If I wasn’t stupid enough and was able to understand how to download roms I wouldn’t be so upset as I am with Nintendo as so many others are


Could you imagine if nintendo made bad games they would actually be crucified

now im hoping they start stumbling in game quality just so their community goes apeshit and finally wakes up from their delusions


Nerrel put it best when he said: “Just because you have the right to do something doesn’t mean it’s the right thing to do”

I don't think that's a good argument, since it's all about perspective

I would also add "smart" as well. There are some things that really seem logical for Nintendo to implement and yet they do not. "Legal obligation" and such. With technology and such? The law can't account for everything. That's why common sense is better.

damn, he really was the first person to figure that one out? crazy

@Diamond_10 they're usually antithetical

Legal and moral are not always the same thing.

smacks table

THANK YOU. So many people don't get this idea and treat law as infallible.

_smacks table_

THANK YOU. So many people don't get this idea and treat law as infallible.


Sacrifices to the Church of Nintendo.<br>$50 a year for the Nintendo Online + Expansion when they barely support the service now.

Sacrifices to the Church of Nintendo.
$50 a year for the Nintendo Online + Expansion when they barely support the service now.

I was waiting for someone to mention this.


Had I known what sword and shield would be, I would've never bought it. Ever since X and Y, the games are so dumbed down that a child can't even be challenged with them. Sword and Shield could probably be beaten by monkeys who barely understand what the buttons do. <br>I too, am a sacrifice to their altar. But the light of nostalgia has gone tragically dim for me. I'm not sure I'll ever buy another one. Unless something actually changes to the difficulty and polish, it will never recapture that thrill of adventure I felt so long ago.

Had I known what sword and shield would be, I would've never bought it. Ever since X and Y, the games are so dumbed down that a child can't even be challenged with them. Sword and Shield could probably be beaten by monkeys who barely understand what the buttons do.
I too, am a sacrifice to their altar. But the light of nostalgia has gone tragically dim for me. I'm not sure I'll ever buy another one. Unless something actually changes to the difficulty and polish, it will never recapture that thrill of adventure I felt so long ago.


Very great video, Emp. Shame I didn't get around to seeing it now, but you basically voiced almost all of my criticisms to both Nintendo and their shitty bootlicking fandom. Hopefully the fans will wake up and the company will change, but I doubt it.


Something I’m seeing in the comments is comparisons between Nintendo and a lot of the other usual suspects when it comes to anti-consumerism in the gaming industry (Activision, EA, Take Two, etc.). I’m kinda torn on this, because in the one hand I think Nintendo is a significantly better company than all of these examples. Emp himself even pointed out how Nintendo treats their employees like actual people and consistently puts out great games.

On the other hand, to paraphrase James Rolfe, just because you took a shit that was slightly more pleasant than the ones before, it doesn’t make it less shit. We really should be holding Nintendo’s ass to the fire like we do any other company. We know they’re capable of change (or at the very least changing a policy that’s making them less money), we just need to have a little backbone when it comes to not putting up with their asinine business decisions.

@RosemaryEmbersESO Even then that's BS. Game development, especially when you want to make a good game, is tough as hell. Anyone thinking Nintendo is any different  is just drinking the cool-aid. Look at what they did to the European developers of the cancelled Project Hammer game for Wii. Or hell, go back to the development of Mario 3. It's well-known Miyamoto and the team under him spent all nighters fine tuning that game to be the master work that it was.

@EmblemBlade9 I'm not very sure how we can make it happen given the Nintendo fanbase and Nintendo's ability to curve stomp backlash, I'm close to considering it a lost cause.

Its a shame that a big company not effectively forcing its employees to work 80 hour weeks makes them so much better than other so many other game companies that a lot of valid criticism feels insignificant.

@Haruhiro Grimgar Yeah, all of those are pretty valid criticisms. Honestly, choosing between Nintendo and any other shitty developer is like choosing between two equally shitty political candidates: it’s all kinda comes down to which policies you get behind. Again, doesn’t mean we should settle for either, but I think it’s a bit condescending to demonize casual Nintendo fans for simply liking Nintendo games.

"Nintendo’s ass to the fire like we do any other company" Wait, do you mean worship them as job creators and give them trillions of taxpayer dollars?

I respect EA for putting effort into pushing the limits of graphics and tech in their games. They make crap too often, but at least they have ambition.

Nintendo just milks and polishes the same tired IP's endlessly.

Honestly Nintendo is as anti-consumer as those companies.

Here is the unique ways they are sh"tty:
They have physical DLC far more expensive than it could ever be digitally.

They never put their games on sale despite every other studio (especially the ones you listed) doing it on the regular.

They aggressively strike down emulators and fan mods despite not providing alternatives.

When they do supply alternatives they are grossly overpriced and don't have the QoL changes any other studio would have put in.

Their online service is the weakest of any studio with them being known for constant DC'ing, high amounts of lag and rubber banding, and generally incredibly poor quality.

It is more common than ever in their games to include things like needing separate Switches to have multiple saves in AC New Horizon (which is also the most gutted AC experience thus far.)

They have the weakest console on the market yet still try to port games that have no hope of running on the device. The Witcher 3 can't even maintain 20fps in cities and some of the most common areas in the game to travel to. Doom 2016 is also notorious for deep frame drops whenever the game starts to raise the challenge. And of course Warframe even early on was struggling hard to not become insanely blurry while playing.

They repeateldy and intentionally undersupply products to maintain a sense of scarcity. This even includes games now that they are only sold for a limited time, ever.

And the list goes on and on.

Honestly Nintendo is *as* anti-consumer as those companies.

Here is the unique ways they are sh"tty:
They have physical DLC far more expensive than it could ever be digitally.

They *never* put their games on sale despite *every* other studio (especially the ones you listed) doing it on the regular.

They aggressively strike down emulators and fan mods despite not providing alternatives.

When they do supply alternatives they are grossly overpriced and don't have the QoL changes *any* other studio would have put in.

Their online service is the weakest of any studio with them being known for constant DC'ing, high amounts of lag and rubber banding, and generally incredibly poor quality.

It is more common than ever in their games to include things like needing separate Switches to have multiple saves in AC New Horizon (which is also the most gutted AC experience thus far.)

They have the weakest console on the market yet still try to port games that have no hope of running on the device. The Witcher 3 can't even maintain 20fps in cities and some of the most common areas in the game to travel to. Doom 2016 is also notorious for deep frame drops whenever the game starts to raise the challenge. And of course Warframe even early on was struggling hard to not become insanely blurry while playing.

They repeateldy and intentionally undersupply products to maintain a sense of scarcity. This even includes games now that they are only sold for a limited time, ever.

And the list goes on and on.

@Haruhiro Grimgar Um, where did you get the idea Nintendrones don’t like story in their games. As far as I knew, it was kinda the opposite: fans want more compelling stories in stuff like Paper Mario and the like but Miyamoto or whoever the fuck just refuses to do it.

@Hanzum Autist The vast majority of Nintendo's fans and consimers are casuals who have never read so much as a tweet about Nintendo in their life. You can't affect the casual market or else EA Sports would be dead by now. And Nintendo fans generally are just flat out unintelligent. They complain about games having writers in them or having introspective moments of down time, they are not a critical bunch.

@YEET your MEAT As a Nintendo fan myself, I know just as well as anyone how much of an echo chamber the Nintendo fandom can be. That doesn’t mean we should stand idly by and watch as Nintendo crosses more and more lines at their fans’ expenses. It’s up to us to be more vocal critics, as well as try to help other more willfully ignorant Nintendo fans see the light.

@Hanzum Autist Well the video did point out how different Nintendo fans are compared to other company's fans so it might be harder to change Nintendo.

@EmblemBlade9 Just literally stop buying their products for some period of time. This is a 100% guaranteed method to influence ANY company, regardless of their field

Pretty much my thought process. Nintendo at least compared to big companies in the Triple A scene are FAR worse than what Nintendo can achieve. But we do need to keep them accountable. They are slowly getting there ever since they removed that partner program. But their is still a lot that needs to be done.

@EmblemBlade9 I dunno, I guess we can start with the little things. Like not instantly forgetting Nintendo’s atrocious actions towards its fans then next time a new Mario game is announced.

Any (realistically achievable) ideas on how to actually make that happen?


This is even more relevant now that Nintendo announced that they're killing off Virtual Console on the Wii U


It is such a shame that the great games and devs at Nintendo are let down by the terrible anti consumer ways of the big bosses.

@Jay TDI Exactly. They're such a weird company because they prove again and again that they can do it well, but still keep messing up. Except for online. I don't think Nintendo will ever have adequate online lol.

@Jaden You're right you're right, I shouldn't dog some Nintendo games when a lot are good. Like Splatoon 2 and 3, which are just Splatoon 1 but prettier. Ooh, Breath of The Wild and Mario Odyssey are amazing, I really do love those games, but then you have Mario 64 collection, Smash Ultimates online, Mario Maker 2's disappointing lifespan and the fact that it's inferior to Maker 1 when it comes to control, Party's pitiful dlc or lack thereof, the shovelware on the NES and SNES online libraries and Animal Crossing's terrible launch.

@Jay TDI That is a very flawed argument. Just because Nintendo makes some bad games doesn't mean that they don't also make great games or have great devs. Let's completely disregard Mario Odyssey, Breath of the Wild, Metroid Dread, etc. because Pokemon (which isn't even developed by Nintendo, just published) and tennis. Games like Mario sports and Arceus certainly deserve most of their critisms but you can't pretend Nintendo doesn't have a talented dev pool because they also release some duds.

Yeah, great games like Arceus, which graphics are terrible and gameplay is bare bones and basic. Despite coming from one of the biggest companies and properties ever. Ooh, or maybe all those new Mario sports games that keep on leaving out obvious additions to finish the game later for more money.


Great vid, as usual god emp. lemon. I will say i think "Standom" is a problem bigger than we truly realize. Imo I feel its like a woman defending her bf that beats their kid. Yeah, the kid doesn't cry anymore, yeah the bf might bring home some food and stuff..but HES BEATING  A CHILD. the bigger issue is pushed under the run for some very base level positives.


