I caught Nintendo calling video games "Blideo Blames" behind closed doors. Is that really who you want influencing your kids? My Twitter - / colethefactguy
@@rachaelrandomassname1848If anything this has just been really fun. I just hope all of the people subbing don't expect this kind if negative video so often. It's just not the type of stuff I want to constantly put out
And the whole thing it's a never ending war, as many lawsuits Nintendo is capable off they will never fully cleanse the internet of Piracy and Emulators
@@ColeTheFactGuy Ended up here from a random youtube recommendation. RU-vid must've had an update to the algorithm, because I've noticed smaller and more relevant videos in my recommended section. Came for the admittedly negative rant and the way it probably resonates with the way I've been feeling about Nintendo, but I'm sticking around because of the way you communicated it. Looking forward to seeing the rest of the content you're going to make, positive or negative. Good luck.
If there was a company that I wish that that saying applied to Nintendo would probably be on the bottom of the list. Don't get me wrong they WOULD still be on the list but I hate most western game companies way more.
@@nobody..--. They dont lose anything. Most pirates dont pirate games because they dont want to pay for the game but because they cant afford that. Nintendo wont get their 60 bucks from me even if I wkkt pirate a game. You know what is even better? Piracy is the best commercial a game can get. In countries like poland in the 80s and 90s and even now nintendo newer cared to even lay a finger to make any of their games accessible there. Everyone was having bootleg famicons and thanks for that everyone knows who mario is. I can guarntee you that without that absolutley no adult would buy a switch for themselves nowdays
They're fine with that, actually. They want you to rent their games for the duration of your subscription. Oh, and not the whole library. Just a rotating cast with a lesser collection of mainstays.
@@renatoramos8834 For most companies they figuratively did do that at one point in time. Nintendo and Sega are 2 of the only Triple A Companies that hasn't done this yet
@@MyRegardsToTheDodo step 1) buy normal sized 3d printer 2) use it to print parts to make larger 3d printer 3) repeat until large enough 4) car 5) keep repeating 6) house
I also tried to never pirate... Until Crunchyroll made it impossible to actually watch anime and RU-vid decided 30 ads in a 10 minute video seems like a fair trade. Like you said, once you start, you never go back lol
The crunchyroll one is the most frustrating. I would have issues where I'd be logged out a dozen times a night. And sometimes it would tell me I can only stream one instance of the app despite it being the only stream. I lost about 2-3 days of my subscription due to issues. But they will never ever give me the days back or anything. Any email hits a faceless drone that hates his job. They won't fix your issues because no one will fix theirs.
@@halftimex25 Seriously though there was a 2 WEEK period where it the app was just down with no explanation! Then when I cancelled they continued billing me for several months until I notified my bank and they dealt with it. We can't even blame the bot for not caring
Adblockers are not piracy, no matter what fairy tales RU-vid would like you to believe in. Not sure what you did with the Crunchyroll situation; I guess dowloading the torrents instead, which would classify that part of your story as piracy. But blocking ads is _not_ piracy; stop thinking it is. It is perfectly legal, just as it has always been perfectly legal to go to the toilet and grab a drink during commercials on TV, or simply turning the TV set off for 5 minutes while you wait for the program to start again.
@EvenTheDogAgrees tbh I think it should be borderline child abuse if you let your kid watch youtube without one. (Watching it in general, maybe) there are just too many freaks and pervs frying to push a kink on the younger people watching kids content. I'm talking vore,poop play has become crazy big for some reason that skid toilet thing or the Elsa Spiderman pregnancy piss stuff. RU-vid is disgusting without ad blocks. Even watching now I get a Mobile game ad showing a lady swallowing men who are lining up only to crap them out of some tentical limb. RU-vid ads are approved by a bunch of degenerates who should be held accountable for the shit they approve.
@@Kneevirus I don’t know enough about Sony to know whether or not they have the PS3 or Vita games available from the PS4 or 5 online store. If they do, it’s probably also the same servers. I do know that Nintendo didn’t store the 3DS/WiiU content on the same servers as the Switch, meaning that they have to pay for the two sets of servers separately. The difference is that the Switch servers are turning a profit via Switch Online and can pay for themselves while the 3DS/WiiU servers were free to use, so Nintendo had to pay for the servers through profit from other things, aka, they were offering online services at a loss. It made sense when those were the flagship consoles and everyone was buying games from the 3DS/WiiU eShops, but because most people can get whatever game pirating since the older consoles were so easy to hack and since less people have been using the 3DS and Wii U, I can understand from a financial standpoint why Nintendo opted to close their servers. It’s not like they’re making the 3DS and Wii U unusable. They’re not Ubisoft, the consoles still work.
Why the hell would I jump through countless hoops for a chance to play a game for a limited time, when I could just download it on my 3ds and have it forever for free.
well as long as you make sure to buy it in the limited time the shop exists. at least if we are only talking legal ways. if you didnt buy everything you wanted on the 3ds shop your SOL if you didnt download it soon enough or if you had to delete it to make space for something else
If a company (not just Nintendo) stops selling their games in an official capacity, I think there should be a law that it now counts as abandoned and should be freely accessible for anybody that wants to use it. That way it would force these Multi-billion dollar companies to keep supporting the products that got sold.
