I feel like the biggest difference between Nintendo and EA, Sony, Epic Games, etc., is that Nintendo CONSISTENTLY makes super good games, it's just the PR part they are literally so bad with, worse than all the other companies combined. I'm not a Nintendo stan, never will be, but it's MUCH more difficult to find a major Nintendo title that was just outright bad. Hell, they even made Mario & Rabbids a great game. Imagine literally any other studio trying to do that, and think about the massive turd it would produce.

Regardless of that fact though, there are times when I'm like "Nintendo you're so cool", to "Nintendo go fuck yourself". It's a very toxic relationship, and until Nintendo starts making shitty games, this probably won't stop for awhile.

@Proletarichad I mean most of their games are really well made in comparison to other companies. I kinda  hate everything about Nintendo apart from its games. The shitty hardware and bad business decisions. They make good games to most people but overall, as a companies it really sucks.

They’ve made like three good games in the past 5 years.

I’d say Sony makes consistently good exclusive games as well. They just don’t have their hands on the eternal nostalgia machines called Mario and Zelda which always get a +1or2 on their ratings due solely to rose tinted glasses.

Anything not called Mario or Zelda almost always gets the shaft, especially rpgs. This is done by either having clear time and budget constraint’s which ruin parts of the game, se Fire Emblem Three Houses and Every Pokemon game made for the switch, or Nintendo just barely eking out a game for one of their secondary franchises every 4-5 years.

Even Mario and Zelda have their issues. The games a pretty good by Mario and Zelda standards but games like Breath of the Wild and Mario Odyssey do have their fair share of problems which are ignored as games journos and long time fans trip over themselves to shout “10 out of 10!!!!” The second a game comes out.

@Lando Akechi Quality Standards for Pokémon fans practically do not exist.

You say that, but people still buy Pokemon games, which have very much been declining in quality

I agree. If Blizzard, EA ir Ubisoft consistently made good games, they'd get more apologists. You'd have Blizzard fans defending the company over the Hong Kong issue if Diablo III was good or the latest WOW expansion were good or Warcraft 3 Reforged was good or they just outright insult their fans at their own presentations ("Don't you all have phones" "You think you want that (Vanilla WOW) but you don't")  they'd have loyal fanboys defending them too.

It's a simple fact of any industry: The consumer only cares about how good the product is.


What could be worse than $20 for bad online? $70 for even worse emulation


Reminds me of how Apple fans were for years and even to this day but on a much more ridiculous level


@Surprised Lobsta fair enough, but the guy I was arguing with literally said Penguin0 was "Anti Nintendo" just because he made video calling out Nintendo..
If you think Al hasn't done a good of a job of criticizing Nintendo, that's fine.
I personally think his criticism of Nintendo of being lazy with their Switch lineup is a fair issue to talk about.. I mean, in 2018 alone, it was mostly ports and smaller games, and 2018 was effectively the "Just wait for Smash you stupid bastards"  year.

TL;DR It's fine to say Al did a bad job calling out Nintendo, but Donkey Kong Fan was getting piss mad about not only Al but also Penguin0/Cr1tical

@CalTonTheRobot Most people calling out nintendo have more effort put into their arguments than Al's, he tends to jump on bandwagons and start twitter wars over the smaller shit for nothing

@Donkey Kong Fan "Anti-Nintendo Video" I'm not sure calling out Nintendo for the Smash Slippi Takedown is "Anti.Nintendo"
I never saw Cr1tical's video on Nintendo, but I'm pretty damn sure he wasn't being "Anti Nintendo" since most negative Nintendo Videos call Nintendo out for their Shady actions..

If you want to say Nintendo's Criticism Videos are "Anti Nintendo" whatever..
But I'm still standing by my statement of you sounding like a Soy Boy..
And that "Anti Nintendo* statement is all I needed to know you don't have an actual argument in terms of Uncle Al being a bad person..

Feel free to give another response.i frankly don't give enough of a shit to respond to you after this unless you have an actual argument that isn't just "everyone calling out Nintendo is Anti-Nintendo"

@CalTonTheRobot If you think my response was soy-like, you should think the same about uncle al’s comments. I stole his “deserves the scrutiny” line from the comment he left on penguinz0’s awful anti-Nintendo video. So that al himself can witness how senseless he sounds.

@FatalSyndrome * empcord vietnam-flashbacks *

You should make a video about this video maybe.

Emp is the best YouTuber of all time. He says exactly what the world needs to hear imo.

No. You missed the point. Content creators aren’t gods.

@Halfmoon the definition of a fan is "a person who has a strong interest or admiration for a particular person or thing." He's a huge fan of donkey kong. He talks about Nintendo when he isn't doing spongebob parodies or something. I would consider that a fan but idk maybe I'm wrong

Lmao it’s the Nintendo Switch lineup guy

@nek snek🐍 Okay, I feel compelled to ask. What would it take to label him as one beyond the fact that he likes a couple of their games?

Uncle Al, the nintendo fan who isn't really a nintendo fan

Accurate, Mr. Al, but these days, he prefers the nickname, "EmpLemon."

@Donkey Kong Fan the way you worded your response sounded soy and incel like, and to be fair I didn't do that well either, but as far as I know, Uncle Al has only mocked Kirby and Smash fans for toxicity for wanting characters, or the franchise being to bland to give a chance,
By far the most controversial tweet I know he made was about Nintendo's lineup being filled with Half Baked Sequels, Ports and Remakes,  and finish it later games..
Which is true.. however what he tweeted next was definitely controversial, he cut several games for "not being must have games" leaving several beloved games behind..
And I guess he said Yoshi was a bad game..
He gives smash fans the most shit for their high expectations and being toxic about characters not getting.
He also quote retweets takes he doesn't agree with, the only example that comes to mind first was him responding to a tweet being toxic towards Arlo for saying Kazuya was not as hype as Banjo..
(Which, despite Tekken 3 outselling the entire Banjo Kazooie Franchise, is not 100% wrong).

I don't think Al is a bad guy, and I don't think I'm 100% wrong when I call out someone blatantly making snarky remarks over Twitter hot takes..

If you have any examples to show me to the contrary of my defense, I would be very happy to get a couple links .

(P.s if you say "go look it up yourself" you're admitting you have no evidence and that I win the argument)

Oh hey, it’s everyone’s favorite creepy uncle.

You know if Uncle Al agrees with you then you are on the wrong side of history and need to Get therapy like a lot of it

@CalTonTheRobot If you take a quick glance at his Twitter account, you’ll understand why I said that. If anything, you’re the one with soy if you actively insult anyone who is a fan of something.

Agreed! I now know the full story! Nintendo seriously needs to get with the times!

@Donkey Kong Fan
unless you're talking about his stance on Kirby, i have no idea what the hell you're talking about..
also this comment really reeks of soy god damn

@CalTonTheRobot Uncle Al is an egomaniac who constantly makes immature comments towards every Nintendo fan. He deserves the scrutiny.

didn't you make a video almost exactly like this

If only god would give us a new Donkey Kong game.

better than any of your critiques of Nintendo, that's for sure

He really threw down with the Nintendo fans

I agree.  It's really easy for me and others to say that Nintendo is anti consumer and that they need to get with the times and get their shit together, but actually doing things to change it is going to be way harder, and we need to be more proactive about it (including myself, which is gonna be agonizingly hard for me.)

Nintendo wouldn't criticize itself though. It must be pagan propaganda

@Just A Pair of Legs Emp cult > Nintendo cult


What an incredible video. I'm a huge Nintendo fan and that's why I'm so disgruntled with the way they've handled themselves as of late. Forget just nintendo fans - all fandoms need to watch this.

Thats the point calling out corporate shills/loyalist, the comments definitly ruined that message but what the expect on sudo twitter.


Nintendo also shut down a fan-re-creation of Super Mario Bros for the Commodore 64 home-computer (from 1982) after they worked on it for seven years in the space of week. I mean obviously they failed to expunge it from the internet, but it just goes to show their attitude towards fans and fan-games.

Legally whacking someone who spent seven years re-creating a 35+ year old Nintendo game for a 40 year old home-computer ...


The funniest thing about Melee is that if that game would have been released a console gen later, all those bugs and exploits that made it awesome for some people would have been patched and forgotten about in a month


Nintendo hates emulators because that detracts people's time and potential money from their new game and consoles.<br>I've learned to enjoy older games on emulators not because I hate new games and their far better graphics, but because video game prices have gone through the roof with their scummy business practices of micro transactions and DLC, and I refuse to pay over 1000 bucks for an RTX 3080ti that can actually run the damn things smoothly.

Nintendo hates emulators because that detracts people's time and potential money from their new game and consoles.
I've learned to enjoy older games on emulators not because I hate new games and their far better graphics, but because video game prices have gone through the roof with their scummy business practices of micro transactions and DLC, and I refuse to pay over 1000 bucks for an RTX 3080ti that can actually run the damn things smoothly.


The last second of the video sums up Nintendo Fans perfectly...

@The Failed Artist Sounds like a whole lotta cope to me.

@BubbleStar well if you really do care for the company you would like for them to stop the consumerism and take notes but it’s fine to not care about it and just play their games.

@BubbleStar Nah it's the shills and toxic twitter scum. Critics, in my opinion, are somewhat justified in their concerns with the company so I can empathise with them while still being a fan

I'm a fan so does that makes me a horrible person?

Nintendo has made a lot of video games that I enjoy playing, as well as those that have music tracks that I enjoyed listening to (even for several games that I never played).

That being said, the business practices they employ definitely are worthy of criticism.