I don’t enjoy their shitty behavior, but I gotta say, I love my Switch! I love some of the exclusive games and all the indie games, and especially the portability! But I REFUSE to pay full price for their AAA games.I also make my anger known when they fuck up. I don’t like their practices but some of my favorite games of all time are exclusive to Nintendo consoles.


The fact that this video was made right before the OLED Switch release is absolutely hilarious. Great video!

@Todd Howard I feel like a part of that is because Nintendo doesn’t really have any good rivals anymore to force them to make better stuff

@Megan Lynch if I recall correctly Nintendo did fix the joycon issue with the skyward sword HD joycons

@RedRazorX-23 Then...Don't. It's made for people that already don't own a Switch.

Seriously the thing is CRAP!<br>I am not going to pay more money for something i already own.

Seriously the thing is CRAP!
I am not going to pay more money for something i already own.

@G Molloy it’s not rape if it’s consensual.

@Kyle Hill wow we really went ‘there’…<br>Let’s not bring rape victims into this.

@Kyle Hill wow we really went ‘there’…
Let’s not bring rape victims into this.

@Megan Lynch Nintendo doesn’t want people honoring others unless they make profit. Its all 100% profit at all cost corporate garbage but Nintendo fans act like they are this family friendly innocent business that always releases perfect games and never abuses anyone and is so wholesome because it sells above average children’s games on mediocre hardware. But nostalgia is stronger than common sense for a lot of these people

@Todd Howard if the switch OLED had actually fixed the joycon problem that Nintendo themselves are aware of I believe fans wouldn't have been as disappointed as they are. It is an extremely disappointing upgrade and not even remotely worth the price they're asking for it. I never got the labo because I wasn't going to pay $60 for cardboard I can get in garage.  Nintendo was a big part of my childhood but sadly those happy days are long gone as they have destroyed my entire faith in them as a whole. They have stopped extremely low especially spitting on the Etika fans who were trying to do a good thing in honor of him who arguably was one of Nintendo biggest fans.


Back in February, Nintendo took down a lot of Nintendo music, and the Nintendo fans got mad at them for it. Then a direct gets announced and the fans just shut up and begin speculated about unrealistic crap such as “mArIo oDeSsEy 2” or “sMaSh 6”.


this is such a good and well made video. i don't understand how its under 1 mil views


Yeah I agree. Nintendo shouldn’t have cancelled those splatoon and melee tournaments.

But sephiroth was hype af


Pokémon Uranium and AM2R were two of the biggest losses, Pokemon Uranium especially due to the 9 whole years the single developer spent on Uranium’s development.


This video is spot on; people need to realize that their nostalgia is for Nintendo GAMES, not the company

@MeLodica_Man 02 Well, ultimate has the offline play and the competitive scene, so i can enjoy it even without the online. I remember i used to play smash 4 a lot and i spent more time playing with cpus or with other ppl, or other modes, than playing for glory / for fun online; especially because the online was bad (tho it was free).

@Starmain they’re all pretty good, though splatoon (and ultimate to an extent) kinda need the shitty online service if you want to enjoy it. so maybe don’t get that

Yeah it’s a real shame. They make some damn good games but sadly can’t keep that standard up for their legal department

@DigitalZ well, i don't have a switch; but games like odyssey, splatoon, and smash ultimate seem cool

@DigitalZ Yeah. I keep feeling the time period I associate enjoying Nintendo's games and the company, came to an end around 2013-2014, which coincides really well with widely experienced decline regarding Nintendo as a company.

I'd say it's more accurate to say that their like of Nintendo is associated with a certain TIME PERIOD, and actually doesn't represent current Nintendo quality.


Welp, I'm glad I don't care enough to ever buy a switch or any of their games. Glad I can at least say I'm not part of the problem.


Geez after the whole Expansion Pack I wouldn’t be surprised if you end up making a part two or something


Lol how do they keep getting away with it!! Love this channel


I’ve recently broken off from Nintendo, they’re on a downward spiral. It’s being worse and worse by the actual minute.


It's a hard pill to swallow, but I have to agree. It's like that interview with the MGS2 translator where she talked about how Kojima wasn't a good writer and while I disagreed with a lot of what she said, it's pretty true as bitter as it was to me. I want Nintendo to make the best games possible, but resorting to using a paid online service, limited releases, undercooked re-releases, and shitting on fan game developers as well as all the people who archive their music and media... It's sad. Really fucking sad.

@Digital Unity I never said Kojima couldn't write, that was the translator's thoughts. She was pretty critical of him and made some fair points, but I think Kojima can write good stuff. However, ever since MGS4, he doesn't have much restraint on his work. He's a yes man and I think what he needs most is a editor to look over his stuff. As much as I liked Death Stranding, "Mario and Princess Beach" doesn't get a pass from me.

@Andrew Doudna Honestly, that applies to most skills and trades too. Comes with money unfortunately.

Kojima can't write? Next you'll tell me his most successful game is a walking simulator that got nothing but derision from onlookers and still won most innovative game during the steam awards

@Meshric well that was a different director. Kojima's writing hasn't changed, but the over the top action of TTS was done by Ryuhei Kitamura.

It's true, compare  Metal Gear on PSX to twin snakes

@Trikki Clips Well she said that she grew up on TV and books with a high level standard for writing. She's picky, but it's fairly reasonable. She goes on to say that a lot of Kojima's work is a ripoff of Tom Clancy. I'm not sure how true this is because I've never laid a pinky on a book, movie, or game from the series, but from my perspective it just looks like a bunch of standard military shit. Metal Gear is more, for a lack of a better term, J A P A N E S E. Shit gets weird and I like weird shit, just look at my avatar.

I like seeing the diehard Nintendo fans respond in the comments as it proves the mob* mentality point,  there will be never be reason even if the truth is revealed<br>Edit: Mob

I like seeing the diehard Nintendo fans respond in the comments as it proves the mob* mentality point,  there will be never be reason even if the truth is revealed
Edit: Mob

The translator probably Kojimas writing was bad because she doesn't play games or doesnt like the  K o j i m a  style.


There's a part of the video talking about how fans will defend Nintendo for free and how Nintendo fans don't stay upset for long, which both reminded me of one thing:<br>The heck was up with Dexit?  That stayed a problem for a LONG while, but throughout it, people were defending it wholeheartedly despite obvious faults.  Does TPC have only a fraction of Nintendo's power?

There's a part of the video talking about how fans will defend Nintendo for free and how Nintendo fans don't stay upset for long, which both reminded me of one thing:
The heck was up with Dexit?  That stayed a problem for a LONG while, but throughout it, people were defending it wholeheartedly despite obvious faults.  Does TPC have only a fraction of Nintendo's power?


Dude. You’re right.<br>I’m burning my Switch right away.

Dude. You’re right.
I’m burning my Switch right away.


Even though I had to wipe some of the extra sarcasm dripping from my monitor, I'm impressed with your restraint at the section going over replies to your tweet. Because jfc, the amount of effort people will put into defending a multi-billion dollar corporation is unfathomable. It's just a special kind stupid, absolutely pathetic.


Pressing dislike on a sakurai video? Bruh youtube have disabled the dislike button bro
 Where are we going? I have no idea
Nintendo is a real anime super villian


Hate to hear that Emp has committed suicide by repeated radiation to the back of the head by a duckhunt zapper. He and his content will be missed

@2000_Blizzard/ Rain I've been around since the poops by think his new content is much better


3:00 Back in the day, you could punch a TV and not even so much as warp or distort the image. But now, punch your TV or Monitor and you could be out upwards of $1000.

I don't know about that, maybe you'd still pay a thousand dollars..in medical bills.


So many amazing youtubers got just left in the dust because nintendo just wouldnt let them be payed


I'm struggling to understand people who defend corporations. Just seems like they can't imagine aspects of their life getting better lol.


There is a simple explanation we take Nintendo into a room to be watched and when sakurai shows incarcerating evidence we get him. Or that’s what the gentle art of Japanese extortion taught me!


It's pretty interesting how someone like Todd Howard gets blasted for every single thing Bethesda has ever done wrong, while someone like Shigeru Miyamoto or Masahiro Sakurai doesn't. I think it comes down to the image they portray, with someone like Sakurai being known for working until he passes out, and Todd Howard being known for smug jokes about their games. They're both probably in a similar position (a development leader who works hard with a lot of say in the company), but they feel entirely different.

@Peanut Inc. Being able to decline if it would be impossible is very different from choosing. You're probably right about online. How much do you think sakurai could have done?

@azure moon Well, he kind of still chooses the DLC. Nintendo approaches him with an idea, asking him "is this feasible or not?" Depending on his answer, they either get added, or they don't. He has talked about this himself one time, in Steve's reveal.

Also, I remember him talking in an interview about how Smash wouldn't work well with things like rollback  because of items and how many options players have. Although that claim sounds dubious, I'm more inclined to trust the person making the game than anyone else on that front. Also, it's very likely that the budget didn't have much room for online, and they'd likely want to spend the money elsewhere.

@Peanut Inc. I meant he could have done something bout the bad online during development. It is completely infeasible now. We don't really know how much influence he has over decisions but seeing as he doesn't even choose the DLC characters I doubt it's much.

@azure moon If they were already set on destroying the events, probably not, but if he had been alright with them hosting tournaments from the beginning, there's a good chance they would have been less brutal in their treatment, or maybe even let it slide this time around.

Also, Sakurai could probably not fix the terrible online, even if he wanted to. The final DLC comes out in a few days, and the game is basically done at that point. A major online overhaul would be costly, and probably infeasible. It would go against common industry practice to do anything about it now.

@Peanut Inc. That statement is based on the games. I doubt sakurai saying anything would have stopped them from cancelling the big house or cracking down on emulation. he could absolutely do something about the terrible online though.

@azure moon It's very likely that he does. He might not have that much control, but he has influence. Just him saying something like "I don't think this should be a competitive game" goes for miles in the company. Even if he was just a part-time worker, the fact that people respect him means that they'll listen to him, regardless of whether he's a CEO or a developer.

Sakurai doesn't make decisions. He only develops games.

Well Todd didn't get much hate (the little lies stuff was more memes than genuine hate) until Fallout 76. That completely ruined Todd's reputation. Nintendo are scum, but at least they don't release games as buggy disasters.

Sakurai's cool, but Miyamoto definitely deserves hate, he hasn't made a good decision in over a decade.