And at least return copyright to its original length. Used to be copyright would only last a few years, now it lasts two lifetimes, mainly because of Disney's lobbying. These corporations intentionally are trying to functionally abolish the concept of public domain, just so that they can horde "intellectual property" indefinitely.
See I want to think this would be nice but I guarantee you they will just slap everything behind a super expensive premium tier subscription you can only get on their newest console so they can loophole their way out of it while still making money off everyone
"Once that transaction is done, it's not theirs anymore." Boy, o boy, I would like to introduce you to "The Crew" oh wait, where is it, I swear it was in my games library just a second ago.
Nintendo right now kind of reminds me of a quote from Mass Effect tweaked to fit the scenario: “You play it because we allow it, and you will stop playing because we demand it.”
Nintendo: "Rudimentary creatures of Mountain Dew and Doritos, you buy my games, fumbling with joycons, incapable of beating the Water Temple. Console gaming is nothing but a technological mutation, an accident. Your games' lives are measured in years and decades. They get scratched and won't load. We are eternal, the pinnacle of gaming and material greed. Before us, you are nothing. Game ownership's extinction is inevitable. We are the end of everything. We impose order on the chaos of technological recreation. You game because we allow it, and you will touch grass because we demand it."
@@tallyikroe2476no they are not It has nothing to do with steam Im pretty sure every pdx gamer will tell you that you are a fool if you dont pirate their games, on steam
@@Bleilock1 I can't tell if you are suggesting all games on steam should be pirated or only Valve's Games. If you mean the former then you're beyond stupid. If you mean the latter then No that's not what I mean
To be fair, people ignore the fact that Nintendo tends to leave a lot of fan-games alone. There's a huge Mario fan-game site that has been around for years that they never touch, for example. What about CTGP for MKWii? My point is that people broadly say Nintendo takes down all fan-games, when in reality, they seem to only go after some higher profile ones or ones that may impede a new release (in their eyes). I'm definitely not saying that makes it right, but I'm also saying more nuance is needed when approaching this topic. As for Sega, let's not pretend they are letting Sonic fan-games exist out of the goodness of their hearts. The Sonic Mania situation was really great, but acting like Sega is some paragon of virtue when it comes to fans just isn't true. They have taken down fan-things before (just usually not Sonic). Yes, not as much as Nintendo, but let's not pretend Sega is more lienent for any other reason than Nintendo does the things detailed in this video (they're both big companies who want to profit in the long-term).
Nintendo only goes after fan games that wants money or donations to make it, which is highly illegal. A lot of people don’t understand that Nintendo doesn’t care or mind fan games, they just care if you are receiving donations for that project.
Not wanting to defend Nintendo, but the quality of Nintendo games is much higher than Sega's. Sega basically needs any help they can get lol. Just look at the quality roller coaster that the Sonic games are.
It’s even worse in the cases where they DO rerelease/remaster a game, remove and/or censor content, and then gaslight their audience into believing that it wasn’t ever there in the first place. I WANT MY FUSION SUIT, DAMMIT!
And then if it doesn't sell as much as a throwaway Pokemon game made with zero effort and zero budget, they'll just say, "Oh, I guess nobody wants Metroid games anymore", and then cancel the entire IP.
@@mrscruffles801 I'm _pretty_ sure i know what you're talking about, and can i ask exactly how it's 'censoring' to modify the english script to reflect something present in 80% of other language scripts for the game, including the Japanese original?
@@GoodGirlPeruru I'm referring to Goombella's being catcalled being censored, though since you decided to bring this up, no, Vivian was not a transvestite the original translation of the game. The original translation has been out there for a good while now, and the dialoged from the original is not the same as the new dialogue in the remake. There's a mod Called TTYD Plus that shows what the correct translation was, and in it, Vivian is described a crossddressing boy, not a t-girl.
Remember how Sony was about to close the PSN for Vita and PS3 and then people got angry and that made them change their minds? In Nintendos case that could never happpen because the fanbase acts as if this billion dollar company were part of their family or something, they defend most of these moves. Corporations are not our friends, we are just another number to them, speak as a consumer not as a blind fanboy.
@WuAgent What- that's like the most BS thing ever. People BEG for Nintendo to keep the 3ds server up, but somehow it wasn't profitable!?? Ffs, the vita sold worse than the 3ds and Sony still kept the servers up.
@@Corvus-uh2db You didn't refute anything I said. If all the begging equaled dollars for their bottom line, they would keep it going but it doesn't. So it's gone. Allowing PSN to stay active is worth it for Sony's business while keeping the WiiU and 3DS servers up for Nintendo is not. The world doesn't revolve around the niche homebrew community.
I mean, legally speaking, you never owned your games. You just owned a license to it and a disk containing the software. Same to how you will technically never truly own a house. Your house is on government ground, and most likely funded with money loaned from the bank. Ownership means that if you die, whatever you left could be legally grabbed by anyone. But that doesnt happen with your house. If no one inherits your house, it will be taken by the bank and the government. If you truly owned it, anyone could claim it for themselves. The only real argument you can make surrounding games, is that you own the license, so you should legally be able to access what the license is promising. And I think there is a courtcase going on doing exactly that.
