Nintendo 5 years from now: "After suing multiple fan projects and intimidating them to cease projects, Nintendo admits that they were just fan projects"

This is the company by the way that's behind on the times of technology. Like, how long did it take them to adopt broadband technology on their consoles? The Wii?

[–] justOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.io 112 points 2 days ago (7 children)

They killed Splatoon's grassroots Esport community thanks to them making a quick buck with splatoon 3, that promised a bunch of network functionality improvements that never materialized.

So now, a game that used to have multiple small but growing international tournaments now has nothing. Hell, they used to have tournaments on the main stage at PAX East.

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 72 points 2 days ago (2 children)

They've been shutting down Smash Bros tournaments as well.

[–] SteveNashFan@lemmy.world 57 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

How they treated professional Melee and especially Project M was the moment I realized Nintendo was just another out-of-touch company. So many indie devs would kill for fans that passionate, let alone a modding scene that robust. Nintendo threw it all away.

Edit: and that ignores the graveyard of fan games Nintendo has killed. AM2R, Pokémon Uranium...

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[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 78 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I don't think people remember, but there was a time when no twitch streamer or youtuber would play Nintendo games because they fucking take down their streams for copyright infringement.

[–] _cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 day ago

That's not entirely true, you could keep the videos up if all the ad revenue went to Nintendo. In other words, if you paid them so you could promote their game.

[–] 4am@lemm.ee 70 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I owned Mario Kart 8 for Wii U and it had a feature to record gameplay and post it to YouTube.

I post a clip once and they fucking claimed ad revenue on it.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 9 points 1 day ago

What a brilliant racket. Have people do all the work of getting a channel going, then claim the money for yourself.

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[–] Suburbanl3g3nd@lemmings.world 4 points 1 day ago

Didn't the GameCube have a broadband adapter you could buy. Swear I had one to play PSO

[–] radix@lemmy.world 39 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Folks pointing out GCN/Wii internet abilities are missing that the experience was awful. Like sure, the guts of broadband were there, but actually playing a game with friends online was way more trouble than it was worth.

So to your point, real online gaming was indeed way behind other consoles (IMHO).

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[–] Matriks404@lemmy.world 54 points 2 days ago (5 children)

There's nothing new in this article. And I don't think Nintendo ever said that emulation is illegal, just emulating their games is, which technically is true to some part at least in the United States, where sometimes you need to circumvent some security measures to get games emulated which is a forbidden (this is mentioned in the article).

[–] GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

Get a load of the nerd reading the articles and making informed opinions. Just join the rest of us in mindless circle jerking.

[–] stevedice@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago

A very strong case could be made that dumping your keys and your games is not bypassing encryption.

[–] jlh@lemmy.jlh.name 37 points 1 day ago (1 children)

emulation is only legal if you pay Nintendo to steal open-source code for their emulator as a service subscription

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[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 88 points 2 days ago (4 children)

You don't say, Nintendo. Pretty sure they're also using open source emulators, from the developers they really hate, to run their older titles.

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[–] KazuyaDarklight@lemmy.world 67 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (5 children)

The top IP lawyer at Nintendo agreed that emulators are technically legal at a panel for intellectual property rights.

They run afoul of the law when they bypass encryption, recreate copyrighted programs, or point users to pirated material.

[–] ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works 43 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Yes, this wasn't an admission because it's a well-known fact that is not inconsistent with Nintendo's earlier actions. The headline is deceptive and people don't read the article. The article itself contains no new information and it is only worth reading for someone who has been deceived by the headline and needs to be set straight by the same people who wrote the deceptive headline. It's click bait that shouldn't exist.

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[–] kipo@lemm.ee 36 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Repeal the DMCA. One of the worst pieces of legislation ever passed.

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[–] Trilobite@lemm.ee 46 points 2 days ago

Nintendo lost my business long ago nothing they make or say will get me to buy another Nintendo product

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