In particular, their overprotective reactions to online emulation. My view of copyright law is that if you don’t make money off it anymore, and there’s no way to access it, then it should be in the public domain.


Well, now the expansion pack has cause the Nintendo switch online price to rise to 50 dollars for one person, and 80 dollars for a family. The only good thing, people seem actually upset about this ludicrous price point. Sadly, if the past is any indication, most fans will pay this amount despite the outrage.

@Arceus Bowser 212 do you had an android phone? you can play n64 games there.

Even though I too am outraged, I have no other option of getting to play these games, since I have no PC of my own, so I can't emulate, and I ain't spending $100s online. If there were an option without the Animal Crossing DLC, I'd pay that immediately instead of the $50, but it doesn't seem like that's the case.


That neverland comparison is spot on. I used to be an big nintendo fanboy when I was 11 or 12 defending every awful decision they made. But I grew up and out of that mentality. Unfortunately not everyone does I guess.


As someone that was beyond hyped for the Nintendo Switch, stayed up past 2 AM to watch the reveal event, bought just about everything after selling my Wii U, I can say that Nintendo recently is starting to show its true colors more to me every day. I love their games but they're just being like every other Japanese company, incredibly conservative. They don't understand change


It's honestly impressive, I remember the time people would call EA the worst game publisher hands down, no question.

Activision Blizzard, Nintendo, Bethesda...it seems they've all taken that to be a personal challenge.


The most ridiculous petty thing I remember Nintendo doing was when they forced the Internet Archive to take down scans of Nintendo Power magazines. The free online availability of those old magazines, which ceased publication going on nine years ago, posed literally no meaningful threat to their intellectual property whatsoever. But nope, Nintendo Power is ©Nintendo, which means the only legal way to observe these pieces of gaming history is to purchase some guy's soggy, ripped old pages that were sitting in his attic. An act of purchase which, by the way, doesn't net Nintendo a single cent. Just a pathetic action on Nintendo's part.

@TheFreeSpeechZealot Don't confuse Free Speech with Shit Speech.

@TheFreeSpeechZealot It's sad it's that way.

Matthew McKellar yeah that is if they go 80 years without using it.  Besides, them taking something down doesn’t count as using your intellectual property legally speaking.  That’s why for Disney it’s not enough to take stuff down from the internet; they gotta do remakes of their property for them to keep their copyright

@TheFreeSpeechZealot Really fuckin' weird how the people that say words like "cope" are usually projecting and almost always wrong.

@fabulous_finn You're gonna make his brain hurt :(

@TheFreeSpeechZealot y'know I find your name ironic. If you are a free speech zealot like your name implies, I'd hope you would actually look through what the current laws are in the USA regarding copyright infringement and trademark usage. Why? Because freedom of speech and property rights usually go hand in hand, and if you arent willing to understand what the current laws regarding one is, I highly doubt you'll be an effective advocate for the other.

@YL Pan Unironically this. People might say this is exaggerating, but honestly Nintendo goes so far to do these kinds of things that it feels like they have a political reason behind it all (even if they don't)

@cyfer003 Bane already said something along those lines. Good link regardless

Because it's not about profit, it's about paranoia

They are, much like Chinese Communist Party, worry that these ambiguous product from freedom of expression threatens them. They want to maintain some sort of status quo or power, even if it means violent suppression.

@TheFreeSpeechZealot I'd ask how much Nintendo is paying you to lick their boots, but let's be real, you do it for free

@TheFreeSpeechZealot <br>How does that boot taste?

@TheFreeSpeechZealot
How does that boot taste?

@TheFreeSpeechZealot cough cough SEGA, Valve cough cough

@TheFreeSpeechZealot *cough* *cough* SEGA, Valve *cough* *cough*

@TheFreeSpeechZealot Thanks for the input, Nintendo lawyer

@TheFreeSpeechZealot that makes literally 0 sense.

@TheFreeSpeechZealot That is not true in the slightest.

@TheFreeSpeechZealot And yet other companies haven't lost their copyright despite allowing modding and archiving of their older titles, curious.

What goes ignored is this: refusing to defend your copyright actually makes you lose it. Its not just their right, its literally obligated. Cope.

@East Vibe The Archive has referred to the game maker before as rhyming with "Nofriendo"

They even got to the Internet Archive?? Over Nintendo Power?!? Hosting a copy of Nintendo Power online literally does nothing to the company, and they saw the need to remove it anyways. That's nuts.


Amazing video!

Oversized nitpick:
What I think is overlooked when analyzing why Nintendo fans would sooner dislike a DLC video rather than in response to legal controversy would be because the bulk of viewers are either actual children or completely oblivious to their business practices. Said bulk wouldn't take the effort to know more about their fiascos compared to companies that have more adult/"gamer" customers, the dempgraphic Nintendo explicitly doesn't typically cater to.


For me, the "Neverland fantasy" came crashing down with the joy-con drift and the NSO expansion pack. Switch is the first Nintendo console i own ever since the SNES, and these problems killed my love for the company. I'm done with Nintendo. I realized how insane the nintendo fandom is when i left a comment on one of nintendo's youtube videos complaining about the joy con drift, and a fan responded to me that it is a easy defect to fix and it's the costumer fault. he was arguing till he was blue in the mouth that <b>the costumer is at fault for the joy con drift</b> . I was baffled at the sheer sheep mentality of that person, arguing with a nintendo fan sometimes feels like arguing with a flat earther

For me, the "Neverland fantasy" came crashing down with the joy-con drift and the NSO expansion pack. Switch is the first Nintendo console i own ever since the SNES, and these problems killed my love for the company. I'm done with Nintendo. I realized how insane the nintendo fandom is when i left a comment on one of nintendo's youtube videos complaining about the joy con drift, and a fan responded to me that it is a easy defect to fix and it's the costumer fault. he was arguing till he was blue in the mouth that *the costumer is at fault for the joy con drift* . I was baffled at the sheer sheep mentality of that person, arguing with a nintendo fan sometimes feels like arguing with a flat earther


Nintendo has always been like this - paternalistic, controlling, and bizarre toward their third party devs. It's why Square stopped working with them, it's why tons of third party devs flocked to the PSX back in the day. Nintendo never got those third party devs back, either. And here's the rub. If the third party dev, who does everything entirely legitimately and even pays for the right to use Nintendo hardware and licensing, means nothing to Nintendo, how much do you think you matter to Nintendo?

Nintendo doesn't even compete with Sony or Microsoft anymore. People pretend like this was always the case, but in truth, it's a reaction to the N64 and the Gamecube crashing and burning - in many ways down to Nintendo's own incessant urge to control, control, control. Nintendo was willing to sacrifice its leading market share in the industry and its very market dominance to keep that control.

@Tanooki racoony studios Microsoft has destroyed Rare, though.

Like, outright destroyed it.
They only made Kinect games and haven't made anything new in over a decade.

One example include rare wanting to make a N64 game called "Dinosaur Planet", but Shigeru Miyamoto wanted to make it into a star fox game just because one of the main characters (Sabre) looks like Fox Mccloud! That is, in my opinion, why I'm thankful Microsoft bought rare.


Emulating games is gonna be the future! Technology degrades over time and the old hardware won't last forever. Loved the video btw! I like the way you explain things and present it to us


nintendo chooses quite possibly the worst hills to die on. every. time.

@supersmashbro596 I used to be one....not anymore

@4nt And it saddens me.
Nowadays so many companies have gone to a route of scumbaggery to highest degrees...
But somehow Nintendo will get by with it.

@cryamist ellimek "Yes, well I have 10 high priced lawyers!"

Nintendo presses a button to reveal their lawyers behind a hidden door

@cryamist ellimek "Yes, well I have 10 high priced lawyers!"

*Nintendo presses a button to reveal their lawyers behind a hidden door*

it sucks. on one hand, they do still do great things. the bad news is, they are also stuck on draconian laws, and like you said, choose the worst hills to die on.
as a nintendo fan, i feel like it's my duty to call them out on the shit they do like all of you do. because i want the already good, to be better.
the fact that they arent the worst, even with the shit they pull, shouldnt excuse them from the shit they still pull.

it sucks. on one hand, they do still do great things. the bad news is, they are also stuck on draconian laws, and like you said, choose the worst hills to die on.
as a nintendo fan, i feel like it's my duty to call them out on the shit they do like all of you do. because i *want* the already good, to be better.
the fact that they arent the worst, even with the shit they pull, shouldnt excuse them from the shit they still pull.

@4nt And an army of lawyers that Rival Disney

And they still win usually because too many of their fans either lack a spine or are literal 10 year olds.


I really think that Nintendo's biggest problem as a company they refuse to adapt to the times. They would rather stay stuck in the past and let their own history fade away all for the sake of money. If you look at what Capcom, Namco Bandai, and even Sega have done for fan projects they've produced some amazing works like Sonic Mania. When Nintendo does tries a modern trend like what they did with Hyrule Warriors or Splatoon they can do amazing things, but it feels all them ore frustrating when they do stuff like this.

@Tanooki racoony studios No. Unfortunately this is a company that's too big to fail no matter what they do. Even with the current drama of the NSO expansion. The only possible way i could see Nintendo being brought down a peg is if they got involved in a scandal that plagues them similar to what Activison Blizzard or Ubisoft are going through what now.

do you think they should become a third-party company?


I grew up loving Donkey Kong well before the NES was even a thing and owned nothing but Nintendo consoles during most of the '80s and '90s. The NES is still my most played console in the present day. Hell, I have a framed Nintendo Power #1 autographed by Howard Phillips hanging on my wall.

