleted his Mario levels and gave no explanation. None! Poof! Gone.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago

So did the comment they replied to. That was the joke, lol

[–] [email protected] 38 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Just bought a steamdeck (switch is objectively inferior)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

We could honestly probably say it's empirically inferior.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Eh, the Switch has a few things going for it:

  • smaller form factor and better battery life
  • joycons are nice for casual gaming
  • physical media can be lent and resold
  • simpler to use - matters a lot for kids

I have and love both. I really like first party Nintendo titles, but I really dislike Nintendo's legal arm.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Okay, keep digging your own grave Nintendo. Twitch streamers and YouTubers are a major source of advertising for you, even for back-catalog stuff. The only reason why I see Nintendo directs is because a streamer I enjoy watches them. My interest in Nintendo stuff is pretty low but I've been persuaded to buy a few Nintendo games as a result of YouTube or twitch videos. But here's the thing: these guys have no filter. They swear constantly and love innuendo. They will probably get caught in Nintendo's net and stop streaming Nintendo stuff. As a result, I will no longer be paying attention to what Nintendo's doing.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

So what does this mean for the future of Shotgun Mario 64?

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Q98D4bjhDy4

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

Corporations need their shit slapped straight, on the topic of media ownership. If you want control over something - don't sell it to ten million strangers.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

Why does anyone ever stream their crap anymore? Remember when they got YouTube to send all your ad rev to them because you streamed their games? Does everyone have amnesia?