As a Nintendo fan myself, This video perfectly represents the culture and toxicity of Nintendo fans I've been witnessing, especially on Twitter. Like, Nintendo Fans will go hellbent on hating anything Fire Emblem, anime or non-Nintendo related, but don't have a backbone to knock Nintendo themselves down-a-peg. And Nintendo are not better themselves no better. Why self-sabotage your community a dedicated their livelihood to get on Esports and fangames that give you free publicity? Nintendo need to change their obsolete policies, and to do that, we need to change on how we view Nintendo. Only time will tell.

@_GLXC I don't really have many expectations one way or another. Kazuya's fine, but I would've much rather had Agumon be Bandai Namco's second rep.

@TheAbsol Thats good to hear, I just see a lot of people who actually will just ignore game franchises for arbitrary reasons and to me it just appears like prideful ignorance. Personally for me, I have no real interest in any of the new fighters, (or the ones the fanbase generally thinks are good picks for that matter), so I'm a little indifferent when it comes to Byleth or Kazuya "stealing character slots" or whatever. And the characters I do want in smash are probably not even getting a mii costume, so I don't really go in with the expectation that "my character" will get in Smash (like most smash fans). All this makes me incredibly surprised when people will get so emotionally upset because geno or sora didnt make it in this time, to me it just isnt as serious as people make it out to be.

Look, I know everybody’s heard horror stories of groups of fans doing immoral, “cringe”, and sometimes illegal things, or just starting civil wars or whatever, but these fans are always either individuals or small organized cliques of radicals that don’t represent the whole fandom. Every time such a story surfaces, the actions of the vocal minority are condemned by the 99% of good fans. (And by the way, arguing doesn’t make a fandom toxic. Arguing is healthy if handled well. If it isn’t handled well and emotions are taken too far, refer back to what I said about radical fans). Every fandom has a vocal minority, even if they don’t make headlines. You’re more likely to hear such stories from bigger communities, but the ratio of “crazy” to “normal” is the same across fandoms as per a statistical phenomenon called the Law of Large Numbers. People hate fandoms all the time, even though they most likely engage in fandoms themselves. Liking something makes you part of that fandom. And before you push up your anime glasses and tell me that “actually, fandom is short for ‘fanatic domain’ and I am a NORMAL fan, not a crazy fanatic”, may I remind you that denotation does not equal connotation, so while “fanatic” brings to mind images of crazy devotion, it’s just the long word for “fan”. Fan is short for fanatic (as per Oxford Dictionary, or Merriam-Webster, I don’t recall), like how rap is an acronym for “rhythm and poetry” but has become its own word. Also, a domain is just a group in the broadest possible sense, accurately capturing how large and diverse fandoms are. Therefore, a fandom is just all the fans of a specific thing. Your level of engagement in a fandom doesn’t determine how much of a fan you are. Fanartists depend on casuals who view their art, for instance. The masses are just as important as the creators. By hating fandoms, you’re also hating on people who have genuinely been helped by finding a sense of community by connecting with like-minded people. Fandoms don’t ruin things for you if you find the right people in said fandom to interact with. With bigger fandoms especially, it’s not hard. I get that negativity is stronger than positivity, but you’ve got to fight that internal conflict for your own good. It’s your fault that vocal minorities of weird fans are never recognized as such, and are instead chalked up to the whole group. Furthermore, if you say that you like x but hate x fandom, you’re hating yourself too. Remember, you’re technically still part of the fandom, and there’s no rules for how much to have to engage with other people in order to be a fan. I know it’s a popular thing on the internet, but homicidal self-deprecation is unhealthy. It doesn’t matter if you’re trying to say “I’m one of the good fans”, people calling your fandom toxic will still not accept you. “Holding companies accountable” won’t change their tyranny, at least not reliably. Either join the communist movement in destroying private industry or shut up.

@_GLXC I don't really let Smash affect stuff like that. Smash is a massive celebration of video game history so it sucked to see Fire Emblem take away a spot from other potential characters, but it doesn't affect my interest in Fire Emblem. I still wanna play the ones that I hear are good.

@TheAbsol I think you shouldn't let that stop you. At the end of the day the importance placed on a video game character's inclusion in another video game is WAY too high (Same with how much people care about de-confirms with mii costumes tbh). Same thing with gatekeeping and other stuff, these things don't actually stop you from trying a videogame and seeing for yourself. I personally remember going into some games with pre-concieved biases from other equally irrelevant reasons and came out more impressed. <br>(Though, if there is any reason FE is overrepresented in smash it's because we got 3 characters from FE:Awakening, had they cut Lucina and forgotten chrom I dont think byleth would have seemed nearly as bad as it did)

@TheAbsol I think you shouldn't let that stop you. At the end of the day the importance placed on a video game character's inclusion in another video game is WAY too high (Same with how much people care about de-confirms with mii costumes tbh). Same thing with gatekeeping and other stuff, these things don't actually stop you from trying a videogame and seeing for yourself. I personally remember going into some games with pre-concieved biases from other equally irrelevant reasons and came out more impressed.
(Though, if there is any reason FE is overrepresented in smash it's because we got 3 characters from FE:Awakening, had they cut Lucina and forgotten chrom I dont think byleth would have seemed nearly as bad as it did)

@Brawltendo Thats not what the point of the argument is tho. He pointed at the people on twitter that were saying that it is unfair to dislike a video on youtube because of Nintendo's decision making (Big House). The same people who are aware of both situations in the instance of Byleth were all for dislike bombing the hell out of the video because of Nintendo's decision making. Point being that it was a double standard on the part of the community, and he was pointing out that is why nintendo fans are easily pacified (and thus overly defensive) after nintendo intentionally harms a part of the community for little to no reason.
So there are a few sides here:
1. Melee fans like you that keep consistent with how you try to communicate thoughts with nintendo. (Like you say, the minority in the community)
2. Hipocrites on twitter who basically claiming that Byleth being added to smash is a worse thing for Nintendo to do than doing actual malicious harm to their fanbase by cancelling a tournament that would have been a huge help to the community during COVID. But this also includes people that reasonably thought that the tournament thing was worse, but for some reason chose not to dislike bomb sephiroth because of the double standard. (What EMP was focusing on; Vocal minority of the fanbase, vocal majority on twitter).
3. The silent majority disconnected from the greater smash community, though it's important to note that a lot of these people are probably not very likely to interact with the video in the first place, since a lot of them are just kids who probably dont even have a youtube account, but im just basing it off of how my parents controlled tech around me as a kid, idk if nowadays every 3rd grader on the planet has a youtube account to like and dislike videos.
So in the end was it unfair of EMP to say smash fans are like this? Kinda, but in the context of the majority of people on twitter, I'd say its a pretty fair assessment of the people there. At the end of the day it serves the more important point that Nintendo fans are not as strict with Nintendo as they should be, which is frankly true, and is a message would only be positive to Nintendo as a company and its fans in the long run. Even if the whole nintendo community was split on Nintendo bad/good, the Nintendo bad crowd will always have some leniency because "the games are good tho" or "poor innocent sakurai".

@Griggs58 You can do the same with Scientology.

@Silver Wing “Won’t somebody please think of the multi-national trillion dollar company!?”

Bullying Nintendo pfft, yeah okay bud lol

What if I hate the over abundance of FE characters in Smash AND Nintendo at the same time? This is the one problem I had with Emp’s argument there. He acted as if there wasn’t any crossover between people that were upset about both things. He also has to keep in mind that a lot of the Melee community doesn’t give enough of a shit about whatever Nintendo releases to go and dislike bomb videos. So in the case of the Sephiroth showcase, it was likely just gonna be people that A. didn’t even know what was going on, or B. were fake and unrelated to the Melee scene and just made basic statements about the situation for clout on Twitter. So in the end it just leaves people like me who love Melee, hate Nintendo, but are still interested in the things they show off just to stay up to date. We’re the ones that went and left dislikes (well us and those that were tired of <i>more</i> DLC swordies), which is a tiny minority of people as you can imagine.

What if I hate the over abundance of FE characters in Smash AND Nintendo at the same time? This is the one problem I had with Emp’s argument there. He acted as if there wasn’t any crossover between people that were upset about both things. He also has to keep in mind that a lot of the Melee community doesn’t give enough of a shit about whatever Nintendo releases to go and dislike bomb videos. So in the case of the Sephiroth showcase, it was likely just gonna be people that A. didn’t even know what was going on, or B. were fake and unrelated to the Melee scene and just made basic statements about the situation for clout on Twitter. So in the end it just leaves people like me who love Melee, hate Nintendo, but are still interested in the things they show off just to stay up to date. We’re the ones that went and left dislikes (well us and those that were tired of _more_ DLC swordies), which is a tiny minority of people as you can imagine.

Bruh, it wasn't Nintendo's fault who had to cancel the Splatoon tournament, it was their own fans, forcing Nintendo to shut down the Splatoon tournament so that they could keep complaining about them.  I mean, haven't you heard of reverse psychology?  That was what they did to have an excuse to bully the Mario company.

@FoolishFool but why is it just fire emblem fans? I like origami king and fire emblem but I’m not gonna go out of my way to harass people for speaking their opinion. Plus I agree with the fans that criticize Nintendo’s mistreatment of the smash community.

@Bleh Rodríguez I dunno. Remember how petty Animal Crossing game got whenever New Horizons wasn't announced?

The only thing they need to keep about their current business model is the seal of quality. Paid online without servers? Axe it. Selling Cardboard? Axe it. Locking stuff behind amiibo? Axe it.

I'm interested in getting into Fire Emblem, but I can't be stand how it's overrepresented in Smash. As for non Nintendo games, I don't see Nintendo fans hating them much, but I also don't see a lot of Nintendo fans supporting them.

I find it ironic that Fire Emblem fans, much like the smash fans before them, were constantly complaining about new characters coming out in a game. This time, instead of smash, it was Fire Emblem Heroes, where people were complaining about too many characters from one game were being added.

the toxic fans are fire emblem fans, they are the same fans that say Paper Mario: The Origami King is great and will attack the fans that legitimately criticize Nintendo for their treatment of the smash community. they attack real fans for wanting characters in smash that are popular before the 3DS and will also attack them for wanting new games in series like Pikmin, Star Fox, Rhythm Heaven etc. even real Fire Emblem fans don’t like the new games because of the simplified mechanics. you are your own worst enemy. these come from the crowd that has only played the 3DS and Switch and no other Nintendo consoles. or their first Nintendo console was the Switch. that’s why they are so toxic. they are casual normies.