I still don't excuse any of Nintendo corporate's shitty behavior, past or present. A sensible person shouldn't perceive this as a conflict, either.


Even though Nintendo may still get away with the NSO situation, it is somewhat cathartic to know that fan loyalty has reached breaking point.


Good video, agreed with all the points, dropping a dislike.


I decided to come back to this video to say that it's gotten worse. Nintendo says they are closing the 3DS and Wii U shops so any digital-only or digital copies of games will be eradicated and physical copies will soar in price because of this


I swear this video keeps aging like a fine wine. Nintendo is stopping its workers from forming a union, and being accused of poor treatment of employees, and how do they respond? By releasing xenoblade 3 a few months early, and they’re fans have taken the bait. I swear, if Nintendo just said they were killing puppies and poisoning water, the fans would still clap for them.

@BeakBoi  they do. its the 3rd party employee being a jerk  to them

Wait really. Link? I though Nintendo treated their employees really well?

Dude. have you even realized that person that Nintendo fired was a leaker.


When I say I like Nintendo, I mean that I like Nintendo's creative team. When I say I hate Nintendo, I mean I hate their legal team


nintendo could club baby seals and the fans would think it’s promo for ice climbers 2

@Toastytoad Why are Nintendo Fanboys so goddamn Dense and Humorless?

Unlikely. Why take a risk when they know there are fools who will pour money into anything with Mario on the box?<br>Ice Climber will never make a comeback, but at least the Icies are in Smash.

Unlikely. Why take a risk when they know there are fools who will pour money into anything with Mario on the box?
Ice Climber will never make a comeback, but at least the Icies are in Smash.

@Naru I'm not particularly in any side of the argument and there is a certain level of merit to what you're saying, but I'm afraid you're wrong on two things here:

1)You're making the overgeneralization that the smash community is cancer as a whole, disregarding any and all friendly/tolerant players because of their inherent quietness compared to the worse ones.

2)You are trying to make the statement that a less than friendly community somehow justifies years of mistreatment, sabotage or simple negligence regarding any attempt for smash players, and perhaps people who dislike current day nintendo in general (those who hate Nintendo's less than stellar regard for joycon drift, for example), to congregate and strive for change within the company's policies or view of their customers as things other than a standard lacking moneyprinter.

There inevitably will and, chances are, already is a certain level of bias in my words, but I believe it'd be better if you kept these things in mind when calling out this kind of arguments.

You guys make mountains out of molehills every single time. So just because the rest of the Nintendo fans don't give a shit about the cries of the Smash community, which in itself is cancer, means that fans would accept Nintendo clubbing baby seals? That's a shit analogy. First and foremost, you've got to explain how Smash autism and animal abuse are analogous to each other.

@ImmaLittlePip No, the fans would get pissy then forget when some video game character gets put in smash.

And the fans would defend Nintendo for doing it

Not gonna lie. That would pique my interest.

For some reason, I played Ice Climbers with a seal and I have no idea that hitting yetis existed.

#YetiLivesMatter

this is the best comment I've seen so far

Wait, you're telling me that video wasn't a Nintendo advertisement? Uh oh...


I used to love Nintendo unconditionally. I really did. They were the only gaming giant who truly gave a damn, who had a basic semblence of ethics, who truly did care about the consumers. In a wasteland of EAs, Blizzards and Bethesdas, Nintendo managed to disguise themselves as some honorable pillar of justice. Who finally came back to glory after the decay that was the Wii U, who could finally give us hope in videogames once more, who could truly

I think the biggest wake-up call for me was the asinine release of the Mario 3D All-stars collection. Limited time distribution? Why? Not even a third of the effort put into the Kirby Dreamland collection? What respect for your flagship franchise... Missing Galaxy 2? Fuck you! A weird ass semi-remake of Mario 64 that practically exists for the sole purpose of making a speedrunning trick impossible? NO! And they're gonna pull this shit with Fire Emblem next?! That's not even past the line anymore, that's having gone the entire circumference of the earth so you can cross the line a second time!

Not to mention they have no clue how to deal with online game support. Splatoon should definitely ba a "once per console with healthy support" type deal, not a "support for like half a year I guess and make another" one. They remove innocent glitches and programming quirks from Mario Maker for no rhyme or reason.

Nintendo thinks themselves grand chancellors of their own works. What they want will be the things they give fans. And while it's always admirable seeing someone passionate achieve their goals, Nintendo is no indie artist. They have a fanbase. They have a fanbase with wants and needs. And as illustrated by the ridiculous success of Five Nights at Freddy's, the way to keep a fandom happy isn't to suffocate or ignore them, it's to support them. Fan projects are pivotal to the franchise's success, so much so that Scott Cawthon even launched a project to help people make money off of their FNaF fan games.

Nintendo ignores fans in favor of a decades outdated viewpoint: The developer is god. And until they manage to get over their god complex, I'm afraid I cannot in good faith advocate for a single thing they do.

I used to love Nintendo unconditionally. I really did. They were the only gaming giant who truly gave a damn, who had a basic semblence of ethics, who truly did care about the consumers. In a wasteland of EAs, Blizzards and Bethesdas, Nintendo managed to disguise themselves as some honorable pillar of justice. Who finally came back to glory after the decay that was the Wii U, who could finally give us hope in videogames once more, who could truly

I think the biggest wake-up call for me was the asinine release of the Mario 3D All-stars collection. Limited time distribution? Why? Not even a third of the effort put into the Kirby Dreamland collection? What respect for your flagship franchise... Missing Galaxy 2? Fuck you! A weird ass semi-remake of Mario 64 that practically exists for the sole purpose of making a speedrunning trick impossible? NO! And they're gonna pull this shit with Fire Emblem next?! That's not even past the line anymore, that's having gone the entire circumference of the earth so you can cross the line a second time!

Not to mention they have *_no_* clue how to deal with online game support. Splatoon should definitely ba a "once per console with healthy support" type deal, not a "support for like half a year I guess and make another" one. They remove innocent glitches and programming quirks from Mario Maker for no rhyme or reason.

Nintendo thinks themselves grand chancellors of their own works. What *they* want will be the things they give fans. And while it's always admirable seeing someone passionate achieve their goals, Nintendo is no indie artist. They have a fanbase. They have a fanbase with wants and needs. And as illustrated by the ridiculous success of Five Nights at Freddy's, the way to keep a fandom happy isn't to suffocate or ignore them, it's to support them. Fan projects are *pivotal* to the franchise's success, so much so that Scott Cawthon even launched a project to help people _make money off of their FNaF fan games._

Nintendo ignores fans in favor of a decades outdated viewpoint: The developer is god. And until they manage to get over their god complex, I'm afraid I cannot in good faith advocate for a single thing they do.

@Andy Blanton I think you misunderstand my point. My problem isn't that Nintendo dares enforce their IPs, it's that they have a genuinely unhealthy chokehold on everything they've made. No, and I mean literally no other developer cares this much about whether or not you emulate their 15 y/o games that they no longer distribute in any way. Nor about non-profit fan projects that hold the namesake of their games. And especially not about a passionate fan-base gathering inhumane amounts of money for charity to have their game be a part of a fighting game tournament. Nintendo was going To ban Evo showing Melee, yet again a game that is a decade+ old and makes Nintendo no revenue.

That one Metroid 2 remake? Got taken down. That one super popular Pokemon fan-game that was in development? Cease and desist. Fucking Project M?! Nintendo honest to god manipulated them into ceasing development under the promise of maybe maybe hosting official Smash tournaments for once. Which they didn't. They were never gonna. They just wanted these people who were trying to improve an experience for its players to buzz off.

Sorry for the repeat example but it's the best way I can illustrate why this is a problem. Imagine if Scott Cawthon was doing this with FNaF. Imagine if he filed copyright strikes on all YouTubers who played his game. Imagine if he sued all fan games out of existence. By virtue of him being an indie dev this would have all but killed his chance at fame. But instead he worked with his community to create a franchise which, even if not quite in its hayday anymore, is going stronger than any other horror craze.

Nintendo has the liberty to ignore these factors in the short term, but even if it takes a while to catch up with them, it's going to. In my experience, public view of Nintendo is at a net decline after their consistent habit of missteps. There's always gonna be Johnny McFire Emblem who loves Nintendo more than anything and would never give up on them but no matter how dedicated the fan, all Nintendo is doing is disillusioning them. Eventually enough people will realize that they need to put pressure on Nintendo to improve, and at that point it's on Nintendo to decide whether to finally change their god damn prehistoric ways or crumble.

@Andy Blanton I think you misunderstand my point. My problem isn't that Nintendo *dares* enforce their IPs, it's that they have a genuinely unhealthy _chokehold_ on everything they've made. No, and I mean literally no other developer cares *this* much about whether or not you emulate their 15 y/o games that they no longer distribute in any way. Nor about non-profit fan projects that hold the namesake of their games. And especially not about a passionate fan-base gathering inhumane amounts of money for charity to have their game be a part of a fighting game tournament. Nintendo was going To ban Evo showing Melee, yet again a game that is a decade+ old and makes Nintendo no revenue.

That one Metroid 2 remake? Got taken down. That one super popular Pokemon fan-game that was in development? Cease and desist. Fucking Project M?! Nintendo honest to god manipulated them into ceasing development under the promise of maybe maybe hosting official Smash tournaments for once. *Which they didn't.* They were never gonna. They just wanted these people who were trying to improve an experience for its players to buzz off.

