When you live long enough to see Nintendo become the villain

@Andy Blanton What do you think of Homebrew?

@TerminHaider really? What makes emulation so great?

@blenterbl that sucks, but that doesn't make it okay. I understand stealing food because your kids haven't eaten in 9 months. Games are a luxury and you should pay for them

@Andy Blanton I pirated F-Zero GX because Nintendo hasn't re released that game or a successor since 2003. Grow up kid, you think the Nintendo's gonna track this comment's IP and authorize the police or CnD my computer? Emulation is so good it's one of the main reasons I bought a gaming pc a few years ago instead of a Switch because not even the Switch has F-Zero X unless I buy the upcharged emulation package for the Switch. So if you don't mind I'm just gonna throw in my N64 emulator and call it day. Now keep licking that good ole Nintendo boot and have fun

@blenterbl  if you can't afford games, that sucks, but it doesn't make piracy okay. And the issue isn't using emulation. It's about using emulation without permission.

@Andy Blanton It doesn’t hurt nintendo when you pirate an aged game that they don’t profit of anymore, sure you might say it may be on their platforms (not all games are on there anyway) but it’s impossible to get them if you don’t have their platforms and don’t want them/can’t afford them. You may even give the idea of getting the original game and console but they are both expensive and are prone to tearing down. Emulation is games’s only way of existing in the long terms of things. Even nintendo uses emulation..to make you pay for decade old video games with a shitty emulator. Also there’s no police that stops this. Cry about it all you want

Yeah and Walmart is the devil because I tried to steal a TV, and they called the police on me.


As a wise man said:
"HE DID THE SAME THING AGAIN, HE CAN'T DO THAT!"
"He's a bastard, that's what he is."


Nintendo has spawned a following of apostles, who worship the company with religious dedication.

Me: looks at valve, sweats

Nintendo has spawned a following of apostles, who worship the company with religious dedication.

Me: *looks at valve, sweats*


I'm glad to see the incredible double standard that the fans hold Nintendo to is being brought to light. I don't hear much about Nintendo aside from some of their releases, so learning more about those contraverses helps to change the view to that of a more accurate representation of themself.

My only personal complaint for this video is perhaps levied at the discontempt in the opening of the video about the change in gameplay from Melee to Brawl. Brawl was made to be more "accessible" to the common player by making a vastly simplified moveset compared to Melee and adding features to give casual players an edge. This is shown in how the game can be won by even a 14 year old child against a veteran. In that way, the game is successful in what it attempted to do, which was kill any chance of competition.

I think this is summed up by developer versus player intentions, and the conflict that came of developers wanting a casual game and the melee community wanting a competitive game. Nintendo doesn't owe the players a competitive experience, nor tournaments. I wouldn't even argue that it's morally bad; it is Nintendo's choice to pickup the competitive side or not.

With all that said, it doesn't excuse their actions in attempting to attack or take down Melee. The community has turned what was a simple party fighter and turned it into an Esport even with the constant obstacles by Nintendo. There shouldn't be this witch hunt by Nintendo to scrub the internet clean of their missed oppourtunity.

Been binging some of these videos, really good content.


I keep coming back and watching the video over and over again, it’s very well put together and I find myself learning new things. I doubt I’ll have any use for these new things I’ve learned but at least I learned something today


Man now I just feel bad I used to try to convince other people in my school to treat Nintendo as a messiah of the gaming industry and only recently realizing how they treat the actually good fans who create incredible things it just makes me feel like I have been used


Solution: Fangame devs need to learn how to distribute their products through torrents lol. That's how truly smart people (and criminals) do it. Copyright holders can't do shit about torrents because peer-to-peer infrastructure is decentralized. Countless new copies of the "illegal" files in question are being infinitely generated on millions of computers globally instead of a finite numbers of servers that can targeted with litigation. The Pokemon Uranium guys should've done this. "Hey, our game dropped today. Look for that shit on torrent sites!" peaces out
Then they can grab popcorn and watch as Nintendo seethes lmao. And fangame developers can get around the "we can't take donations on copyrighted material" by literally just posting the single line of text that is their Bitcoin address in their profiles. Their smart followers will get the message, whereas Nintendo will have zero proof of anything to use in court lol. An even more secure method of receiving money is a privacy coin like Monero. We're literally living in the future, but many people don't realize it lol.

*Solution:* Fangame devs need to learn how to distribute their products through torrents lol. That's how truly smart people (and criminals) do it. Copyright holders can't do shit about torrents because peer-to-peer infrastructure is decentralized. Countless new copies of the "illegal" files in question are being infinitely generated on millions of computers globally instead of a finite numbers of servers that can targeted with litigation. The Pokemon Uranium guys should've done this. _"Hey, our game dropped today. Look for that shit on torrent sites!"_ *peaces out*
Then they can grab popcorn and watch as Nintendo seethes lmao. And fangame developers can get around the "we can't take donations on copyrighted material" by literally just posting the single line of text that is their Bitcoin address in their profiles. Their smart followers will get the message, whereas Nintendo will have zero proof of anything to use in court lol. An even more secure method of receiving money is a privacy coin like Monero. We're literally living in the future, but many people don't realize it lol.

QUITE BRILLANT, BUT IT WOULD SOUND LESS CONVINENT TO DO


Thank you bro for the vid!  I am a living breathing promoter of early Nintendo entertainment system products!
  Us boomers never deviated from the quality that Nintendo prested 25+ YEARS AGO!
  NOW, 25 years later I must report begrudgingly that we are in an age that is dominated by these complicit robotic foot soldiers that are on the front line of Nintendo.
  I wish young Flanders  would have told grown Flanders to " Stay the course big Neddy"!

Where the the f*** is the old Nintendo!?!?


Got time to watch this...

Ok, I completely lost it when you mentioned that they were taking down an attempt to honor Etika, WHO THE FUCK CANCELS HONORING A DEAD MAN

Got time to watch this...

Ok, I completely lost it when you mentioned that they were *taking down an attempt to honor Etika, WHO THE FUCK CANCELS HONORING A DEAD MAN*


I've always loved Nintendo but I've also hated them for almost a decade


It's always morally correct to hack nintendo games


I recently returned to an emulation site I used a few years back to play some Mario world only to discover it had been shut down. Thanks Nintendo 😡

@ Yessir, I have been on there for quite a bit and its really nice to get roms

Vimms Lair has been going strong for years and is great for retro games

There is another website you can go to that has all the retro games you need


I bought a Switch not too long ago because I wanted to play ACNH, I feel a bit awful for not knowing more about Nintendo beforehand! Thank you so much for making information like this a lot easier to find and understand!


one thing hat annoys me about how Nintendo Pushing competitive smash away is how it doesn't even affect casual players if competitive players have fun yet they still try to push it away


I agree with everything in this video. I love Nintendo games. Like many they shaped my childhood but the company itself I have quite the distaste for.


Like the first season of Daredevil, not a single scene was wasted. Very enjoyable and well done, Mr. Lemon.


Nintendo fans hate you because you speak the truth


Master of memes. Sovereign of Simpsons. Principal of Poops. All hail EmpLemon. Nobody can meme a good story better than him.


So in short, Nintendo is pulling the greatest cave allegory of all time, and it's up to the diehard fans to see the shadows for what they are?


Tbh I like nintendo games but I've had to deal with some of the most badshit insane opinions/takes by nintendo fans with nintendo profile pictures on twitter. I can't even make up some of the shit that say. Where do they come up with this shit? Where does this blind loyalty come from?


It's an abusive relationship. What can I say? My SO slaps me around but then gives me a diamond ring afterwards.

I think one point you really miss is how good nintendos products are. All the other companies get flack for their business practices because they usually ride on top of subpar games (with 1 or 2 god tier franchises)
Nintendo is the only company that constantly and consistently produces diamonds. And it's easy to get distracted by all that glitter.

Oh, and I'm guilty. Don't get me wrong. I was so pissed when The Big House tournament was cancelled. But queue in Sephiroth right afterwards and boy was my cognitive dissonance strong.
"I hate nintendo!" but dang is my boy sephiroth looking clean.

When BOTW 2 comes out, what should I do? Simply refuse to buy it as some boycott that no one will follow?
Nope. I'm going to get it. Nuff said.


Converted Nintendo fan here. I still like their games but a couple years ago I opened my eyes and saw just how scummy they really are; now I clamor for change whenever I can. There are people like me out there but not enough.


Nintendo needs to learn the difference between things they profit off and abandonware


I will never forgive them for what they did to pokemon brick bronze


Valve watched this video decided to make their their own handheld hybrid console to finally get Nintendo off their asses

Also they are wow I hope it does good so Nintendo can learn from it

@youmenow I think he is trying to say he wants it to not flop but worded it very wrong

@Mathematical Hypotenuse “doesn’t just not-flop” Are you saying you hope it flops?

I pray to the Lord above that the Steam Deck doesn't just not-flop, but turns out to be everything it <b>should</b> be.

I pray to the Lord above that the Steam Deck doesn't just not-flop, but turns out to be everything it *should* be.


Some guy posted this in a reply to a tweet and I tapped on it thinking it was a 30 second meme and I ended up listening to the entire thing while working out at the gym


“Am I pathetic for having a switch?” “YES”- also holy fuck I was already fucking pissed at Nintendo but holy shit this takes the cake. Awesome vidoe Emp


Morale of the story, have some self respect.


You don't know how much times I have watched this video. It's too good.


Nintendo is the most anti consumptive company and yet they always come out on top and it's fucking time they stop


I’ll never forgive Nintendo for the Etika joycons that was a low blow

It's a minor annoyance. Nintendo owns the technology in Joy-Cons, and these people made their own without Nintendo's permission.


Nintendo is the embodiment of “If you give a mouse a cookie”


i love mario, zelda, metroid, donkey kong, and kirby as much as the next guy. but i’ll be damned if i don’t want to see this shithole company crash and burn. maybe at their lowest point they’d change for the better and recover. but even if they didn’t and went completely defunct, i’d prefer that over our current reality.