@@Predated2 except you do own a house. You can do work on it, move it, change it, demolish it and build a new one and it's all legal. With games if you tried doing any of that it wouldn't be fine. You can also choose what happens to your house when you die. Seems like your comparing oranges and apples here.
As a Gen Z kid, i remember how the Wii cut the prices of their most popular games to $20. Modern Nintendo would not consider that. "You know what other Nintendo game is $60? All of them"
Yes! I bought so many games on the Game Cube for 20 or 30 € (which has always had a close to 1:1 exchange rate to the Dollar) as ORIGINAL BRAND NEW copies from stores! Those include 2 of my favorite games: Super Smash Bros. Melee and F-Zero GX. Many games back then were even 50 € at release. Nowadays, Nintendo asks you to pay 60 € for the near 15 year-old worst ever 3D Zelda game: Skyward Sword
Just recently I bought the Nintendo selects version of Super Paper Mario for 20 Bucks, which was also the original price for that. Nowadays Nintendo is like: „Here‘s a Sale where only a select few Games are like, 15% cheaper“
It wouldnt have been but companies made it purposefully really hard to move digital copies of games, except steam, which is why PC is just where true gamers play
@@lemonscentedgames3641steam was responsible for popularizing digital copies in the first place, it makes sense they have the best system given Newell's statement on piracy
It’s once again, technology being a double edge sword. Able to be used for good or bad. No longer do we have to worry about waiting forever to get a game we love on launch day because it’s continually sold out. It’s there for everyone at the exact same time. But it also gives companies the chance to do what was discussed in this video. I know my optimism is misplaced in this world of disgustingly rampant corporate greed. But things don’t have be this way in terms of the negativity. Ultimately it’s us as consumers that can change things.
All this recent 'get comfortable not owning your games' crap is why I'm looking to buy some physical copies of games I enjoy; that way, when their digital marketplaces close and some publishers pull the games' licenses (looking at The Crew as prime example here), I'll still have a physical disc to pop in. Will I find discs for all the games I'm looking for? Maybe not, but I won't know until I at least check. As for my 3DS, I'm happy to hold onto it and play one of the various games I've got for that. Primarily physical copies, but some digital.
predatory marketing practices like saying "gamers should get used to not owning games" is why indie companies are becoming so popular. hopefully the big corporations begin to fall for their mistakes and we can at least laugh at the karma coming back to bite them
Yeah we should and need to do that. The justice is awesome and oh so sweet but hurts them like the bite of a crocodile. This is the globalist plot of “you will own nothing and be happy.” Masked evil words to make it seem good actually makes it far more sinister. These people think they own us. Well, time to show these goons who we really are. Don’t mess with customers. Look at what happened to “modern” Disney movies and shows as well as Bud Light. Protest and fight back with your wallets. I heard the streaming industry is starting to collapse. More and more people are not participating in their predatory practices and wokism. I also heard that stores are pulling DVDs and disks from their shelves. I think this is a way to fight us and force us to rent their stuff as they milk our wallets every month and year. I think this is also prof that they are starting to get desperate. These people are dishonest companies.
@@CallMeBackSamantha I dunno. Nintendo likely isn't ever going to learn. They've been this way even when good-guy Iwata who can do no wrong was still in charge. I say Nintendo is only useful for making quality games on a somewhat more frequent occasion than your average AAA company. Thing is, that's not impressive anymore thanks to the indie scene dumping out quality games every other week for less money. So really, Nintendo is completely useless in my eyes, and being useless in a consumer driven market should be a death sentence. It's only fair.
@@psycholuigiman I agree but also I’d rather not mario, Zelda, pokemon, etc etc, to leave because those are at least like, half of the games I play, and even if the games are hit or miss, they’ve still got hits, even if annoying for a variety of reasons.
I feel like “I would get into Nintendo games but I’m too afraid to get into Pirating” is going to become a common phrase/sentiment in the coming years.
People already say this shit when i tell them to emulate, they dont get that emulation is technically legal if you dump ur own roms, and that if u buy a copy of whatever game on ebay nintendo doesnt get a cent anyway
@@lemonscentedgames3641And yet they’d surely consider dumping more prohibitive than piracy, which doesn’t really help the issue. Even I can’t quite figure out how to dump gba games (not that that helps with the cartridges I’ve lost over the years).
@@David_the_Psalmist Google my friend, it teaches you everything you need to know. The real problem isn't with the know how, it's the confidence of the individual user to do it. I wasn't sure I could hack my PS2 to play games off of the DVD slot, now, I just jacked my 3 system
Nintendo trying to brick consoles that modded with a last update: you were not supposed to do that The fan community working around the attempted bricking: you should learn your place, now it's the pirates life for me and the games you have abandoned.
@@fletch4231 i was referring to the final update for the 3DS, where the update was trying to brick the 3DS's that people Modded, but people realized what was happening and just didn't update or updated the modding software they were using before updating the 3DS.
Also them staying full price forever does the opposite of negatively affecting the second hand market, the only reason it's been shrinking is because more purchases are made online
@@Soupreme2 You reminded me of a time when they tried to force youtubers that played their games to sign a deal with a devil that would give a lot of control over their yt accounts over to nintendo, and they would take most of their profits as well. They're literally the worst.