My favorite thing is when people quote the misconception that the company is compelled to viciously protect their copyright or else they lose it, without providing any court precedent for this, and when they do it's for a trademark.


What’s the song in the background around 13:00?

Karn evil 9 First impression pt 1 by Emerson, Lake and Palmer


I agree, getting sick of Nintendo releasing ports and it’s fans pretending that it’s a new game.

it might as well be a new game to the masses that defend them being children with stuff like Mario Sunshine being over a decade short of a rerelease that may have not experienced it
Its stuff like that that cant make me blame people for getting 3D All Stars if theyre not aware/dont want to use emulation for whatever reason.
Its just very unfortunate that the one going after emulation is the one who hardly bothers to give an proper alternative, worst part is they completely get away with this and they wont care until otherwise it fails.


Honestly while I was very excited to see Sephiroth in Smash Bros. I couldn't help but realize how....strange it looked. Nintendo was in very hot fire so what do they...release not only a new Smash character...but one that many would be excited for. But to me...it almost looked like Nintendo was covering their ass by distracting them with Sephiroth as the fans get distracted by him and ignore everything else that put them in hot fire. But that's just my theory.....

It's why I joked around that whenever Nintendo is in some deep shit. They go to Sakurai to make the fans happy with a new Smash character while they try to sweep every bad thing under the rug

Reminds me of how blizzard announced overwatch 2 to calm people down after the hearthstone player controversy

The Sephiroth presentation was great. Sadly it was ruined from the previous Smash character entry.


Does anyone know what the video of that guy dancing with his switch is called

@Not Funny Person I can’t understand a word you’re saying through your thick accent but I like that extra toasty cheezit response


The root of the problem is intellectual property laws and the governments that have enough power to enforce such state-granted monopolization. Corporatism and cronyism ruin capitalism.

@JayTB Agorism, private city-states, private law.

@Wishcop I didn't know capitalism meant lobbying politicians for rent-seeking legislation from the state for special privileges. I guess Adam Smith didn't account for that obvious answer /s

@chbrules Well, what do we do when the companies have a stranglehold on on the government? Like here in America where lawmakers are bought out by lobbyists?

@Michael Blakemore guess I mistyped. By greed i mean anti consumer practices such purposely making overpriced controllers prone to breaking. Smaller businesses can also be anti consumer, but unless they have no competition, they’re less likely to get away with it unlike big corporations like Ea and Nintendo

@Wishcop yeah, hut there are small companies that are greedy also. Nintendo just was good at making games, which allowed this to fly for so long

This is just capitalism plain and simple. We can cry cronyism all day but if anything Nintendo has won at the game of capitalism. People don’t wanna realize the problems with Nintendo and keep consuming which encourages their actions. While it might help a bit, fixing IP rights won’t make Nintendo change their greedy ways.

How do we get rid of cronyism and corporatism? I wish we had answers.


Never the Phrase "Sega Does Nintendon't" Maked More Sense Now


I was surprised to see Solarlight be shown in an EmpLemon video. Congrats.

demoknight tf2

It's Mr. Demoknight TF2 Himself, an honor to see you here

i have came to deliver a message : <b>demokinght tf2</b>

i have came to deliver a message : *demokinght tf2*

@Huy Nguyen don't tell me I'm gonna get notified every time someone says demoknight tf2


yooo my boy Hbomberguy appears for a ratio les goo


I do think that Nintendo's consumer loyalty has its limits, and that they've been skirting close to it lately. As brought out in the video, the issue is where the mistakes committed by Nintendo affect the majority of consumers in a fundamental way, not just the most "dedicated" or niche elements. The video brought up Pokemon under the "Nintendo" blanket, but failed to mention the heavy damage that Pokemon Sword/Shield did to customer faith, specifically in Game Freak. If Nintendo itself commits a sin comparable to that, I'd bet that the opinion would turn against them. They do have a LOT of goodwill to burn through, but so did Pokemon, and they finally did some damage to their customers' faith.

@Liar With A Gun Thats not really an issue tbh, Pokemon revenue comes mostly outside of the games anyway so the only thing hurt was gamefreaks credibility as a developer.

@HoaroBatty Monetarily? As far as I know the game was a huge success.

But just like how Cyberpunk 2077 was a also a huge financial success despite its flaws, Sword/Sheild also greatly tarnished GameFreak's reputation and people's blind faith in them.

Now many people will become much cautious and critical of their products as their illusion of infallibility has been removed.

So basically, nothing much will be happening to them and people real into that niche will still buy all their games, but people will start complaining about the game's flaws as well. Basically how yearly Sports games and CoD games are done now.


THANK YOU EMP. I’m seriously getting pissed with Nintendo’s shit, especially with what they did with super Mario 3D all stars, one of the most horrible things they’ve done. Their disgust for fan games, their low level effort for high prices, and their blatant anti consumerism. I’m seriously considering just dropping Nintendo completely if the steam deck comes out, because Nintendo hasn’t proven to me that they actually care about consumers.


this is probably one of my favorite youtube videos. everything about this is so good, you have a real talent for making entertaining video essays, the balance of information and jokes is just right and also just everything in this video sums up how i feel about nintendo so it was just fun to listen to someone just completely destroy the subject and be funny about it too


This is kind of the Emplemon summary. In a single video, Emp talks about the decline of a video game company, copyright abuse by said company, how copyright smuggling should be applied in the case of Nintendo, how a shitty fandom can influence a company's actions, why disliking is still important, and why people on twitter are wrong about everything. The only things missing from this video are Dale Earnhardt and meme culture


I had to leave Fire Emblem, Kirby, and Pokemon due to how deranged the Nintendo fandom is these days.
Emplemon, your video on Nintendo and how scummy they get when it comes to business practices and how psychotic their fans are made me feel a lot better to let go of Nintendo in general and go out to find better things to enjoy. Because your money isn't worth it with Nintendo's IPs at this point.
I recently got into Monster Hunter and FATE. I haven't looked back.

Honestly, I've been taking a break from fire emblem too. It's fandom is just pain.

I know right lol I just wanna play zelda :(


What's so sad about this is that people like me will press like on this video agreeing with everything it has to say, but still waste their money on crap like Mario 3D All-Stars.


EmpLemon, this is a really good video. You’ve done your research and it shows, shedding light on some of the cold hard facts not everyone sees.

The problem here is the call to action at the end. You say that it’s up to Nintendo fans to wake up and realize that these are just video games and Nintendo is just a company. I imagine you hoped to find someone thinking, “You know what? You’re right! I can’t defend Nintendo anymore, my eyes have been opened!” But what you got instead is a whole bunch of people agreeing with you saying things like, “Yeah, Nintendo fans are huge man-babies, and Nintendo is a soulless greedy corporation.”

Here’s the thing. And I’m not saying this to you, but everyone. Pointing at a group of people and saying they suck and they’re toxic and they need to change has never changed a damn thing. Change has to happen from within, on an individual level. We live in a time where insecurity, emotional immaturity, and a lack of social intelligence run rampant. People are broken. It is up to each of us to look inside of ourselves and ask, “Am I part of the problem? Where are my priorities? Is this really all that important?”

If enough people do this, maybe society could improve. But it can’t happen by spreading negativity and accusations left and right, even though that needs to happen sometimes. It’s up to you. Whoever’s reading this. Start with the person in the mirror.

Treddox, i agree that maybe saying that those people suck isnt it, but with how they reacted to Emplemons nintendo smash tweet and how they keep defending nintendo for their BS. i will say that the fandom does need to change.

Nintendo might be on a Downward Spiral, but we do still have a chance to climb out of this pit. These Sealed Grounds don’t go on forever.

Wonderful and actual comment about how to change things from the bottom, not only about Nintendo. Hate and flame will always live on the internet and some people will never care about solutions to change, it's up to people to find a middleground and understand better


Great content Emp! Never knew about this struggle for Nintendo fans. Thanks for all your hard work and dedication to quality!


Fantastic video. Small correction, the video game industry didn't crash as a whole. The video game console market crashed, in the PC games world it was business as usual.


Just the wonderful mix of video documentary and the slight twist of YTP-level editing makes your videos so enjoyable to watch, and the information presented in the videos is typically super accurate. Some details can slip through the cracks, but that's natural. What a wonderful and unique video style


24:54 Brilliantly spoken . This point tied to the Neverland theme is the observation to mark this entire generation . All Internet self-righteous Fanaticism is basically this. We all want to be pacified with indulgence

24:54 *Brilliantly spoken* . This point tied to the Neverland theme is the *observation to mark this entire generation* . All Internet self-righteous Fanaticism is basically this. We all want to be pacified with indulgence

And you're a little golden child who doesn't?


I'm glad someone actually talked about this.
I honestly hope Nintendo treats their consumers better, but since I don't see this happening any time soon, perhaps the company will collapse one day and then passionate fans can start releasing fan games and creations without having it taken down.

I'm kinda looking forward to seeing fan creations such as a moddable Mario Galaxy fan game I could play on PC, just to name a thing. I get that fan games don't quite feel the same as real Nintendo games but if that's our only way of being able to make fan creations without having it deleted then I guess there is no other choice.

With the free to use/open source 3D game engines we have nowadays it's quite easy to create 3D fan games
(I work on games myself, can confirm that once you learn how to make a game it becomes quite easy with the available tools).


There needs to be more videos exactly like this one. When I watch this I want nothing but more 👌


Nintendo is really making the company that managed to loose consumer credit and identity information (Sony) look like a saint, right now.


We needed this video so badly. Thank you


Great video. It's so funny that people went crazy about Byleth for being "anime sword fighter" when Sephiroth is the same, but with nostalgia factor

Byleth uses more weapons than just a sword

Nintendorks have severe double standards.