I love Nintendo.... But holy fuck do they make alot of bad decisions


Hey EmpLemon, You should totally do a video on Group B Rally, or the discipline in general,


Man, I still love valve because they are just, modders giving it's path to the next gen of modders


Thought about buying a switch for my family and now I’m so good


I should also point something out to add to Sega, Valve, and the like embracing fan projects. A programmer going by Hideki Konishi had written two recreations of Taito's flagship STG Darius, one for the PC, one for the Genesis/Mega Drive. Take a wild guess where the latter managed to land on.

Taito doesn't even open its arms much from what I've seen, so the fact that they ended up getting behind his project following some touchups from M2 really reinforces how doing such a thing creates MUTUAL VICTORY, the greatest result of basically anything. That guy who started this project in his bedroom with SGDK successfully created the first officially licensed Genesis game since a Frogger port released in 1998. What an accomplishment!

I should also point something out to add to Sega, Valve, and the like embracing fan projects. A programmer going by Hideki Konishi had written two recreations of Taito's flagship STG Darius, one for the PC, one for the Genesis/Mega Drive. Take a wild guess where the latter managed to land on.

Taito doesn't even open its arms much from what I've seen, so the fact that they ended up getting behind his project following some touchups from M2 really reinforces how doing such a thing creates *MUTUAL VICTORY,* the greatest result of basically anything. That guy who started this project in his bedroom with SGDK successfully created the first officially licensed Genesis game since a Frogger port released in 1998. What an accomplishment!


And with the Wii U and 3DS eshop shutting down soon, this video is becoming more true.


Reminds me of being a fan of need for speed until I realized I couldn't say anything I enjoyed about playing the games when asked. Need for Speed Payback broke the camel's back. I understand the thinking behind it.

smash my skull in with my grandma's china set


I can bet  if Mr iwata was alive he would have fixed the joycon drift and made a even better switch


Not buying more crappy controllers
Not buying crappy cash grab games that are on a limited time
Not buying a crappy subscription that really isn’t worth it
I don’t get what is up with these people but I’m not being like them
I might be a Nintendo fan but I’m not a Nintendo priest, I like good games, that’s it


Sakurai might be one of the hardest working people in Nintendo

But he is NOT perfect as shown in this video


I'm still waiting for someone to make a video on how Kirby and mother fangames aren't taken down.  I know itoi has said he likes fangames so maybe that's why, but Hal laboratory is a complete mystery on whether they care or not.  If I remember correctly itoi owns the mother ip and Hal and Nintendo each own 50% of the mother series.  Also I just think heavy anti emulation, and some of the other bullshit is common for gaming in Japan.


12:18 that scared the living sh*t out of me


Ok, I'm playing an emulator of pokemon emerald on my laptop how many minutes will the Nintendo ninjas come for my family.

Why is "piracy bad" so hard for some people to grasp?

I emulate their games on their console that has built emulators for, NES, SNES, GB, GBC, GBA, and Genesis. 😎

Pokémon emerald is my favourite. I played it in my bunker so the ninjas don’t come. I hope you do too.


i like your taste in music good sir. casually slipping an ELP song in the middle of the video.
WELCOME BACK MY FRIENDS TO THE SHOW THAT NEVER ENDS!

i like your taste in music good sir. casually slipping an ELP song in the middle of the video.
_WELCOME BACK MY FRIENDS TO THE SHOW THAT NEVER ENDS!_


ironic how nintendo started being at it's worst when they hired a guy literally named "Bowser" to manage the company

@launchbase ok but my comment is funny so it's true

genuinely nothing has changed from before Bowser becoming president to after. they've always been this scummy, over 3/4ths of the examples used in this video happened before he became president

@H Doug Bowser became the the president of Nintendo USA and since then they went from already bad to genuinely just the worst.

I like how absolutely nobody has mentioned how immediately as bowser became the CEO nintendo has become the absolute fucking worst it has been since the 80s. Why? Cause uguu funny bowser name.


I feel like this destroyed the one remaining strand of loyalty I had to nintendo, the others being ripped out after the Etika joycons and the freemelee thing. In any case thanks because now I can go back to playing Donkey Kong Country on Bsnes without ever having to question myself again.


Phillips is also why Nintendo is so protective of their franchises. (The CDI and loaning their ip's to Phillips.)


Yah when Pokemon Sword and Shield I thought most people would be like me and not buy the game in protest. After a year passed and no issues were brought up I just said screw it and bought the game. Why should I bother if no one else will? I can't exactly do something like that on my own.


Fun story
My local community hall refuses to host any FGC events
They had a smash bros event back in 2013 and someone took a shit in an air vent

No joke, I was working for the hall at the time doing set up and clean up for events
I still remember the smell.

it was hot as hell that weekend and it was like the shit smell had baked into the fucking walls. They had to close the hall for awhile and get some professionals in to deep clean the air vents cause every time the switched on the fans it smelled like shit.


I don't like Melee, and part of that reason is wavedashing. I know quite a few people who feel the same. Just an observation that might be interesting or useful to you. That being said, I also think Nintendo is the most evil video game company by a wide margin. It's not even a contest.

@Staringcorgi6 so does ea on an even bigger scale.

@BuilderBosc it's activision because they treat their employees like crap, lay them off for no reason, and forced their subsidiary to work for cod warzone which shows that activision only cares about that for success

Ea in my opinion is much worse, and while nintendo is shitty, they do two things right. Good games and well treated employees. EA just shits no matter what and constantly does borderline scams. But yeah nintend needs to stop shitting on the fans. We are just sick of it at this point.


Well, just saying that Nintendo have absolutely no grasp on Brazil, so I'm just saying that pirating them here (as long as you don't do it for profit) is perfectly OK.


I’m not buying anything from them unless I REALLY want it from now on.


I think all Nintendo fan love there games but feel like Nintendo as a company is the big spooky


The video game industry needs another crash


Love Nintendo, but you can’t deny all the crap they do.


Kind of surprised you didnt end up ratio'd for this.


12:05 When I heard that I was thinking why do I recognize this and then I finally remembered it was Karn evil 9 by Emerson Lake and Palmer. You got great music selection for this video!


God, I remember when you couldn’t show Studio Ghibli or Nintendo footage without it getting claimed; it definitely helped indie entertainment gain some footing.

During the let's play boom games like minecraft were huge


Imagine not running Arch Linux on your hacked Nintendo Switch


This and the EA crap is why I mostly play just Minecraft. Mojang isn't perfect but they also aren't deceiving people. My loyalty is better vested away from corporate entities and other big establishments.


I have a video idea: “There Will Never Ever Be Another Reality TV Show Like Jackass”


22:00
That there is my favorite moment.
Foreshadowing the ensuing beautiful rant.


What primarily saves Nintendo from more criticism isn't the fanbase as much as it is just how godawful the other major players in the gaming industry are. Look at what we've seen lately with Blizzard being sued by the state of California.

The business side of Nintendo and the creative side of Nintendo are constantly at odds, as well as the Nintendo of Japan and the Nintendo of America---the latter which doesn't have much power to pull the company in the right direction. This east vs. west inner-corporate battling is what killed Sega and broke Sony a couple times to a point in which they have decided to move most of their focus towards the western hemisphere where they are more beloved.


19:50 could have sworn that reveal came first.


Emp, stop it with the quality videos. Its really putting a damper on my nihilism.


Hotel Mario and Zelda CDI pushed Nintendo into what it is now. Not because of the games, because of all the YTPs made from them.


Never forget that games aren't your property they are the property of the company<br>And it might be scummy but yes at anytime a company can use their ownership of the IP to stop you from playing their game to make money

Never forget that games aren't your property they are the property of the company
And it might be scummy but yes at anytime a company can use their ownership of the IP to stop you from playing their game to make money

Don't misunderstand I don't like that companies can do this, copyright law is just completely fkd!


I love how when they talk about Nintendo fans they play Porky theme from Mother 3.


19:22 ah yes, they would really profit with a mod from a really old game they are giving people for free, even if tge game isnt sold anymore.


Dang, we just said goodbye to a legendary video, goodbye Uncredibles


I wonder how well the Steam Deck will age.


Lol the only way Nintendo could be any worse with fan made content is if they started regulating mods for games made by other companys

Edit: also I know the main point of the video is not just “Nintendo bad” btw. This was a fantastic and thought provoking video.

Edit 2: added just


I agree with you man copyright is shit honestly it's shit because they have the period of copyright be far too long!


Another day praying to God, for not making me a Nintendo fan.


Nintendo: releases a great port, 3d World + Bowser's Fury
Fans: Buy nearly 6 million copies in 6 six weeks
Also Nintendo: releases a very lazy, nearly unchanged port of Skyward Sword a few months later
Also fans: Buy it enough to top sales charts.

@Staringcorgi6 For such a short sentence, to contain not one but several non-sequiturs, is the only thing to take away from your comment.

@ArtilleryCrusader however it's not a good game for people who didn't play the orignal it's only appreciated by fans who liked the orignal

To be fair, Skyward sword flopped on the wii so not many people have it. Plus other companys do this shit. But still we need more bowser's fury ports.

Zelda SS HD is an improvement over the original and if your only argument is that other people are paying too much money for a product that's not really much of an argument. The game's fine. It's better than the original. And they can get away with selling it.


I like Nintendo games, I even dare say I emulate older Nintendo games since I never grew up with them. I also think the consoles are good but Nintendo's record is soo bad.


I was looking to see if any of your recent vids passed the uncredibles in views but, it’s gone? Did another copyright wave strike attacking even more of your old vids? Or did something else happen? I never watched it but it’s been interesting seeing if your new stuff could surpass the random success of the old, and now it just vanished. Hopefully whatever happened can be sorted out.


25:28 I see you are a man of culture as well.


Emp, tl;dr I'm worried about you, man.

Although these documentary type videos don't interest me, and thus I  U N S U B S C R I B E D, I'm glad you're not sticking to your fanbase's opinions on what they want you to post and do what you want to do.
I remember your older videos from way back in 2016-2017 and remember your explosive emotional and unpredictable nature which I do see in your recent videos, just less of it, and instead, I see you act very timid, which isn't a bad thing itself, it's the fact that you almost seem unmovitated and depressed when doing this. If there's any problem you wish to get out of your lungs finally, just let it out, there are lots of people mature enough to understand and support you. If I'm reading too deep into it and sound like a moron, I'm sorry, this is my honest attempt of an interpretation of your dimmer tone, all in good faith

Emp, tl;dr I'm worried about you, man.