Flashback to me uploading a texturepack Minecraft review in 2011 with Mario 3 nes music. Getting a strike from Nintendo day 1. It was anything back then yes yeah.
Nintendo essentially still sees their work as toys rather than a design or creative medium. In the same way Disney looks at their work as "entertainment rides" rather than the medium of film, animation, & television.
@@usedcolouringbook8798no they don't you dog, if you can't see that disney nowadays is putting out the most apolitical, unfun, sanded down, Conservative family weekend slop then I'm sorry for you, unless of course you think minorities being included make something radically political which just means you're a bigoted loser
@@usedcolouringbook8798 curious as to what political views you think they support as i’m certain disney has no political view and will try to appease any and everyone that will give them money
What pisses me off the most is that I know for a fact, it would’ve been really easy for them to just make the shop purchases from the previous generation transfer to the next
This bro... its so stupid how steam is the only digital games marketplace that lets you basically do whatever you want with games, microsoft sony and nintendo all made it so not worth to buy digital copies, i only buy physical for nintendo
Absolutely, and it would be trivial to keep the storefront going as well. Network protocols have not evolved significantly since they opened up their first online storefront. It's still the same technology, and it will still work, both for their older consoles and the new ones.
Another benefit Nintendo gets from selling you a license to a game instead of selling you a copy is that they retain stronger copyright control. It’s a big reason the industry is moving all digital; they can effectively retain full legal control over how anyone uses the game. The copyright agreement is that if you buy a product from someone, you can use it how you want, you just can’t use it commercially. That means modding games is completely legal, and game companies have to put effort into stopping it within the design of the game itself rather than just taking down mod sites. If the only way anyone can officially play a game is through buying a license and not purchasing the product, then it’s completely within the company’s right to stomp out any way people use their game, since technically they’ve never sold it to anyone
There a movement right now trying to go to Congress about the issue but to be honest, I don't see these bad business practices lasting long term regardless of what Congress does
Modding a game is legal as long as you don't use copyrighted code or don't release the mod. Doesn't matter if you release it non-commercially or commercially, if you use copyrighted material you can't release it. Even with a phyiscal copy you only buy a license, but the company has to make sure that you can keep on using that license, so I am actually not sure if it's even legal for them to shut the stores down.
4:12 They do this because they know they can sell a low effort remaster for a full 60 bucks later. This is why they get so upset over emulators, they don't WANT the majority of their library to be playable at any given time, so that their re-releases can maintain their value. Basically, they care more about money than preservation
As Nintendo once said, "They don't make games to make money, they make games to tell stories". Well, if Nintendo can't make any stories for a new game, the series is dead. Yet they'll refuse to keep their golden children around and available. There is a hardline between 'piracy' and 'preservation'. Nintendo tries to blur this line so it treat your childhood favorites like a cigarette. Temporary and once it's had its run, they'll throw it like was nothing.
Ironic thing is that if they just released the NS Online emulators for free in the Switch and every new console they intend to launch, they'd solve 90% of the 'piracy' problem AND motivate ppl to buy the console.
....MARK MY WORDS, THEY'LL TRY TO CLAIM ALL SECONDARY MARKET A PIRACY ......QUITE *SOON* ....AND WHEN THEY'LL FINALLY FAIL, ALONG WITH FAIL OF SWITCH2.......YESS, THE BRIGHT FUTURE WILL SHINE, HEHE
@@tallyikroe2476 It's basically Nintendo forcing you to play the new games, if your not willing to use Nintendo Switch online or bought games on Wii U before it shutdown.
Another thing that’s more personal and might not fall into the category of scummy practices is Nintendos refusal to release the music from all of their games. I would pay for a Majoras mask album, but instead I have to rely on covers of music. All of the covers are good, but they just don’t have the same feeling most of the time.
I've said this before on many videos like this. The limited releases, going after emulation, going after tournaments, going after fan games, locking classic games behind an online subscription, it's all because of one thing: Nintendo does not want you to be able to play their games unless they say so. They don't even want you to keep playing your older consoles. They want you to throw all those out and buy a Switch. This is primarily why I'll never buy a Switch and they are dead to me as a company. As far as I'm concerned, the real Nintendo died after the Wii U.
Golly, that's harsh. So your just gonna pirate everything from Nintendo out of spite, and never support the company? I understand they are really against game preservation, but at least the try to replace or revisit some of the older ones. Just know that Nintendo does not give a single ship wether yu pay them or not. There will be millions of other people to compensate. If your trying to send a message by doing that, I promise you it won't work. But if it's completely out of spite, I don't blame you.
@@jeanthmc3561 I didn't say that he shouldn't. I'm saying just not supporting Nintendo is not going to do anything. In my opinion, the best way to do it is just continually call it out, like Cole did in this video here. Maybe it's my fault for not giving an actual solution, making my point unclear. But it still stands. You alone will not do anything. Nintendo really will not care whether you buy from them or not. So, there is a better way to do it. Spread the word.
@@user-mq8mo9zi4q everything starts from a small step, and we all have to support it. Some centuries ago freedom looked impossible. Like IMPOSSIBLE. But look where we are today
@@jeanthmc3561 You schooling me as if I don't know that. I literally just told you I understand what he is trying to accomplish, and I apologized for not showing a solution. I didn't say it was impossible. I was trying to say it's not the right steps being taken.