Sword fighter from japanese game I didn't play as a dumb child: ANGERY

Sword fighter from japanese game I did play as a dumb child: YEEEEEESSS NINTENDO TAKE MY WALLET


Good video with really nice rising action that matched the music, which were good choices.  Super good points and we'll explained feelings of a community


This video has been a splash of cold water to wake me from what Nintendo has been doing, I already knew a lot of what they’ve done but I learnt new things like how chinease kids were used to manufacture the wii U. I used to have lots of bias towards smash (and still do) but I need to come to turns that Nintendo is making absolutely awful business practices, as much as I don’t want to dislike smash’s final fighter’s presentation probably ever I have to come to turns that I need to stop. That video will probably be last Nintendo video I like if Nintendo changes there ways, and even then I still don’t think I will. Nintendo needs to do better.


I’m may be just another random internet dude but this video was a masterpiece. You embodied the soul of melee and the creators of fan prodjects and presented it in an amazingly simple, yet extremely compelling argument. But hey, three new areas were added in Pokémon snap and I’m just so exited to take pictures of the 20 new Pokémon!


i myself grew up with nintendo, it brought me through the worst peek of living. now? i moved on to enjoy other games and appreciate consoles which didn't get as much love and respect but are iconic in their own right, plus many nintendo fans(myself included)are much more aware now of the woes modders and the community as a whole. hell even back then I was well aware of the mod scene/VGM scene/emu scene/fangame scene being an utter warzone with fans and the company constantly trying to get the upper hand, its been a thing I've known since I was 8 years old back in 2011, honestly I'm glad people are now aware of this more now than ever... as for the nintendo fandom? its scary, it genuinely is horrific.


I'm really happy people have been giving these issues more attention recently. Nintendo really needs to respect their fans, and the fans need to respect the haters.


this channel need to hit more views and sub
you got mine
and you just explain everything i try to thinking out
open up my mind like always


Chuggaaconroy is the only Nintendo YouTuber I can think of who made Nintendo videos all the way from like 2007-now. But he got explicit consent from Nintendo to make his videos.


Here a month after posting: to add to the list, the fix to the Joycon drift was literally as simple as applying slight pressure to the stick internally. It can literally be solved with a tiny strip of c a r d b o a r d.

God, I grew up with Nintendo, but it's so difficult to say to myself that I would support them whatsoever if their exclusives were available elsewhere.

@Mercury Their games and consoles sell extremely well I doubt that’s from all 20 somethings or people who grew up with them, the switch has almost sold fucking 100mil.Its a constant cycle with no end in site.

Hilarious that the joycon drift issue can be fixed with cardboard. It's like someone told Nintendo that. "Hmm, so you're saying we can sell them cardboard and they'll thank us for it?" "Wait no-"

THE BRAND NEW, NINTEDO LABO!

@Mercury I doubt they'll ever fall hard like Sega did. Something like that would be nigh impossible, but if they keep acting like this? Then who knows what'll happen to them if their consumer base catches on and leaves.


16:42 A 3.9 star score at glass door really doesn't suggest that Nintendo necessarily treats their employees well. Amazon, everyone's favorite company when it comes to how they treat their employees, has a score of 3.8 so...

Glassdoor is US focused so it'd be pretty irrelevant anyway. Nintendo does have a reputation for treating employees well in Japan though.


Genuinely great video! I hope Nintendo borrows some notes from SEGA and other companies regarding their customer treatment and relations. Would be so exciting to see a new Nintendo, more in tune with the good parts of modern day businesses

@Andy Blanton yeah people seem to praise Sega for it when it only happened one time lol

Here we have another "Sega lets people make as many bootlegs as they want. Why can't Nintendo be more like them?" Post.


Video games and Anime are really interesting cuz it's the first time that an American will know what it's like to be treated as a secondary Market.

From my perspective, Nintendo has clearly viewed Japan as its primary market for basically its entire existence, and ability to appeal outside of that as a secondary bonus. Japan only games aren't something that just went away in the early 2000s they have been a consistent staple of Nintendo strategy for almost its entire lifetime up to the switch. entire longrunning franchises have never left Japan,  indicating to me that they think that as long as it does well domestically They Don't Really Care how it does around the world, if it DOES do well in the west it's a bonus.

I think one of the overly optimistic presuppositions of this video is that it presumes that the developers are keenly aware of what WE think of their products and are ignoring us, but, and maybe this is me just being cynical, I feel like there's a good chance that they don't go on to forgen message boards and read angry comments about the direction of Paper Mario / whatch several hour videos all made in languages that a lot of the artists probobly can't even speak, in a country on the other side of the globe.

Like how many of these things are being read/watched by the NOA people and sent to the higher ups in Japan? " I have my report boss, there's this cookie monster puppet on YouTube and he's very angry about origami king, I know you wanted me to keep you updated on this"

Like, do WE as artists take deep consideration of artistic critisizims from our secondary markets? "Hey, Dan harmon this is really important, this popular Tv reviewer in france really didnt like the last episode, I think we need a deep reconsideration of what to do next"

@daniloberserk thank you! I spent like an hour writing that XP I knew no one would read it but I really wanted to get it off my chest cuz it had been bugging me for like a week lol


What a video, dude. 10/10, deserves more views.


Nintendo fans "Our souls for the Emperor!"<br>Me "Your Faith is misplaced!"

Nintendo fans "Our souls for the Emperor!"
Me "Your Faith is misplaced!"


Thanks dude. I can see this making some sort of difference in the future.


One of the most important documentaries of our age.


this has helped me reach realization on the situation


It's not all about the nostalgia... They unfortunately still make good games

@oh darn, it’s me You don't make your case look good if that's all you have to say.

@Neogears this is an awful lot of incoherent word jumble for a single shitpost


Wow, I instantly noticed that Karn Evil 9 soundtrack, and I'm really really grateful that you used it. And surprised as well. Emerson Lake and Palmer is one of my favorite bands, and it definitely deserves more recognition nowadays


The best part about this problem is that it will eventually (a long eventually) solve itself. The fanatics will age and the new people (like me) will want to play these great games they've heard about, but the only way to do so involves spending hundreds of dollars on original hardware (and get a product worse than emulation) so they'll eventually emulate or abandon nintendo


I've been a Nintendo fan all my life, but the way they treat their own fanbase is abysmal. It's like they do all this for fun, out of pure malice, because literally no other video game company does this shit


Wonder what would Emp's take on Konami would be? Would love to see that.


Hey emp, I've been watching your videos for years and it's crazy how u have grown so much. I just want to thank for uploading and helping find some damn good entertainment these days. A question I have is why did you delete your older ytps? I can't remember what video you said it in (maybe it was mumkey idk) but u said anyone who deletes videos is erasing history. I'm not mad as there's always some dude archiving yt vids, was just wondering. Thx for taking the time to read this.

He was just sick of all the copyright claims on those videos and didn’t want to risk losing his channel because of them

he deleted them because they posed a legit threat to his channel. he has them uploaded to archive.org now, go check them out there.


i like nintendo games and stuff, but i avoid showing im a fan almost entirely. The one time i went to an actual event for anything was the zelda symphony. I like zelda music and i like going to see symphonies. Well i got there, and i was appalled when i saw the merch line. People busting out multiple credit cards to try and buy a 20$ poster or a shirt
grown adults asking their parents on a loan. People scrambling to try and get as much as possible with little funds. I even overheard one person say "hmm i think i have enough food money after this"
Like wtf? It pissed me off. Music was fine but at a certain point i was just done with ever trying to go an event like that again. Let alone displaying i am a fan of nintendo products. Id much rather just enjoy the games quietly at home and critique poor decisions rather than just blindly pay for crap.


22:23 This image is beautiful. I fully agree that so many people try to compartmentalize Nintendo so they don't have to confront that the company they're stans for is actually a pile of shit. The whole segment about fans turning a blind eye to Nintendo was gold.

We know it's happening, but we ignore it since we know there's nothing we can do about it, so might as well pretend it didn't happen.


Man... This has gotten so depressing that I’ve started tuning out “Nintendo does awful thing again” news<br>I should switch to playstation.

Man... This has gotten so depressing that I’ve started tuning out “Nintendo does awful thing again” news
I should switch to playstation.


There is one other group of people that are analogous to Nintendo fans, and it's a good analog for Nintendo in general.

Apple users and the company, respectively.


Thank you for the recent videos, when I first saw your videos, it gave me new insight on a lot of things, and has improved my school essays and way of thinking


I am a Nintendo fan. Almost all of my video systems are Nintendo systems. However, that does not mean I support this behavior. I am not going to buy a lot of their games. I agree with everything in this video. I do not support the Nintendo fan base.


If you ever wonder why Nintendo is so stubborn, consider the fact that they were literally founded in the 1800s.


Maybe its the fact that i coincidentally stopped playing nintendo games when i started middle school, but ive always seen nintendo doing things like these because their brand is built around games for families/children and they dont want their reputation tarnished by sweaty neckbeards wasting their time trying to competitively play a game for 9 year olds.

The fan projects are a differen thing though, i dont really see the need to take them down when they could just hire the people making it and then sell the games profesionally like with steam/valve


Its like if Microsoft protected their IP, Windows, and removed all Indian Windows tutorials from Youtube.<br>Imagine how many cool gameplay series, etc., could've existed if it hadn't gotten Nintendoed

Its like if Microsoft protected their IP, Windows, and removed all Indian Windows tutorials from Youtube.
Imagine how many cool gameplay series, etc., could've existed if it hadn't gotten Nintendoed

Imagine if Microsoft took down videos showing how to get Need For Speeds High Stakes to work on 64 bit machines!


To be fair I stoped paying for the online for a reason, and lately all I'm buying is either indies or used AAA games so it comes cheaper for me and they get the least amount of money from me.<br>I feel sad I did not realize the poor state of the Switch before buying it.

To be fair I stoped paying for the online for a reason, and lately all I'm buying is either indies or used AAA games so it comes cheaper for me and they get the least amount of money from me.
I feel sad I did not realize the poor state of the Switch before buying it.