@Andy Blanton I fail to understand how that justifies using Nomura (regardless of his actual capacities/lack of such) as a scapegoat for Toriyama's Dragon Bull Zhit and its detrimental effect on Square like a virus...

Replace Todd with Nomura and Miyamoto/Sakurai with the Toriyama clan/sect and it's literally Square-Enix.

But rigth now, let's see if Uncle Phil will actually push Todd to sell finished games, the odds begin at 50/50.

They aren't in charge of everything done by the company.

Nintendo is so good at guarding their image that you don't hear a lot of the stories about how their company is like for their employees. You hear about the times where Miyamoto was like "fuck it we're starting over" or "yeah this game can't be fun so we're not making it sorry" or "you need to put Mario in this or it won't sell" and sometimes you wonder how the devs, designers, artists, etc. felt about that. It ended up being the right call in most instances but then you hear about how Wario came to be. There's no way that the people working under him were always okay with having to throw their work away or see games they worked on get shelved and archived (until something like the Gigaleak happens again) and not thinking "hey this is kinda fucked up"


I only watched this because it had Nintendo in the title 🤣. However, you are right. I grew up on Nintendo, and I have changed. The problem is that Nintendo does not want to change with us. It's like they're stuck on tranquility lane and Nintendo is Betty "Braun". I mean c'mon how many years did it take to make a 3D Kirby game? And I'm just supposed to accept that? Nintendo once felt like they saved our childhoods, but now we realize they only took our souls. And every time we give them a dollar we're only selling it.


seeing gameloft gives me so much nostalgia theyre like the best mobile game devs bakc in the early 2010s they make bangers like the hero of sparta which makes GoW on mobile real


Back here again.

And Nintendo fans are finally starting to wake up.

@Torch the 62nd the Angel of the gaming industry has turned into disney and a satan of it today kinda sad but hey even if they do try to change they'll just the BS they tried again before

@Torch the 62nd I hope will finally wake up one day

@Matthew May Nintendo is running out of keys to jangle in people's faces.

I feel like they'll stop caring once Nintendo announces a new game or something


What more about nintendo, is they don't actually have rights to many of the games on their virtual store. They are simply offering them because they used to be on nintendo systems. But they have no more right to distribute many of the games than you do, yet they are charging money for them,. which is actually worse than pirating.


this video was posted to the r/nintendo subreddit and its hilarious to try and watch the fanboys squirm to find excuses for their God of a company.

@Mathematical Hypotenuse fr its honestly sad those fans are part of the reason videos like this are being made

@JakeSpacePirate E anyone active knows they call anything they don't like reddit

Well, at least the subreddit didn't completely trash on the video. The upvote percentage was 75% and a fair share of people agreed with the video. So there is at least some diehard Nintendo fans who have some self-awareness that the company isn't some saviour of gaming like it used to be.

These people have actually lost their mind

@JakeSpacePirate E /pol/ isn't the entire website just say /pol/

@Mathematical Hypotenuse Unrelated I know, but I remember the time where I mentioned the time 4chan hacked a 16-year olds channel because they found her annoying. Upon mentioning this in this community, I was described as a "braindead redditor" despite being permanently banned off of Reddit a long time ago.

god damn my curiosity, didn't need to see that. i'm glad at least that reddit is being openly recognized as the shithole it is these days.

It's hilarious to watch Reddit squirm in general, but watching one of the biggest hotspots of the Nintendroid hive scream and writhe over this has to be amazing to see.

please post a link, I'm sure it's buried by now.


zero dislikes on this video? incredible.


I do want to mention something about the smash fanbase because they are basically the same. Despite the huge controversy, there's still a lot of major problems in the smash community, It's like how a lot of other big name competitors like MVD allowed underage drinking yet saw no repercussions, members like Nairo was allowed to get back into the community despite publicly cuddling and flirting with an underage minor which ultimately led to him getting sexually assaulted, so he still should be considered a predator, and other incredibly toxic members like Jisu and Leffen who have actually ruined peoples lives in the community, yet The fanbase is more insisting on banning a dude just because he made a cringey video that called Leffen a dark messiah and caring that someone made an optional mod that added jiggle physics to a DLC character's boobs.

 I think the main problem with nintendo fans, and this applies to every single one of their fanbases not just the general fanbase, is they are they are adults that don't know how to act like adults and behave as children, and it's just embarrassing.  I can't wait till the steam deck drops and I can drop an nintendo for good.


It kinda feels like the Switch Online Expansion going for $50-$80 USD a year might actually be that tipping point. 18k likes to 174k dislikes on the official trailer; even most of the diehards think it's bullshit!


Is it wrong I'm pissed off at Nintendo on multiple levels? While I like a lot of their IPs, they still handle things INCREDIBLY poorly. Yes, as a Smash fan I was pissed off about Byleth getting in, and as a Metroid fan I was happy when a new 2D Metroid game that wasn't just a remake came out for the first time since 2002. That being said though, I still fucking hate how the company handles fangames, emulation and modding. I can understand why AM2R was slapped with a CAD, it was a remake of a game that Nintendo was also remaking and it might influence demand in their eyes, but that doesn't mean it's right. In reality, the true end result was that AM2R drummed up even more demand for Samus Returns. Mods come out for the game all the time, but in order to use them one needs a version of the game that's pretty much ILLEGAL to share now. I grew up emulating much of Nintendo's handheld library because of how great the Speedup function was on games like Pokemon, but all Nintendo wants to do is strike down any attempts to preserve their games while offering a limited selection of games, if any, using extremely subpar emulators. The Big House debacle was pretty scummy too. I'm not a competitive melee player, but my brother is, and I spent much of my childhood serving as his human training dummy. The game is still special to me and seeing Melee players treated like garbage for wanting to play during a global pandemic pissed me off, ESPECIALLY when Nintendo's own smash bros servers are fucking horrendous and they do NOTHING to fix it. The whole issue left such a bad taste in my mouth that I stopped playing actively playing Ultimate, besides the occasional match with friends. One of the biggest issues is that I'm creating a romhack of Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones, a Gameboy game that's not currently sold physically or through VC, and I have to be extremely cautious of what and where I share it because of the chance that Nintendo's ninja squad will Goatse me the second they catch wind of it.

Is it wrong I'm pissed off at Nintendo on multiple levels? While I like a lot of their IPs, they still handle things INCREDIBLY poorly. Yes, as a Smash fan I was pissed off about Byleth getting in, and as a Metroid fan I was happy when a new 2D Metroid game that wasn't just a remake came out for the first time since 2002. That being said though, I still fucking hate how the company handles fangames, emulation and modding. I can understand why AM2R was slapped with a CAD, it was a remake of a game that Nintendo was also remaking and it *might* influence demand in their eyes, but that doesn't mean it's *right.* In reality, the true end result was that AM2R drummed up even more demand for Samus Returns. Mods come out for the game all the time, but in order to use them one needs a version of the game that's pretty much ILLEGAL to share now. I grew up emulating much of Nintendo's handheld library because of how great the Speedup function was on games like Pokemon, but all Nintendo wants to do is strike down any attempts to preserve their games while offering a limited selection of games, if any, using extremely subpar emulators. The Big House debacle was pretty scummy too. I'm not a competitive melee player, but my brother is, and I spent much of my childhood serving as his human training dummy. The game is still special to me and seeing Melee players treated like garbage for wanting to play during a global pandemic pissed me off, ESPECIALLY when Nintendo's own smash bros servers are fucking horrendous and they do NOTHING to fix it. The whole issue left such a bad taste in my mouth that I stopped playing actively playing Ultimate, besides the occasional match with friends. One of the biggest issues is that I'm creating a romhack of Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones, a Gameboy game that's not currently sold physically or through VC, and I have to be *extremely* cautious of what and where I share it because of the chance that Nintendo's ninja squad will Goatse me the second they catch wind of it.


They hated him because he spoke the truth.

@coolasf1 "fine play your boring repetitive games" how many times can you buy a game where you jump on turtles?

@coolasf1  First of all, those are not all of the companies in existence, 2nd of all, a lot of games have replay value. and you say they don't based on literally nothing, because you clearly don't play any ea/activision game, and i personally think that you don't play from any other company besides nintendo either. Also, multiplayer games kinda have a the kink of usually having a lot pf replay value....... because you don't ..... (re)-play them so much as you..... just play them.

@coolasf1 Hey I think we just found a Nintendo fanboy.

@coolasf1 We found the Nintendo Fan Folks

@Diamond_10 fine play your boring repetitive games from ea or Activision. Nintendo games have way more replay value and offer a tone of content that is free. Just saying

coolasf1 Right. <b>Nintendo Joy-Con Drift intensifies</b> Ironic

coolasf1 Right. *Nintendo Joy-Con Drift intensifies* Ironic

@Evan 2 electric boogaloo my stance on this outside of Nintendo is that you either use shitty microtransaction, or you sell the game at full price. It's only doing both that will put you on my boycott list, wich iirc nintendo hasn't done yet.

@coolasf1 we gonna forget about their mobile games?

@coolasf1 nintendo took away pokemon uranium

@Experience hey, melee has a valid reason for being buggy. Ive never seem examples for the others

Well i hear mario golf is trash still excited for metroid tho

@coolasf1 "Nintendo always puts out high quality games that release in a complete state with little to no bugs or glitches."
Animal crossing new horizons, pokemon sword and shield, melee.
You need any more examples?

@George Liquor well the reason why nintendo has loyal fans is because of their commitment to make iconic games that have no bs microtransactions, unlike other companies. Nintendo always puts out high quality games that release in a complete state with little to no bugs or glitches. People should realize that more and more, so they can appreciate what Nintendo has given us.

@Farelito H I bet you play fortnite. Nintendo is better than epic games by mile

@coolasf1 They hated him because he spoke the truth


This video age like a fine wine when we see how a certain Genshin Bootlicker fans really are with the current incident, they said we are the normies yet they are the one and on denial.