Sorry for the repeat example but it's the best way I can illustrate why this is a problem. Imagine if Scott Cawthon was doing this with FNaF. Imagine if he filed copyright strikes on all YouTubers who played his game. Imagine if he sued all fan games out of existence. By virtue of him being an indie dev this would have all but *killed* his chance at fame. But instead he worked with his community to create a franchise which, even if not quite in its hayday anymore, is going stronger than any other horror craze.

Nintendo has the liberty to ignore these factors in the short term, but even if it takes a while to catch up with them, it's going to. In my experience, public view of Nintendo is at a net decline after their consistent habit of missteps. There's always gonna be Johnny McFire Emblem who loves Nintendo more than anything and would never give up on them but no matter how dedicated the fan, all Nintendo is doing is disillusioning them. Eventually enough people will realize that they need to put pressure on Nintendo to improve, and at that point it's on Nintendo to decide whether to finally change their god damn prehistoric ways or crumble.

Yes, the entity who owns an IP should be in control of that IP.


Now I am a huge Nintendo fan. I love Mario, Zelda, Pokemon F Zero Kirby, Metroid, Animal Crossing, Pikmin, Splatoon and many others. What I don't like is what Nintendo does as a company. The sad truth is that corporations are not our friends. All they care about is making money and growing, and they will literally do ANYTHING (That is at least legal, but sometimes not)  to make sure that happens, Nintendo is a prime example of this. Now, I love Nintendo video games, I just don't like what they do as a company.

@Derek G Yeah, the piracy issue is actually a grey area issue if they are not selling the games that people are pirating. Even if it's expensive, would I be pirating a game such as Legends Arceus for instance, hell no, because that game is still being sold by Nintendo and they are still profiting off the game. But if its a game like Smash Melee, or Pokemon Platinum, its more understandable why people would pirate those games, because Nintendo won't sell them, plus the resale prices are HIGH AS HELL (and if it's low they are either auction listings <read the thinner text>, or if not, they are most likely repros, if someone would even make repros of gamecube games, since if someone would even try, it is likely that it wouldn't even look close to real.) Either bankrupt yourself trying to get these games for highway robbery online, go to a retro video game store to find the games that you want and to find either that they are expensive, they only have repros of the game (I have seen a few used game stores that sell repros), or they don't even HAVE IT.  You can even try going to yard sales, thrift stores, or even flea markets to look for the games, and also find out that they aren't there, as you are not guaranteed to find these games there. Or you can just download it from a rom site and emulate it, but either way, Nintendo's not making money from these games. These are just my views on the situation.

Same. I love everything about Nintendo, except ironically enough, Nintendo. My man Mario is owned by what is probably the most annoying and confusing company to me. I don't get them. Well you know what they say, pirating Nintendo games is morally correct, or at the very least amoral


No more dislike button. There will never be justice in this world.


You should have mentioned what happened to Mario Royale. Nintendo attacked it as per usual for fangames, but when the dev decided to revamp it using original assets (DMCA Royale), they came back and forced him to shut it down entirely. Then the Mario 35th direct came along, revealing that they copied his idea for a limited-time release.<br>It’s among the most disgusting things the company has done in their history of anti-consumerism, and I still get angry thinking about it.

You should have mentioned what happened to Mario Royale. Nintendo attacked it as per usual for fangames, but when the dev decided to revamp it using original assets (DMCA Royale), they came back and forced him to shut it down entirely. Then the Mario 35th direct came along, revealing that they copied his idea for a limited-time release.
It’s among the most disgusting things the company has done in their history of anti-consumerism, and I still get angry thinking about it.


I find it weird and hilariously sad that Nintendo fans show more discontent about Nintendo putting an anime-esque character in their game rather than shutting down fan games which people poured their hearts in.

tells you who the average nintendo fan is

tells you who the average nintendo fan is

@Kyle Hill Did you search up anything of them taking down youtube videos and shutting down fan games?

@Jayden C Weird. I never saw any hate and believed me I searched and nothing but heaps of praise show up.

@Sinister-Oni They make CNN and Fox viewers look smart!

For goodness sake that is not everbody. In the video he's claiming that all Nintendo fans are like this. We are not. There a stans that will buy anything and definitely suck but that is not the whole fan base and it is idiotic to think so.

@Pumpkin Jack Jack-O-Lantern Also no refutation of what I said he just called it delusional despite the fact that the smash community freaks out every time they add a new fire emblem character. Like gee, a series with hundreds of fleshed out playable characters has more representation in a crossover fighting game as opposed to a game with 1 or 2 fleshed out playable characters? The scandal!

@Pumpkin Jack Jack-O-Lantern I don’t know what that is but I have a feeling I don’t want to find out

@MagcargoMan Found the Scrimblo Blimblo fanchud.

@MagcargoMan Found the Scrimblo Blimblo fanchud.

@Todd Howard "This is essentially nintendo being lazy and greedy but Nintendroids refuse to accept the Nintendo would ever do anything bad so they start sperging out and blaming the Fire Emblem series and Fire Emblem fans and whining about the inclusion of so many fire emblem characters." This is a very delusional take

@MelodiousBlitz Even people I like do this. Critikal0 will rail on Nintendo one minute when its the hot drama but the next he buys their stupid mario kart accessory toy with no realization that he financially supporting someone he hates.

@Todd Howard I don't know too much about Dunkey but there is nothing wrong with his favorite games being Nintendo games if they are his favorite. They have problems, but usually Nintendo makes high quality games or at least good quality ones. I dunno...his ratings seem to usually make sense. I'm sure he's said some negative things about Nintendo, and usually their games don't have that many issues. He hasn't made a video yet talking about how they treat their fans though but that doesn't prove he's a fanboy.

@Jayden C His favorite games are almost exclusively Nintendo games. He gives almost every Nintendo game a high rating despite them objectively having problems and not making sense with his rating of other games. He rarely says anything negative about Nintendo or its games despite their many faults and continuous disregard for its fans.

@ImmaLittlePip  But they weren't quite that upset, certainly not as upset as how upset people are at Nintendo since 2020 and now 2021.

@Todd Howard How is he a Nintendo fanboy? When has he ever been a fanboy?

@Serega Rublev No I'm not the one telling ties, the person I was replying to is more likely telling lies.

@Jayden C no he's right it's really accurate to how at least smash bros fans reacted

@Todd Howard "except if its anime because all anime is garbage" i hate that agreement since there are tons of different type of anime out there for people to watch, it would be like someone saying that all books/movies are garbage when there are tons of different types of books/movies out there.

@Todd Howard Nintendorks are known to be very double standard.

@Staringcorgi6 Its funny because the biggest problem with that situation was Nintendo being stupid and not just adding Byleth as a free character to boost Three Houses marketing, but as a DLC character alongside a bunch of third party or obscure characters. This is essentially nintendo being lazy and greedy but Nintendroids refuse to accept the Nintendo would ever do anything bad so they start sperging out and blaming the Fire Emblem series and Fire Emblem fans and whining about the inclusion of so many fire emblem characters. Its literally just brand loyalty to the extreme.

And honestly who cares if they have 70 plus other characters that they can main or already main

@The Old Guard Oh I don’t need to try, just wait until I release Fallout 76 for the Wii. Then you will see

@Todd Howard Todd, stop trying to make your company look good.

Maybe Dunkey really is the quintessential modern Nintendo fanboy. Anything Nintendo puts out he loves, except if its anime because all anime is garbage, except when its not because he liked that one game. Pretty much self contradictory and shortsighted to the point of absurdity. BUT NINTENDO IS SO FAMILY FRIENDLY AND FUN AND HAS THIS MAHIC TO THEM THAT NO OTHER COMPANY CAN MATCH YOU GUYS, IF THEY RIP ME OFF EITH CHEAP GARBAGE ITS OK BECAUSE AT LEAST ITS NINTENDO!!!!

Still the situation of fangames isn't so black and White
As they are free
They technically can compete with future releases
Mind you I don't like this
But it's not as easy as some people think

@Don Porculio  On one hand, you are right. It's weird. On the other though, It's Nintendo's IP that fans are trying to utilize without their permission. They are completely within their legal and even moral right to do what they do when they shoot down fan-made games that didn't obtain their permission. <br> I don't really want to make an appeal to authority, but we have rules for a reason, especially ones concerning IP protection. It's not difficult to follow them.

@Don Porculio  On one hand, you are right. It's weird. On the other though, It's Nintendo's IP that fans are trying to utilize without their permission. They are completely within their legal and even moral right to do what they do when they shoot down fan-made games that didn't obtain their permission.
 I don't really want to make an appeal to authority, but we have rules for a reason, especially ones concerning IP protection. It's not difficult to follow them.

@Jayden C You come on the internet to tell lies.

@Jayden C You come on the internet to tell lies.

@Anna Kozuki how is it simping? Did you look it up, the Etika Joycons were scams and had nothing to do with Etika.

@Drake Chaston This is honestly backwards of how Nintendo fans would react, although the Etika thing was fair considering that was a scam, like look into  it more and you'll see that it was scummy.

@Don Porculio it's gonna be chuck and just like byleth, he's gonna have an alt, under the name of sneed.

@N o You kidding? That whole controversery lasted at least a month if not multiple, and then in 2020 Nintendo got hated  for like...half of the entire year.

@Jayden C maybe in the beginning, but that controversy died out, whereas the byleth drama stayed for a good month at least

They aren't showing more discontent for that though, WAY more controversy arose from the shut down of games like AM2R then Byleth.