The Japanese seem to have a particularly brutal approach to those within whom they deem as threats to the "greater good"


4 swords, 4 horseman, 4 Gospel

3 triforce, 3 pendants, Holy Trinity

7 RPG Stars , 7 cards, 7 sirens, 7 days, 7 holy day king,  7 maiden, 7 kuppas, 7 hearts, 7 chaos emeralds, 7 dragon balls, 7 sins, 7 melody, 7 Puzzle of Yu-gi-oh, 7 wands, 7, 7skulls,

7 in every game L is Real not Luigi


Maybe Nintendo fans should stop being so defensive of Nintendo and instead tell them when they did something wrong. Maybe then Nintendo would be a better company.

Nintendo had made terrible games like chibi robo ziplash which is a cash grab


I think this video hits really well in that you can look at what the shit nintendo's done and continues to do and then look over at something like games workshop right now and see how the kind of disdain the community now has for the company would never happen with diehard nintendo fanboys. I like nintendo games because the dev teams consistently make really enjoyable experiences, that doesn't excuse the bullshit the company has done in any way.


RABID NINTENDO FAN: OMG THEY DIDN'T REVEAL THE SWITCH PRO IT'S JUST SOME DUMB OLED SWITCH WHY NINTENDO WHY?!?!?!?!.............
...is... is everybody gone now?
Snorts up their wallet and spits it on Amazon to buy three OLED Switch's

RABID NINTENDO FAN: OMG THEY DIDN'T REVEAL THE SWITCH PRO IT'S JUST SOME DUMB OLED SWITCH WHY NINTENDO WHY?!?!?!?!.............
...is... is everybody gone now?
_Snorts up their wallet and spits it on Amazon to buy three OLED Switch's_


Given recent events with Games Workshop I'm tempted to say they're more anti-consumer than Nintendo at this point

nah games workshop always been like that. nintendo and em do have similar beats.


Was surprised to see this video didn’t get absolutely ratio’d, guess the majority of people watching are rational thinkers.


hear me out. screw simping for E-girls online who don't care about your presence. Let's simp for Emp who doesn't care about us, but will atleast give us manscaped ads as commonly as a phone call in gta online


If there's one word to describe Nintendo, it's "complicated."

If there's two words, it's "downward spiral."

All in all, the fact that the most influential gaming company ever is getting away with shit since they're stuck in 1983 because their fans are brainwashed is ridiculous.

I like Nintendo's games. I do not like Nintendo.

It's time for action, folks.


thats why is morally correct to emulate old nintendo games


The switch was such a piece of $h!t. The 80 dollar defective controllers were the last straw for me.


There is a clinical term for this relationship: Battered Wife Syndrome


Plot twist: Nintendo created the Coronavirus to stop the Smash Ultimate tournaments


Nintendo’s absolute distain for emulation is going to end with the future not knowing their classic games. Idk feel like a piece of history being lost to time


"What is twitter" a  Note Worthy knowledge Smart person would say


I wonder if someone made a full Japanese translation of this video and sent this to Nintendo themselves there. If not, then would be an amazing feat.

@Isaiah Simmons I said Japan translation. Like English to Japanese.

theyll pretend they dont know how to read and speak english


Legal is not equivalent to Moral. Unfortunately, Copyright laws have been re-written to be the opposite of their moral intention by companies like this one.


Emplemon has returned with his on a while's basis enlightenment, thank you Emperor.


I think one of the main reasons people are unwilling to let go of Nintendo's games and continuously criticize the company unlike say, EA or Blizzard is because there is no easy replacement to any of their games. There is no platformer mascot with more influence and concistency than Mario, there is no other mon series as famous and intricate as Pokemon, there is no other third person shooter quite like Splatoon and so on and so on.

Part if it is pure nostalgia. Hat in Time is a great 3d collectathon like SM64, except with more charm, personality, interesting level design, and not averse to modding and speedrun tech. Yet people will go back to mario because it's mario and they know mario and nintendo. "Why would I buy hat in time, idk if i'd like it, I'll just buy odyssey" is a far too common mindset.  Temtem is the biggest and best alternative to pokemon, yet didn't handle marketing well so fell into obscurity. And again, "Why would I buy temtem, I might not like it, I'll just buy sword and shield." (Though, in my personal opinion, the pokemon series is the least bad of the IPs for anti-consumer practice)

Granted there's nothing like splatoon, maybe the best handled of their IPs, I've not played it myself so can't confirm.

The thing is so many people are attached to what they already know and refuse to branch out, and it's killing creativity and improvement for many game series. HOTS is a great MOBA, "But why would I download that, I'll just play League/Dota", already mentioned Hat in Time, Project Wingman is great "But why would I download that, I'll just play Ace Combat", Just by virtue of having the Nintendo name on things grants them a guaranteed audience who will refuse any alternative because Nintendo is good enough to keep their interest and so they won't strive for better.


Intellectual property is illegitimate. Once an idea or pattern of digits is out there, it's out there. If the creator doesn't want people to copy it, then keep in on your computer.


God, nobody protests post modern capitalism, consumerism, and corporate evil/greed better than you


you know, Nintendo and it's fanbase just looks like one big cult to me.


Actual policy on interactions with IP grey areas won't come from legal counsel, it will come from the CEO. Counsel will just implement that policy.

Nintendo fans have no idea how companies actually work lmao.


I’d love noting more than to buy older Nintendo games on my Switch like they used to have on the Wii U. But sadly I have to resort to using emulation on my PC with less than optimal conditions


Nintendo fans are just video game version of Apple consoomers.

Actually true. Right down to insisting their device isn't worse than the competition because it has (irrelevant feature that's more gimmick than feature), which of course makes it better than the competition which is objectively better in nearly every single way.

I mean, Jesus Christ, the switch tanks to 20fps in Pokemon Unite, a console released in 2017, with $70 controllers that drift.


Slippi is actually a mod for the emulator.
The game wasn’t even touched!
Nintendo lied just to get people to try to support them!


The sephiroth example is perfect, let's face it old sport, the fans are ignorant.

Poor Satoru Iwata


Remember, y'all. Nintendo consoles are best used as emulation devices. Just sayin...

I second this. I play SNES and GBA games on my 3ds from time to time, and they all function pretty well 👍


20:10 shit awful horrible take (from the comment on screen) people dislike videos all the time from people attempting to come back from drama, because "we're not gonna let you come back that quickly." not showing any backlash for Nintendo for acting like nothing ever happened is foolish and lets Nintendo get away with whatever they want.


It’s pretty funny that Nintendo completely forgot about advance wars when religiously copystrking videos containing Nintendo content


Charlie is gonna have a field day with this


Many pro/gamer: yelling, abused, pedo, violence, rude, show off

me: Satoru Iwata, thank you for teaching me

" Have fun"  Please Understand

"Have fun"
-Satoru Iwata

I'll see you soon old friend


The last time I bought a first party Nintendo game was the new Mario Golf (which didn't maintain my interest for very long) to play with friends only to find out their online system is so bad it can't handle my wife and I playing online on two separate Switches and we haven't touched the game since...

The last time I bought a first party Nintendo game for myself... Breath of the Wild which is the first Zelda game I played that I didn't complete because I became uninterested. I'm in a very advantageous position where Nintendo hasn't given me any first party games I actually enjoy and most of the good Switch games are ported to other consoles for less money with better performances.

Persona 5 Strikers was amazing on PC, while Age of Calamity looked like it ran like garbage when watching my wife try the game on Switch. Octopath Traveler was really good on Switch but I technically didn't buy it, my wife did for herself but ended up not playing the game very much, however I did rebuy it on Steam because I wanted to support the amazing developers as they aren't first party Nintendo, it also runs much better on PC.

In other words unless they come out with a new genre defining title that actually peaks my interest it's easier more than ever to boycott the company, and while I can attempt to educate my wife on what's going on as long as she's just spending her money and not mine then I can't really have a say so of the matter.

Pokemon? Last good game was Black and White
Zelda? Link Between Worlds was pretty good but the last good console game was Twilight Princess
Mario? Okay, Odyssey was actually really good, but I received that as a gift so still, technically, didn't buy it.
Smash? I stopped playing that BEFORE we were forced to only being able to play with the shitty online.

Honestly if money weren't tight I'd get a Steamdeck in a heartbeat and retire my Switch. Even the Pro Controller isn't as good as the Xbox Series X controller.

I saw this video in my recommended, so I gave it another go and figured I'd update my status on boycotting Nintendo as well.

While I haven't purchased any first party Nintendo games (actually, any games at all for Switch) I DID purchase the NSO expansion pack in order to replay Paper Mario as that's the only way I could legally do so. Pirating is fine if playing the game, legally, isn't easy to do, but now that Paper Mario is on NSO I can't pirate the game without any guilt. The emulation is identical to the Wii U port including the Lava Piranha fight being laggy.

Currently my Switch has only been used to replay Paper Mario and to play Diablo 3. Due to set backs I doubt I'll be able to save enough for the Steamdeck, but I'm still trying.

Even if I wasn't against buying Nintendo games, they've yet to drop anything exciting for me. Breath of the Wild 2 will only be playable if they don't include the durability system and even then my wife is going to get it, so I'll just play her copy if I feel like trying out the game.

I'm still bitter they used nostalgia bait to make people think the newest Mario Party is actually good. Yes, in comparison to Super Mario Party it's amazing but if you compare it to Mario Party 2 and 3 (which the game reminds you of) you realize the new Mario Party is still not as good as it was back in the N64 era.


Looking at your upload schedule, it's about time for you to upload again, Emp.

Your wish is his command, watch the rare objects video unless you already have.


It is important to note that Nintendo old content id system didn't need to detect actual gameplay.  When I was young I had one of those stereotype Roblox channels and I was playing a game that had Nintendo sound effects which is enough to trigger 3 strikes.

Nintendo copyrighted for use of sound effects.  They clearly are losing money when some Roblox dev used their sfx to make a game.  This company man...


thanks for making me feel bad about liking Labo


I knew nerrel would be brought up lol that man is a god send for emulation on youtube


Nintendo's been a pretty massively dogshit company for basically the last decade in terms of being fair to literally anybody invested in their products. It feels like the Wii U flopping so hard scared them pretty bad out of originality or too drastic of experimentation. So many franchises have sat being completely unutilized, or they tried something and it failed so therefore the franchise is useless (looking very very hard at you, Star Fox Zero.)