This video aged poorly to me. People where using Iwata's death as an excuse in a disgusting and disturbing way. 😡


I love what nintendo makes, but I really dislike nintendo


now i understand that meme about nintendo suing the family of a kid who made a cardboard DS because he couldn't afford a real one


Fantastic documentary! Seriously! Blown away by the quality of documentaries on YT


Sega: Envy
Microsoft/Sony: Gluttony
EA: Greed
Capcom: Lust
Valve: Sloth
Konami: Wrath
Nintendo: Pride

@Swaggalicious Explain then. Maybe I'm just dumb, but when someone is a glutton, they're 99% of the time greedy

@ETHAN CHANG i find that funny, wouldn't you get more money by making more games?

@Nyanpire The Cat just take a look at chun li & cammy 🤤

Capcom have also lusted their Resident Evil to be the next Call of Duty. That was why the 5th and 6th installments were infamously more action-Oriented. Also, there way of handling DLC (disc-locked-content) and putting minimum effort on some games of their games such as Marvel vs. Capcom Infinite could also represent their lust to be cheap.

@Logan5124 ‘ t. person who has not played darkstalkers

@Logan5124 ‘  <b>Flashes several fanarts of Morrigan</b>

@Logan5124 ‘  *Flashes several fanarts of Morrigan*

@Lymington  Namco could be better when it comes to the availability of their soundtracks since they are clearly trying but half heartedly but hey they could be a lot worse considering the competition. Also it's easy to lose track of their work when they decide to nuke a project or 2 as they released a host of comics based off of their current franchises of the time (minus PacMan which is really out of character for Namco)  but not only nuked the channels associated with it but made it semi hard to find their products luckily many people tend to recover their tracks.

might as well lump Bethesda in with Microsoft and Sony. And I'd also lump Activision/Blizzard in with either EA or Capcom.

@Nyanpire The Cat @Gus Ronalds

Ms. Pac-Man, clearly.

@julian peterson it’s far too accurate, especially if you look at FMA:B personifications. Sloth is a juggernaut who doesn’t want to do shit, just like Valve.

bruh valve is too accurate. (yes i know valve devs are not lazy but still it just makes sense)

Gluttony and greed are the exact same thing

@Digital Unity I feel like Square would share the spot of pride with Nintendo. They have some of Nintendo’s same problems like C&D’ing fan games, copyright striking music uploads, and other similar situations.

Where does Square fit into this? There can't be 8 deadly sins, but square is just as guilty of heinous acts

Pride part reminds me of those Wojak videos... let's say that they "never teach about pride". The ones that do are rare.<br>Just saying.

Pride part reminds me of those Wojak videos... let's say that they "never teach about pride". The ones that do are rare.
Just saying.

@ETHAN CHANG if you were actually aware of anything going on within Capcom today, you'd know that they're being influenced by western game journalists to desexualise everything

Didn’t know the Re Zero witches were gamers 💀

Twice the Nintendo, Double the Acclaim (as in: the now-defunct publisher).

The only thing to not like about Namco is the amount of times they make the same crap of the Pac-Man arcade style thing, it might look neat at first but as we’re getting more and more of the same shit you start to wonder <b>Why can’t we just have remasters of the Pac-Man World trilogy, and a sequel to them instead?</b>

The only thing to not like about Namco is the amount of times they make the same crap of the Pac-Man arcade style thing, it might look neat at first but as we’re getting more and more of the same shit you start to wonder *Why can’t we just have remasters of the Pac-Man World trilogy, and a sequel to them instead?*

@Gus Ronalds  because the street fighter have a booba

@Lymington Namco's only real sin is REPETITION but that's it. Namco's pretty clean on the scandals side of things.

@Nyanpire The Cat because they’re known for  a lot of fan service. Specifically eye candy if you know what I mean.

Come to think of it...<br>Is there anything to hate about Namco?

Come to think of it...
Is there anything to hate about Namco?

They made fucking Darkstalkers.

OF. COURSE. THEY'LL. BE. LUST.

@Wandering the Wastes You saying that makes me want to know more.

Gus Ronalds trust me on this one mate, if you don't get it, it's better to not know it.


Well, you know what they say, the people who love Nintendo the most are the same ones who hate them the most.


Punishing competitive play is a very, very Japanese thing, though. Consider: the "best" outcome for a Japanese baseball game, from the Japanese fan's perspective, is a tie.


Who's here after Nintendo tried to sell their horrible online service and crappy N64 emulation for over 40 dollars,and then some Nintendo fans FINALLY grew a damn spine?


wow, no dislikes. I cannot believe everyone would straight up agree with emp


"Pirating Nintendo games is not only legal, but morally right." - Wario

@GameMaster Like you can't but it later anyway. And if Nintendo limits the purchasing dates, it's their fault then.

@FilmBucket oh, old games are perfectly fine. I pirate older stuff all the time

@GameMaster i agree that pirating is wrong, but nintendo makes it so hard to even play their old games that i fully support any emulator or user of that emulator

And it’s not like I’m saying that Nintendo is this perfect deity. I agree with this video on basically everything. It’s just wrong to pirate new games, instead of buying them. Nintendo does bad things, but you shouldn’t just steal to prove your point, you need to show them by spreading the word, showing your dissatisfaction online with other people and not being blindsided by new game announcements.

@FilmBucket you know, they also get to be paid and make more games if the game sells well. If it doesn’t, they don’t get as much work. No work, no money. Pirating new games is morally wrong, no matter which company. Nintendo, EA, Sega, Microsoft, whoever. It isn’t right.

@GameMaster the devs still get paid regardless if the game gets pirated or not

@Pastel Xenon if I was allowed to steal anything I wanted if I didn’t like the company, I would literally have everything in the world

@Pastel Xenon if you own a copy it’s fine, but if you don’t, you are literally stealing the game

@GameMaster people still compare piracy to stealing physical objects lmao

@FilmBucket the developers who worked on it literally don’t.

Not new games, like Metroid. Because that is stealing unless you own a copy

@A Little Bird I'll pirate Wario's games until they make a non warioware game for once


Nintendo also shut down the release of a port of SMB to the Commodore 64, a computer from 1982.  That did not go over well among us old timers.


I'm convinced Nintendo is still run by the Yakuza .<br>Their behavior is nothing short of mafia like .

I'm convinced Nintendo is still run by the Yakuza .
Their behavior is nothing short of mafia like .


Don't. Idolize. Companies. I love Nintendo, but I don't have an undying love for them


While I don’t think it’s pathetic to own a console with games you love on it, which includes myself, I’m so sick and tired of Nintendo fans attacking anyone who dares be outspoken to a company. These people seriously don’t realize that we can make change, and if they would listen, that maybe we could be in a better spot than we are now. You can still enjoy a company’s games while still criticizing them. Also, according to hackers, Nintendo only takes down fan games that are either remakes/ demakes or are close to an official product. The hacker in question was Kaze Emanuar. It’s still dumb but it at least makes sense.


Emp talking about Nintendo is a dream come true.

Atrocity Exhibition is a modern classic 🔥

@Lil Peet my favorite album. Glad you enjoy it as well :)

you having an AE pfp is a dream come true


When I first got the joycons they felt cheap af like literally the wii remote feels more premium why couldn't they just make an improved the wii u like the fans wanted by giving it the extra gamepad controllers and make the specs better so third party devs don't have to worry about scaling down their games to fit on the console and also make a free online service with a messaging feature

@vDeadbolt yeah but it could've been improved on


You know the saying "You either die the hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain"? I Imagine something similar to Nintendo would've happened had other companies that were making popular machines for games to be released on in the 80s like Commodore and Atari were still in the industry today.


Emplemon : Dislike ratio is a good feedback tool<br>Youtube : die

Emplemon : Dislike ratio is a good feedback tool
Youtube : die


"3 DAYS after ripping fans' hearts out" Holy shit that was a good laugh, ty


Impressive you went in all this and didn’t talk about the shit show that is the Pokémon company

@DrCoeloCephalo "If you care about children, focus your efforts on Sweden" oh no, what has Sweden done this time?

The mainline Pokemon games only exist to sell toys/merch/anime/trading cards which is why they've declined in quality

@Jacob FoxFires964 Nintendo and TPC aren't the same company. Nintendo is only a shareholder in it along GF and Creatures.

@Gang Gang tldr the games are declining in quality, and people expect better from literally the number one franchise in the entire world.

@Demilio Mason It very much is because they're cartoons and no one is getting hurt. If you care about children, focus your efforts on Sweden whom, unlike Japan that doesn't make a fuss over that, has a serious problem.

Game Freak is a Nintendo subsidiary. A lot of these points do carry over.

Game Freak is a Nintendo subsidiary. A lot of these points do carry over.

@Graphite Tail Grace It's what most fans should do, never stop criticizing, that's how changes are made. This video actually explain that, Nintendrones not doing shit after the initial outcry.

@Ian Taakalla eh, I mean its worst crime was making a bad game and making all the fans have bloody fights. nintendo just has that like, horrid treatment to fans with a iron fist to rule feel to it

@trollfacelotsofshit distant kingdom already had a youtube Channel where he made smash videos before. It wasn't a pokemon channel at all when he made it.

Pokémon is another video because of how comprehensively bad it is and how much of a lich it is.

@Caleb Productions Rule 34 makes no exceptions, so that's kinda irrelevant.<br>Regardless, games like Digimon, Yo-Kai Watch, Dragon Quest Monsters and Shin Megami Tensei are way better anyway.

@Caleb Productions Rule 34 makes no exceptions, so that's kinda irrelevant.
Regardless, games like Digimon, Yo-Kai Watch, Dragon Quest Monsters and Shin Megami Tensei are way better anyway.

I mean sure, pokemon made a stinky game and both sides are super toxic and divided, but I feel like a pokemon fan defending the dex cut is not as bad as a nintendo fan defending the constant shut downs and awful, damaging business moves nintendo does that heavily, heavily damages many people

How about we point our eyes towards Digimon instead? Pokémon is overrated as fuck anyways, especially with the ridiculous amount of hen-tay of the series that’s now a shitty meme.

@Demilio Mason It's the people that have their nostalgia goggles on too tight that defend Pokemon just for being Pokemon.

Monster collector genre games both older and newer than Pokemon on 3DS, Switch or otherwise like Shin Megami Tensei, Dragon Quest Monsters, Digimon or Yo-Kai Watch make Pokemon look like a complete joke given the fact those games have done for years what Pokemon shills so desperately try say is impossible for a game to do.

Nostalgia has squat to do with it.