@Hateful Gaming It's more likely to be a Pokemon lol

@Hateful Gaming It's more likely to be a Pokemon lol

@Don Porculio my money is on another character from fire emblem

@Hateful Gaming Marco from Metal Slug is the final fighter. You heard it here first.


You are compelling to no end. Thank you for doing what you do friend.


I believe Nintendo genuinely hates its fanbases


Nintendo are the Disney of the video game industry.


You can always [share delisted nintendo games and silenced fan-projects]<br>It's [always morally correct]

You can always [share delisted nintendo games and silenced fan-projects]
It's [always morally correct]


Nintendo is so bad at offering alternatives, while denying fan-made solutions. And I think they truly don't care, because they know they don't have to actually try to make fat bank.

@The Cthuloser So basically you're okay with fangames so long as they change around the names of things?

Nintendofanboys don't even want anyone to have alternatives. Just look at how they react to anything that has some slight inspiration.

@V Games HOW THIS TURNED INTO A DISCUSSION ABOUT BETHESDA JESUS CHRIST GUYS

@V Games HOW THIS TURNED INTO A DISCUSSION ABOUT BETHESDA JESUS CHRIST GUYS

@Neogears They'll just keep buying the Mc Amiibo instead.

@Neogears They'll just keep buying the Mc Amiibo instead.

@BK20XX It's extremely rare that Nintendo targets ROM hacks. Fire Emblem fan ROM hack communities have many completed projects, and many abandoned ones - not one is because of Nintendo. Pokemon has a handful, and given how many are effected, a negligible amount.

@Slender Man 186 "well you know how Oblivion and Morrowind has classes you could pick at the start of the game, such as Paladin, Knight, and Spell Sword" thanks, now i understand what you meant.
"I also dislike how they replaced Birth Signs with Standing Stones." agree.
"As for Fallout’s weapon requirements, in Fallout NV every weapon had a strength and weapon skill requirement." it has been so long since i played Fallout NV that i forget what weapon requirements were, thanks for reminding me.
"Fallout 4 scrapped this entirely for a CoD style “hold breath to steady” system." eh, i hate Fallout 4 so much, alomst all of the guns feel the same, i hate the skill system in the game, and you can't sneak in the game baceuse enemies have eyes in the back of there necks and enemies can see through walls for some reason.

@V Games well you know how Oblivion and Morrowind has classes you could pick at the start of the game, such as Paladin, Knight, and Spell Sword, or how you could make your own custom classes? They gave XP boosts to certain skills and attributes depending on which one you picked, a Knight would level Heavy Armor and Strength faster than a Thief, and a Thief would level Sneak and Agility faster. That’s what I’m talking about. I also dislike how they replaced Birth Signs with Standing Stones.

As for Fallout’s weapon requirements, in Fallout NV every weapon had a strength and weapon skill requirement. So a laser rifle requires that you have at least 3 strength and 25 in Energy weapons. If you don’t meet a weapon’s requirements, it would be less accurate, sway a lot when aiming down it’s sights, and would cost much more AP in VATS than normal. It would also very between weapons, the Hunting shotgun required 5 strength and 75 in the guns skill, the Anti-materiel Rifle needed 8 strength and 100 in guns, and The Blade of the West required 9 strength and 100 in the melee weapons skill. The chem Steady would negate accuracy and aiming sway if you didn’t meet those requirement (but would drop VATS accuracy to 0%), and You could also take the perk “weapon handling” to lower strength requirements for every weapon by 2, so that AMR now only requires 6 strength to use.

Fallout 4 scrapped this entirely for a CoD style “hold breath to steady” system.

@Slender Man 186 "Skyrim got rid of classes," in what way?
"attributes," oh god, i hated the fact that they did that.
"had an extremely simplistic perk system," and some of the perks in skyrim where right down broken "like sneak where you could stand in front of a person and not be seen" that and the magic in skyrim was so bad/bland in the game.
"Fallout 4 got rid of skills" ones again i hated the fact that they did that.
"weapon requirements" wait, there was weapon requirements in fallout new vegas? for which weapons?
"it also lacked role playing in what should be a role playing game. this i super agree with.

@V Games yes, yes I did just say what you think I said.

As for Bethesda, they’ve been cutting RPG elements out of their games for years. Skyrim got rid of classes, attributes, had an extremely simplistic perk system, and had little room for genuine and believable role playing. Fallout 4 got rid of skills, the reputation system, ammo types, weapon requirements, similarly simplified the perk system to braindead levels, and it also lacked role playing in what should be a role playing game.

@priest of Ronald alt "skyrim fanboys should realize they worship a mid tier game at best" as someone who hates skyrim, why do you think the game is mid tier at best?

@Slender Man 186 " I’ve met people who genuinely still defend Bethesda" what did they defend Bethesda about?

@Slender Man 186 "the first game had a “one handed mode,” implying the devs knew people would try to beat off while playing." did you just say what i think you said?

@Trey Hansel we know,alot know,just this is something that is quite annoying

@Trey Hansel we know,alot know,just this is something that is quite annoying

They're fans and the casual audiences will buy it like hot cake

They're fans and the casual audiences will buy it like hot cake

@Slender Man 186 skyrim fanboys should realize they worship a mid tier game at best

@Slender Man 186 skyrim fanboys should realize they worship a mid tier game at best

@priest of Ronald alt I’ve met people who genuinely still defend Bethesda, I don’t think this guy is baiting, none of what he’s said is more ret**ded than what I’ve already heard from other fanboys.

The amount of bait in this replay section is hilarious

The amount of bait in this replay section is hilarious

@Luis Alfonso Pinto wow you put a lot of work Into some bait

@Luis Alfonso Pinto wow you put a lot of work Into some bait

@Neogears In the case of the virtual console or rather lack off on the Switch, is because people actually pay their garbage online service. It's like they're aware it's so bad that in order to justify the cost they bundled NES/SNES games as to say You're not only paying a subscription but also access to a retro library that's smaller than our previous one
Yeah call it a dick move or whatever but since drones ate it up there's not incentive for Nintendo to remove that anytime soon. Same deal with the Mario 3D All Starts collection, if people actually had principles or whatever and not bought that and instead emulate it or not buy at all (mainly because the average Nintendo fan already had those games anyway) as protest, who knows maybe would have punt a dent on Nintendo, but that didn't happened. Instead it has a top 10 selling title, so don't be surprised if Nintendo pulls a similar move in the future.
The truth is that the average consumer, Nintendo fan or not is not very smart at all.

@Neogears In the case of the virtual console or rather lack off on the Switch, is because people actually pay their garbage online service. It's like they're aware it's so bad that in order to justify the cost they _bundled_ NES/SNES games as to say _You're not only paying a subscription but also access to a retro library that's smaller than our previous one_
Yeah call it a dick move or whatever but since drones ate it up there's not incentive for Nintendo to remove that anytime soon. Same deal with the Mario 3D All Starts collection, if people actually had _principles_ or whatever and not bought that and instead emulate it or not buy at all (mainly because the average Nintendo fan already had those games anyway) as protest, who knows maybe would have punt a dent on Nintendo, but that didn't happened. Instead it has a top 10 selling title, so don't be surprised if Nintendo pulls a similar move in the future.
The truth is that the average consumer, Nintendo fan or not is not very smart at all.

@Slender Man 186 Again. You have no idea what you are talking about.<br>1- Steam is a completely different type of company than Nintendo and half life/portal/TF2 are worth significally less than the Mario ip.

@Slender Man 186 Again. You have no idea what you are talking about.
1- Steam is a completely different type of company than Nintendo and half life/portal/TF2 are worth significally less than the Mario ip.

@Luis Alfonso Pinto
1- again, you’re performing nonsensical mental gymnastics, and Gabe Newel (a widely respected developer) has proven why Piracy is the fault of the company, not the consumer. And yes, welcome to 2021 dips..t, people mod their games now. New and scary, I know.

2- the Creative Commons exist so that companies can’t just keep milking the same IP for years and years, cough Disney. IPs did become public domain “just like that,” and companies were forced into putting forth some actual effort into creating new IPs. Now companies are creatively bankrupt, why create a new IP when you can just keep milking Micky and Mario for all they’re worth?

3- again, you missed the point entirely. Do it a 3rd time and it’ll be a hat trick.

4- no version of SM64, Sunshine, or Galaxy where stick drift can potentially become an issue is the “best official version” or whatever. Also, the Shindou version of 64 was already the worst by a long shot.

It’s hilarious that you call me “boy,” but screwed up the spelling of “no idea,” and “talking.”

@Luis Alfonso Pinto
1- again, you’re performing nonsensical mental gymnastics, and Gabe Newel (a widely respected developer) has proven why Piracy is the fault of the company, not the consumer. And yes, welcome to 2021 dips..t, people mod their games now. New and scary, I know.

2- the Creative Commons exist so that companies can’t just keep milking the same IP for years and years, *cough* Disney. IPs did become public domain “just like that,” and companies were forced into putting forth some actual effort into creating new IPs. Now companies are creatively bankrupt, why create a new IP when you can just keep milking Micky and Mario for all they’re worth?

3- again, you missed the point entirely. Do it a 3rd time and it’ll be a hat trick.

4- no version of SM64, Sunshine, or Galaxy where stick drift can potentially become an issue is the “best official version” or whatever. Also, the Shindou version of 64 was already the worst by a long shot.

It’s hilarious that you call me “boy,” but screwed up the spelling of “no idea,” and “talking.”

