Unfortunately, the Nintendo Creators Program falls very much short of fair. It puts Nintendo in control of a participant’s content, leaves the content creator jumping through hoops and sees their pay harshly diminished.
The rejection is non-final (and even when such rejections are labeled as “final”, the process is far from over, given that there can be, at minimum, an appeal to the Federal Circuit).
Good, as they should! A game mechanic like that shouldn't be locked behind a patent, and Nintendo didn't invent it either.
Nintendo wants to keep wasting money on bullshit lawsuits, real smart in this economy. They should put that money aside for other game projects. On the other hand, I don't care if they waste it all either, and they are screwed in the future maybe that will teach them a lesson.
Nintendo completed its share repurchase and set its secondary offering price at 8,347 yen ahead of March 16 delivery.
Nintendo filed a lawsuit in the United States Court of International Trade.
Nintendo of America is suing the United States government over the sweeping tariffs President Donald Trump put in place last year, according to a complaint filed Friday in the U.S. Court of International Trade and obtained by Aftermath.
The fact that you have ANY disagrees will forever baffle me. And to the (apparent) MAGA contingent that exists on this website, enjoy your 8-9 dollar gas.
Yes, they had better be pissed after Trump told them the way they rip off the USA is over.
LOL I read this on gaff, will they refund the money back to the gamers? highly unlikely. Didn't they just raise prices and pass it onto the gamers? Only Nintendo would send out the Ninjas to the US government.
That’s what I was thinking, imagine them winning hypothetically, getting a s**t load of money back which they would have lost if they hadn’t raised their prices and it’s business as normal.
It would just mean people paid more for no reason since they got the money back anyway.
A lot of companies partially passed the cost to consumers instead of all of it. They would still have to at least pay that back to gamers, but we know that won't happen. What's also sad is that prices won't come back down after the initial hike caused by tariffs.
People didn't understand the full repercussions of tariffs. That alone should have cost him the presidency if people knew it was a permanent price hike for consumers
Naw they should sue the government for forcing the tax to begin with. No one reasonably expects these companies to absorb the taxes. Many smaller companies tried and were shut down or faced to increase prices to try to maintain their business. The tariffs effect everyone.
I meant it mostly as a joke cause we all know the costs of these tariffs were passed onto the consumer. But it's seems no matter how vocal we are here in the states our "representatives" don't seem to care enough to represent us. And things are about to get worse.
The companies were doing what the law required then to do, the tariffs however were illegally implemented. Usually it's criminals we punish, you seem to have different ideas 🤷♂️
-make a living off of other peoples work
-complain that they want a cut
Before i get heat for this comment understand this
I'm not one of those people who think being a youtuber isn't a "real" job. we pay for entertainment, entertainment is a demand and demand must be met with supply. Youtubers are part of that supply, they spend time to deliver that supply and must be compensated for the time they spend. We essentially pay the people who pay them with our views, we are the product being sold by the youtubers to the people who put the adds up, basic economics.
My problem with lets players asking for more money. You are leeching off someone else work. Movies, games, TV shows all need to pay copyright if they want to use someone else's work. How much do you think it cost Disney to have bowser in wreck it ralph for even a minute? and here you are wanting 80 or 90% of what is basically the foundation of your content.
lets be honest here. There are only a handful of Lets play channels that have a backbone past the games they play. Those are usually the ones with the most subs and the ones that(no surprise) don't or hardly complain about this stuff. A good example is Two best Friends. I watch the channel for them, even if they weren't playing games i would still watch the channel, matter of fact their best videos are usually the non lets play ones.
I don't have a problem with LP making money, i have a problem with how entitled they think they are. Whether its a good business move by Nintendo or not is a whole different topic.
Simple; don't Let's Play Nintendo games. They clearly don't want the free advertisement, so leave them to their own awful marketing that they've had this gen.
Let's Plays are Fair Use anyway ( https://iplsrutgers.wordpre... ). Make a few comments about the game (critiques) and tell Nintendo to piss off.
I like Nintendo but they do the most stupid of things sometimes.
The issue I see is while you need to outwardly acknowledge you are using Nintendo content and take a reduced profit from it, Nintendo gets to use your content anytime with no limitations on them, they can say they made it where you need to jump through hoops.
I don't think that's lawful or at the least honest, they're in turn doing what they're trying to stop. If Nintendo is paying you 60% for the video, you should own 60% of that video. And by having majority ownership of the value you should have the final say in how your content is used. Simply giving them 60% is not mutually beneficial when they can use you has a pawn of sorts.
I stand by their decision to take 30-40% of the ad revenue, but am against their egregious decision to claim the content as their own. Nintendo should visibly show credit at the permission of the creators of the video, since Nintendo did not create the 100% of the content shown. Nintendo could just use snippets like the music industry uses samples, but to claim all of the content as theirs doesn't seem right.