@trollfacelotsofshit He's less stale cuz the stuff he covers is newer<br>Staleness doesn't make his points any less relevant or true anyway.

@trollfacelotsofshit He's less stale cuz the stuff he covers is newer
Staleness doesn't make his points any less relevant or true anyway.

This conversation is derailing at a rapid pace.

This conversation is derailing at a rapid pace.

@Demilio Mason I personally find it gross but I also find eating shit to be gross and there are plenty of people who enjoy that. As long as it isn't hurting anyone (which attraction to fictional children isn't) there is no reason for me to have a problem with it

@DrCoeloCephalo other poketubers being stale doesn't mean distant isn't stale either

@DrCoeloCephalo other poketubers being stale doesn't mean distant isn't stale either

@DrCoeloCephalo you mean the same stale content distant kingdom does??? 🤔🤔

Just throwing it out there that sword and shield probably is not even half as bad as people claim it is, they just got nostalgia goggles on too tight. Literally nobody plays pokemon for the "grsphics" or "animations" bro they're all borderline the same game for the past 20+ years.

@Sethb124 that's very naive of you to say. Guess it's okay for people to very creepily lust and thirst over Dora the explorer or say other children in media??

Then don't reply.
Again with the false accusations.
Factual information isn't a defense. It's just facts.
Thoughts aren't a crime but actions are and Pokemon character designers have designed arguably more questionable characters but people that throw that accusation around never hold them to the same standard.

@wew lad
Not once did I say any of that. You can dislike a person all you please but disliking them doesn't prove them wrong.
Also not really cuz DK uses plenty of footage of past Pokemon games and very easily debunks alot of common arguments.
Also, you're more than free to browse my own content and listen to my own video essays and you'll find my voice is nothing like DistantKingdom's, so that's also a pretty laughable accusation.
Love how you still falsely accuse him of pedophilia btw.

@trollfacelotsofshit Not much more stale than PokeTubers in general that pump out the same unoriginal theory videos, reciting things any fool can find on Bulbapedia or le epic funnee Pokemon Showdown gimmick team on low ladder making scrubs angry when they lose to no-skill luck factors that have been doing that for way longer and with ten times the number of videos, beating dead horses that have been dead even longer.

People just hate the guy cuz he knows what he's talking about and can back it up since he alcan actually animate the models too

@DrCoeloCephalo yea but, he is kinda stale and you have to admit, he did all those +100 videos so he could get his name online, beating the dead horse now

@wew lad He's not. People that throw that accusation around only bring up stuff out of context.

He pointed out pedophilic thoughts aren't a crime and that actions are. That's just a basic fact of how criminals are charged for actions and not thoughts.

The only other thing people try to bring up to accuse him of that is a barefoot Marnie which doesn't prove anything. Plenty of Pokemon characters in pastgames have included even younger characters in swimsuits that are also barefoot, yet nobody accuses the character designers of Pokemon games of being pedophiles.

@Sethb124 "don't fuck with us pokemon fans, we can't distinguish fiction from reality"

@Graphite Tail Grace this, this is what i despise about that guy, hes on the complete polar opposite of a nintendo fanboy, and just hates and hates and hates on the same game just to make an online name for himself, is like, if emplemon did +100 videos against disney stating the same facts over and over again

@wew lad He's not a pedophile all he did was use a mod that makes his character look like marnie in a swimsuit. Being attracted to fictional characters, regardless of their age, doesn't make someone a pedophile because fictional characters cannot be harmed

@Espurr TheStupidIdiot Y'see, people are iffy about DistantKingdom because his ingame model is of a swimsuit-clad, barefoot Marnie.

Personally, the reason I dislike him is because he won't stop bemoaning the state of Pokemon. One or three videos on how much he hates Sw/Sh would be fine, but at my last count, he topped 27 videos on the same topic. That's even more than the amount of times I've bitched about RpNation's modbase!

@Espurr TheStupidIdiot Y'see, people are iffy about DistantKingdom because his ingame model is of a swimsuit-clad, barefoot Marnie.

Personally, the reason I dislike him is because he won't stop bemoaning the state of Pokemon. One or three videos on how much he hates Sw/Sh would be fine, but at my last count, he topped *_27_* videos on the same topic. That's even more than the amount of times I've bitched about RpNation's modbase!

@NBA YB breasts account is not irrelevant at all pal

@NBA YB breasts account is not irrelevant at all pal

@wew lad You can't just randomly say things like that without explaining how and why >_>

@wew ladA. That's irrelevant to the point<br>B. Doubt it

@wew ladA. That's irrelevant to the point
B. Doubt it

@XplodMonky <br>It's true that TPC is to blame here. I've seen stories from gamefreak employees to take their time on doing the best for Pokemon but TPC just restricts them on doing it because of what you mentioned about anime, TCG, and other forms of media.

@XplodMonky
It's true that TPC is to blame here. I've seen stories from gamefreak employees to take their time on doing the best for Pokemon but TPC just restricts them on doing it because of what you mentioned about anime, TCG, and other forms of media.

@Ａｒｅｋｕｓｕ I feel that gamefreak isn't entirely to blame here. They do have to take some blame as the main creators of the games but they are given a strict deadline to develop by the Pokemon Company International. The solution would be to ask for an extension of development time but that would screw up releases for anime, TCG, and all the other media related to Pokemon. If you want to point fingers, I would point them first at the Pokemon Company for tight deadlines.

@Gang Gang The Pokemon company is where all the greed goes for Nintendo. And it leads to a situation where Pokemon games are really shaky with the community, where the community ain't fairing any better and could rival Smash with their controversies. It's a real mess of a situation that people overly simplify.

@Gang Gang You can find many videos on YouTube discussing the dumpster fire that is Pokémon Sword and Shield and all of the shady and scummy shit The Pokémon Company has done recently

@Gang Gang Don't get me started, I'll be here all day.

@Gang Gang Don't get me started, I'll be here all day.


Total side note: No Country for Old Men is such a god damn good movie lmao


I've always wondered how much of Nintendo was a result of cultural differences and not understanding Western laws. Japan's not known for being lenient on intellectual property usage by our standards and theft by theirs.


Great video. Thing is, everythings now gone redundant with the removal of the dislike button.


coming back to this video after SilvaGunner’s takedown and the subsequent nintendo direct hits so much differently now


I hate using the term 'bootlicker' for anyone, but it seems as if the Nintendo consumer base really deserves the title.

There's no problem in buying something from a corporation, but trying to defend said corporation from every wrongful decision and attacking those who criticize them are truly brainwashed and blinded by the corporation's business tricks.

Thank you for making this video, Emp.

@Skeleton War yeah. i hate a lot of the shit nintendo does and i mostly play on pc, but it fucking sucks to see all the cool games released as "whooaaa look at these cool games you can't play" but i got a nintendo switch as a gift and ive only got some games, i got online too but i insisted they dont buy online for me and im fine with just singleplayer lol. i just use it for the portability and exclusives i can't pirate. everything else i pirate, emulate, ignore etc. its just like EA. i dont play modern EA games but the people who just buy their games are fine. its the people who keep buying the lootboxes over and over and defend EA to no end that are a big problem

@fungus meister No worries, the problem isn't with people who just want to use the Nintendo products, cause they undoubtedly make good shit.

The problem are the hardcore Nintendo fans who defend even their nastiest business practices and treat Nintendo like it can't do anything wrong.

Geez mate, I just want to play their premium quality games

@RokushoTheRavager He said "you vote with your money and therefore change won't happen" cause no matter how much everyone complains, they all still buy Nintendo products... <br>Bruh you gotta work on that reading comprehension a bit.

@RokushoTheRavager He said "you vote with your money and therefore change won't happen" cause no matter how much everyone complains, they all still buy Nintendo products...
Bruh you gotta work on that reading comprehension a bit.

@Skeleton War Mate, re-read his comment. "You vote with your money and therefore change won't happen" Either he wrote it wrong, or he intended something different than what can be interpreted from it. Now if he wanted to say that, while we choose to vote with our money, not enough people do, and that's why change won't happen anytime soon, then he'd have a point, but that's not what he said.

@RokushoTheRavager I don't think that's what he was saying. His point was that... only money matters. Idk maybe you misinterpreted it or smth.

@Skeleton War Meatball said voting with your money doesn't matter, I corrected him saying that it is the only thing that matters.

@RokushoTheRavager That was the point. Their damage control doesn't matter. The fact that they <b>buy</b> shit matters. Both the fanboys and the non-fanboys buy Nintendo products. So it doesn't fucking matter what either side says.

@RokushoTheRavager That was the point. Their damage control doesn't matter. The fact that they *buy* shit matters. Both the fanboys and the non-fanboys buy Nintendo products. So it doesn't fucking matter what either side says.

@asian meatball On the contrary, voting with your wallet is the only thing that does bring about change, because ultimately all these companies care about is money and nothing else, so you have to hit them where it hurts if you truly want your voice to be heard. The biggest issue you run into are the idiots with Stockholm Syndrome doing damage control FOR them.

The sad truth is that you vote with your money and therefore change won't happen

This is exactly why I have such deep rooted immense spite for fanboys of any kind, because they do nothing but encourage this crap to continue and because of their sheer ignorance, we all suffer as a result.


You know they screw you when you buy the fucking console only for one game.


Jeez, I never knew there was a Kirby denomination of the church of Nintendo


I find myself concerned that I don't think I could discern a truly right and fair point from a wrong or unhinged one, solely due to your outrageously strong public speaking skills. Nintendo could've babied and nursed the melee pro scene, and it would've been expedited the growth of eSports by such wild margins. I'm fairly unassociated with the majority of Nintendo products, they just don't do it for me, but their apathy, even outright disdain, for the people who truly loved SSBM more than anyone could ever ask them to, is heartbreaking.


Oh yeah when I think smash I always think of pro players practicing the wrong kind of grooming.


Never expect twitter users to understand corporate structure, economics, software, and hardware

@Ronald McPaul what scares me the most is the lack of economic understanding twitter users have. Like a high schooler in a Econ class will know more than those goofballs.

If I make a Twitter account then I know I’m bound to get into a lot of heat more than on here in this shitty website, then again I’ve been dealing with some stupid drama on here when it comes to not liking stupid shit other people like, so maybe I just might make one since I’m kinda use to it.