When I heard the eshop was shutting down, I immediately decided to hack my 3ds. If they are going to lock all these games from people, for literally no reason, and aren’t making them available elsewhere, at that point, it is on them.
There is a similar problem in the comic book industry, where publishers have spent decades furious that fans would dare to resell their comic books after purchasing them, and have tried all sorts of schemes to stop that from happening.
Oh gosh, the comic book industry. Let’s not forget the years the big two spent printing garbage upon garbage that nobody wanted, only to double down, insult the readers, and let the stores eat the cost. You’re right, the big gaming studios are a little too similar.
Every videogames on ebay skyrocketed for millions making them unacesible. Imagine losing your stuff from a house fire or any natural disaster such as an earthquake hurricane or house flooding?
@@Joker22593 , except that insurance is a joke and it is also essentially legalized loan sharking/racketeering/extortion/blackmail, and ditto for taxation in all of its forms, functions, names, and such as well.
Launch games: making the company money and easy to purchase Unsupported games: do not make money for the company and aren't available easily by purchasing means.
pirating games on launch day: not giving the company money when the content is easily accessible pirating games on unsupported hardware: you cant get the fucking game anymore (in a way that supports the company who made it)
It’s not justice it’s still their product. Why can’t you just download things without trying to make yourself seem like you’re on the moral high ground?
@@zoltanz288 I mean that a much larger percentage would get a larger chance at becoming larger, and I honestly prefer 5 indie games with plenty of passion over 1 triple A game made for the money. Also, that response was completely uncalled for.
@@RandomDude1487"completely uncalled for" bros acting like they just said something horrible but no, they just said indie games already have a chance which is completely true. Ever heard of cuphead, undertale, celeste, or among us? Hell, even minecraft, the best sold video game of all time is technically an indie game.
@@mmbiz.o Yes, I am saying that it is likely that they will have even more of a chance. I also meant that maybe indie games could partially replace greedy AAA games.
there was a dude who said that piracy doesn't cause physical copies of a game to suddenly vanish off the shelfs, and something about downloading a house or a car is a clownshow of a phrase to say.
@timbonthuus1619 not really, it's just making something a scalper would sell for $800 usd down to 99 free cause it's no longer in short supply. That's not devaluing, that's illegal profiteers crying cause their money printing scheme was upended
Two sides of the gaming coin: Nintendo, and Flashpoint. One gives little shit about their old content's accessability, the other preserves dozens of games for play, whenever, wherever. And people will return to Flashpoint, whether from Nostalgia or Curiosity, not a stupid bundle subscription. Entertainment repeats in history.
the wild fact that sony keeps loyal to his vita and ps3 by keeping their services and limit them instead of straight shutting while nintendo is off meat riding the switch above max
I would like to call that the nicten cycle make new product it gets old make new product to sell and to stop the old product from selling anything rinsed and repete until the fans (the ones with a brain) get sick of it then just look for alternatives or go to there competitors or some indie gaming company that gets lucky enough to the funny plumber man doesn't sue them out the ass and put them in debt for years while being in jail... what's the matter don't have a 1000.00 dollars to give us? :nictendo
up till now i always played with steam game, recently bought a nintendo switch for my kids, and they wanted splatoon 3 fine, i found baffling that you have to pay a monthly sub, to be able to acces just most of the entire game, im even more surprised that nearly nobody talks about this ...
Yeah they ended free online services with the release of the switch. It really sucks since they were the last major console maker to have free online with their games. What's even worse is that the server quality is still shit. Splatoon was mostly okay, but with games like Smash Bros, it was extremely difficult to play with the lag spikes.
When I saw the announcement that the stores were closing for WiiU and 3DS, I panic purchased as many games as I could afford. Then, half of them were released on the virtual console for the Switch.
The thing about piracy that companies don't understand is this: If I want to buy a game, I will. I wouldn't even think of checking piracy resources if I genuinely just want to buy the game as it is. If I DON'T want to buy a game, be it because I'm too poor, I don't think the game is worth the price, or because the game isn't physically capable of being bought in the first place (discontinued or region-locked), THEN I will check piracy resources to see if I can find the game to play. But the thing about the above reasons is, these are all reasons for not buying the game in general, whether I pirate it or just go without it. Seeing that a game is piratable is not a prerequisite to not paying, it's that not being able to pay is the prerequisite to pirating it. Someone pirating a game wasn't going to pay either way, whether they successfully pirate the game or they just don't play it.
Sorry, but that is plain dumb. If you don’t like their new games, don’t play them. Stealing stuff for no other reason then you don’t like it or you are too poor doesn’t justify anything. In fact, now Nintendo has even more of a reason to shut down these services, because people like you steal their games despite not liking them. Once again, don’t play their new games. It’s not that hard. I haven’t bought Nintendo’s new trash in over a year, and I bet they would be furious if more people started to generally stop interacting with their new products.
That same logic justifies any kind of theft. Should I be allowed to steal a Lamborghini because I can't afford one? No. No I shouldn't, but that's the exact argument you make. You are not entitled to the labor of others. Especially not when it comes to a luxury/entertainment product.