Although these documentary type videos don't interest me, and thus I  U N S U B S C R I B E D, I'm glad you're not sticking to your fanbase's opinions on what they want you to post and do what you want to do.
I remember your older videos from way back in 2016-2017 and remember your explosive emotional and unpredictable nature which I do see in your recent videos, just less of it, and instead, I see you act very timid, which isn't a bad thing itself, it's the fact that you almost seem *unmovitated* and *depressed* when doing this. If there's any problem you wish to get out of your lungs finally, just let it out, there are lots of people mature enough to understand and support you. If I'm reading too deep into it and sound like a moron, I'm sorry, this is my honest attempt of an interpretation of your dimmer tone, all in good faith

It's just really depressing to see that "Everything burns". I mean, me, who's a dude who's still too early to see the world's problems, just seen it all out of a realization.<br>TL;DR Knowing about the entire world being a mess, a lie, it just depresses.

It's just really depressing to see that "Everything burns". I mean, me, who's a dude who's still too early to see the world's problems, just seen it all out of a realization.
TL;DR Knowing about the entire world being a mess, a lie, it just depresses.


I loved the video! But I have to ask.... would you consider someone like hungrybox to be one of these wild consumers?

@TheSsbcandidates someones mad they didnt put rayman in smash

@Chaase Yes because giving critics to Minecraft in Smash is evil.

@TheSsbcandidates yeah hes hyped for a character i was hyped too tbh whys that considered scummy at most he was milking views which isnt even that bad

@Chaase HugryBox was over pushing Minecraft Steve in Smash, he did like lots of videos on him. Rumor has it, Nintendo gives him goodies.

nah he legit had to deal with nintendo screwing over melee tourneys for over a decade he is not a consumer


I forget, aren’t you at risk at losing save data for games if you don’t renew your online service subscription on time, or am I crazy?


Honestly if you want me to care about smash players it's not working.
But in all seriousness this is just how nintendo shoots it's self in its PR foot for 40 years.
My biggest problem is online service is now a sub.
To bad they are the only company left that that doesn't rail my ass with p2w loot boxes.

Doctor mario world and mario kart tour <br>Am I a joke to you

Doctor mario world and mario kart tour
Am I a joke to you


I actually agree with your take on Nintendo and can take criticism against Nintendo. A huge problem why most fans don't leave  and what you didn't mention is because they dominate the portable gaming market. No company since Atari and Sega has stepped up to challenge them on this. Also,a major reason why the loyalty is because they own exclusive characters that they simply won't let go of. Also,this chains into how bad they run video game stores like GameStop and how they treat their customers for profit. Believe me,I know they are scum. But,ask yourself this:Who is big enough to replace them? Believe me,if a company was bigger and better than them,I would leave immediately without question. They destroy or buy out or sue or anything else to wipe out competition and this hurts them as well.<br>This was a big part of the "console wars" back then too. I used to be a fanboy in 2000s,but years of abuse like these practices that you mentioned and more,made me turn away after the Wii came out. Since then, Nintendo hasn't gotten a cent from me. And never will.

I actually agree with your take on Nintendo and can take criticism against Nintendo. A huge problem why most fans don't leave  and what you didn't mention is because they dominate the portable gaming market. No company since Atari and Sega has stepped up to challenge them on this. Also,a major reason why the loyalty is because they own exclusive characters that they simply won't let go of. Also,this chains into how bad they run video game stores like GameStop and how they treat their customers for profit. Believe me,I know they are scum. But,ask yourself this:Who is big enough to replace them? Believe me,if a company was bigger and better than them,I would leave immediately without question. They destroy or buy out or sue or anything else to wipe out competition and this hurts them as well.
This was a big part of the "console wars" back then too. I used to be a fanboy in 2000s,but years of abuse like these practices that you mentioned and more,made me turn away after the Wii came out. Since then, Nintendo hasn't gotten a cent from me. And never will.


Somehow I'll watch a video that's like 30s and the algorithm will say, okay, well now let's auto play only Emps 30+min video


twitch and redbull both tried to make smash bros circuits but both were shut down by nintendo


Workout routine:  start doing push-ups when a Simpson's clip plays.  Stop doing push-ups when the next one plays.  Repeat.<br>Totally attainable goal

Workout routine:  start doing push-ups when a Simpson's clip plays.  Stop doing push-ups when the next one plays.  Repeat.
Totally attainable goal


Just so you know, that tiktok video of the "my life is like a videogame" guy is satire


The eternal sunshine of the spotless mind.


You finally got me, you delicious bastards


9:50 would pay any money to legally buy pokemon soulsilver


You eather die a hero or live long enough to become a villain

Sega died a hero
Nintendo became the villain

@Toad Is Forgotten because if i said i was not a idiot i would actully look like a idiot so i just deleted the comment

@mel han why did you delete your comment


What are your opinions on the whole Sword and Shield fiasco? Any similar to this?


Nintendo will die out once the gen z grows up and nobody feels nostalgia.


tl;dw: nintendo hates modders and streamers, protected with a frontline of the SoyBrigade


Remember when they took over roblox? They got rid of a game called “Pokémon brick bronze” which was a game that literally stole the sprites made you pay for a extra starter , and many more bullshit but there was a game called “Pokémon fighters” I game that I loved which all the devs made there own 3D models and made you just control a Pokémon in a 3D world wasn’t even a Pokémon game just had Pokémon in it and nintendo deleted every other Pokémon game from roblox awful stuff fuck brick bronze


Oh boy, I can't wait to buy a Steam Deck and pirate Metroid Dread~


seems disingenuous to use the gamespot trailer for the sepiroth argument but i checked the smash bros youtube channel and theres only 2k more dislikes. optics still matter if youre not using the official posts


you know its gonna be a good vid when you see the swirly thing


You should have colour shifted Shrek to yellow.


I haven't seen this channel in a while
Didn't this guy send a hate mob after Behind The Meme?
well, at least his content's good but like
I don't think he really had to do that

@Fredster oh ok
I didn't really know much about the situation, I just saw the channel on my recommended and remembered the video
That was sad though, the guy didn't deserve to get doxxed for making bad content

He wasn't trying to end his career, his point with that video was to point out that Behind The Meme does bad content. It was his fanbase that doxed and ruined his life.


"Y'know, when i was a kid, i used to think you were cool."


Your commentary's more monotone than before


THAT'S HOW THE LAW W-
Clap
He's dead
...
We'll meet again don't no where
Don't know when ...

THAT'S HOW THE LAW W-
*Clap*
He's dead
...
We'll meet again don't no where
Don't know when ...


at 1:00 that man is praying… not going through his darkest hour😭😭

His name is Ahmed, he was late for Thuhur so he prayed by the beach 😂

People tend to pray more at their darkest moments


I think you should make a tf2 video. would be fun to see you talk about it


Toxic positivity is a real problem in media today. It's even worse than toxic negativity, because one is rooted in reality, and the other isn't. One is the critical, off-putting Superintendent Chalmers who knows the difference between steamed and grilled, and the other is the bad liar Principal Skinner who totally ignores his own house burning down and who won't even let you see the Northern Lights.

*Toxic positivity* is a real problem in media today. It's even worse than _toxic negativity,_ because one is rooted in reality, and the other isn't. _One is the critical, off-putting Superintendent Chalmers who knows the difference between steamed and grilled,_ and *the other is the bad liar Principal Skinner who totally ignores his own house burning down and who won't even let you see the Northern Lights.*


Rather suspicious Nintendo Announces A New Switch Model A week after this video was made


I love nintendo so much, grew up with it, but everything they have been doing just... makes me not hopeful for any recent games since everything that has came out has been either nothing, or unfinished with free updates. Everything nintendo has done throughout these years is super scummy, its painful o(-<

"I love nintendo so much, grew up with it" stop loving video game companys when all they care about is making a quick buck off you.


Check out that Like-to-Dislike ratio<br>Nintendo fanboys heard about the video hub

Check out that Like-to-Dislike ratio
Nintendo fanboys heard about the video hub

Probably because they are sick of the same story over and over and over again. Maybe we should just move on with out people using Iwata's death as an excuse over a $20 online membership and a $25 Zelda amiibo that's not even being sold by Nintendo on eBay. Using Dead people as an excuse is the most disturbing and ungrateful idea ever. 😡


As a Nintendo fan (yeah i Said) i realy love the games that they produce but i hate them as a Company,their games are realy realy good but their decisions are crap. (Sorry for bad english im from Brasil)

@Roshaun Roache Here its Brasil but Brazil is right too


I realize that this is 100% irrelevant to this video, but I think you should seriously consider making a video about DaThings and why she currently makes some of the best poops. Her latest poop of Ancient Aliens is arguably among the top 50 all-time best YTPs, at least imo.


Are you obsessed with the downward spiral?


now .1 fans now look nintendo as a company!


18:23 this tiktok has been on my mind for too long


At least they seem to enjoy Competive Splatoon


You perfectly summarized the way I felt about Nintendo since I saw Ian Hecox unbox his wii-U in 2012.


Oh fuck, which ytp was the Mr Krabs sallowing the pill bit!? I recognize it but don't know which poop it's from


This is the one thing where Nintendo got wrong while Sega got right: the fans. While Nintendo chooses to ignore and punish its army of diehard fans out of fear of losing power and control over the video game market, Sega actually does care for its fans and even communicates with them when making games. Sonic Mania is a game that was created by a group of sonic fans and went on to become a big success. If a group of Mario fans decided to get together to make a new Mario game, there’s no way Nintendo would ever allow that to happen. And sure, while Sega has struggled in the past to produce good sonic games while Nintendo was always pumping out successful games, at least Sega always made sure to prioritize their fans and listen to them instead of just seeing them as nothing more than a source of financial success they can punish whenever they want.