Oh shit, very surreal to hear my old Wario Ware remix in an emplemon vid 17:15.


Glad i grew up with Sega,jeez. i knew Nintendo cancelled fan games,but knowing now that they do this? wow,all i can say,is wow.


Got recommended this video again. Just now realized how brilliant using clips from Peter Pan was, since the Legend of Zelda was directly inspired by Peter Pan.


25:27 yea, that's how the American government made everyone okay with invading Libya, Iraq, Iran, etc. but then point the finger at Russia when they invade Ukraine. (Not at all defending Putin, this war sucks. Double standards still exists)


If there is one lesson I wish humanity would learn from the past decade, its that you shouldn't idolise & worship people who happen to make something you enjoy.

True, worshipping just makes both parties get hurt by each other.

I'd say it goes much further and that it applies to any finite thing. Humanity has needed to learn this lesson since the very beginning.

@Digital Unity I wish I could agree with you, but bet the reality is that godspeed guy probably has the i.q. of a rock, so, he couldn't read Finn's words to be murdered by them

@fabulous_finn Did I just watch a murder happen? I think you killed that guy just now

@Mitty Commits Pizza Time it's better we don't talk about <b>those</b> fans here

@Mitty Commits Pizza Time it's better we don't talk about *those* fans here

All right ik is this directed to Sakurai, I get it if youre doing it for the meme (etc. Thank you daddy Sakurai) but when people actually start praising this man its a problem.


Well, they real problem is that nintendo just releases extremely good games that also happen to be extremely cute and innocent at heart. We judge with our eyes, so if we see a cute dog singing in a funny way and we know it's from Nintendo, we barely see the gray side of this company, we see it like we see that cute yellow dog: as innocent. Because they literally don't show their corporate side to the public. Even their logo is quite whimsical. Bah, even their representatives act like children, don't they?

It's not the fans, it's the brain washing that happens here (on purpose or not, but it's still washing our brains).

Nintendo can't be evil, because it's a cute dog. Look at that dog, how could an evil company make something that cute and innocent?


Dislike button? What's that? Oh yeah, that one tool we used to use but has since been silenced. Nice.


This makes me ashamed of myself for buying a switch because it reminded me of why I haven't bought a Nintendo product since my childhood other than a used Wii just to have my buddy hack and mod it to emulate atari, nes, Sega master system, snes, genesis, Gameboy and N64 with all their games.


Well, Nintendo finally did get ratio'd, but for overpricing the the N64 expansion. And in Nintendo fashion they didn't care at all about the backlash.

As long as they're making their stupid money off of it, who cares what anyone thinks. It's a business at the end of the day and as long as they get what they want, they're gonna keep doing it. It really is sad because Ik a lot of people here including me who grew up playing Nintendo and consider it a major part of their childhood just to end up seeing them be one of the most greediest and unapologetic game companies. I still love playing their games but man it's just a punch in the gut seeing all this.


Just imagine Nintendo, but with Valve's approach to fan creations
Heh
...
I'm sad now

they would be practically unstoppable at that point if they acted like Valve in regards to fan projects

@Andy Blanton consoomer spotted

you're making fan games out to be some great evil that needs to be snuffed out or something. Name a single franchise that has been definitively killed by fan games. I'll wait.

@Andy Blanton really, who tf releases physical fan games? I'm pretty sure most if not all of them would be strictly digital.

@Trinidad shockingly, they are a business, and it is their job to make money, not good games. They just so happen to make both.

It would be horrible. You want to buy the physical version of Metroid Dread through Amazon? Too bad, you're going to have to trudge through hundreds upon hundred of shitty online porn games, before you find anything related to the actual game.

It's not fan creations, it's their whole business culture. I think while they do deliver highly polished games and great products over all, they don't care about them first. It's business first and foremost even if it means making their products worse and clients suffer. A mentality that seems prevalent even between guys like Shigeru Miyamoto, not just only between the penny counters higher up.

@Todd Howard ya know, even as someone who grew up on the SNES with Super Mario World and the DKC trilogy, I’d be ok with that

@Mathematical Hypotenuse and thus forcing Nintendo to step up their game

The internet would be populated exclusively by shitty fangames and we all know it.

@Monochrome Ray From what I understand while trying to emulate the switch is that at the moment its complicated and it doesn’t work great unless you have a very high end machine

@Monochrome Ray “The Revolution has begun!”

@Todd Howard Pretty much, fuck the joycons

@Densester Yeah that whole, “I joy-cons are the most innovative controller ever!” Shit they pulled when they were releasing the switch was right. They created a controller that was a innovated more ways to be a pain in the ass than any other controller before or since. Not a surprise though. Nintendo controllers have always been aids. The only decent one they really made was the gamecube controller which is still preferable to modern joy-cons for smash. Im not counting the pro controller because its an excessory

@Todd Howard Dude unironically that is the absolute best timeline since it means I get to play Smash on a controller that isn't complete shitballs

@Mathematical Hypotenuse Imagine if the switch emulators get big updates to work on the steam deck. It will be hilarious to watch Nintendo seathe as another company makes a handheld which runs their games better than their main console for $150 more. Not to mention you would save money from not buying Nintendo games.

Funny you mention these two companies together with the announcement of the Steam Deck. Assuming the thing doesn't completely flop, it'll be a huge slap in the face against Nintendo, given that, between Steam, Epic, Origin, and emulators, practically every game on God's Earth will be available on it - including the ones Nintendo so jealously hoards - and thus competing with the Switch.


i want to play paper mario. like, the first one.
i cant.
so? i stole it.
when was the last time Chono trigger came out?
there are a billion games i missed because i was a kid and didn't have money.
now there's almost no way to get these games legaly.
if you're not selling the games Nintendo, you're not losing any money.


We need to start demystifying Corporations in general


We shut down a charity drive, multiple tournaments for our games, and abuse our fans regularly, but we put another anime boy with a sword in smash and thats whats really important


Finally! Somebody fucking said what I've been saying for 15 years!


"All you ever do is complain!"

Dude, keep complaining, these are always a great watch.

@jamaal smith thank you
I just wanted to point out that the video is flawed.. Good premise and a lot if good points but these miss informed points I pointed out really bugged me.. Especially the Etika joycons..
I am tired of people using his name and using it in a wrong way on top of that..
Let the man rest in peace :/

@Bariq99  you made some interesting points.

@Bariq99

based means a person agrees with that point.

@wackyclock I'll be honest to ya.. I still don't know what's the meaning of " x is based"<br>I still don't know if it is sued for sarcasm,insult or support lol

@wackyclock I'll be honest to ya.. I still don't know what's the meaning of " x is based"
I still don't know if it is sued for sarcasm,insult or support lol

@Ledet Brothers what's the point of your comment?

Smh Bariq99…

I really want to tear into your agrument but I’m a busy guy.

Can someone give a counter-argument to this SOB?

@Bariq99 Whether you're right or not, you can't just say he said some wrong points without providing an example or two. As far as I'm aware, Emperor Lemon isn't lying about Nintendo's paranoic protection of their own property or their hatred of competitive play.

complaints that "we can relate to" voiced by a greater entity are always great to hear

@Morbid Minded Maniac sorry to break it to ya but this isn't fair at all.. There was a lot of misinformations, opinionated points and narrative manipulation..<br>And he is straight up wrong about one of the points lol (maybe more)

@Morbid Minded Maniac sorry to break it to ya but this isn't fair at all.. There was a lot of misinformations, opinionated points and narrative manipulation..
And he is straight up wrong about one of the points lol (maybe more)

@Morbid Minded Maniac imagine thinking this was fair criticism lol

@Morbid Minded Maniac its a joke from a previous video, hes praising emp here


To a certain degree, I think that requiring streamers to pay to stream a game is more reasonable from a company's perspective than most people give them credit for.
I personally have watched videos of a game and thought it a good enough substitute for buying the game itself, especially in more story focused titles.
The videos in question were undoubtedly a net positive for marketing, but it leaving something that acts as competition to your product because of marketing is going to be a hard sell to someone who already spent millions on marketing the exact thing that the “advert” takes money away from.
From their perspective its like a reaction channel uploading a copy of your video with their face in the corner and justifying it because it acts as marketing for your channel.


I grew up as a PC gamer. My parents only let my brother and I play our game boys when we went on trips, and outside of that my exposure to Nintendo was only at friend's houses. Despite that somehow I still became a Metroid fan because of super Metroid. But just because I'm a Metroid fan doesn't mean I'm a Nintendo fan, especially given how terribly they've treated us Metroid fans over the years.  I decided to buy a 3DS near the end of its life cycle and I don't regret that choice because I was able to mod the 3DS and do a lot of cool things with it. About a year ago I decided to also buy a switch lite, but in this case I do regret my choice. 90% of the games I play on my switch on games that I could own on PC for a fraction of the price and with steam deck right around the corner there's absolutely no reason for me to continue to own a switch.  When they released the online expansion pack was when any Goodwill I had for the company went out the window. When I finally get my steam deck I plan to emulate every single Nintendo first party title that I want to play.


Gen 8 of Pokémon did enough for me to lose interest in Nintendo.  How could they treat us like that?! We've been loyal fans for years then they drop a game on us that has so many bugs, pop up animations, lazy character animations, the most lackluster storyline... and then charge us full price again, twice, for dlc which is in all honesty just the game if they had of delayed it.

Game freak develop pokemon games nintendo has nothing to do with pokemon games development😑😑


It’s been a long time since Nintendo did anything that felt like a Masterpiece to me. BotW is an unfinished game with a Zelda skin, for instance. It isn’t even a fucking Zelda game.

People still rave over it tho likes it’s Jesus Christ’s son


now gilvasunner is shutting down his channel to huge copyright attacks thanks to Nintendo and YouTube’s shit copyright systems


The lesson today is "regardless of how good a company's products are, they aren't absolved of any wrong-doings and should be expected to practice good business ethics and evolve with the changing times." Push the companies that you care about to do better, especially ones as large as Nintendo. A gentle shove isn't going to get the attention of a giant that large.

As it is rn, Nintendo is on track to becoming the next Disney, and at that point, it'll be too late to solve these issues if it isn't already too late to begin with.

If you're going to do something about it, now is the time to do so.