I enjoy their games mostly through mods and fan games nowadays. That's where I find the passion I used to see out of Nintendo for their own games. So many people have taken moderate inspiration and made things that, at times, have done a better job of highlighting the core tenants of a lot of their most famous games and expanding on them in ways Nintendo won't.

Personally I really am not a big fan of this current Switch era Nintendo. They definitely needed something to recover from the Wii U, but it's like they've taken it to the cash grabbing extreme because of it. I really hope as the end of this console approaches and we move into whatever's next that they re-evaluate their approach and really start hitting it out of the park now that their monetary concerns are behind them considering the Switch's massive success.

Wii U is a good console that was original they just figured out they don’t need to put In the effort for success


i dont get the sakurai good lawyer view , didnt he designed brawl to be the EXACT opisite of melee and removed all competitive aspect? if he would go that far, droping DMCA Claims and lawsuits to stop people painting hes family fighting game as a complex deep coop brawler.


I cut sakurai slack but Nintendo basically blackmailed him into making brawl and the other 2. Making these games took a massive hit on his health.      I doubt he could have just declined the job since culture is very different over there and his reputation easily could have been ruined.  I'll never know how he feels about competitive smash but it's possible he could have been forced to be silent as well forced to remove mellee mechanics in future games. Considering how he cannot talk about other game series he enjoys to play in his free time due to fan speculation about upcoming characters and that's Nintendo solution to stop speculation. but I easily could be wrong but I try to cut slack to anyone who was hospitalized while developing a game.  Sakurai has done a lot for the series and deserves to just rest at this point.


The funny part is that Nintendo is most likely to take down this video because of the mii plaza music at the end


Nintendo burning down Italy and putting people named Mario and Luigi in camps to<br>Later get killed would make people happy for the next smash game

Nintendo burning down Italy and putting people named Mario and Luigi in camps to
Later get killed would make people happy for the next smash game


Vostrovasck is a throwback I didn't know I was subbed to you for, but I'm glad to see it.


Request: <br>There Will Never Ever Be A Fictional Character Death Like Optimus Prime.

Request:
There Will Never Ever Be A Fictional Character Death Like Optimus Prime.


the beginning is incorrect, the video game industry didnt collapse only the us industry did, europe and japan were doing p well and in the uk the nes didnt save anything, everything else in the video is spot on though, ive been trying to stop buying nintendo games more and more these days


25:45 I would play the shit out of Mario Blart.


Casual af. Melee was still my favorite, something about it just felt right. I have never tried ultimate yet. I actively disliked Brawl.

ultimate sucks. they fucking removed the trophies for overglorified stickers, cant forgive nintendo.....


Hey emp I noticed most all of your YTP’s have been removed. It’s seems odd that you alone would private over 50+ poops. Considering I found your channel entirely from your poops (specifically the ascended series)  could you possibly shed light on why they’re privated. I understand if you possibly want to distance your new content from the old. I just want to watch them again.

@not spiro shit man, copyright back at it again

he deleted them because they posed a legit threat to his channel. he has them uploaded to archive.org now, go check them out there.


I've been barking up this tree for years. Just a shame I could never edit or make videos.


There used to be a video online where it showed the downward spiral with homer slowly walking across the screen hunched over with headphones... yet i can't find it anymore. was it from you emplemon? and if so, anyway i can still listen to it? it was such a fucking banger


I find it mildly funny and incredibly infuriating that Nintendo fans care more about "muh anime swordfighter waah" in smash ultimate than they do about Nintendo shutting down their own competitive scenes. To the point that they refused to dislike Sephiroth's reveal trailer. Sephiroth. Who is far more of an anime swordfighter than Byleth.

“Anime swordfighter” is just a strawman argument, in reality Smash fans just simply dislike Fire Emblem because they believe that it is forced representation and whatnot. Now, you don’t have to take my word, but have you seen a grand majority of people getting angry over Hero, Sephiroth, Pyra/Mythra and now Sora the same way they did with Byleth? Don’t really think so.

They dislike Fire Emblem and there’s a quite few people out there who dislike Smash Bros. believe it or not. I don’t understand why it’s hard for people to just accept the reality of the situation.

People like and dislike stuff, that is all. The way those people behave is a different topic of conversation.


a part of the video is just destroying nintendo fans by being smarter and doing more research


one element I think you failed to consider is that Nintendos games are still for the most part very well designed and programmed. They are kind of like the Soup Nazi from Seinfeld. Yeah, you are going to be treated like shit as a fan, and can get thrown out just for asking for a piece of bread, but goddam is that mushroom soup not delicious. It's the best on the market.

He did mention that it's shocking how they can do the hard part (make good games) with ease, but the easy part (PR) seems impossible for them. But just because they make good games shouldn't excuse them from criticism. Yet, it does, all the time. Blizzard make a bad Warcraft 3 remake and get lanced for weeks about how shit it is and their stock tanks and people complain about how bad of a remake it is. Nintendo make a bad Mario 64 remake and specifically remove the BLJ, maybe the most recognizable thing about the game in terms of internet culture (aside from "so long gay bowser" , also removed), and get a "It sucks that this is available for a limited time, ah well :)" and that's it, no backlash, no stock tank, no hurried PR response and patching, just a murmur of "oh, ok" from the fans as they accept a bad product. Same with Nintendo Online being shit, same with Mario 35 being time limited, Nintendo fans get shit on and just take it, whereas if another company did a fraction of it they'd get utterly crucified.

Remember when COD made Infinite Warfare, and were hammered to shit over it looking like every other cod game, making it the most disliked game reveal on youtube ever, and 25th most disliked video right now? How for weeks people berated the game, pointing out the greedy practice of bundling a remake of one of the older games only with a currently released one for full price?

Well here comes the reveal trailer for a time-limited bundle of a handful of old "remakes" of nintendo games, big quotation marks because they're far more rerelease than remake, absolutely nothing original, at least similar products by other companies (such as the master chief collection), aren't time limited and have some new things such as remastered graphics and an option to switch real-time, damn if Super Mario 3d All Stars was released by Activision it would be crucified as a lazy cash grab, let's see the likes/dislikes to see what Nintendo fans think of being made to pay for the same games again with less features, limited-time, and absolutely 0 improvement besides framerate, and even that's arguable. Oh, 97% likes. Tons of comments of "I can't wait to buy this tomorrow!" and the like.


How DARE you say bad about my Nintendo? I am MORTIFIED! I think I need a suckle from the tit of Nintendo.


As much as I dislike Nintendo's control over Smash, the SSB community is so sick, criminal, and depraved I can't help but feel glad they get screwed over.


But, Valve is gonna put Nintendo in their place when the Steam Deck releases in 2022. If it does well.

But nintendo is too strong of a brand it's like xbox


PSA you can pirate every new First Party Nintendo game if you own a Old model Switch


the reason why i enjoy xbox is because the community and the industry openly criticized and taunted Microsoft's ability to create good products for the consumer, and make games people want to play. the ps4 outsold the shit out of the xbox one because there was hardly any reason to own an xbox when they aren't creating quality exclusives. These days with the Series era of consoles, its like we finally got a response with the years and years of community backlash and complaints. Microsoft brought the big guns when games like Starfield and Stalker are exclusive to Xbox and to reel in the pc market with things like the xbox library being available on PC with gamepass and essentially unifying the 2 platforms into one. Microsoft and Xbox seemed to have followed in the footsteps of Steam, while Playstation followed Nintendo.


Make another green simpsons YTP! These videos have become too serious!


Nintendo fans gonna have a reeeaalll hard time swallowing this red pill...


I stopped caring about Nintendo back in 1996


I looked up the definition of 'supposition' and it was literally just a link to this vid.


I need to wash my brain from seeing those tweets


18:00 Oh shit, I just realized that's spingebill embarks on a panty raid. lol


With the re-release of Skyward Sword with no differences only exacerbates this video's point

The beginning is quicker but if you hate skyward sword back than it's not recommended


can you do “ there will never ever be a another chess player like magnus carlsen”


Dying literacy we kill it mechanically 🎶


I spit out my Mcflurry at 4:28 THROWBACK


It's fun how they are now complaining about The Steamdeck~


this kind of bullshit is the exact reason why i didn't (and never will) buy a switch despite wanting to play some of the games on it


@Sir SesameSalad and some want Tyranny of which I suggest buying it on gog.

some men want tyranny gone and other men just wanna watch the world burn


The world would be a better place if we all hacked our consoles. You'll catch me dead before I pay one cent to play 3d All-stars. Also stop buying official joycons for god's sake, just buy a third party option already. Those don't drift.


1.1k people need to change their diapers and mindsets


Yeah having a switch really don't do much


Can you do one about the movie the room Tommy Wiseau and why it is interesting


While I agree that some fans are psychotic there not readily accepted in the wider community a community witch calls out nintendo for those things


This situation is a lot like FIFA and Madden fans. They're too far gone imo

They're literally the "Don't ask questions just consume product then get excited for new product"

They buy FIFA 15. They complain about bad features. They buy FIFA 16. They complain about the series being stale. They buy FIFA 17. They complain about a lack of innovation. They buy FIFA 18. They buy FIFA 19. They complain about microtransactions. They buy FIFA 20. They complain about a lack of carryover from their last transactions. They buy FIFA 21.

Sad. But that's how it is.


Even though I'm not a Nintendo fan I have a stretch because I love video games yes I have a Pokemon profile picture and that's the only game I like on I'm more of a fan of PlayStation


Activision release a cod game like any other with a completely remastered version of a classic - THIS SUCKS, MOST DISLIKED GAME ANNOUNCEMENT EVER

Microsoft release Master Chief Collection, a complete remake of nearly every main Halo game, cheaper than one of the games at release - Ehh, it's fine. Kinda nostalgia bait and a bit cash grabby to remake old stuff instead of making something new.

Nintendo release Super Mario 3D All Stars, a time-limited reRELEASE (not remake, absolutely no improvement over the originally mechanically or graphically), of 3 games, removing the iconic BLJ and "So long gay bowser", for full price of a new game - 96% likes, comments of "OH MY GOD I LOVE THESE, I CANT WAIT TO BUY IT TOMORROW"

Absolutely unreal. If Activision put out "The COD legacy collection" of Infinite Warfare, Advanced Warfare, and Black Ops 3, with absolutely no improvement whatsoever for $60, people would rightfully call them money-grabbing nostalgia baiting dicks.

