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Seriously wtf is up Nintendo’s ass lately. They’ve always been litigious but the last few years have been pretty extreme.
I wonder if there being an R4 style cart released recently for the switch has lit a fire under their arses
Maybe they expanded their legal department recently
Maybe a new head of department?
Or overcompensation since they acted on emulators and found out there’s more to this? Someone’s started another useless crusade.
They’re like Japanese Disney. They’re nothing without their IP and they know it.
They also know that the only reason they have DK as a character is because Universal dropped the ball in protecting their IP. If they let Garry’s Mod casually have a “Mario” character in it, it dilutes their ability to legally go after some other studio who straight up makes an unofficial Mario game.
How efficient is it to antagonize people that are actively promoting your own content for free on other platforms? Does this actually work for Nintendo?
People that don’t know of this (or don’t care) will indiscriminately buy their products. To unseat them it would require a handheld that targets the same market and a killer game for that handheld.
Nintendo is a “family friendly” brand before all else and really only cares about the experience of children playing their games and adults buying their games for children to play. They count on their core IPs to draw in those kids as adults, but don’t put much effort in catering to an adult audience. They put more effort in with the Switch (game store with more adult oriented games), but still minimal effort - their original properties are family friendly.
They see other people using their IP as diluting their brand value rather than promoting it. They think their characters are what makes people nostalgic for their games and drives brand value. So they want you to only be able to see your “favorite Nintendo characters” from Nintendo official sources and have complete control over that experience.
I think they’re wrong about most of that. The characters are, for the most part, pretty generic and simple. What people like about Nintendo is that the games are accessible, they played when they were kids, and they were often introduced to those games by parents or older siblings. There’s a social context to Nintendo games that is unique and nostalgic. They’re often some of the first games you play as a kid, and they’re the first games you think of when you want to introduce your own kids/nieces & nephews, etc. to gaming. I don’t think that unofficial Super Smash Bros tournaments or Gary’s Mod having fan-made Mario models in it dilutes that in the slightest but Nintendo does drive away adults who are the primary drivers of the Nintendo brand’s popularity (as they are the purchasers). Once it’s these young adults’ turn to share Nintendo games with the next generation, I think Nintendo’s litigiousness will hurt them because it will have driven many of these people away.
According to a comment on another post on lemmy. The takedown notice is fake, probably sent by some troll. Garry’s Mod is still removing stuff though, because they think it’s real.
Source: https://twitter.com/MonikaCinnyRoll/status/1783244871119106415
Nintendo strikes again.
You’re… planning to do WHAT to the goombas?!
I heard if you go into your bathroom and turn off the lights. Then close your eyes and spin around three times well saying “Nintendo, Nintendo, Nintendo!”
It will summon their lawyers and they will drag you to court through your bathroom mirror for violating copyright.
Time to start pirating Nintendo games again
Nintendont,
the law-suite company that makes games on the side, strikes again…We’re well beyond the point by now of me ever buying anything from them again.
I won’t support such behavior of any company.You commented a couple hours after someone pointed out it was fake. Guess the troll was successful with damaging Nintendo.
Oh no, that poor corporation! 😢
Anyway,
Did not know that,
however it won’t make me change up my mind about Nintendont.All their previous law-suites and takedowns against the modding and emulation communities, where not fake, nor trolls, and made me despise them.
https://www.gamebrew.org/wiki/Nintendont_Wii
I fuck with Nintendont.
Geeze.
As the parent of a small child I wish I could boycott Nintendo.
You could introduce your child to emulation :)
Another year or two…
Problem is that Nintendo for all their faults still make GREAT games for kids. And if adult pc gamers think they have it bad they should have a look at the predatory shitshow that is tablet games for the 5 and under market… its properly fucking ridiculous. At least Nintendo has the common decency to give me an amazing and full game for its eyewatering prices.