EDIT (12/14/2021): Well, Nintendo's finally hosting a Melee circuit with Panda Global. There's still a lot of issues with the company outside of Melee and idk how indicative it is of Nintendo planning to change their ways when it comes to other issues such as fan games, emulation or ROM hacks, but this is definitely good news for one of the most marginalized sects of the Nintendo fandom. It's gonna be funny watching competitors play again on unfrozen Pokemon Stadium though.

PS: Now has probably never been a better time to be an Xbox fan, huh? Its almost synonymous with just being a PC fan nowadays since Xbox games usually come to PC.


I'm going to be that guy and say I'm sick of Nintendo fans mourning for Iwata and continuing to talk about him as if he was Mr. Rogers or some shit. Many of Nintendo's older anti-consumer policies, such as how they treat Youtubers, can be laid directly at his feet. As a businessman, he was a revolutionary. But as a person, he was no better than anyone else in the 1%.

Oof he said it. But damn you're not wrong. I remember hearing him being heavily criticized and after his death he became like jesus to the fanbase


18:57 god I just hate those toxic Thomas the tank engine fans

same. especially that time a work-in-progress print of Thomas and the magic railroad got leaked online and Britt Alcroft got ticked off! you think she'd be grateful the fans get to watch the director's cut and, unsurprisingly, even the fans aren't happy!


Here after the recent Nintendo online news


Yeah it's a pretty good summary. I noticed this trend back in the day as far back as the N64. In fact you can kind of measure Nintendo's arrogance level by unusual the control is for each system. There is definitely a church of Nintendo out there. That said, I'm not sure your wishing Nintendo would do something would change much. Most people continue to buy Microsoft, Sony, Apple, Google , and Square Enix products despite all the scummy shit they've done. Getting consumers to voice their displeasure is a whole lot more than getting them to not buy something they like. It's almost impossible to convince someone not to buy something like.  Realistically speaking the best you can hope for is them to buy less from one company and buy as much or more from that companies competitors.


Bru, I'm just buy a Wii-U and pirate the fuck out of everything. When I can afford to buy my son a steam deck, The switch will be hard modded to were I can use functional controllers on the damn thing and brows the web like I could on the previous console


Never understood the zeal nintendo fansimps have. <br> Nintendo PR must be the highest number on their payroll. They get crazy results.

Never understood the zeal nintendo fansimps have.
 Nintendo PR must be the highest number on their payroll. They get crazy results.


This is why when ever I buy Nintendo products its off of second hand seller sites like Ebay or Mercari, that way people get my money not Nintendo. Im not paying 50$ for a switch game when I can buy it for half that price second hand.


This is seriously one of the most cathartic videos I've seen. I'm glad Emplemon out of all people made a video like this as this is the exact kind of thoughts I've been wanting to see get spread around for a while now. I'm sorry for the several comments

I agree. It has been a thought that has got into my mind since Mario Kart Tour released and that I only began to accept more and more into the last months. It's like seeing your bubble pop out of nowhere, after all the comfort zone companies like Nintendo and Disney offer are undeniable, but simply, as Emp said... there's more. That and I guess the incidence is evident because of the better standards Nintendo held out between the GameCube and Wii U era. I've been rewatching clips and reading the comment section multiple times too because of the same reason.

Do not apologize as you did nothing wrong.


Great that someone big tackles this, as a developer I deeply admire the polish and quality of the average Nintendo games, but on the other hand they are bunch of creeps when it comes to their business view, starting from attempting to ban game rentals in the 80s, to striking YouTubers because they played their games, and general evil bs like that. And it's not just a case of the stereotypical "passionate devs vs the money hungry managers" at all, it's a part of the shitty business culture in many levels. It's just sad.


Hot take: get rid of copyright altogether. It’s a legal monopoly that stunts innovation in nearly all industries.

so what if it stunts innovation? it makes the companies more money and they get to make the laws

i really wish copyright law was the way it used to be in spain (copyright infringement is OK as long as you dont make or intend to make any direct or indirect profit from it) but i dont see the laws changing anytime soon


It will continue until nintendo's products take a dive in quality. If they started to suck the fans could start to turn. However, until that point, nintendo can make all the bad moves it wants


The fact of the matter is that companies don’t care about you, these are the same people getting mad at mcyt stans and saying they have a parasocial relationship with their creators and not realizing they are doing the same thing with these companies. They only care about the bottom line, you can respect their content but dont avidly ignore  and bully critics of them. Emp with another great video and highlighting the hypocrisy of people once again.

But it looks like it's only the case with Nintendo, and they're probably not the biggest of their kind.

@Shin Shaman must be remembering the 90s wrong then, I've played a lot of older games and most of them have not aged well at all

@ShadowyCaptain Bro calling me a casual even though I agree with the video

@ShadowyCaptain probably a "wrong generation" kid

@Shin Shaman I disagree. Never before was creating games so accessible to people than now. Programming is a lot easier. 3D modelling is free and easy. Unreal Engine and Unity is there for anyone to use. You can publish nearly anything you want on Steam. You can advertise your games via Internet.


This is why we need Miiverse now more than ever

I mean we got Miitopia back so there could be more mii stuff in the future


So basically<br>The chad valve vs The virgin nintendo

So basically
The chad valve vs The virgin nintendo


21:11 Can't even do that anymore... Screw youtube


Well, the disliking part didn't age too well...


it's pretty clear that nintendo prefers their fans to be of all ages, but maintain the mindset of 10 and under, where they just accept what they're told and do absolutely no thinking or take any action for themselves.


So glad I haven’t touched or bought a Nintendo product in over a decade


i can't believe you went from YouTube poops to these kinds of videos. i was a kid when i started watching your channel dude lol. i love you bro even if you dont give a fudge or knew of my existence


26:45
"am i pathetic for owning a switch?"
"YES."

Jesus christ, man.


In watching this video, I'm so glad you mentioned John Carmack and the Quake engine. Quake was developed for 90s-era computers, and the only reason I'm able to play it today is because of the source code's release and subsequent source ports (retro-FPS emulators/mod-runners). What you said is absolutely true, gaming wouldn't be in nearly the state it's in right now if it weren't for his personal policies on open-source engines.

Come to think of it, I feel like id Software to this day (even from under the Bethesda label) has a level of accountability unheard-of in the majority of the modern industry, both its higher-ups and its fanbase. Doom composer Mick Gordon once famously said "Doom fans aren't like Disney fans. If Doom fans don't like what you've done, they'll burn your house down."

While that is a bit of hyperbole on Mick's behalf, any time since Doom Eternal's release that there's been a controversy (Mick himself parting ways with id Software, The Ancient Gods DLC getting significant nerfs), the fandom has refused to remain quiet about it. While some fans were quick to let passion override them in the complete opposite direction, the fanbase has been very good about reining itself in and being mature about their gripes.

And as chance would have it, so have the developers. Hugo Martin and Marty Stratton, the game's directors, have been extremely transparent about the issues (the latest-released master level proving EXACTLY WHY THEY HAD TO NERF THE DLC HAHA), even going so far as to do video and live interviews with core members of the fanbase, explaining their processes and careers, and even expressing things they "could've done better" and will implement in subsequent patches.

TL;DR: id Software is essentially the polar opposite of Nintendo in this regard, and seems to have stuck by the principles of John Carmack throughout their whole lifespan. Might be me being a fanboy, but I think id Software is the standard for how game companies should operate.

I feel like violence first person shooter has a good fandom compared to kid friendly nintendo game fandom

Keep in mind, he didn't have to release that source code like he did. He possibly lost millions in possible future revenue in doing so. He could of sold the code or made people pay a licensing fee to use it, but he didn't. You couldn't find people like that these days. Literally one in a million.


Ah yes, the capitalist reality of breaking the bottom of braindead customers.


25:50 well actually, emplemon, you are wrong. I may be incorrect, but last time I checked, it was $20.00 a month and $40.00 a year. Maybe you should do your research before you disrespect these hardworking civilians just trying to live their lives. Shame on you.

(This is sarcasm btw)


Well I know a lot of people are refusing to get the expansion pass for the online service so that has to count for something


Nintendo and Disney are what I like to call "the third parent", these companies primarily aim their contents at families including children, stuff that resonated and in some cases brougth them comfort growing up, essentially raising them and shaping their personality as much as the actual parents did (or didn't in some cases).

The difference being Disney's stuff was mainstream for a century and video games and people who played them were stigmatized up until the mid-2000's, so as the internet developed, these people gathered in forums and such creating echo chambers, that when it was time to move onto to bigger gatherings like Twitter or Facebook, they spreaded their influence and bias to slowly but surely get where we are. Sega painting Nintendo as lame in the 90's, Playstation dominating the early 2000's, the Wii U were all tests to strengthen this faith.

Nintendo is getting closer and closer to being comparable to Disney. But at the very least Nintendo didn't make a game in an area related to a concentration camp. That shit will always leave a slight chill through my tailbone.

@Flame Stans be like: <br>CRuEllA wAS tHe fIrST mOvIe WiTh a wOmAn aS ThE LeAd

@Flame Stans be like:
CRuEllA wAS tHe fIrST mOvIe WiTh a wOmAn aS ThE LeAd

Dude, I went onto the cruella trailer and said I didn’t like the movie, and the Disney stans came at me telling me to off myself and I’m sexist. If these are the consumers of evil companies, they won’t be stopping anytime soon.


Even SML, had to recreate all of his characters and change the name and logo of his channel after over ten years of using Nintendo cherecters in his videos. Having to delete a channel with almost 10 million subscribers and deleting a lot of videos while also having to change all of the pictures for his videos, just because he used plush’s of Mario charecters, even with a lot creating original names. I love it’s definitely one of the best video game franchises out there, but. They real petty.


I feel bad for the people who replied to that tweet💀💀 like they literally got shit on


And once again lemonboy  make some good shit like nature intended. Too bad this will not change anything


I used to play competitive smash but yeah it never took off and always seemed too difficult to pursue. Sad, it's a very even keel competitive platform, much more so than many other competitive games.


the thing that really proves this video's point is that this is the first time i've ever heard sakurai get hammered for any sort of involvement with nintendo's practices

@ "I respect him a lot as he works hard and the yadda, but people need to relax he's not perfect" this is so ture, I respect him because his a human being, not because his some untouchable god.