Hell, remember the Rare Replay? 30 games for $30, with a good chunk of classics, and even that was slated by some for "not including the best of the best", Nintendo put out 3, for $60, and got nigh universal praise.

I think most of Nintendo fanbase revolved against mario 3d all stars.

Don't forget that all the games in 3D allstars were just lazy emulations!

You could even see dev blocks in sunshine due to an emulation error

I think the worst part is that the game didn't even come with control options at launch ( I think idk I didn't buy it lmao)


There will never ever be another artist like Michael Jackson?


Dislike videos is for those with minds of sad life, like videos are those with no life.

Any questions with due respect sorry if I offended anybody cause many now and days get offended by saying thank you or eating a apple.


I used to like Nintendo when i was a kid now Nintendo sucks


Everything you said in this video is what I've been trying to tell Nintendo fans for years, that Nintendo take advantage of us and quite literally exploit us in the laziest ways imaginable. For example, the fact people have defended Animal Crossing: New Horizons for this long, is truly baffling to me. It's an unfinished and lazy game which still feels like it's in its alpha stage at times. I waited 7 years for the sequel to my favourite game of all time within my favourite franchise of all time, to end up being a game which doesn't even include staples of what made the series so special. The game lacks so much content that all previous games in the series had, and it still isn't getting updated with big content, not finishing the game whatsoever; this is a testament to how lazy and scummy Nintendo has become, not only as businessmen, but as developers too. This goes for the Switch too, which in so many ways, feels so cheap, unfinished and clunky, both in hardware design and software (the UI is so uninspired). I'm growing more tired of Nintendo by the day, I'm close to giving up on them.

This video was truly perfect, I can't express how much I appreciate your message.

Thank you, thank you so much for addressing the absurdity of those Nintendo fans and their mindset. I feel like there is such a small community of us fans who actually criticise Nintendo for what they have become.

Really?? I've never heard a bad thing about New Horizons! I just assumed everyone bought it <b>knowing</b> it would be a work in progress for a very long time, but that it would all at least be for free. You at least gotta give credit for that; Animal Crossing ain't no Pokémon, and that's the best compliment I can give.

Really?? I've never heard a bad thing about New Horizons! I just assumed everyone bought it *knowing* it would be a work in progress for a very long time, but that it would all at least be for free. You at least gotta give credit for that; Animal Crossing ain't no Pokémon, and that's the best compliment I can give.


Emp, your content is truly the cream of the crop. Thank you for all the effort you put in.


Nintendo doesn't make games for the players, but games for themselves.

And somehow they are so good at making games that people don’t realize how selfish their game-making is and how entrenched their deleterious practices are.


The incarnation of a Nintendo fan is saying, "fuck you, here is my money"


Great video, Emp. Was a bit hard to watch but necessary. Nintendo is so frustrating, speaking as a fan. They have so much potential, fun ideas and great workers who they treat nicely but they have such tone-deaf decision in the PR part that is infuriating. Hopefully, more fans can get more critical and let know the executives that change should be made for a better community and industry. Fans are still buyers and buyers should look for themselves, not these faceless corporations


I'm always a sucker for the use of Hotel Mario imagery

We gotta find the princess! And <b>YOU</b> gotta help us!

We gotta find the princess! And *YOU* gotta help us!

@Dickle I dare you to find her if you can. "

the princess is now a permanent guest at one of my seven koopa hotels

The koopalings and I have taken over the mushroom kingdom

@Jorge Gomez I hope she made lotsa <b>SPAGHETTI!!</b>

@Jorge Gomez I hope she made lotsa *SPAGHETTI!!*

@seronymus nice of the princess to invite us over for a picnic, gay Luigi?

You know what they say... All toasters...


Google: Scott the woz would like to see your location


After watching this, I just think of that Crash commercial. "Hey plumber boy, it's me, your worst nightmare." You don't even need to be a competing franchise anymore to apparently be Nintendo's worst nightmare.

"hey plumber boy, moustache man your worst nighmare has arrived"


If they allowed stuff like Pokemon Uranium they would open the gates for legit criticism about the utter laziness of the Pokemon franchise. They dont have any love or passion for their franchises so its important to keep those away that actually love it enough to change some things for the better.<br>The entire story of Sword and Shield is a great summary of Nintendos scumminess.

If they allowed stuff like Pokemon Uranium they would open the gates for legit criticism about the utter laziness of the Pokemon franchise. They dont have any love or passion for their franchises so its important to keep those away that actually love it enough to change some things for the better.
The entire story of Sword and Shield is a great summary of Nintendos scumminess.

Your not wrong but at the same time one should criticize it whether there is a better example of a product or not. Especially when positive additions are so easy to come up with.<br>I like the total war series of games and there isnt much like them. That being said the way those games handle difficulty is lazy and annoying.

Your not wrong but at the same time one should criticize it whether there is a better example of a product or not. Especially when positive additions are so easy to come up with.
I like the total war series of games and there isnt much like them. That being said the way those games handle difficulty is lazy and annoying.

*GameFreak/The Pokeon Company<br>Pokemon has become too large to fail. It sells regardless.

*GameFreak/The Pokeon Company
Pokemon has become too large to fail. It sells regardless.


Thank you for making this video and summing up every problem that I have with Nintendo. I love their games and they put a level of quality into them that is rarely matched (most of the time at least) but these heinous acts cannot be ignored and it is so frustrating to me that so many people are willing to brush it under the rug

Look, I know everybody’s heard horror stories of groups of fans doing immoral, “cringe”, and sometimes illegal things, or just starting civil wars or whatever, but these fans are always either individuals or small organized cliques of radicals that don’t represent the whole fandom. Every time such a story surfaces, the actions of the vocal minority are condemned by the 99% of good fans. (And by the way, arguing doesn’t make a fandom toxic. Arguing is healthy if handled well. If it isn’t handled well and emotions are taken too far, refer back to what I said about radical fans). Every fandom has a vocal minority, even if they don’t make headlines. You’re more likely to hear such stories from bigger communities, but the ratio of “crazy” to “normal” is the same across fandoms as per a statistical phenomenon called the Law of Large Numbers. People hate fandoms all the time, even though they most likely engage in fandoms themselves. Liking something makes you part of that fandom. And before you push up your anime glasses and tell me that “actually, fandom is short for ‘fanatic domain’ and I am a NORMAL fan, not a crazy fanatic”, may I remind you that denotation does not equal connotation, so while “fanatic” brings to mind images of crazy devotion, it’s just the long word for “fan”. Fan is short for fanatic (as per Oxford Dictionary, or Merriam-Webster, I don’t recall), like how rap is an acronym for “rhythm and poetry” but has become its own word. Also, a domain is just a group in the broadest possible sense, accurately capturing how large and diverse fandoms are. Therefore, a fandom is just all the fans of a specific thing. Your level of engagement in a fandom doesn’t determine how much of a fan you are. Fanartists depend on casuals who view their art, for instance. The masses are just as important as the creators. By hating fandoms, you’re also hating on people who have genuinely been helped by finding a sense of community by connecting with like-minded people. Fandoms don’t ruin things for you if you find the right people in said fandom to interact with. With bigger fandoms especially, it’s not hard. I get that negativity is stronger than positivity, but you’ve got to fight that internal conflict for your own good. It’s your fault that vocal minorities of weird fans are never recognized as such, and are instead chalked up to the whole group. Furthermore, if you say that you like x but hate x fandom, you’re hating yourself too. Remember, you’re technically still part of the fandom, and there’s no rules for how much to have to engage with other people in order to be a fan. I know it’s a popular thing on the internet, but homicidal self-deprecation is unhealthy. It doesn’t matter if you’re trying to say “I’m one of the good fans”, people calling your fandom toxic will still not accept you.


This is a very important video to watch, especially if you're a Nintendo fan. I used to not really care about any of this copyright crap, just another lurker scrolling by controversy after controversy. As a pretty regular Nintendo consumer, I've been convinced to be more vocal, not just with ratios but also with written feedback, after watching this video


Hi more videos pls. thx. <br>Love Cameron


I always wrote off a lot of these decisions as Nintendo being weird like they always are, but I think I’m gonna start using a word with a more negative connotation.

@GodZpeed X7II Judging by your previous comments I'll assume that's your alt account.

@GFMHD Point and laugh at the Nintendo stan, guys. Point and laugh.

@GFMHD This 100%. This video is extremely dishonest.

I'm pretty sure GFMHD is a troll account.

@GFMHD You can be described with the word he's holding back

Don’t believe what this guy is saying, he made this video purely to push his agenda and spread lies against Nintendo.


[18:50] I think the reason that "Nintendo fans" as a whole haven't been brought up in discussions like these is because they are usually divided into smaller groups. For example, there are Smash Bros fans (as discussed in the video already), and there are also fans who are specifically obsessed with Zelda, Kirby, or other Nintendo franchises. People on the internet are used to these separate groups rather than seeing "Nintendo" as one gigantic fanbase, which is you rarely see people talk about the fans in the way you are.

Heck, in the example at [18:55], the meme is specifically talking about Sonic fans, not SEGA fans in general. So I'm pretty sure you'll get what I'm saying here.

Granted, there is some validity to viewing them as separate, because different sub-groups might disagree on things related to Nintendo (such as FreeMelee/Splatoon or Byleth being in Smash), and there can even civil warfare within a specific Nintendo subgroup and nowhere else, such as the whole controversy with Pokémon Sword and Shield.

[18:50] I think the reason that "Nintendo fans" as a whole haven't been brought up in discussions like these is because they are usually divided into smaller groups. For example, there are Smash Bros fans (as discussed in the video already), and there are also fans who are specifically obsessed with Zelda, Kirby, or other Nintendo franchises. People on the internet are used to these separate groups rather than seeing "Nintendo" as one gigantic fanbase, which is you rarely see people talk about the fans in the way you are.

Heck, in the example at [18:55], the meme is specifically talking about Sonic fans, not SEGA fans in general. So I'm pretty sure you'll get what I'm saying here.