@@jamesdinius7769 Aaah yes the well known form of theft “creating an exact duplicate of something you weren’t buying either way” piracy is by definition not theft, the logic doesn’t justify any kind of theft because the actual acts are fundamentally different. This is like saying an engineer is the same as a bank teller.
@@jamesdinius7769my guy , that's not what they're implying and they explained it to you very detailed with everything tinsy detail Like are you dense?
@@Takinu They're not "stealing" if said software is already updated in the internet and free for you to download, when the game already died because they're no longer selling it , quit your 🐂 💩
Now here’s the way i see it. If Nintendo is going to make it so that there’s physically no way to get a game or DLC anymore then they shouldn’t be upset about people pirating the game or DLC So that they can play it.
But then you are not giving them money for their new games!, how dare you be a fan of them that wants to play games they don't sell anymore instead of buying the newer remasters, shovelware, or their online service!. If you were a real fan you'd support them by pretending the old games no longer exist and only consume new media.
@@domehammer It is 100% piracy and wrong if you don't pay for it. But for older games, you physically can't pay for them, it is about the same as finding an old copy on the street. I'd say it like this. If the devs/owner of the copyright is still selling it, then yes it is piracy. If you actually can't pay to the rightful owners of the soft/game in question for it. (and I mean the company that made it or owns the rights), then it really shouldn't be considered stealing or piracy or bad.
And another gripe. WTF is with Nintendo closing down Mario 35? That was awesome! It was on Switch, not on something being sunset, 3DS, WIIU. I’ve never seen a company hate their consumers so much.
i heard that microsoft paid devs to not make windows copys of their games so they could push the xbox. thats a huge amount of hate right there, look it up
@@knivesron Not to mention that people with low PC specs can't get, for example, the original AoE1 nor AoE2 in their CD versions (expansions included), we really have to purchase the "Definitive Editions" of their products And even with the introduction of the Return to Rome DLC, people would prefer to pirate the CD AoE1 + Rise of Rome (not saying AoE2DE is bad, tho)
The Nintendo video game pricing strategy has been commented on by Satoru Iwata, “After a piece of hardware is released, the price is gradually reduced for five years until demand has run its course. But since the demand cycle never fails, why bother reducing the price this way? My personal take on the situation is that if you lower the price over time, the manufacturer is conditioning the customer to wait for a better deal, something I've always thought to be a strange approach.”
There are 2 types of pirates :- 1) too broke to afford your game (so they'll never buy it anyways) 2) people who feel they get better service from pirates Valve solves both these problems brilliantly then why can't Nintendo...?
...DONT WORRY DUDE, SWITCH2 IS GONNA FALL, BECAUSE THEIR MANAGEMENT ISNT BETTER THAN SEGA'S WAS WHILE SATURN AND DREAMCAST WERE A THING .......BUT AT *LEAST* WE'LL GET A *_VITA 2_* , HEHE
This feeling has been boiling in my soul for years and I'm glad someone's addressing it, the expansion of the online emulators for higher and higher prices is awful especially when they refuse to let you buy any
Nintendo probably thinks, that the younger audience probably doesn't care for older games. I mean, a ten year old looking at a N64 game would just think 'wow that's ugly' and then go play Fortnite again.
i mean that’s just not true either. that’s the problem with older generations as they grow up, they always view younger generations as increasingly brain dead and stupid. when i was younger, i was OBSESSED with getting into retro gaming. old consoles seemed so cool to me. that wasn’t going to change because i could go play GTA V or something. those who want to play older games will try to; and those who just want to play fortnite or GTA etc would never have cared in the first place; regardless of the generation.
@@cwega2463 Yeah exactly, like I got into retro gaming when I was 12 (born 2007). Like the first Retro game I played (that I pirated) was Mario Sunshine. Then as I got old I started collecting old Gamecube, Wii, and Wii U games that I would want to play as I have a Wii and Wii U to play them on.
Yeah, but you're an exception. You're a niche market that was probably giving them money anyways because people who like retro stuff often play the new stuff as well. People like us are a drop in the sand compared to normies.
And they're dead wrong. When I've tried following homebrew tutorials on youtube for my wii u or wii (vwii) that the person voicing over those tutorials were younger then me?!
When he joked about how you can’t buy majora’s mask on the eshop anymore at 5:00, I got a ridiculously well timed ad of the new mad max movie where the lead girl in the trailer said “you took everything from me”
They already did that multiple times. I don't think I have to remember how the pieces of shit knocked down Super Mario Royale, and then make a cheap copy port of EXACTLY the same thing. There are more but this is the most despicable.
I think Copyright laws are outdated and should be changed to allow media to improve. the current copyright laws greatly restrict creativity especially considering what could be protected under copyright, some idiot in history believed that colors should be able to be protected for some dumb reason.
It needs to mimic the Patent Laws or at least bridge the gap. If it wasn't for the lobbying of that mouse company, copyright law wouldn't be liftime ownerships and then some because their creator died years ago. The weird part is how Disney is re writing their own history with censorship and retconing. As progressive as they are, they sure like protecting Mr.Disney's IPs despite how much they (theoretically) hate him. Nevermind that most of the originals weren't even their stories. They themselves took the story, did a little modification, and sold it under their name as their own. With today's laws, Disney wouldn't even had got off the ground in the first place. They support and pass the laws that would have put them out of business. It's almoat like Lobbying should be illegal or something.....