@Cstuff Everything with moderation I guess, in a way Nintendo's resistance to listening to literally anyone else might be why their games are so unique and usually very good. On the other hand, the fact they bring this mentality outside of video game development and into every other aspect of the company is the problem that's hurting them.

thats also the problem with Sonic Team is that they listen to their fans too much. Because of that they try to appeal to every fan by nostalgia without attempting something new. mostly to classic fans. I'm not saying Nintendo is in the right because they aren't, but neither is Sonic Team. what they're doing is the reason we had Forces. best things we've gotten from what they're fans was Mania, and its just a bunch of reused acts either way.  Fan service is nice, but the way they're doing it isn't a way to do it. Hopefully with the new Sonic game they'll learned their lesson and stop listening to their fans as much as they are now, but only time will tell


Nintendo has Been given way too much impunity over the years and it should be removed


Man, 24:32 is just the best moment in the whole video. It's just so perfectly set up and executed. Well done as always lol


Man, does this situation sting me. My mind can easily accept that Nintendo needs to be punished by me going elsewhere for gaming… but my heart. All of my life, I have been a Nintendo gamer, and nothing else. The other two juggernauts just don’t click with me. I would have essentially nothing else, save for a few games to play if I boycott Nintendo. I know that I am basically everything that is wrong with the fan base, and I am sorry… I will make an attempt to stand with the reasonable side, but I can make no guarantees.

@Random Username Your right I was overreacting, I don't hate all vegans, I just don't agree with their moral standings.

Just buy their games used a month or so after release that way nintendo wont get your money and you can play the game

@Ma OwO Hammer I'm in the same situation as Calcium Nitro, so hearing this really helped me.

@Ma OwO Hammer Maybe don't "despise" an entire group of people because of online stereotypes though

@Trikki Clips yeah but neither of them pulled what Nintendo pulled and definitely weren't defended as much.

The other two juggernauts are as good as they seem, Microsoft and Sony have both had sketchy business practices in the past, like the Kinect and the PSN hack

You cant be everything wrong with the community when you at least have some self awareness. That already makes you leagues better than em'

Man, live your life the way you want to! I love animals and hate killing yet I love eating meat and despise vegans. That being said: You don’t have to boycott Nintendo, especially when most others won’t. What you do need to do though, I’d hold them accountable and give public feedback when they fuck up. Even if you get derision from it.


I'd really like it if Nintendo-focused channels/youtubers watch this and shared/discussed it. it might affect them negatively at first, but it'd be a big step towards a change given their indisputable influence(which they've utilize for much lesser things then this).

Nintendo is not as untouchable/uncontested as Nintendo fans might think or as Nintendo might present itself, there can be a change. Don't put them on a glorified pedestal and then forget who put them there in the first place.


Hey remember when this guy made youtube poops?

He stopped making it because no one respected him


As a HUGE nintendo fan, I was so disappointed when sephiroth was announced that everyone just seemed hyped about it, and forgot about the very recent events. Nintendo goes through cycles of being loved and being hated, and I think they make their best decisions when they are hated.

That’s how all companies are.

When they are hated, and are having issues with revenue, they’ll actually say “Hey, let’s listen to our consumers,” and the company starts making great decisions.


Aaand you earned a sub. Important topic for many people and I hope some of them realize how they are blindly following Nintendo's anti-customer practices right to the edge of cliff and down it while trying to grasp at their falling Amiibo figures.


@NovaBeast92 tiktoker guy "whereisbalake". His video went viral in late 2020 and early 2021 with many peiole saying how its "cringe", without realising that was supposed to be obvious parody of wojack. He even calls himself like that in his bio "a literal living wojack"


You were spot on about public perspective after the misconduct scandals. I was super into smash but all that stuff plus corona ruining the comp scene just burnt me out. I really couldn't give a shit about pro smash anymore even though I want to.


To be honest, should Nintendo decide to do a "season 3" of dlc for Smash Ultimate or make yet another Smash game in the near future after all, this video will actually have aged like a fine wine.

@Caleb Productions <br>Sans is a mini costume, he’s not even a real character. Also, Minecraft is the best selling game of all time, and Smash Bros is collection of iconic video game characters, so Steve just makes sense. Why do you think it’s a waste?

@Caleb Productions
Sans is a mini costume, he’s not even a real character. Also, Minecraft is the best selling game of all time, and Smash Bros is collection of iconic video game characters, so Steve just makes sense. Why do you think it’s a waste?

@Caleb Productions "Oh no! The optional DLC character is from something I personally dislike! Time to start hating the game!"

I just want smash bros to finally die after the last dlc arrives, I stopped taking Ultimate seriously when they brought in cancer like sans from understale and said F.U. to us when we got minecrap steve as a wasted dlc slot.

As a Smash Bros fan I'd still buy it but as a Nintendo fan I wouldn't buy anything else but that


Why is there a Polybius cabinet at 13:19 ? Is that just a nod to the conspiracy theory? XD


Its also important to keep in mind how small the group of obsessive Nintendo fans is. They speak loudly but compared to the larger consumer base, there aren't that many of them.


You should make a video:<br>There will never ever be another  fighter like Khabib Nurmagomedov

You should make a video:
There will never ever be another  fighter like Khabib Nurmagomedov

Ik, this man wrestled bears as a lil kid😂


i have to commend you for bringing up the leaks relating to nintendo straight up stalking 3ds hackers, even if only briefly. those leaks completely killed any respect i may or may not have had left for the company, and it is absolutely criminal how there was basically no real coverage of them whatsoever when they initially dropped. you've earned my respect


I find it annoying that people will use religion as a byword for anything they find irrational, has zealous defenders etc. when groups as a whole operate this way. It's not an excuse for religious people's bad behaviour but there has to be some perspective. Even religious people will call things they don't like a religion. sigh Youtube always was full of people shoving their hatred of religion into everything.

Its moreso cause its easy rather than hate. Anyone when you use a zealot example can understand where the comparison comes from. It just so happens its low hanging fruit.

I wouldnt say its a hatred of religion.


Nintendo's the Disney of the videogame industry. I'm not the first to say it, and I won't be the last.

...And I'm the owner of a (softmodded) Nintendo Switch. Even without piracy, the amount of things a hackable Switch lets you do with the hardware really illustrates how petty and ultimately useless to the user the Apple-style lockdown console programming has can be.

@3l H4ck3r C0mf0r7 I never acted like there was something wrong with pointing out a company, as I think people SHOULD point them out. I just don't buy the comparison.

@Carlo Nassar Valve's fine. EA's not coming back. There's a lot of people who still believe in Disney (just not you or me), and I respect and believe in Nintendo, but only on the things they get right. There's nothing wrong with pointing out their flaws.

@3l H4ck3r C0mf0r7 As I said before, their reputations are still a big part of trying to compare the two. Disney's reputation was always rough and it can't really be fixed, whereas Nintendo still has time to improve their mistakes before they lose peoples' trust. Heck, I'd say EA and Valve would redeem easily, compared to Disney.

@Carlo Nassar Well, that sounds more like a decision you've made not based on the evidence, but on your own attachments. I get it, I've been there, and I recommend not associating your identity with a corporation. You're vulnerable to being roped into having to justify any bad things they do, and you don't actually have to do that. Don't worry, they can defend themselves just fine.

@3l H4ck3r C0mf0r7<br>Still not buying it.

@Carlo Nassar You see the patterns though.

@3l H4ck3r C0mf0r7<br>At least Nintendo didn't go woke or do any identity politics or ruin so many things that get in their hands like what happened in some of Disney's more recent book adaptations.

@3l H4ck3r C0mf0r7
At least Nintendo didn't go woke or do any identity politics or ruin so many things that get in their hands like what happened in some of Disney's more recent book adaptations.

@Carlo Nassar Well, Disney was a lot of people's childhoods, and they exploit some of that to their gain. Same happens with Nintendo.

Both of them also go for profit and serialization over artistic integrity. Even Sakurai complained about not being able to make new games, always forced to release sequels to the same ones over and over. He was literally blackmailed by Iwata on one occasion and forced to make a Smash Bros. sequel. I don't remember which one though.

And they're a worldwide juggernaut with a family-friendly cartoon mascot as its face. A cartoon so famous it's hard to find someone who doesn't know who he is, even among people who are not into gaming in any way whatsoever (I know it's a little weird to refer to Mario as a cartoon, but come on, just look at him. He definitely fits the bill, at least in his visual design. The visual language is exactly the same.)

I think I have enough to justify my claim.

I won't lie, Disney is much worse. Nintendo at least makes fun games, have preserved some level of respect for their users, refusing to engage in the blatant ripping off companies like EA love doing with their microtransactions and lootboxes, and their hardware is often very flexible with a wide range of potential uses, only handicapped by the original firmware locking it down and making it a restricted games-only machine. When the homebrew community gets a hold of it though, hoo boy, there's a whole lot of sweet goodness these things can do.

But Nintendo aren't saints. They have their share of mistakes that they're not apologizing for.

@Carlo Nassar Well, Disney was a lot of people's childhoods, and they exploit some of that to their gain. Same happens with Nintendo.

Both of them also go for profit and serialization over artistic integrity. Even Sakurai complained about not being able to make new games, always forced to release sequels to the same ones over and over. He was literally blackmailed by Iwata on one occasion and forced to make a Smash Bros. sequel. I don't remember which one though.

And they're a worldwide juggernaut with a family-friendly cartoon mascot as its face. A cartoon so famous it's hard to find someone who _doesn't_ know who he is, even among people who are not into gaming in any way whatsoever (I know it's a little weird to refer to _Mario_ as a cartoon, but come on, just look at him. He definitely fits the bill, at least in his visual design. The visual language is exactly the same.)

I think I have enough to justify my claim.

I won't lie, Disney is much worse. Nintendo at least makes fun games, have preserved some level of respect for their users, refusing to engage in the blatant ripping off companies like EA love doing with their microtransactions and lootboxes, and their hardware is often very flexible with a wide range of potential uses, only handicapped by the original firmware locking it down and making it a restricted games-only machine. When the homebrew community gets a hold of it though, hoo boy, there's a whole lot of sweet goodness these things can do.

But Nintendo aren't saints. They have their share of mistakes that they're not apologizing for.

@3l H4ck3r C0mf0r7
That's understandable, but copyright alone isn't enough to say Nintendo is the Disney of gaming. You have to look beyond that.

@3l H4ck3r C0mf0r7
That's understandable, but copyright alone isn't enough to say Nintendo is the _Disney of gaming._ You have to look beyond that.

@Carlo Nassar Sure, but that doesn't change the fact that some of their company policy helps nobody, not even themselves.