@ "this whole "Daddy Sakurai" thing is just so cringe." that and the owo i love you Nintendo is also cringe.

@Kad where and which video did he change his mind about competitive play?

this whole "Daddy Sakurai" thing is just so cringe. I've never seen a game dev worshipped more than Sakurai. Don't get me wrong, I respect him a lot as he works hard and the yadda, but people need to relax he's not perfect

Mostly because Sakurai changed his mind about competitive play

It's so refreshing. A lot of people treat him as some sort of infallible force who can only do good. It's nice to watch Emp tear right through that perception of Sakurai.


the melee video was super good this one is good too all your vids are super good can't wait till the next one i'm always hyped for the next emp lemon video oh i gave you some bat tokens i trust that more then patreon rn


Excellent video of explanation from the dark side of Nintendo that not only of these examples, but also a whooping $80.00 price of NSO Expansion Pack from a Family subscription ($50.00 from a single player). It's sad how companies like Nintendo treat the fans, and I'm disappointed if any employee doesn't have to do so.

It's been approximately 20 years of loving the company, and now I arrived the peak that soon I'll leave the Neverland by being grown up and continue my life because there's no way back but remember the childhood, teenage and early adulthood. Teaching future gamers is the best option to keep balanced between a consumer and the video game company, which is our goal.

This comment doesn't mean if I love or hate Nintendo, but how the company treat its consumers since 1980, and now it's our turn to treat the Big N.


Nintendo fans complain about a Nintendo game or product… and then buy it 😏


it’s sad how many great games we could have had if Nintendo just let people modify their games

I liked how thought provoking this was but I felt like you were baiting angry from this fanbase. Nintendo CAN DO WRONG but it depends on how you're willing  look at it. Smash bros. started off a lot like a fan project but they pitched it directly to Nintendo. I haven't seen anywhere yet were the  Pokemon Uranium tried to pitch the idea they just made the game. HOWEVER the game looks good and offers a lot of ideas to RPGs like this so it'd been great if they said "Fine we'll show you!" and removed anything Nintendo could say infringes of copyright. Either way there's issues with copyright we need to figure out as well as manufacturing issues (FUCK FOXCOMM)

@Luis Alfonso Pinto even though it was entirely free...

@Clone Didn't they also try and get an award for that game or AM2R revoked or something? I remember hearing something like that in a 2016 Haedox video.

@Luis Alfonso Pinto If literally, any other game company did this you would be outraged, but since it's Nintendo you have to worship them.

@marcossegon this. This here is how Nintendo should run things. Why not officially produce these fan games as “modern classics”? Pokémon Uranium would have been one of the best selling Pokémon games they would have in modern history, but they burned the developers at the stake instead of accepting somebody has better ideas for their own games. I love Nintendo games, but I can’t stand their business practices.

LOL JACKSEPTICEYE'S DAD IS ROTTING IN THE TRASH LMAO 🤣🤣🤣

@marcossegon 4.-Again. Crash and Spyro are worth jack shit compared to Mario.

Mario games without being remade are already value enough so that is the product they promised.
before you say capitalism bad, if Spyro and Crash didnt aspire to BE Mario, corporations would plummet and go bankrupt since there are no benefits to BEING mario.

@marcossegon It contains elements controversial to nintendo at the moment.
Rising the age rating to M makes it less likely to sell to teenagers for obvious reasons.

And allowing every employee do whatever they want in a company without making them focus on a specific product is a sign of poor management.

@marcossegon 2.- If thry approached Nintendo HQ and said that they wished to work there and propose a project, then they are in the right.
Using copyrighted assets and claim you made a product or profit from it is illegal and the reason most projects go down.

(sorry fir multiple messages. Cant see very well on mobile.)

@marcossegon 1.-Nintendo not giving a damn about something does not entitle you to gain profit from illegal copies of  game and modded.

@Luis Alfonso Pinto 1. Ok but then why kill Ultimate tournaments too? the Big House tournaments included an Ultimate one and they also killed that one.
Also the melee people hacked the game and all that stuff because Nintendo doesn't give a damn about them. If Nintendo cared, they wouldn't need to do that. If your fans are making better products than you and you take them down instead of improving your services so people don't need to use 3rd party stuff, you are just proving how bad your products are.
I won't deny that the smash fanbase has pretty rough sides, but if money is the reason why they did all that, once again:
Why kill the Ultimate tournament too?

2. But if the fangame has a large following like many of the fangames Nintendo has shut down, that means it will likely sell if it is turned into an official game. Sonic Mania already had a decent following when it was a fangame and then SEGA picked it up and helped them. Sonic Mania happens to be the most successful Sonic Game in recent years, nearly universally praised. Nintendo has a fanbase that would love to work with the actual company in projects, why wouldn't you use that if you want free money?

3. Just raise the age rating lmao what even is your point here? Just release a decent translation of the original game and it will sell. Don't come saying it is remotely expensive when people drop retextures and translations of entire games because they got bored in their homes and decided to suddenly do a visual remake in a month or a few and then release it for free on the internet. If a few guys with a bit of free time every day can make a visual upgrade of a Nintendo game that surpasses the official port, I'm not buying the "it is not worth the money" shit, it can't be that expensive to change a bunch of textures like they did in Skyward Sword.

4. Mario is that big and that is the issue, that is why the fanbase is a huge part of the issue here. You are right, why stop doing shitty things if it sells anyways? That is why the video calls these overloyal Nintendo fanboys manchildren who love being stomped and pissed at by their favourite company while this one takes their wallets. The fanbase is the issue with Nintendo's toxic practices. The Mario ports are bad because for lower prices you can get trilogies of remakes of way higher quality, and that is Nintendo's fault, but it is also the fanbase's fault that they are buying the game, effectively telling Nintendo that this is alright.

The video shits both on the company AND the fanbase for a reason. The company for doing this stuff, and the fanbase for licking their ass like this and allowing this entire mess.

@marcossegon Capcom: Hey we are also making a resident evil 2 remake, if you shut down your project do you guys want to come to our studio for a tour and have a chat about game design?

Nintendo dealing with fangames:
You made a technological marvel, making a videogame console and a very innovative Zelda fangame using cardboard and pencils, which runs on CO2, somehow. Disgusting. I hate you, I'm going to send you to jail, and you are going to give me your entire life's value.

Any other company dealing with fangames, for example, SEGA:
Yo that's a really cool tribute to our classic Sonic era. Would you like to turn it into an official game of the franchise and finish its development with the budget it deserves? If you guys succeed, you can help us develop many other things in the franchise!


To be honest I disagree with many of the claims to nintendo in your video, sice for me they do have many points in their favor to do it that are not spoken, but actually I agree a lot in your Sakurai take since is very obvious how influential he is not only to nintendo, but the intere japanese gaming industry, so yeah he could have done something specially for the smash side of things, but was instead the one who was encouraging many of those anti competitive pracitces, and not only him many of nintendo developers hold a lot of influence in the company decisions, more than any other gaming company in the world I think, for how respected they are. But I think this just make the matter more grey, since instead of big company vs players, is now developer vs player. Though it raises questions as who should dictate the path of the game, the creator or the consumer? Is the develper allowed to dictate what is allowed to do with their game and characters, or is the consumer right to ignore all the creators wishes, just for they want to explore with that IP? For me it would be an interessing discussion to have, that sadly is always omited since most nintendo "criticizers", tned to just see the conflcit as nintendo as a greedy company, instead of questiongin their values of the people that work there and why they do what they do that just greed, since even if that is a reason that alone does not explain all the things they do, tahta actually makes them lose money. Regardless even if i disagree with your video I hoe that people tend to see what nintendo really is and can criticize on that, instead of just being anry to the legal team, and consider that the only reason of their doings in the company, is mucho more complex and diffiult than that :(.


The power of Nintendo over these peoples' brains isn't decided by mere nostalgia alone, something in the present ties them to its totem: its family-friendly, ultra-mainstream appeal. Nintendo is the only gaming company to break into the ultra-mainstream. It's the only gaming company that has done so much Machiavellian image maintenance, that it has become like an icon of Jesus Christ. People who are Christian in name only rally around the symbol of the crucifix every day throughout the western world. They don't come for the cross, they come for the mass, the community, the sense of safety, the access to social communion, social passageways to a viable mate; essentially, they come for the watering hole the church represents; the same could be said for Nintendo. Other game companies make games, but companies like Nintendo, Nexon, EA, and Blizzard, aren't trying to make games, they're trying to make television 2.0. The act of conforming in front of one of their games, is the drug that keeps these virtual coomers coming back to the nut button every single time. The feeling they have, when conforming to the teeming mass of socially acceptable nerd simpage that is the Nintendo fandom, that communion, is what Nintendo REALLY sells. That logo adds societal, and therefore monetary value to mere slabs of shaped cardboard. Nintendo has the monopoly on playing video games without inheriting the connotation of "gamer". In other words: if you play anything but Nintendo, you're a loser. Those are the words they never say, but instead, heavily imply, and have brainwashed millions into implying along with them. They reinforce this subliminal messaging by creating artificial demand via limited releases. Their business model is similar to Ferrari's: build a limited number of a product you advertise as unique, treat it with almost religious reverence yourself, sell it at a markup, and watch as the corporate "restraint" you show attracts the "connoisseur" to your product. In this way, Ferrari and Nintendo are of a kind: you're not even paying for the product, you're paying for the brand, and for the cultural matter it's attached to. With Ferrari, you buy Ferrari until you have earned the right to purchase a brand new one. Even then, you have to be the right "kind" of person: doing brutal track runs with your LaFerrari could get it taken away, as could leaving it to rot in a garage on the outskirts of L.A. Nintendo is equally protective of its brand, even if it's not trying to sell the nobles their own nobility, like Ferrari, but to sell the middle class mid-wit their sense of belonging instead. When you buy Nintendo, you pay to participate in "videogaming history" with the virtual world's equivalent of New Testament Christians, when you buy Ferrari, you pay to be included in the club of Enzo Ferrari's mourners, as well a handmade tux/dress to attend his ongoing funeral in. The products are aimed at different brackets, but the strategy is almost identical.

Unironically interesting comment. The watering hole analogy is spot-on.

"Teeming mass of socially acceptable nerd simpage" is a term I  will be using from now on.