You know, I should really consider filling out the rest of my GC library sooner instead of later, considering that it seems those games won't be readily available in the soon-to-be-now.
That thing about players being too comfortable owning games sounds absurd. My mother and aunts have a SNES that I grew up playing on (still works, despite a scare with plugging it into the wrong outlet!), and that quote brings to my mind the image of a Japanese businessman knocking on my aunt's door to collect the cartridges she has because they're discontinuing the service.
The funny thing is Metroid Prime Remastered at least involved Retro Studios putting in real effort to improve the graphical quality and still sold it for 1/3 cheaper than Nintendo's Switch version of Skyward Sword where they basically just threw it into a higher resolution and framerate, made some minor changes (One of which is locked behind a paywall) and charged $60 without remaking any of the actual assets.
As an off topic thing it makes me super happy to see Kid Icarus footage in the background. I really hope that the series gets more recognition in the future.
as with many other similar issues currently facing multiple media industries -- consumers have the power to influence the situation by not supporting scummy companies and accepting their bullshit. but, until consumers actually realize this fact and consciously decide to start thinking a bit more critically about their purchases and their "brand loyalties", things are never going to change.
The number one thing that annoys me surrounding the discourse of piracy and emulation is that too many fans (notably Nintendo fans) try to ignore that piracy and emulation directly call into question the value of what we're paying for as consumers. I do not care for whatever moral standard you have in regards to piracy. If you're charging me money for something that basically offers me LESS than what I can do FOR FREE, you're going to have to try really hard to justify why I should even be giving you money in the first place. Will I buy something knowing that I can just as easily pirate or emulate it? Yes. But that's a choice that I'm making because I want that company to continue making games, especially if they're a small company. But rather than living a world where people question the value of what they're money goes to, we live in a world where people shill for corpos that will never care about them.
Its basically asking "is the price they are asking Fair or Reasonable, or too outlandish for justification" For an example. I think the vast majority of people would agree that buying: Super Mario Odyssey Super Mario Wonder Breath of the Wild Mario Maker 1 or 2 Paper Mario Thousand Year Door Animal Crossing New Leaf Pokemon Platinum Pikmin 3 Metroid Dread Just. Any Metroid Game other then Other M and that dumb reskin of a proto type for the 3DS Buying each of them at a Price Point of $60 is fair and reasonable for what they are asking of people. But then theres games like: Mario Kart 8 Deluxe Pokemon Legends Arceus New Super Mario Brothers 2 & Wii U Deluxe Wario Ware Games Mario Strikers Battle League Club House 51 Games Pokemon Mystery Dungeons Rescue Team DX Captain Toads Treasure Tracker Yoshi's Crafted Wooly World Buying each of these are $60 would be based on prefrence. on the consumer but in a lot of cases It would be a hard sell for people as what they are getting isn't worth $60 most of the time. more around $40 imo And then theres: Pokemon Sword and Shield Mario Tennis Aces Paper Mario Sticker Star Paper Mario Color Splash Mario and Luigi Paper Jam Super Mario Party Mario Vs Donkey Kong Remake Nintendo Switch Sports Where You cannot justify buying these products at $60. Heck I think people wouldn't pay 20 Dollars for these games if they knew what buying them would give you. So you have to ask yourself the question I mentioned of "is the price they are asking Fair or Reasonable, or too outlandish for justification". If the Answer to that question is the latter. then you have to ask yourself "if you support/care/hate the company that the game is a part of" if the answer is Support then buy from the company itself, If its Care then I would say do the above with new games but pirate the old games that Nintendo isn't making money off of. and if its hate then Just have at it.
@@tallyikroe2476to be fair you cannot giving fault of nintendo for the pokemon games the one who handle all the merchandise and of pokemon is PCT that is very indipendent to nintendo at this point pokemon its very much his own brand that is affiliated mostly by the mark with nintendo
I haven't decided yet if I should buy a Switch so I can buy this Japan-only third-party game to support the series and possibly show the company that there's fans outside Japan that would like an international release. But on the other hand, I don't want to keep supporting Nintendo and I don't see much of a point in buying a Switch just for this ONE game. ~Plus that game is a low-effort port.~ Every other Switch game I'm interested in I want to emulate instead. Oh well, I guess there won't be a Switch in this house after all.
The thing about TTYD remaster news being shocking is quite depressing and reminded me how recently Nintendo sent me and others a survey about Mario & Luigi which blew my mind because I thought they did not care about it at all, considering they let Alpha Dream die and whatnot. They probably still don't but its just weird that any form of announcement about any game I actually liked from them shocks me.
I think what was more of a shock was the fact this game got a remake in spite of the state of the Paper Mario Games and Community (not saying Origami king is a bad game, I have never played it but it seems to be a good experience, The other 3 games are shit though)
I have noticed that for every good game, console, and sometimes peripherals. They are designed by masters of the craft, and an army of people came together to make something beautiful. Then, one or more people come together to add something totally fucked up to the product. Some limitation or additional cost.