At least Nintendo tried to be original when making their franchises, unlike how Disney has never made anything original and even messed with how the public domain works. They're also not on some buying fiasco, like Disney seems to be after buying half of the 20th Century Fox merger.


I know you said not to hate the fans...but fandoms make it impossible to tolerate them for many reasons.


Unsold cartridges in a new Mexico landfill? Doubt they are still there but there could be good stuff

@Bubbs not to mention that it was one of the worst games ever created

It was dug up years ago.

Also "good stuff" lol yeah right it was steamrolled over and had concrete poured on top haha


oh i didnt see that... probably to show that he doesn't make that content and that is no longer the type of channel he runs


When I heard about how Harsh Meele Players were treated, I never imagined Nintendo was this bad with their Fandom. Feels Bad man, but Companies are just Companies... If there is Money on the Line, it will create consequences.


I'm just so glad that Nintendo's bullshit is no longer being tolerated! Mass respect!

True I respect Nintendo's manners. however people using Iwata's death as an excuse over a $20 online membership and a $25 Zelda amiibo that's not even being sold by Nintendo on eBay. Using Dead people as an excuse is the most disturbing and ungrateful idea ever. 😡 I just hope this whole thing ends by 2022 and Nintendo will be good and everything will be back to normal.


This is a hard pill to swallow but we need to understand. WAKE UP NINTENDO FANS.

@GodZpeed X7II  hey fanboy what cha doin here hiding


Love the games and devs in Nintendo. Hate the corporate side that lives in the 80's, that includes you internet team!!!


I’m an emotional brick wall but your documentary style videos always make me feel emotion for whatever reason


I swear, ever since the Melee fiasco back in November, I never touched my Switch that much since and just played more time with my Series S. Nintendo is and will always will be a anti-consumer Product. Stop treating Nintendo like a cult for them to realize their mistakes but I doubt that.


"The saviours of video games"<br>"Well, for console games. Well, in america."

"The saviours of video games"
"Well, for console games. Well, in america."

Shhh, don't you know america is the only country that ever mattered in the history of mattering?

If anything the only reason they were able to do so was because they were in the right place at the right time.

@fungus meister Nothing to do with PC in the slightest.<br>Sega had its biggest market base in Europe during the '80s with the SG-1000 and Master System, with a bigger market share than Nintendo which they held well into the '90s. What happened in the US had little effect here. Nintendo didn't really gain a foothold in Europe until the original Game Boy came out.

@fungus meister Nothing to do with PC in the slightest.
Sega had its biggest market base in Europe during the '80s with the SG-1000 and Master System, with a bigger market share than Nintendo which they held well into the '90s. What happened in the US had little effect here. Nintendo didn't really gain a foothold in Europe until the original Game Boy came out.

Ooh boy, the pc master race is back I see

I'm not even sure if the collapse of the games market in America would have affected the computer game market in the long run.


You should make  a part 2 talking about the nintendo ninjas, sending private investigators to collect data on homebrew devs personal lives

excuse me, W̶̞̤̜̻̝͆̍̇̐̏̓̎́̌͂̎͝͝H̸̱͈̰̺̮͉̓̋̐̋͑͝A̶̺͕̤̭̞̩͎̪̭̗͇͆̄̚ͅT̷̢̧̧̛͍͙̺̩̠̠̩̫̩̝̬̣͛͂̉̈́̚͝?


Thank you emp, I’m glad people are realizing all the shit Nintendo does and are actually condemning them for it now


But emp, they made Mario, clearly they can do no wrong in any way.


For the longest time I avoided your work, your older style of content just did not appeal to me. Your recent stuff though is straight fire. You really inspire me to step up my game so, thanks my dude and thanks for this video.

im not sure if "9 Of The WORST YouTubers That NEED TO STOP! VOL" could be considered stepping your game up

That Creepy Reading be like "why are the Simpsons green?"

Truthfully I loved his earrapy stuff from 2016-2018. It was so wild and unpredictable and I had never seen anyone else with a style like that.

@pass Completely agree I thought this channel was total shit until the new content.

I got into his work this pandemic and it's been really cool seeing the progress of the channel. I also didn't expect to actually be interested in hearing about NASCAR and some of the other topics he's choose to cover

@the original Just so you know, Emp's second most popular video is an hour and a half documentary defending an unpopular Smash player....

@the original That's the beauty of personal opinion. I love longer 2 hour video docs. They go in dept and I like to learn as much as I can about whatever topic they might be talking about. Viewership will obviously be lower because some people won't have time, or their attention span is just too short to commit to watching the whole video like you said, but you can't deny that there isn't a audience like myself that prefers longer video essays. And what's wrong with taking themselves seriously? What makes a yt video different than an article online? Video essays and anything equivalent are perfectly valid forms of media to share information and whatnot. Especially if said video will help them transition into a different career beyond yt

@Cabinet Juice I'm not only glad Emplemon grew out of this phase himself, but that I also eventually grew out of it as well.

No , I just don't like 2hr slogfests that takes themselves seriously and act like armchair philosophers <br>There's a reason videos like those don't get many views , it's absolute molasses to watch , and people have shit to do , that's why this video is good , it's quick to the point and doesn't stray far from the original subject , that's why emplemon is doing as well as he is now

No , I just don't like 2hr slogfests that takes themselves seriously and act like armchair philosophers
There's a reason videos like those don't get many views , it's absolute molasses to watch , and people have shit to do , that's why this video is good , it's quick to the point and doesn't stray far from the original subject , that's why emplemon is doing as well as he is now

yeah his edgy commentary earrape stuff from 2016-18 hasnt aged very well

He’s definitely matured in both his attitude and video editing and topics, and literally as well<br>he made the behind the meme video when he was like barely out of highschool or something

He’s definitely matured in both his attitude and video editing and topics, and literally as well
he made the behind the meme video when he was like barely out of highschool or something

@the original So basically you don’t like watching things that make you use your brain

Keep in mind I’m not pointing it out as a bad thing, I don’t either lmao

I don't know about that , does everything have to be a 2hr documentary about the philosophy of cheese making and how it impacted the USSR or some shit?
Most documentaries on youtube just feels so bland and formulaic now , there's too much of them and they mesh together with each other on such a degree that you could've assumed that they were copying each other's scripts.
I would rather the nonchalant , uniquely chaotic land of ytps that don't take themselves seriously than 300 instances of serious sounding people saying that skyrim represents our desperation of escapism and buying more products from Todd Howard is a metaphor for the industrial revolution.

@Cabinet Juice he has come a long way, from ytp's to documentaries on modern society

I too am glad that emps grown out of his edgy “memes are the greatest thing ever invented” phase


19:08 This is the sort of masterful content creation that blows me away every time you upload a new video, the writing and editing is second to none


Who the fuck is the dude dancing with the Switch?

p sure it was the "my life is like a video game" song guy


I've said this before and I'll say it again

Nintendo: Great games, horrible company

@Robert Wolff Right? You really couldn't put it any better than that. Nintendo may have saved the industry 40 years ago, but they're still existing 40 years in the past and have not moved on.

Someone else put it much better, "Nimtendo is a hateable company that makes lovable games".


As an melee tournament goer, amazing video. Half-way through, you really know your shit.


I always forget this fact, but it does explain the company's actions. Regardless of the link to the Yakuza
Hiroshi Yamauchi fired every other family member so he could be the only Yamauchi in the company.
So in more than a few ways, tyranny runs deep in the Nintendo tree

@Kassandra X2 More than SEGA, it's been at least strongly rumored that old Hiroshi had some contacts in the Yakuza that helped keep the company's grip on the industry

@ItsAlxDoe! he only cared about Go and Hanafuda (actually Hanafuda was the reason he got onto nitendo)

@Helius Universe I mean, dude prided himself on having not played a video game in his life until he touched the Famicom version of Go

i've heard lots of shitty things about yamauchi. specially regarding the development of the gameboy


Can you make a video on one of the hardest sports in the world. American Ninja Warrior


As a fan of Nintendo games myself, I agree with every bit of this video (personally I'm on the fence about dislike bombing though). A lot of Nintendo fans are far too diehard and willing to turn a blind eye to the bullshit business practices Nintendo keeps pulling

@Random Username i mean yeah, but then we will never get another good Paper Mario or a Pikmin game or get them to stop porting everything under the sun and selling it for 60 US Dollars. maybe it’s time for the casual Nintendo fans to step out of the way so we can finally send the feedback the company has needed for years. yes they make amazing games like BOTW and Odyssey, but Nintendo now has left behind or killed a ton of their most beloved series. they didn’t even save Alpha Dream from going bankrupt.

@FoolishFool I liked the new paper mario. But whatever, they abandoned some series. Complaining about their games isn't really something a lot of people can agree on and it doesn't really do much because they're still trying, they didn't give up making good games. What they did give up on is treating fans like other companies treat fans: With a fair share of respect. The joycon quality is horrible. The treatment toward the smash community is awful. Those are things a lot more people are willing to rally behind and also it's much more objective than the quality of the games.

@Random Username they haven’t made a good Star Fox since the early 2000s. haven’t made a new Pikmin since 2013 and haven’t made a good Paper Mario game for 4 entries. all these are messages that we should get across to them better. even if for the majority of the time, they make really high quality games.

@Random Username okay well you should just do it with this one, it sends the same message across. the message should be something everyone can get behind easily. like for them to sponsor their own tournaments or to stop killing fan games etc.

@FoolishFool I like the character (not a tekken player). But it's not about the quality of their products (which is generally really high) it's about the treatment of their fans and customers (which is complete garbage)<br>I can dislike it if I come across it again, but it's better if a lot of people including me dislike a trailer the instance that it's posted, like for the next smash character regardless if I'm happy with the character or not

@FoolishFool I like the character (not a tekken player). But it's not about the quality of their products (which is generally really high) it's about the treatment of their fans and customers (which is complete garbage)
I can dislike it if I come across it again, but it's better if a lot of people including me dislike a trailer the instance that it's posted, like for the next smash character regardless if I'm happy with the character or not

Yeah dislike bombing doesn't work for any company, they just lobby to have dislikes removed... Which YouTube has done so that ship has sailed

@Trikki Clips The dislike bombing is not for sakurai, as soon as a new smash character trailer gets a negative ratio out of nowhere, the company will notice and start wondering why it happened. It's just a small and easy first step.