@Slender Man 186 1- Again
 Meele takes attention frol Ultimate.
And Melee tourneys use mods and pirated copies.
2-If IPs became public domain just like that, no company would care about developing them.
Also corporations are there to make money, not be your dad.
3- Again. M rated game.
4.- Shindou version and both HD to Sunshine and Galaxy.
Again, you got nonidea what you are tslking about. Sit down, boy.

@Luis Alfonso Pinto 1- what mental gymnastics are you doing to where drawing attention to your games equals a bad thing?

2- using the IP would only be a violation of copyright law if the developers of AM2R were profiting off of it, and copyright law is completely f**ked anyway and needs to be fixed, Mario and Metroid should’ve entered the public domain by now. But due to another character that starts with M, owned by another greedy mega company, the Creative Commons is basically dead.

3- the main point I was making is that the sequel to the first beyonetta, a highly sexualized game that was literally meant to be played while choking your chicken, is a Wii U exclusive, even having skimpy Zelda and Metroid themed costumes. Your point about anything in Mother 3 being to risky to port is ret**ded my dude, Nintendo has been fine with far worse.

4- no, the best official versions of all three games in 3D All Stars already released, ya know, when they first came out?

You’re just proving Emp’s point right, Nintendo has such a dogmatically loyal fan base that you’ll defend whatever the hell they do. If I didn’t know any better I’d think you were a straight up paid shill.

@Slender Man 186 3.- Bayonetta is M so you debunked yourself.

4.-It doesnt matter. Again, its not a remake, but a collection of the best official versions of those three games.
Also every company has a way to cause FOMO, its a industry standard. If you do not like it, dont buy it.
But nintendo's goal is to make money.

If they didn't care they would simply allow all of that. No, it's much worse, they're actively malicious for the hell of it.

@UB Why I laughed so hard at this. (edit was grammar)

@UB Why I laughed so hard at this. (edit was grammar)

@The Cthuloser Earthbound can get it's spiritual follow-ups (as you mentioned, Undertale) but everything that plays like Pokémon is put as a copy, by our own minds, involuntary.

@KaBoom I mean, you're right that they need new blood... HOWEVER, that doesn't excuse the actions of their out-of-touch japanese boomer executives. This is specifically a video analyzing their flaws because not enough people talk about them, and you're basically hand-waving all of it because "they're a private company, they can do whatever they want regardless of if it's even in their or their customers' best interests".

Think about this: technically since you're not owed their IPs, they could tommorow state that they'll never make another mario or zelda game ever again and just live off the revenue they make from Rusty's Real Deal Baseball until they go bankrupt. Now, I know that's probably the stupidest move they could ever make, but according to your logic, that would be totally fine of them to do and you wouldn't ever say a word against it since they're legally allowed to.

@Luis Alfonso Pinto
Nintendo’s just mad that people prefer the Pokémon fan games over what Nintendo produces. Maybe instead of shutting down those fan games, they should put some effort into their own and win back their customers? Shutting down those fan games is like covering up a cavity without drilling and purifying it first.
As for other fan games, most of them are just cool games that probably don’t steal into the business of Nintendo at all. It shouldn’t matter that it’s using the same sprites and sounds as long as it’s not trying to trick people into thinking it’s an official Nintendo game.

@Mr. Moon I'm genuinely against fangames.  Not modding, but.... Fangames?  Most of the time, it's a mediocre developer trying to use a beloved property to get fame.   There's a handful than transcended that... But  like... Why not just make it your own thing? Undertale and Omori are effectively Mother fangames but also their own things. Hell, even the developers of Mother 4 realized that they put so much work into, they might as well make it its own game.

Couldn't someone like... Just make their own game?  Like, I love the Mother series.   Nintendo doesn't see, to care about it... But you know, games like Undertale and Omori scratch that itch.   Instead of someone making a Pokemon fangame... Why not focus on actually trying to make a good monster-catching game of your own.   I mean, it's not like there's not super successful indie games that wear their influences on their sleeves.   That way, your hard work isn't fucked over by lawyers, and you can show that you can stand on your own... Without relying on another game.

@Harry Henderson Man child. He just spelled out why Nintendo does what it does. Keep crying because they're not offering you up anything on a silver platter. You don't have to patron Nintendo if you hate them so much.

@Luis Alfonso Pinto finally, someone with some sense.

@Luis Alfonso Pinto finally, someone with some sense.

@Luis Alfonso Pinto you forget that you should not anger your fans

@Luis Alfonso Pinto you forget that you should not anger your fans

@Luis Alfonso Pinto What does it matter if a fan game uses pieces from the source material legally or not. If no one is profitting off of it and it isn't used maliciously who cares? So much time and effort goes into this stuff, if anything it's good because you have loyal fans that only extend your reach by making others more aware of your stuff.

@Luis Alfonso Pinto You are confusing support and opposition, no one is asking for support, the video you just watched is about opposition. The point is Nintendo actively opposes and attacks fan projects more than any other company.

@Trey Hansel  Who gives a damn, if people are offering you money for something you can easily license from the fan to make that fan game an official title you would defiantly take the deal.

Nintendo is kinda like the gaming version of Apple

Nintendo is kinda like the gaming version of Apple

Look much as I dislike the comp communities I do think they deserve alternatives and aren't to be just be mistreated.

How many times will this notion go on?

1.- Melee tournaments and the fanbase divide the attention towards Ultimate, which is their "latest" Smash that is still being sold. Nintendo literally has nothing to gain from Melee being around and do not want to remotely support them due to various reasons (using copied versions of the game), hacking the game with Slippy, their constant non-esports and immature actions (Smash tourneys being considered smelly, throwing crabs at people, etc.) and again, no profit incentive.
Nintendo literally has no reason to remotely care about Melee and its audience.

2.- Fangames literally take from the original source for free. They are not just going to hire every impressive game team because as a company, they have to discuss and approve every project, so just saying "Yeah, champ. Let's rerelease Super Mario 64 with mods together!" isn't going to happen if the board does not think SM64 or any other fan game project won't sell or if it interrupts the success of other products.

3.- Mother 3 will never be localized because of the touchy elements ( drug scene comes to mind) that are in there. Unless it is getting remade, the original GBA game will never, ever be localized.
If censored or altered significally, will it even be worth it anymore? Just use an Emulator.

4.- Mario 3D All-Stars IS the definitive versions of those games officially. It does not matter how good the Spyro or Crash remakes are since they are NOT Mario.
Mario's games are more valuable in the market than most of Sony's mascots combined. The Prime minister dressed up as Mario, the Kansai airport has Mario welcome you to Japan, Mario games STOMP most if not all of the mascots from other companies.
There is no reason for Nintendo to suddenly remake games that are already valuable and "good" as they are.

Also the video calling whoever they disagree in infantile manchildren is pity.
Anyone with basic study of marketing can recognize the reason behind what nintendo does.

I think it’s more the case that they try to force us to play the way that they think is “correct” rather than them not trying.

Not saying I agree with Nintendo, because I don't but there is definitely another side of that coin. As in making 75% of a game and expecting your users to finish the other 25% or more on their own. <b>glares intently at Bethesda</b>

Not saying I agree with Nintendo, because I don't but there is definitely another side of that coin. As in making 75% of a game and expecting your users to finish the other 25% or more on their own. *glares intently at Bethesda*


It’s great that every single Nintendo console is hilariously easy to crack because like fuck am I ever supporting them


Smartest thing a company can do is indoctrinate itself in the emotions of consumers. Gaming esp has that ability. Even with the horrible and anti consumer actions, they can always rely on sales and support from the community.   .

A AAA studio can release an unfinished, buggy, monetization filled, underbaked game and as long as it isn't extremely aggregious they can rely on sales and fan support. Worst that will happen is some complaining.

Even things like Cyberpunk had droves of defenders from day 1. People can't help themselves from buying games now, it's almost addictive; esp since the apocalypse happened it's one of the few joys you can still really have.

Nintendo basically being the Disney of gaming (a company that has perfected the art of obfuscating buying product with personal identity and emotional dependency) are the best at this in AAA gaming.

And once money and effort is spent the human ego struggles to not justify its flaws. You can get angry at buying one movie, game, etc and boycott a dev. But ones that you have spent years and possibly $1000s on? No way.

Nintendo esp has that good will because they've been around since we were kids and tend to release good functioning games.

If you have an issue with them as a company you're forced to face the notion that it doesn't care about you. And that goes further with companies that have harassment claims, crunch culture, etc.

Maybe you may have to think all the money you spent made you complicit in their actions. And that isn't a concept easy for people, you're a good person and you love something so it can't be bad bc you would never support something bad.

I'm not saying I'm not a contributor to this. I really shouldn't be buying all the games I do that support companies and management cultures I'm against. I'm just as tricked by this as anyone. But that is what's happening, you love something and it brings you joy so you can't let it be considered bad.

Unless of course you add in any liberal leaning ideas into your video game, then a company is the definition of evil apparently...

"Maybe you may have to think all the money you spent made you complicit in their actions."

That's honestly how I feel, but I'm glad that I'm able to reevaluate my stance now. Thank you for your insight!


I think it's amazing how they managed to cheapen out on something people wanted

Not long ago, Sora was announced as the last fighter in Ultimate, and it was mentioned that he was chosen for being the highest in the 2015 ballot

In that same stream, they announced 3 KH games on cloud service

I think it's amazing how they managed to cheapen out on something people wanted

Not long ago, Sora was announced as the last fighter in Ultimate, and it was mentioned that he was chosen for being the highest in the 2015 ballot

In that same stream, they announced 3 KH games on *cloud service*


Excellent video, you often see videos criticizing Nintendo themselves, but this really highlighted the main problem: The shitty fandom


You are just mad cuz Nintendo never  added bob's game

@Mit Depain you're not old enough to buy cigarettes

@Skiper crac use real leather for you too but it’s just just

@Pico Luna RIGHT?!?