Granted, there is some validity to viewing them as separate, because different sub-groups might disagree on things related to Nintendo (such as FreeMelee/Splatoon or Byleth being in Smash), and there can even civil warfare _within_ a specific Nintendo subgroup and nowhere else, such as the whole controversy with Pokémon Sword and Shield.


Isn't this the Harry Potter theme in the background?


I've never known a company that can make me so happy and so pissed other than Nintendo.

@TheDragonDAFan if you can't restrain yourself, Nintendo will keep doing what they do, the least you can do is to call out Nintendo when they are in the wrong, and encourage others to do the same, make a petition, start Twitter accounts, whatever, if you stay silent, Nintendo is never gonna change.

@The TBH Resistance  So I can't enjoy their products and be critical of their business decisions?

That's the issue, all it takes is a new set of keys to keep you happy, step out of Neverland.

Nintendo is the representation of an abusive boyfriend


It also probably hase something to do which journalist that aren't allowed to speak negatively about Nintendo because the would shush the company that makes that. My Google feed shows everything about games especially negative thing, except for Nintendo, only positivity I can't remember 1 article about Nintendo that speaks.


"He can't keep getting away with it!"

-Jesse Pinkman talking about Nintendo, I think

isnt that image of sam hyde? when people used to say he was a famous schoolshooter that the authorities couldnt capture? great meme anyway

I was hoping this meme would make it into the video


Your voice sounds like a smarter version of SpazKid.


Ill admit, when I first saw Sephiroth get announced, my immediate thoughts were damn that's pretty good unintentional damage control.


Can you do a YouTube geographic on Supermariologan


I was practically in tears when Emuparadise went away, I fucking hate Nintendo.


my only question through this whole video is why was metal in the worst fandom starter pack?

@Hadrian Hardrada Cicero yeah, i could see that, but i feel like general metal community isn't that bad, at least i don't think it is worse than any other genre's fandom

I would only think of the subgenre of death metal and black metal harboring some of the most notorious and vile people in those camps.


Nintendo: Emulation is theft.

Pirate: You have a point, that being said, cry me a river.

(Edit) It was a joke, stop arguing about whether or not emulation is theft. Jokes are not beholden to being accurate, or even truthful.

@GodZpeed X7 You clearly don't know shit about emulation considering upscaling, custom filters and texture packs are options available in emulators for years now. You can make them look even better than the hardware they were originally designed for.

EDIT: Also forgot to mention there's fan mods to unlock higher frame rates and others which have QoL improvements most companies don't even think and/or are too lazy to implement.

@Nilly00 exactly, Nintendo equates piracy with theft. They really think it’s that bad.

@GodZpeed X7 they still look a hell of a lot better than the re-releases Nintendo barely manages to squeeze out.

No. Theft removes the original. Piracy makes a copy. It's no where near as bad as theft

@GodZpeed X7 ah yes, im sure the N64 can run Mario 64 better than an NVIDIA 1080 computer with a well optimized emulator

@GodZpeed X7 nope, they do, they run and look better on emulators

@GodZpeed X7 so what? not everyone can get the original hardware

We will sail the Seas for free games that run and look better than they did on the original Nintendo Hardware they were on


Being a nintendo fan is like being in an abusive relationship


I understand what you're saying, but not every Nintendo fanboy is in tune with what's happening in the competitive Smash community lol... I played the fuck out of Mario Odyssey and Animal Crossing because they were just fun games to play. Some people just buy the games they like. That doesn't mean I don't game on PlayStation or PC, it just means I like some of the Nintendo exclusives. I've never had a problem downloading an emulator or finding good Nintendo roms. I believe you that they've done damage to the community, but there are people that just download what they want to play and don't read a bunch of forums from pissed off rom hackers. Some of us just buy and play what we want to play without watching a bunch of video essays about the long term ramifications of a game developers actions. Owning a switch or playing Nintendo games doesn't make a person a shitty gamer, just a different one.

@XKloosyv for me, this video is more targeted towards radical nintendo fans that buy most games nintendo and joking about them, but I can agree about the rest of your opinions

@Thuyen Lee I know it's a joke but most jokes are based in reality. I like emplemon but I don't have to agree with every piece of content he creates. I'm just stating my opinion that Nintendo fanboys don't necessarily support a company that stomps on ROM hackers and Melee players. They support a company that makes fun games they like. The average Nintendo fan couldn't care less about the majority of this video. Competitive Smash is growing, I'm sure, but it's not exactly main stream. Exposing Nintendo for their crappy behavior is fine, but lumping the fans into it is unnecessary in my opinion.

@XKloosyv first things first, that statement wasn't made at face value and was a joke after all, I infact want a switch but Nintendo doesn't sell it around my country does that make me shameful ? No. This channel has jokes that can be offensive for some people so I don't think you taking all statements as face value in here.

@Thuyen Lee 26:40 Am I pathetic for having a switch? Yes
Not everyone cares about the same stuff. This person was obviously in the same boat I was in. They don't really care about online competitive melee. How is owning a switch pathetic? My kids can't play crash bandicoot on a car drive, but they can play Mario kart. I'm not saying the switch is perfect or nintendo is perfect, but it's not like Sony and Microsoft are. People will like what they like. There's nothing I dislike more than someone ragging on people for "thinking wrong".

He also didn't state that if you buy their games= you are a shitty gamer, his point is for people to realize that nintendo is just a company


It probably got struck down. A bunch of stuff got struck down across a bunch of channels last month. Assuming this is the reason, Emp would seem to be one of the hardest hit, losing over half his view count.


Perfect ending. Actually laughed out loud. This is one of the rare times where I can say this accurately: lol.


I've never bought a nintendo product in my life. Played Mario a few times as a kid in a rented SNES and bootleg consoles but that's it. In my adult years while having the money to be able to support whoever I want, I gotta say I will never lay my hands on anything made by a company who is this hostile to their fans, my lack of desire to playing their games aside that is. Fuck 'em, they're no better than EA or Activision Blizzard in terms of being scumbags.


personally ive always been of the belief that nintendo acts this way regardless of fans and couldn't give less of a fuck what their fanboys think. just look at the skyward sword port dumpster fire. all they do is add some small QOL stuff and lock fast travel behind an amiibo that got scalped to hell, and you know everyone is gonna buy it. its too big to fail.


Dude, I love Nintendo, their devs put their heart and soul into the games they put out, but the business and legal side of Nintendo is just so incredibly scummy, the problem is, there's no good alternative

@launchbase whoops sorry i accidentally wrote the exact same comment as you

wow it's like you didn't even watch the video where emp specifically speaks out against a mindset like that

it's like you missed the entire second half of the video

@Dr Saturn I love some Mario games but I accept that Nintendo is a flawed company and I don’t buy their products when I don’t feel it’s right. You can like something and still criticize the place it came from. Just because you don’t like it doesn’t mean that anyone who likes it is a fanboy.

@Chaoskae Nintendo cultists will never accept that.

@V Games A.) Smash isn't that imbalanced, and just because you don't like it, doesn't mean other people don't
B.) The New Sup games still had to be designed, regardless of whether or not you think they're lazy
C.) "Any good platformer" can't just replace the good gameplay, charm and overall fun of Galaxy, hell, my favorite game is indie
D.) I commissioned this myself and paid for it

@KunaiTheJolt "find me a good alternative for Smash with all those iconic characters" Smash is pretty unbalanced now a days, but i can't find a good alternative to it.
"Find me a good alternative for Galaxy" any other good 3d platformer.
"the New Sup games are fun" fun they may be, but i don't think the devs put there heart and soul into them since the games are super lazy.
"Sakurai is working hard to please Smash fans" agree, also nice pfp by the way, where is it form?

@V Games find me a good alternative for Smash with all those iconic characters

Find me a good alternative for Galaxy

Also, yes, most devs I fully believe want to make a good game, the New Sup games are fun, Mario Oddesy, BOTW, Sakurai is working hard to please Smash fans, hell, gaming fans in general

@Dr Saturn "seems like they are made only for consumers who worship Mario and Nintendo like a religion." sadly this is ture.

"their devs put their heart and soul into the games they put out" so pokemon sword and shield, all the new sups games and mario kart tour hade the devs heart and soul put into it?<br>"the problem is, there's no good alternative" eh, i think your just not looking hard enough.

"their devs put their heart and soul into the games they put out" so pokemon sword and shield, all the new sups games and mario kart tour hade the devs heart and soul put into it?
"the problem is, there's no good alternative" eh, i think your just not looking hard enough.

@SpinosaurusStudios heck no<br>That's a lame joke

@SpinosaurusStudios heck no
That's a lame joke

@SpinosaurusStudios >Epic Game
>New Nintendo
Not even a fan of Nintendo, but honestly, that sounds wrong on many levels.

@Philip Benoit The devs at the top do, but I doubt some random programmer has much control over Nintendo’s more bs actions.

This is the greatest username of all time.

Any indie dev puts more soul into their games than Nintendo ever did

did you not hear emp's point about businesses not working like that? the devs arent oblivious or even complicent, they're 100% part of the problem as well because that's how businesses work

@KunaiTheJolt "There are no good alternatives for Nintendo IPs"
I have 0 nostalgia for any of their older games and when I played them as an adult, I really wasn't impressed. Mario games were boring and Zelda games had too much backtracking. The only thing that stops me from playing Mario Odyssey is the fact I find Mario games not enjoyable, seems like they are made only for consumers who worship Mario and Nintendo like a religion.
I say, that whatever the company has to offer shouldn't be treated like a gift from God. Just because Mario is Mr. Video Game himself it doesn't mean his game is good. Any hardcore Nintendo fans should step out of their comfortable 1st party metropolis and start conquering the 3rd party Wild West.

@slightly нistorical Valve has made 1 game of note in the last 6+ years.

@KunaiTheJolt literally all of Sony's firstpartys on the PlayStation 2.

I think that the Devs are behind it too. The apple doesnt fall far from the tree.. Nintendo doesnt have any exposed and/or reported employee mistreatment issues its not far fetched to assume that those Devs are in continued mistreatment of fans/consumers

@slightly нistorical I mean in terms of games, there's no good alternative for Nintendo IPs

@SpinosaurusStudios Epic exclusives though

Epicgames is the new nintendo, the good kind. I mean they forced sony and microsoft to cross platform. Despite being scummy in the past, they're tearing down other corporations with a sledge hammer. Praise epicgames.