I'm glad people could understand why I didn't get the dislike bombing part, they wouldn't care. Sakurai isnt gonna do anything about it.


i paid money for the switch to play those good games not to pay 10 quadrillion dollars on new controllers


20:03 whats the point of those two yt screenshots?


None of this is surprising as a Nintendo fan lol. They make lovely games, but Jesus they hate us for loving them.

@Hanzum Autist I absolutely agree, but it’s extremely hard to make that noise when so many people just don’t give a shit. I’ve instead pirated all the 15+ year old games I play now, both to help preserve the games and not deal with Nintendo’s shitty retro services. Also, plenty of fan games and rom-hacks.

@Hanzum Autist Let's hope that this video changed some minds, because good luck getting through to some of these people otherwise.

At the risk of sounding condescending, it doesn’t have to be like this. If enough people make enough noise the next time Nintendo does something scummy, we may finally get through to them. As a fan of Nintendo, you should settle for nothing but the best, especially when it comes to the company’s treatment of their customers.


Without realizing it, the fans of Nintendo have come to adore the very things they've hated for decades about other companies. Unfortunately, without change, the worst is yet to come.

“The worst is yet to come” Yeah, more groundbreaking, fun, and innovative games. Keep hating lol


So you're blaming Nintendo fans for their downfall?

Not really, he's more lambasting them for being the people who, broadly speaking, suffer under Nintendo the most and have some of the largest capacity to speak up for change while simultaneously rarely ever actually doing so.


I legit modded my 3ds because I wanted to. For the life of me, I can not find a legit DS copy of Pokemon anymore anywhere for a reasonable price. <br>Nintendo was a swell company but I am not shelling out 400 dollars to have a useless controller and a cheap over priced game. What cooperation. What a greedy lazy cooperation that can't even make a resell older games in a physical format.

I legit modded my 3ds because I wanted to. For the life of me, I can not find a legit DS copy of Pokemon anymore anywhere for a reasonable price.
Nintendo was a swell company but I am not shelling out 400 dollars to have a useless controller and a cheap over priced game. What cooperation. What a greedy lazy cooperation that can't even make a resell older games in a physical format.


It strikes me as poetic that even after all this time, SEGA and Nintendo still stand out from each other. Where Nintendo will viciously strike down fangames, SEGA brings fan devs on and actively wants more fans to create projects. Sonic has some of the most ambitious fan projects I've seen, like SRB2 (an extremely old but still active fangame).

@Surprised Lobsta Most bad sonic games were bad because the game were rushed to be released (just look at sonic 06, boom and even x-treme, which was cancelled due to not able to be released in late 1996). Is SEGA, the publisher, wrong for rushing the games? Yes, very much so and I am not defending them for releasing buggy games at full price. Are the devs wrong? No, as almost all programmers hired by companies are professionals in coding. It isn't much of a surprise that bad sonic games that are badly programmed, are also the same games that were rushed to be released in the market.

Sega also takes down fan projects, like Streets of Rage. Just not Sonic.

@Surprised Lobsta trying to pass honest fan support as a dumb corporate move is exactly why Nintendo is allowed not to support fans by so many people

Yeah it's because SEGA virtually has no choice in the matter since their dwindling fanbase is all they have now and they're largely apathetic over fan creations because they don't care about the majority of their properties anymore. Look what happened when fans tried to pitch them a new JSRF game...they shot them down.

Yo Sonic Robo Blast 2 I love that game! Thank goodness it’s a Sonic fangame and not a Nintendo fangame otherwise Nintendo would have already Annihilated it.

 It’s funny how a fan game spawned a modded version of itself via Sonic Robo Blast 2 Kart and Sonic Robo Blast 2 Persona (both are awesome as well)

That's mostly because SEGA realise their rabid fans keep the company going, and do better games than most of the SEGA devs themselves


What's the video of the dancing at 26:26?


I bet you the all the 1k dislikes are hardcore Nintendo fans


make a video about valve in the same style

I think valve is a great company by definition even if they don't make the games that the fans hate

But at least they don't take down fan games however one can see as people making games for them


Nintendo got youtube to remove dislike before they could get ratiod


I’ve mentioned this before in a video I did regarding the tournament ban for Melee and Splatoon. The only way we can possibly fight back Nintendo’s merciless decisions is if we disobey all of their orders to try to shut down our projects and emulators. And it has to happen in mass. I understand that some people don’t want to risk going to jail or paying a fine but this may be the only way to combat their decisions and force them to change for good.


Lemon proving he's a true meme wizard. Incredible.


Nintendo’s relationship with their diehard fans is just embarrassing. Like they could do no wrong and that it’s a privilege to pay them money. It’s almost Pavlovian.


Its weird to me how disconnected the Fire Emblem community seems from the rest of nintendo. Theres a huge subset of the community dedicated to Rom Hacks nintendo never bothers to take down, and the fandom is known for its harsh criticism of its own games. It makes sense with the entirety of the smash fandom at their necks, but its odd just how intrinsically different one nintendo franchise's fandom is to the others.


Nintendo's basically that like old man who screams at anyone who enters his property.


Their attitude towards fan creation extends past direct involvement with their games. I’ve had fanart of a Miyamoto quote (not even from a game, just from an interview) taken down from Redbubble and gotten the DMCA appeal denied because Nintendo strikes anything that so much as mentions their franchises in the title or tags. It’s a tough pill to swallow for a company who has had such an important influence on my childhood.


All I learnt from this video is that if other companies made better video games they too could get away with murder.


Nintendo is the definition of "lawfully right,but morally wrong"

having as much money as a small country allowing you to lawyerspam anyone into submission != lawfully right


Pokemon fans (while related) are worse, they don't even have the excuse of the games beeing good. Gamefreak makes lazy mediocre and rushed games lacking many feature and the fans will still defend them and buy the games anyways.

@Lucas Fortes power creep was a result of Gamefreak balancing a game around the doubles format for VGC, a format that is only used in like 1% of the campaign, instead of Singles. As a result stuff that would be easy to handle in Doubles becomes overbearing in Singles,  pushing almost everything else down while a select few remain in their positions of viability.

I would like to make an objection here. Game Freak is not actually a bad company, and it's because they have no control whatsoever of pokemon as an IP because that's the pokemon company's property. All they do is the games, which lately have been rushed and mediocre, that's true, but I believe this has an excusable reason. Since pokemon has become such a gigantic franchise the pokemon company forces all of the companies that work for them release their next generation products at the same time: anime, movies, manga, cards,  competitive rulesets and tournaments, merchandise, real life stores and including games. Since all of those are very different types of products their development time vary wildly, and this has massive consequences on the games, because those are the types of products that take up the most amount of development time. Looking back at past generations when they didn't have such a tight schedule and games in general didn't require as much development time you could actually see the quality and charm these games had. Even in newer generations, third versions that don't have to come out at the same time as the other products are all very obvius higher quality than the ones that do. Just to give examples, BW2, ORAS, USUM and even the SwSh DLC is a much more immersive experience than the base game itself. What I mean by all this is that unlike the Sakurai example mentioned in the video, Game Freak aren't the higher ups at their respective company making shitty decisions, they are literally just making the games for them and releasing them at the time the pokemon company wants, no matter in whatever state the game is. But lately it has been taking some steps in the right direction by letting another company develop the gen 4 remakes and focusing the whole Game Freak team in a single game (which hasn't happened since like gold and silver). I honestly believe Game Freak is a bad game studio and that they try their best to make great pokemon games with the restrictions the pokemon company puts them through.

as a fan and also competitive person the power creep went too far

Let's be somewhat honest here, the whole franchise survived on pure charm alone


Corporate loyalty will never make sense to me


Great video!

I've always disliked people justifying "hey they're a company, they do whatever they want" like what's legal justifies what's moral.

By definition, laws can't match morality, and that's what public outcry, boycotts and strikes come in.

It is morally right for a business to prevent people from stealing their products.

"They're not doing anything wrong, so how can they be bad?"

In the end, if we let companies off the hook, you won't be able to escape the crap by buying something else because it will all be different shades of the same shit.


I have a friend that was "enraged" because of the smash tourney. Then was all A-OK as soon as Sephiroth came out. When I asked where the rage went, this friend answered like the Stacy Malibu episode: bit it's a new character!

@Gabe Davis As soon as he goes thru his pre trial he will and shows up on Court Cam's recent Season 4.


I like Nintendo as a game developer.

But not as a business.

@Neo- Didact oh Sorry i Did not see that part of the video when i published my comment

@Neo- Didact Game design, yes, legal, no. That's the C-suite. Also, making assumptions about motivations is always a good way to be wrong.

@Duduminetc :3 Did you watch the vid? They're not as far away and disconnected from the awful practices as you'd like to think.


patriotism is wanting the best of something, not blindly loving it even when it hurts you


the wii and dses were a big part of my family and splatoon, animal crossing, and smash are some of the coolest games ever to me, especially smash when ive looked into the past of the games and i found it inspiring where sakurai came from and what the game became, so i kinda see where the nintendo trance comes from and can only imagine it gets worse when youve been with them from the n64 days.<br>the business decisions like online kinda broke me out of that nintendo trance when the switch was still kinda young and the events in 2020 made it worse. i knew people were just gonna brush it off after the new character came out but i didnt really think about how bad that is and how strong that nintendo trance is. i dont own a switch anymore and im glad at this point.

the wii and dses were a big part of my family and splatoon, animal crossing, and smash are some of the coolest games ever to me, especially smash when ive looked into the past of the games and i found it inspiring where sakurai came from and what the game became, so i kinda see where the nintendo trance comes from and can only imagine it gets worse when youve been with them from the n64 days.
the business decisions like online kinda broke me out of that nintendo trance when the switch was still kinda young and the events in 2020 made it worse. i knew people were just gonna brush it off after the new character came out but i didnt really think about how bad that is and how strong that nintendo trance is. i dont own a switch anymore and im glad at this point.


Just to also point out: Even if people ratio a video that's associated with a particular developer (in this case Sakurai), it doesn't necessarily mean it has anything to do with said developer (nor will it likely hurt them). Given context (which there /was/), it's just a way for fans to show their disapproval of something a company did.