Metroid Prime Remaster is worth the $40. It's a complete and total remake, with new models, textures, everything. I also know how hard Retro Studios worked on it, as a friend of mine works for them. They told me all about the years they put into the game. This isn't just a port that runs at 1080p, but a ground up remake. Same exact gameplay and mechanics, but there's a world of difference between the original and the remaster (in a good day).
As a kid, long ago, I was quite the guy who tried to get everything for free when it came to video games. Now that I have a salary, I bought on steam all the games I loved, almost like an attempt to make redemption (but only when it was on sales). However, never once I felt guilty to pirate console games. I love those games. But all those exclusives on proprietary platforms that shut down at will are not worth receiving that kindness.
I mean, I'm a game collector. I try to go out of my way to get physical copies of games as often as possible. A lot of the stuff I complained about isn't even about me, I have literally every game I mentioned. But if companies are gonna shut shit down then piracy is the best option
@@ColeTheFactGuy Piracy has done more for the preservation of game legacy than any company could ever hope to achieve. If we can still play magical pop'n today, it's not thanks to nintendo.
@@wolfetteplays8894 I don't see how being proprietary helps creativity. Have you seen what some free and open source games could offer? Sure, no big budget, but creativity never required that.
@@wolfetteplays8894Steam and gog are the only stores people actually use. Epic is just for fortnite/free games and any other storefronts like origin are practically dead in the water outside of being forced to use them for specific games. If storefronts had shared libraries then we could actually see some competition by providing better services like download speed, discounts, interface options, profile customization, etc.
The last point in this video was pure gold, I saw a video months back talking about why the swicth is worse than the Wii U. Not because the Wii U is a better console or, that it has a better a library, but because Miiverse, The bottle message system in Windwaker, Stamps in Twilight princess that you could collect and use on Mii verse. The feeling of opening up the Wii u and seeing all the little Miis on the screen and your friends and accounts. The charn of the white and blue icons, the little ambient jingle that played in the background. Actually, I have Netflix and multiple apps, lol. The music that played in the eshop. It was enchanting, and like Disney, Nintendo products had strong magic to them. I still feel it with my gameboy even. It's hard to get on the switch now, just the grey and white games on your screen and nothing else. Expect your icon on the top. You can't even message your friends.
I definitely miss the aesthetic of the wii u and 3ds. Nintendo absolutely dropped the ball on switch themes. Seemingly everybody wants it, and like the 3DS themes, are willing to pay for them, but nintendo just kinda goes "nah". It tooks us how many years to get folders back on the switch?
Nintendo rarely puts subtitles or dubbing in Portuguese in its games. we had new super Mario bros deluxe, mario kart 8/8deluxe (which was used in Portuguese from Portugal), mario wonder and mario party. and that's it. No RPG, no other major franchise, not even Pokémon, which takes place in the Iberian Peninsula, which is Portugal and Spain, has subtitles in Portuguese, besides, for years Nintendo didn't sell consoles in Brazil and either you bought a pirated console or you had have to go to another country or buy online. in addition to prices being 1/5 of the minimum wage.
I loved the Wii U, totally underrated console. After I saw how Nintendo treated it, and then murdered it, I have never purchased another Nintendo product
Don't care. They work for the same company, under the same executives. Hitting their wallet is the only thing that'll bring them to heel. It is not possible to support the developers while also meaningfully harming the corperate
@@DugdoesDigging Exactly, I'm glad I'm not the only one that realized that as well. The problem is when people are blaming Nintendo as a whole, you're dragging in its developers and employees, considering the fact they have absolutely nothing to do with the DMCA legal team in Japan that makes those decisions.
No one is blaming the artists. But as artists, they should know that the future of video games as art is strictly indie. Working in Nintendo/Sony will soon become like being a session musician for a pop music corporation. The only thing that "holds" the fans from going strictly indie is certain IPs that we've loved when we were young (Then again, for example, as an old time Final Fantasy fan, I don't see any reason to get Final Fantasy VII Remake that craps on my love for turn based JRPGs, when I can get Chained Echoes which respects my intellect, and my hard earned money will support the work of an actual artist).
nintendo games being $60 is why I dont purchase *any* nintendo games digitally. physical copies are honestly nicer most of the time, and you can find em, at launch sometimes even, at places like walmart for *at least* $10 less
You've inspired me to put CFW on my 3DS now. I might do that this afternoon. My only reservation was the digital games I downloaded, but the site says they will not be affected.
Before the internet was a decent distribution proposition for games, piracy was rampant because it was often the ONLY way to get a game.. With distribution platforms such as Steam, piracy reduced drastically.. I see this regressing with the way that companies are making games these days... How can they be so blind not to see this?
This is just the unfortunately reality of time and digital libraries. It's just natural that overtime, companies get rid of legacy hardware, software, etc. What makes video games unique is that they are pure art and exist in that moment in time as time machines. I cannot fault Nintendo for abandoning their old games, stores, etc. What I can blame them for is their lack of respect for the consumer when it comes to pricing though. Instead of hammering at the fact Nintendo kinda sucks in many aspects doesn't take from the fact game preservation exists through the support of dedicated fans. I will never worry about losing access to a movie, legacy software, game, TV show etc. As long as the internet exists, content will persevere. If anything, it's the company's loss when their stuff gets "accessed" one way or another.