Bringing back Joy Mech Fight, and introducing it to American audiences who have never seen it before, is a license to print money. It's a game I only know about BECAUSE of emulation, and it's one of Nintendo's finest masterpieces.

Oh shit, what up Pelo?

Also, I immediately got the reference, I've seen a documentary about Bob's Game and it's a wild ride and a half.

@Pico Luna I'm mad because we don't have Jellyboy HD in 1080P!

I'm mad because they refuse to talk about Joy Mech Fight

Im not sure if people here knows your trolling nature mr pelo

@jebril You know, I personally think Sr Pelo's comment was ment to be a ironic joke.

I would like to learn more about this fake game.

I'd be mad too if the best gane of all time didn't get released.

@Trikki Clips cuz its a serious video and he made a dismissive joke comment


This video reminded me of the tragic story of Logan Thirtyacre, also known as SuperMarioLogan. All he wanted to do was create funny plush videos, but YouTube mercilessly demonetized him, and then Nintendo finished the job by sending him a cease and desist order for using their characters, even though other channels use Nintendo characters and get away scot-free. Even video game companies are not safe from the corrupt media industry.


EmpLemon was so ahead of the game that even youtube didn't realize it. Im a Nintendo fan but I will still backlash them for any unacceptable business decisions they will do time and time again. This video has aged well.


The fact Nintendo hasn’t contested this video being up on YouTube and haven’t done anything in their power to remove it from the site makes it the 8th wonder of the world

@hellon okay they might not be ‘worse’ but they are just as bad in their own right. Don’t tell me you’re one of <b>those</b> Nintendo fans…

@hellon okay they might not be ‘worse’ but they are just as bad in their own right. Don’t tell me you’re one of *those* Nintendo fans…

@JUUG LORD yes and I meant as they aren't as bad as them. How are they worse then them?

@hellon okay 'They ain't like EA' Did you watch the video?

They ain't like EA or what every company that does that. I hope they listen to this vid because it brings up a lot of good criticism.


Nintendo wants to keep a "family friendly image" which requires trying their best to keep the fans from "ruining" it. And no matter how hard they try you cannot break the 34th rule


The problem with basing your personality around a product, is that you start to feel that anyone who might criticize it, is criticizing YOU as a person. In situations like that, a peaceful discussion is never possible. Stop making corporate products influence your personality, and your life.

@Javier Gómez FINALLY BRO SOMEONE SAID IT

@Javier Gómez I've been reading through many comments for this video, and I really appreciate your viewpoints, as it's gotten me to rethink a lot about myself! Thank you for sharing!

@4nt Nothing you mentioned changes the fact that having a system of beliefs to rely upon, something to satisfy their spiritual needs, something to believe in is still vital for any individual. If people started waging wars over water, as some experts believe, would that mean the existence of water is the problem? Of course not. The needs of a person can be used by the elites to manipulate the masses into fighting to further the political interests or agendas of a governing class. The problem here is that evil people, with the power to do it, use any tools at their disposal to manipulate others. I do agree that some systems of belief (almost all of them actually) can do a lot of harm, but if you intend to do without them, then you must find a worthy replacement, not just remove them and expect all to be well. Otherwise you will get the people to put their faith in unworthy things.

@Javier Gómez I'm pretty sure the reason that the big religions have survived the test of time is because either they snuffed out "lesser" religions or have been maintained/promoted by governments across the world. Like, you say this as if we aren't still seeing conflict between religions (namely between judaism and islam nowadays). Hell, the reason that the catholic church grew as big as it is nowadays is thanks to shit like the holy crusades, as well as countries like England enforcing forms of catholicism back in the day. And don't get me started on witch trials, lol. Also, countries like China and Iran are awful when it comes to religious freedoms, but that should be expected from shit countries like those.

Point being: while modern day religions tend to be pretty healthy, there was a lot of room for exploitation back in the day and there's still arguably room for exploitation now.

the working class is defending the companies for making money in unethical ways. what the fuck is this timeline?

@NitroNick777 I did not defend that at all. If you’re gonna make slanderous statements about me, at least provide a shrewd of proof. I know you won’t though, because you and I both know you’re lying.

You insult me all because I said I love Nintendo and want to work for them. Find something better to do with your life.

@Donkey Kong Fan You're the exact same guy who defended Nintendo on Joy-Con drift, your opinion is invalid. GTFO

How many times will this notion go on?

1.- Melee tournaments and the fanbase divide the attention towards Ultimate, which is their "latest" Smash that is still being sold. Nintendo literally has nothing to gain from Melee being around and do not want to remotely support them due to various reasons (using copied versions of the game), hacking the game with Slippy, their constant non-esports and immature actions (Smash tourneys being considered smelly, throwing crabs at people, etc.) and again, no profit incentive.
Nintendo literally has no reason to remotely care about Melee and its audience.

2.- Fangames literally take from the original source for free. They are not just going to hire every impressive game team because as a company, they have to discuss and approve every project, so just saying "Yeah, champ. Let's rerelease Super Mario 64 with mods together!" isn't going to happen if the board does not think SM64 or any other fan game project won't sell or if it interrupts the success of other products.

3.- Mother 3 will never be localized because of the touchy elements ( drug scene comes to mind) that are in there. Unless it is getting remade, the original GBA game will never, ever be localized.
If censored or altered significally, will it even be worth it anymore? Just use an Emulator.

4.- Mario 3D All-Stars IS the definitive versions of those games officially. It does not matter how good the Spyro or Crash remakes are since they are NOT Mario.
Mario's games are more valuable in the market than most of Sony's mascots combined. The Prime minister dressed up as Mario, the Kansai airport has Mario welcome you to Japan, Mario games STOMP most if not all of the mascots from other companies.
There is no reason for Nintendo to suddenly remake games that are already valuable and "good" as they are.

Also the video calling whoever they disagree in infantile manchildren is pity.
Anyone with basic study of marketing can recognize the reason behind what nintendo does.

That idea sounds good, the problem with it is that consumer culture has turned everything into a product, including art, philosophy, ideology, etc.

I don't think the problem is that people allow themselves to be influenced by these things, the problem is that too many people form parasocial relationships with the faceless corporations that use those things to extract money from them.

Its not wrong to let art make you feel things, its wrong to tie those feelings to the soulless conglomerate that's using that art as a bargaining chip for your cash.

@Diamond Miner Nobody is forcing blind loyalty on anyone. You just have to learn some self respect and restrain, staying away from any hype train, have realistic expectations. Nothing will ever be the second coming of Jesus.

If the best thing someone can do, is yell "Shut up and take my money" at a corporation, they should not be surprised if the corporation does not give a single care about their own customer, when they already have their money, their blind loyalty, combined with blind trust.

@Diamond Miner Don't mind me if a copy this, it is certainly an amazing point, but it will only change perspectives in the right situation. Few people will want read all of this.

Be sympathetic to people who are afraid to criticize what they like, it may be something with a special meaning that they don’t want to let go of. They’re not “making a thing their personality”, they’re being enslaved against their will by hyper capitalist culture that enforces blind loyalty.

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. The distinction between fans and “stans” doesn’t work because the word and its connotations aren’t going to shame people. Words depend on how they’re used. If people call themselves “stans” when they mean that they just like something a lot, there’s nothing wrong with that.

@Owen Carpenter Sadly, that's how it is treated by a lot of organizations, but it doesn't have to be. Just like food can be really expensive, unhealthy or both; the means you use to satisfy your spiritual needs can be expensive and unhealthy. Yet, they can also be cheap and fulfilling. I think the best ones are free. Maybe your experience has been negative, but we don't simply stop eating because we tasted something awful, you still need to eat. There is plenty of good food out there for the one willing to search for it.

@Jalan Ganje I get your point. It would be like basing your whole personality on what you eat, like a lot of vegans. That doesn't mean your preferences are not part of your personality though. Your favorites or most eaten foods are part of your personality, and just like in the case of food, some foods are healthier than others.

In the same way, you can satisfy your spiritual needs (which is an actual need of all humans, just like our social needs) in different ways, and how you do it IS part of your personality, but not everything. It is fairly important though. If you simply deny that part of yourself you will end up replacing it with something else, just like the "hypocrites" you seem to criticize. I am sure you have done it already. Maybe it's your country, an ideal, a mission, yourself, but I guarantee you, you worship something; no human can escape that.

@Javier Gómez Religion is just another product, a really expensive product at that.

@Javier Gómez
There is little difference in basing you personality on worshiping one thing and basing it on worshiping another; both are equally shallow.
To shame one and extol another is hypocritical.
I have no patience for hypocrites.

It’s scary how obsessed people can become over entertainment.

@Donkey Kong Fan working for Nintendo actually sounds really nice. They don’t treat their employees like they are robots.

@Jalan Ganje Don't you think that it's a little bit narrow minded to believe that the system of belief that originated your country and worshipping a corporate brand is the same thing? There are differences at play which have been discussed by philosophers and psychologists. Ignoring all that in favor of putting religion and brand worshipping in the same light is just objectively wrong. Which I suppose only matter if you actually value reason and logic.

I recommend you read The Sacred and The Profane by Mircea Eliade. It's a good start to understand the nature of the vacuum left by organized religions, which is key if you are looking for a replacement. That is something we need as stated by several experts in the matter, that much is fact.