The company is not brainless; they can suss out the difference between fans disliking a video for the video's content vs fans probably disliking a video for the travesty the company created days prior. Comments sections exist too to clue companies in further if they really need additional help.

Nintendo, like many game devs, turns the comments section off.

I actually think the bigger issue with that argument is one of audience. Competitive Smash is incredibly niche, and issues that affect them are almost always similarly niche. The EVO shutdown went viral, but it was entirely possible for it to have been swept under the rug back then too. Comparatively, character choice is something that every single person who views those videos has an opinion on. Even if they're wrong.


This reminds me of one part of an alternate history story called "An Age of Miracles" that basically goes like this:

"Copyright is an important right that encourages production of new ideas, for a man is much more likely to aspire to creation if he knows that he, and not others, will profit from his creation."

...

"It also means that you who are reading this owe me money."


Nintendrones earned that moniker long ago. They are zealots bent on dying, or killing,  for BRAND™.<br>God help you if you try to use some form of logic or sensibility to explain to them how their behavior is INSANE, counter-intuitive to their happiness, and even sub-human.

Nintendrones earned that moniker long ago. They are zealots bent on dying, or killing,  for BRAND™.
God help you if you try to use some form of logic or sensibility to explain to them how their behavior is INSANE, counter-intuitive to their happiness, and even sub-human.


Recently there was a tweet made that mocked Smash fans for getting upset about Geno as a mii costume, saying that Smash fans got upset that Scrumblo Bimblo was in the game, which would spark a whole parade of memes mocking Smash fans for their worship of Scrumblo Bimblo

Yesterday their account was suspended for the meme. Its obvious that Smash fans abused the report function after they got called out.

If that doesn't show you how delusional Nintendo fanboys are, then idk what will

Just another reason to now hate Nintendorks even more.


This video makes me EXTREMELY glad that both SEGA and ATLUS fans are so critical of both comopanies.


The problem is the disconnect between different generations. Those of us who were around in the late 80s/early 90s see Nintendo as the heroes who made video games what they are. Alot of Nintendo fans don't see it as "An attack on Nintendo", but more of an " Attack on Video Games original culture".<br>Me personally never had a problem with Nintendo until I saw how they handled Emulation, and what did I do about it? I haven't bought a Nintendo product since! We vote with our money, and I see a lot of hypocrites in the comments section talking down on Nintendo knowing good and well they have helped keep the company afloat. Have you ever paid for a Pokemon product, or beaten Breath of the wild? If you have then you have no room to talk down upon Nintendo fans if you are part of the problem, but won't admit it

The problem is the disconnect between different generations. Those of us who were around in the late 80s/early 90s see Nintendo as the heroes who made video games what they are. Alot of Nintendo fans don't see it as "An attack on Nintendo", but more of an " Attack on Video Games original culture".
Me personally never had a problem with Nintendo until I saw how they handled Emulation, and what did I do about it? I haven't bought a Nintendo product since! We vote with our money, and I see a lot of hypocrites in the comments section talking down on Nintendo knowing good and well they have helped keep the company afloat. Have you ever paid for a Pokemon product, or beaten Breath of the wild? If you have then you have no room to talk down upon Nintendo fans if you are part of the problem, but won't admit it

@Gabe Davis I agree, but I think that also goes for people who keep buying Call Of Duty


14:08 also valve not only allowed others to make mods off hl1, they even bought them and sold them, with some of them (like cs) spawning of into their own series. they also made a new engine, source (source 2 is new so it doesnt fit this example yet) and they let other companies like EA modify them (like in titanfall 2)


A friend of mine buys every single Amiibo (as well as many other statues and officially licensed Nintendo products outside of the games) that comes out, where I just buy the characters I care about or receive as gifts. One time my phone spelled corrected Amiibos to Miami Boats and I thought to myself, goddamn, with the amount of money he's spent on amiibos he probably could buy a boat and leave it in a dock in Miami.


i get you made this with good intentions but if a nintendo fan boy already owns a switch and spends $350 for a switch with .8 extra inches of screen, better screen, wider kickstand, a bit more storage, and the same shitty joycons im going to laugh and make fun of them


This is why I can't get along with the Nintendo fanboys.  They are like that wife that gets beat but is still blindly faithful to the man. <br> "He may knock me around, but I know...... I KNOW HE STILL LOVES ME!"  They are Blindly faithful to Nintendo even when they get dumped on

This is why I can't get along with the Nintendo fanboys.  They are like that wife that gets beat but is still blindly faithful to the man.
 "He may knock me around, but I know...... I KNOW HE STILL LOVES ME!"  They are Blindly faithful to Nintendo even when they get dumped on


You know. Nintendo was the company that basically ruined my childhood with their cheap flimsy systems. This is kind of sad..... and tragic knowing for how scary of a company nintendo has truly become. To the point where their diabolical greed may eventually catch up to them and cause a third video game crash. And people will accuse Nintendo for being an atari 2.0


I disagree with Gabe's point at 9:47 . There are absolutely incidences where pricing is an issue. In fact, I argue that most games just shouldn't cost more than $30 nowadays, but that's a whole other can of worms.

Talking about old games he is right tho....


19:21 "They gave away the mod they made for free to get money" Logic everybody.


I once heard that there is no company that treats its fans worse than Nintendo and ironically there is no company that is more defended by its fans than Nintendo


I'm always pointing out how Nintendo are not the good guys despite their beloved reputation and In gamer groups I often get shouted down. But behind the cute Mario face, Nintendo are and always have been a ruthless corporation trying for many years to monopolise the whole industry. In doing so, they ironically created some of their own biggest rivals.


When Nintendo makes an oopsie a bunch of Nintendo fanboys ignore it through willful ignorance. Sony or Microsoft makes the same oopsy everybody loses their minds


All this and more is why I have no shame in sailing the seven seas when it comes to Nintendo. They don't deserve my money. Why give something in very limited supply to a company that treats me like a pay pig that's not even worth licking their boots?


Good shit Emp, loved that Technicals was there at the end lmao


this is the most beautiful video on youtube, my dude i hope you heard my thunderous applause after i watched this video


I wanted a switch but I didn't like Nintendo so I bought a new one second hand for half the msrp.<br>Nintendo doesn't get my money and i don't have to pay taxes :D

I wanted a switch but I didn't like Nintendo so I bought a new one second hand for half the msrp.
Nintendo doesn't get my money and i don't have to pay taxes :D

@smokeyjo123e If you only buy from third party why you dont Just buy a PS4? Its so much better, and Nintendo already made from your console <br>Edit:and games that you buy

@smokeyjo123e If you only buy from third party why you dont Just buy a PS4? Its so much better, and Nintendo already made from your console
Edit:and games that you buy

@Duduminetc :3 I just buy games from third parties lol<br>Nintendo doesn't get shit if I buy games off of users on craigslist and eBay. Gonna mod the thing eventually anyways.

@Duduminetc :3 I just buy games from third parties lol
Nintendo doesn't get shit if I buy games off of users on craigslist and eBay. Gonna mod the thing eventually anyways.

So........ What do you play on your switch if you dont want tô "give then money"?


As a Disney, Sony and Apple shill, I can admit when they fuck up colossally. Nintendo (and Marvel tbh) fans cannot


I like their games but they have done dumb things that I can’t look beyond


Emplemon back with the woke commentary videos. Thanks my dude.


Holy shit man, huge props for the Karn Evil 9 MIDI at 12:04

Yeah, that's the good shit, not as good as  lizard, but Karn evil 9 can get it


Emp, this video is amazing, and somehow only scratches the surface. You didn't even get into the games they actually make, which has dwindled to nearly nothing. There are also plenty of other problems, and even when comparing with other shitty entities like Microsoft creating pay to play online services, the bs Nintendo pull on a near regular basis is Ludacris.


"I'm not asking you to hate nintendo, I'm not asking you to hate nintendo fans,"

 Well that's too bad Emp because I fucking despise both of them, and by nintendo fans I don't mean people who like nintendo products, I'm talking about the specific type of people you're talking about.


Love the games, their devs, their history. Hate the company


This is exactly why I don't have a Switch, even after 4 years, and why I may get a Wii again instead. It's not even backwards compatible...

𝐄𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜 𝐌𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐃𝐨𝐯𝐞


I support piracy of crappy companies, but I don't you dare pirate amazing smaller devs.

Freedom Planet from GalaxyTrail was supposed to have a cutscene at the beginning of each save if the game was pirated. It's not used, but it's still in the game files, and it says that you can play the full game with all of its features and also gives a link to the developer's website if the person seeing it was interested in donating to them. Sabrina DiDuro even retweeted a fan project based on the game.


I wish there was a preservation clause that once something can no longer be purchased on a legal platform it should fall under a preservation clause. Maybe with a 6 month grace period for platform switches. And if something comes back to a new platform, it should not force someone from surrendering what they had to do while it was unavailable that way companies would be forced to do their own preserving or suffer the consequences.


I kinda hate the switch, 20 bucks for a service that was free in the past and old games that I already own on other consoles and the relatively weak processing power made me jump to the ps4. I used to play mk8D but after the online pay wall I just hacked my wii to play ctgp instead.

@Isauldron well yeah the price is pathetic but atleast they have features, but yeah still unbelievable.

If we're gonna roast Nintendo for charging for the online
Which I agree is disgusting
Can we also roast Xbox and Sony for the same thing?


What Nintendo did to the Melee community is horrible.

@Blue_Man "actively trying to remove" Yeah that's just not true


3:07 nostalgia hit me like a truck seeing Warcraft 3 in it's prime


The relationship between the consumer and the game they love must be separated from the relationship between the consumer and the COMPANY. Nintendo is literally tyrannical. Their games are awesome. Criticizing corporations is something we must do in mass to prevent them from getting away with their BS.


I mean the perfect analogy for Nintendo is that they’re the Disney of video games, with all the good and bad that entails! I mean like Disney they’re shady but much like everyone excused the house of mouse because they made movies and theme parks we enjoyed in our childhood growing up and immediately excuse them while either watching our favorite classic Disney animated movie or enjoying a trip to Disneyland/Disney World. Nintendo apologists are willing to excuse the big N simply because they grew up making enjoyable video games they played during their childhood.