There is Valve, but they’re hella neglectful but nevertheless hold strong and not-so toxic fanbases that keep their masterpieces living way past expectancy


Why was i not notified of this.... i clicked the fucking bell god damnit


Nintendo has always been my favorite video game developer, ever since I was a kid. I didn't even realize half of the stuff that they were doing. It's really opened my eyes


I'm still waiting for the Sonichu Game that was promised to Chris Chan. If Miyamoto had only come to Ruckersville to talk to Chris and his family like Chris wanted.

@Simple Weirdo At least Microsoft delivered on the highly-acclaimed HexBox classic Kick the Autistic. It was even ranked as America's favourite game!

Imagine pepper spraying some employee’s eyes because Sonic’s arms were blue (And yes while I also don’t understand why changing the color of his arms was necessary to Sega, I at least don’t complain about it that much).

Miyamoto AND Reggie were waiting out in the rain but Chris didn't go because he's a selfish dolt.

I can't believe that fell through, I mean Miyamoto got Jay-Z to be Chris' lawyer and everything


Cults are scary stuff, especially when you don't know you're in one.

@Neo- Didact Yup you pretty much nailed it

Sounds like grounds for a good ol' purg'in.

DUES VULT.

Every hobby, community, brand and political affiliation have filled the void left by atheism.<br>This is the scariest part. So this is why I pray to the Holy Man Emperor of Mankind. Not GW, not 40K, The Emperor himself, who is a man.

Every hobby, community, brand and political affiliation have filled the void left by atheism.
This is the scariest part. So this is why I pray to the Holy Man Emperor of Mankind. Not GW, not 40K, The Emperor himself, who is a man.


Satoru iwata was the only good Nintendo employee once he died it all went to shit


im gonna need the sauce for that tiktok at 18:24, stat


This one of the funniest and well defined videos you’ve ever made, let’s hope these fanatics take a hint

they will, not the right one, but they will take A hint.


I used to like Nintendo, but after seeing all the things they've done lately, I've lost all faith in them. Iwata would be rolling in his grave if he saw what the company has become.

Iwata is the one who started this. Reggie's departure from the company is what started this.

@Rhyacen I saw the writing in the wall before then. Japanese are not allowed to speak out so they left not wanting to be targets.


Imagine comparing what Activision did to Nintendo stoping a Splatoon tournament


Is it Ralphthemoviemaker speaking @26:28? lol


When initially seeing this video, I liked for the same reasons I like your other videos: for being informative and well-researched. And admittedly, the prospect of seeing a new video after a month. But other watching this video a few more times, I started to notice it was much more flawed than I realised, and thus I removed my like. Keep in mind this is coming from someone who was passionate about Nintendo since I was four years old, but by the age of 14, focused more on my time with exams and my future, giving me less and less time for Nintendo. I still have my Switch and Wii U, but I've become much more uninterested and critical of the company. However, there are some things about this video - particularly when you start talking about the fans - that I cannot brush over. Especially when I always believe content creators can improve on their work. Prior to talking about the fans, almost of your points I took no issue with. The only things I didn't approve of was using Scott The Woz as an example of a "Nintendo YouTuber that only seemed to start popping into existence about four years ago". You yourself mentioned that the Nintendo Creators Program ended in December 2018, while Scott started his gaming videos including Nintendo in January 2017. By the time the program ended, Scott made about a hundred videos of his series, some episodes directly reviewing some Nintendo games. By extension, wouldn't he have been affected by the program until it was discontinued by the time 2019 rolled about and he was then starting his third season? Also, ironically one of the positive things you attribute to Nintendo is actually grossly simplifying the state of the industry. Nintendo did not save the entire video game industry, it saved home consoles in North America. That's a more accurate way of putting it, everywhere other than North America was fine, and gaming didn't even die, gamers merely shifted interest in computers. I found this out from a really small YouTuber named factor5fanatic, who covered Nintendo fanboys, a video which I would highly recommend: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRhyHpMUzHk

But when coming to the segment regarding the fans, this is when the video becomes much weaker. Firstly, you completely fail to acknowledge the reception of Nintendo Switch Online. It's been about three years since its announcement and to this day, almost all of the videos announcing new obscure games to the pitiful NES and SNES lineup receives more dislikes than likes. One of the newest announcements was especially egregious here. And what was it that you were talking about with fans expressing discontent with the ratings? While I agree on most of your points, how Nintendo fans are generally acting too defensive. The fact that you didn't even mention NSO in this segment, despite it being a direct anomaly to your point, is baffling. Either you somehow forgot to feature it in the segment, which is highly unlikely considering you literally talk about it prior to the segment. Or you decided to leave it out to make a stronger point, despite the fact that it now makes the point ironically weaker. In fairness, I didn't think about it until days later when someone on Twitter pointed it out and I thought, "Wow, constructive critical thinking on Twitter! Also wow, that's a good point!" To be fair, that's not necessarily the norm for Nintendo fans, but don't leave this out as if they're completely incapable of standing up for themselves. They by all means should be doing it more often, but they have done it before.

The other major flaw in this video is that while you're criticising the fans for their reckless and ridiculous defences for everything they do when it isn't warranted. You also belittle the people who simply like their products. People who are willing to criticise the company for their ethical shortcomings. People who are even willing to protest by boycotting some of their products to send that message. And people who would likely be pounded by Nintendo fanatics for disloyalty or whatever the same way you were. When you used that clip to say Nintendo fans were pathetic for buying a Switch, I thought, "...Surely that's a joke?" But then I saw you mock them for buying Nintendo Labo? Is it because it's just cardboard, because it turns out Nintendo put in a bit more effort with the design than just selling fans cardboard! This childish bashing is being lumped in with harsh yet nonetheless constructive criticism, and it just boggles my mind. Which is kind of ironic since a lot of the Nintendo fans were mocking you for being anti-Nintendo, you aren't being much better here for insulting anyone pro-Nintendo. Again, I'd be willing to say that of the $1.4 billion worth of people that bought Labo weren't all zealots that worshipped the company to an irrational degree, and was more willing to criticise the company for its actions. I know that, because I'm one of those people! As someone who really enjoys your content, this is one of the weakest videos you've ever made. And sure, it's still not necessarily a bad video, placing your standard highly above the rest, but regardless, it's still disappointing to see such misfires. And keep in mind, this is someone that hasn't come back to Nintendo, despite being absolutely available to do so.

That's a whole lotta nothing you just said

Don't even bother. The target audience of this video will be the haters anyway or young NA trendy people. There are a LOT of missing info on this video.

It's pointless to discuss Nintendo (an Japanese company) using the eyes of the average NA consumer. A proper criticism about this topic would have much more then a single POV and most important, research about other demographics. This is the least informative video on this channel yet, which is a shame.


Great video emp. As a die hard fan of fire emblem, it truly saddens that Nintendo fans only starts having problem with Nintendo when they add someone like Corrin, Byleth, Min Min, or Pyra/Mythra.


Nintendo has a lot in common with Adobe. Amazing products, shitty company.

While I'm at it, can I also consider Nintendo a cult?

Speaking as a former member of said cult btw...

Their products are even overrated as far as I'm concerned.

I say Nintendo is basically the video game industry version of Disney

@Marx "oh god, not the 0.0000001% chance of age of war installing malware on my computer!"<br>Reminds me when tamago treated club penguin like the plague because the tiny chance you would be hacked or groomed

@Marx "oh god, not the 0.0000001% chance of age of war installing malware on my computer!"
Reminds me when tamago treated club penguin like the plague because the tiny chance you would be hacked or groomed

You could also say that they have amazing products and terrible service. Idk

@Admiral Stone
it's only said to be harmful due to it not being supported anymore by Adobe itself
they claim it's harmful because they caused that

Adobe also killed Flash, one of the greatest things the 'net has been gifted, and they try to claim it harms your computer. I haven't had anything bad happen cause of Flash.

and just like nintendo those products are broken as fuck<br>though i don't think nintendo has anything as broken as adobe director/macromedia director, but that one's an absolute achievement of a fuck up.

and just like nintendo those products are broken as fuck
though i don't think nintendo has anything as broken as adobe director/macromedia director, but that one's an absolute achievement of a fuck up.

I wouldn't call Nintendo a cult, but its fanbase is one in all-but-legal-definition.


well i think the thing with the cancelation of the melee online tournament is that almost everyone hates melee players and their elitism,


Nintendo Fans: Thank you for changing my life<br>Nintendo: We literally hate you

Nintendo Fans: Thank you for changing my life
Nintendo: We literally hate you

@Donkey Kong Fan Laughs in paper Mario and I want a new dk game

Nintendo doesn’t hate its fans. <br>They always develop games with the fan’s enjoyment in mind.

Nintendo doesn’t hate its fans.
They always develop games with the fan’s enjoyment in mind.

Nintendo is like the Bill Murray of the video game industry - highly successful in spite of a terrible attitude and resentful toward fame deliberately cultivated since the early 1980s.


Ignoring Nintendo's scummy practices regarding the internet, their practical handling with the Switch's virtual console is vomit enducing


Nintendo fans enjoy bdsm or atleast will


14:40 we live under capitalism though 🤦🏽♀

Has an Europen (socialism) I can tell you that company's will only goes has far has you allow them, stir up enough outrage and they back off real quick.<br>(unless there nestle)

Has an Europen (socialism) I can tell you that company's will only goes has far has you allow them, stir up enough outrage and they back off real quick.
(unless there nestle)


“When I was a kid, I used to think you were cool.” <br>-Hotdiggitydemon

“When I was a kid, I used to think you were cool.”
-Hotdiggitydemon

That animation cuts deep honestly. I dont even buy joycons anymore. I just use third party controllers, around 15 dollars each, which have incredible quality compared to the official joycons... It's funny, the two joycons I have that are barely functioning are deemed as the "bad controller" when I play games with my friends, compared to the unofficial Rock Candy controllers I own.


What’s that? Another consumer friendly corporations turn absolute greedy thieves? Ah, how 21th century of you Nintendo

More like a company that doesn't want other people using their property with permission.