@Javier Gómez
"The difference is [precedent] and [my belief]"
there, fixed your post.

@SKIAnway The difference is that religion offers an organized system that has survived for millennia and on which our entire civilizations are based upon. Also, unlike materialistic worship, religion at least makes a clear distinction between profane and sacred space, which is vital for a belief system to be fulfilling. There is a reason why most religious systems have survived the test of time, they are sturdily made and appeal to something intrinsically human. Denying our spiritual needs will only leave us with a gaping hole in our hearts which we will desperately try to fill.

Also, don't eliminate the possibility that religion may be unto something. The greatest lies are the ones that are mixed with truth also. I for one have reached the conclusion that believing in God is a very reasonable and logical stance, which is also very fulfilling.

@Javier Gómez Except baking your identity on religion is ultimately as shallow as basing it on corporate products

Good point. It's hard to get decent times if we meet those type of jaded contrarian suddenly bashing you just because you enjoy or not enjoy the product.

Man, I just wanna enjoy the game while feeling im not some sort of freak for being associated with the stuff I like

I will continue to love Nintendo and will continue to pursue my goal to work for them. I’m pretty happy with my decision, too.

Unfortunately such side effect is inevitable in our increasingly secular society. Society has destroyed almost every sense of spirituality in our collective consciousness and as a result few things are sacred anymore. Most people are now forced to replace our organized spiritual experience with cheap copies, like brand and celebrity worship. Such are the consequences of forgetting what we are.

It kinda reminds me of people who base their personality off of fictional characters

Sure you can like those characters, but it becomes a problem when you try to BECOME those characters

True for so many other things in life.  All those people are really saying is that they're empty inside.


Far and away my favorite video you've done. You've expressed something I could only make vague generalizations about.


I may as well state that Nintendo went as far as to take down even Sega music, all because some of the Sonic tracks appeared in Smash.

And Nintendo took down videos of a different company's hardware (The Steam Deck) all because they were Yuzu tutorials.


I used to think the problem with today is that nobody has a spine.<br>I've since learned that's not the only issue, nor the biggest one. That goes to the enormous levels of apathy people in general have.

I used to think the problem with today is that nobody has a spine.
I've since learned that's not the only issue, nor the biggest one. That goes to the enormous levels of apathy people in general have.


watching this video again after the 1000 copyright strikes on silvagunners channel, idk how anyone can put up with this company anymore they embody all of the deadliest sins


I'm honestly surprised this video doesn't have a huge dislike-like ratio. With about 30 minutes, you showed them what they were doing was wrong, and it seems to me that they listened.

It's a surprise to be sure, but a welcome one

Most shill tend to be on twitter from what i've seen

Wow they listened huh? Let's hear you say that after the Nintendo soundtrack channel being shut down and how none of them are saying anything or even give a fuck anymore. They're still playing the new Mario Party and in their own worlds. It's almost like the dislike to like ratio means literally nothing in the face of consumerism and supporting businesses and never will. Just like how everyone keeps trying to cancel Blizzard but there's still a completely untouched and sizeable Overwatch fanbase that keep supporting and following them. Go look at any Youroverwatch video comment section, they all forgot about the scandals and are all talking about and hyped for the new Overwatch " 2 ".

bold of you to assume they watched it all the way through

Nintendo fans are literally everywhere, and it's shocking to discover them when you find them.  The Mario Theme Song is my ringtone, and I work as a barber.  Whenever my phone goes off, some customer in the shop almost always gets excited about it, and I hear a lot of people say things like, "HEY!  Yeah... there you go!"  They eat it up.  A month or so ago, I had a 70 year old man, lose his shit over it.  He started telling me how the original Mario was his favorite game when he was younger, and then he started telling me about his Switch.  Now... I'm 58, and I'm used to running in to older players but... 70!  And then I got to thinking about it.  I was 21 when Mario Bros was first released for the NES.  So, that 70 year-old dude would have been 37 or 38 in 1985... which is not out of the realm for a video game fan (even at 58, video games are literally my biggest passion, and they consume almost all of my free time).  After having a conversation with that 70 year-old, he told me he bought an NES after his divorce, and he kept it at his house to play with his son whenever he had visitation with him.  It was a great activity that they could do together, and it didn't take long until he was playing even when his son wasn't there and he started buying new games left and right.  He still plays to this day (on almost exclusively Nintendo platforms - I don't think he owns anything else, and he still owns and plays his original NES).  He's great to talk with... I love it when he comes in.  We talk games the entire time and he's told me about a bunch of titles I completely forgot about that he still owns (although some of them have sadly degraded to the point of unplayability)

With that many fans, and considering how MUCH they absolutely LOVE practically everything that Nintendo puts out... I can completely see how Nintendo gets away with their antics.

Nintendo fans are literally everywhere, and it's shocking to discover them when you find them.  The Mario Theme Song is my ringtone, and I work as a barber.  Whenever my phone goes off, some customer in the shop almost always gets excited about it, and I hear a lot of people say things like, _"HEY!  Yeah... there you go!"_  They eat it up.  A month or so ago, I had a 70 year old man, lose his shit over it.  He started telling me how the original Mario was his favorite game when he was younger, and then he started telling me about his Switch.  Now... I'm 58, and I'm used to running in to older players but... 70!  And then I got to thinking about it.  I was 21 when Mario Bros was first released for the NES.  So, that 70 year-old dude would have been 37 or 38 in 1985... which is not out of the realm for a video game fan (even at 58, video games are literally my biggest passion, and they consume almost all of my free time).  After having a conversation with that 70 year-old, he told me he bought an NES after his divorce, and he kept it at his house to play with his son whenever he had visitation with him.  It was a great activity that they could do together, and it didn't take long until he was playing even when his son wasn't there and he started buying new games left and right.  He still plays to this day (on almost exclusively Nintendo platforms - I don't think he owns anything else, and he still owns and plays his original NES).  He's great to talk with... I love it when he comes in.  We talk games the entire time and he's told me about a bunch of titles I completely forgot about that he still owns (although some of them have sadly degraded to the point of unplayability)

With that many fans, and considering how MUCH they absolutely LOVE practically everything that Nintendo puts out... I can completely see how Nintendo gets away with their antics.

It's crazy, the like to dislike ratio is infinite

@Harrison Lane im gonna emulate old games, new emulation from nintendo sucks and its not like they lose money from games that aren't being sold losing sales. in my opinion only time emulation is wrong is when the game is onsale.<br>that being said i can understand and respect your opinion, have a good day.

@Harrison Lane im gonna emulate old games, new emulation from nintendo sucks and its not like they lose money from games that aren't being sold losing sales. in my opinion only time emulation is wrong is when the game is onsale.
that being said i can understand and respect your opinion, have a good day.

this is where i keep my dislikes: IF I HAD ANY ( why in the world did yt hide dislikes duuuuudde D: )

@PSI Blueberry emulation is the future and Nintendo will always stay in the past and that will eventually bite them in the ass hopefully

@Harrison Lane Emulations is morally okay, as long as you aren't emulating anything new.

when it could be that or just people are liking the video at a higher rate. it's usually pretty difficult to get 9-10% of the viewers to leave a like so that might also be a factor cause the amount of dislikes for the view count are actually above average

@Harrison Lane yeah… no. Thats not what happened at all. I hardly believe you were actively paying attention when all that was happening judging by your ignorance on the topic.

Why? Literally everyone in the nintendo fandom was furious about the slippy situation, the am2r shutdown, the music shutdowns. The only thing people defend (wrongly) is the emulation shit.

It's what many fans realize what's going on behind the scenes, but in a perpetual state of Stockholm syndrome; they refuse to listen.


This whole video is a masterpiece, especially the last 10 minutes xD


Christ, it’s really nice to see a video like this… My enjoyment for Nintendo games slowly fizzled out and started leaving a bad taste in my mouth the more BS that this company started to pull. Fantastic video.


Thank you so much for featuring nerrel, he’s one of the most vocal of Nintendo’s skeptics and he’s amazing!


AND.....that's why I'm glad I am a Sonic fan, because Sega, with all it's flaws, at least didn't pulled this kind of shit. Great video Emp, as always 👍


HAHAHA How did I miss this gem?

Personally when a company does something to go against me as a consumer or against their supporting community. I respond by not buying their stuff (I love the Borderlands saga but skipped Borderlands 3 and beyond because of what they did to some voice actors and YouTube creators). As it sits right now, all my PC and console games are purchased with no remorse but Nintendo gets emulated or if I ever have a console of them in my hands it gets homebrewed and then the games are "obtained", if the game is good and its by a publisher that has a version out for PC or another console I get the game but Nintendo... I never give them a dime, I've faced outraged Nintendo fanboys because of this and their "facts" are hilarious and when you counter their arguments with actual real facts, they just shut down and don't talk to you anymore, every single time.

Nintendo 's fan base is going trough the "frog inside the pot while the fire is turned up until it boils".


It's so frustrating to see a gold mine just fall in on itself. Nintendo will always pull that nostalgic heart string but their practices have always baffled me. Could you imagine if Nintendo went to Steam or made their own launcher, released a BotW or anything at all for that matter, and opened it for modders..... The internet would melt. ISPs would be suing Nintendo for bandwidth lol


21:02
Uh oh. That didn't age well.

Nintendo has no dislikes on any of their videos so everyone must love them again.


Another thing to consider is that Nintendo isn’t just a video game company, its a Zaibatsu. Nintendo does this cause they can get away with it. Their fans enable it, but this is how Nintendo always was internally. They use mafioso tactics because that’s what they’ve always done.