Like I said them being called “The Disney of video games” is an apt description and it’s not a compliment considering we know what Disney is actually like as a corporation when you actually get past the “fun for the whole family and happiest place on earth” façade.


"give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt."<br>Junius Juvenalis

"give them bread and circuses and they will never revolt."
Junius Juvenalis


What scares me about emulation isn’t that it’s illegal, but that it takes up a lot of video memory from what I’ve heard.


"People, please treat Godzilla like any other human, please" - EmpLemon


Very interesting use of the clip from No Country for Old Men.<br>The coin he gives him isn't just an ordinary coin in the broad sense. What it represents saved his life. Not wholly antithetical to your point. I feel it was used flawlessly. Nintendo IS just a company, but what they represent to a lot of people is that salvation. Your points all stand. I think if I were a fanboy though, I would be hesitant at the suggestion that they instead behave more like other game companies. For the good, the bad, and the ugly of it, everything that they are comes down to them not behaving like the other game companies. For them to even step toward that, I think, creates an identity crisis. lol

Very interesting use of the clip from No Country for Old Men.
The coin he gives him isn't just an ordinary coin in the broad sense. What it represents saved his life. Not wholly antithetical to your point. I feel it was used flawlessly. Nintendo IS just a company, but what they represent to a lot of people is that salvation. Your points all stand. I think if I were a fanboy though, I would be hesitant at the suggestion that they instead behave more like other game companies. For the good, the bad, and the ugly of it, everything that they are comes down to them not behaving like the other game companies. For them to even step toward that, I think, creates an identity crisis. lol


Nothing will change as long as Nintendo makes good content.

@PX8916 They got new releases of classic franchises like Metroid and Zelda(botw). And as long as we are getting one a year fans will be loyal. And forget all wrongs.

Nintendo guide for lazy ports:
Step 1: Make fans angry
Step 2: They forget
Step 3: People buy it anyways
Step 4: Profit

"Good Content"
mostly rereleases and sequels of the same repetitive stuff

"Good Content"
*mostly rereleases and sequels of the same repetitive stuff*


I would love nothing more than to pay Nintendo to play the Metroid Prime Trilogy on Switch. But my only options are Dolphin or trying to find a Gamecube and all three physical copies of the games.


The 978 Nintendo fanboys vs the chad 59k Nintendo enjoyers


About half way through this video and I'm just thinking about how important remix is to music.


Without mods Bethesda wouldn’t even exist anymore


Bought a switch and a few games last week. All used. And probably will never spend a dime on the online service because it's that garbage.

Glad I saw a few people on forums last week not jump onto the oled bandwagon. I'll buy anything used so that they don't make a single penny from me


The new switch is a good example. It has a new screen and it can now hold up to 4 games total without an SD card. That's literally it. And they're not dropping the price on anything else (to my knowledge).
I don't know if you covered this or not, but the super Mario 3d all stars is another prime example of Nintendo's hypocrisy. Take down emulation sites that have games that my country (U.S.) charges over 200 dollars for old ass games (any Pokemon game behind gen 5, a few Zelda and Mario titles, etc) and refuse to offer any alternatives, while simultaneously emulating three roms of your own games on a cartridge and selling it for 60 bucks for only a couple months (because money and reasons) without making any improvements or updates to the games period.
Everything Nintendo I own is either emulated or bought pre-owned, though it's not like I'm starving them, but it makes me feel better when I'm not paying 200 dollars for a 15 year old game


No one ever realized that the enemies of Super Mario Bros. 2 arent technically canon?


Nintendo makes good games but everything else is bad


If Nintendo's public relations were as good as their games, maybe gamers would venerate the company like an actual religion?


The algorithm hid this from me for two weeks? Shit<br>And I will never forgive Nintendo for AM2R

The algorithm hid this from me for two weeks? Shit
And I will never forgive Nintendo for AM2R


Nintendo is more lenient on fans covering their PR than fans putting blood sweat and tears in fan projects about their titles.


Melee doesn't have glitches,

It has "engine exploits"


You know, SEGA is the complete opposite. They welcome fan games as long as no one tries to profitoff them

@Röperfield Yea they do, or the companies they own do at least (which by extension is them).  U got shit like Sonic Mania out here, u got Yakuza and it's spinoff Judgement by RGG, and the Megaten franchise which includes games like SMT and Persona

They have their own stupid issues but they’re still not as bad as Nintendo.

@Röperfield but at least they actually respect the fans. And as for the games, that may be changing

That's good and all but they still don't make good games


Nintendo make some of the best experiences of all time, so its really hard to take in what they do to there fans

@V Games I mean differnet companies make different quality products and Nintendo games are a unique experience that set the bar very high, you think that would be the most difficult thing any company would have to do but Nintendo doesn't know what wifi is

"Nintendo make some of the best experiences of all time" and so does most other video game companys, so i don't see why everyone thinks Nintendo is the best.


make a video about the rise and fall of battle bears and how it serves as a lesson of how to not run a gaming company and how to ruin a good thing

@nutsack vlogz If your shit's got gold nuggets somewhere in there, yeah, I guess so.

Excellent Idea. Do it, Emp! It's a subject worth your time.


Actually the main difference is probably game quality overall. People don't consider nintendo's policy ok, but most of their games still end up being widely considered top tier.

Compare that to any developper you listed - the ball isn't just dropped in terms of public relations but in terms of game quality.

I also don't believe any of the events you pointed out (release of a major game, political position of the company) compare in scope to the events you associated with nintendo (you said yourself that competitive melee is niche ; shuting down a splatoon tornament and a charity event doesn't have nearly the same impact as either of the other events).

Not trying to defend nintendo here (I am ultimately very critical of nintendo practices, especially concerning fangames), just pointing out you have a tendancy to present "fandoms" as a monolithe and as one of the main force responsable for X/Y problem in your videos. While I understand it makes for a compeling argument, it's ultimately rather shallow when put under scrutiny.

Blizzard has been under fire because of the mediocrity of multiple titles and mistreatment of their fanbase - the day nintendo releases a game like reforged, there'll be some backlash.


The Chadwardenn reference at the end though. What a different time that was.


I'd like Nintendo not selling figurines at all if they only release 14 pieces of said figures for the whole planet.


Yeah I think Nintendo is bad. I think just most people at the end of the day don't care about it. Its unfortunate truly.


I love Nintendo games, I love Nintendo ips, but I don't love Nintendo.  They have the hard parts down... 🤣


Nintendo is unironically greedier than EA and Activision.


I don't agree with Nintendo practices and I am not defending them but I still really like the games and I'll keep buying them as long as the games are good?


17:59
I HATE THE PILL

god still makes me laugh after all these years


Wait SVTFOE's in the worst fandoms starter pack at 18:56 but not JOJO?!

As a fan of both, I felt attacked

Also 16:30 broke me! Gave me a hearty chuckle

And at 27:35, but not at Fortnite, because FoRtNiTe BaD and Reddit will hunt you down


NOOOOOOO you can't just claim bing bing wahooo is bad, REDDIT TEAM ASSEMBLE!


David Dobrik wishes he had the kind of hold on his cult that Nintendo has on theirs.


As an animal crossing fan, I’ve woken up. They couldn’t care less about our experience anymore. I’m sick of Nintendo not delivering where it counts.


Your right Nintendo doesn’t care people we have to step up rise to stop this abuse and together we can not only stop Nintendo’s wrong doings but make them se the light


Nintendo makes good games but they are assholes who always screw their customers. I love them but they make downright irresponsible and baffling moves. I'm kinda glad I don't play videogames that much anymore...


I still have zsnes from 2000 burned on a cd. It was nice to see it pop up in a vid.


Great video! However I feel like you bring up smash bros alot. I enjoyed when you brought up modding alot and other topics


"HoW cAn yOu HaTE NiNteNDo??? ThEy sAvEd tHe GAmEs iNdUsTrY!!"

Yeah, well if they didn't...
Someone else would have.

Me @ annoying Nintendo fans who bring that up... Like, stfu, that's not even a point. Lmao.. So brainwashed. Istg.

*"HoW cAn yOu HaTE NiNteNDo??? ThEy sAvEd tHe GAmEs iNdUsTrY!!"*

Yeah, well if they didn't...
Someone else would have.

Me @ annoying Nintendo fans who bring that up... Like, stfu, that's not even a point. Lmao.. So brainwashed. Istg.


Also y does no one talk about how in the new Mario kart you could be like in 1st on lap 3 and ur right up on the finish line like super far ahead then u get hit with a blue shell and u end up in last

And it’s only on the switch version if Nintendo was smart (they aren’t) they’d rerelease Mario kart on the Wii I need coconut mall


I assume this is in response to Nintendo winning a $40m lawsuit and then realizing they couldn’t collect and then whining


I thought this video was very well made other than the extremely odd part about Sakurai. You're absolutely right that he's still influenced by Nintendo and disliking a Smash video isn't taking dinner off his plate, but it seemed like much of the rant was dedicated to portraying a game developer as someone who makes business decisions for Nintendo as a whole. I'm not so sure if Masahiro Sakurai himself, or other video game developers for Nintendo, have much say over the business decisions regarding emulation or flexing of copyright rights. It would've made much more sense to me if you were talking about someone like Reggie Fils-Aime or Bill Trinen, people who Nintendo fans also love but certainly have much greater control over the issues you talk about in this video.

The other thing I noticed was that I think a lot of people just don't care about things like #FreeMelee, like the last tweeter in the video. I'm not sure if they're a mindless product consumer as much as someone who doesn't watch or care about Melee, so they don't care about Nintendo's actions towards it. Maybe a more apt point would be that they should care about things that don't affect them. Regardless, I think overall the message is good.

Otherwise this is a great video, and as someone who loves many Nintendo games I think it's something important a lot of other people who love their games or people who like the company should hear more of.

With all due respect, I am afraid that near that part, the video transitioned from being a criticism to being a rant, making sure to refute the bad tweets directed to Emp and prove himself right, as evident by the change in tone and feelings of resentment.<br>Still an enjoyable video though.

With all due respect, I am afraid that near that part, the video transitioned from being a criticism to being a rant, making sure to refute the bad tweets directed to Emp and prove himself right, as evident by the change in tone and feelings of resentment.
Still an enjoyable video though.