Speaking about controversies, what are the opinions on Nintendo's "stream ban" happened in Japan? I barely heard anyone talking about it in Western World.
(For the unfamiliar: basically, the streamers have to get permissions from Nintendo to stream their games. Some famous streaming groups failed to do so and they had to delete all their VODs involving Nintendo's games after Nintendo's warning.
[I assume other game publishers technically/legally can do the same, but I don't see them practice this without causing a huge backlash from the community.])
Revelations about past Nintendo activity repeatedly extinguishing Smash events both through strategic and tactical measures, disclosed after The Big House cancellation: https://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1srfu4r
A couple days back Nintendo was on the front page of HN for threatening people and tailing them, iirc?
Also, they've been pretty assertive about DMCA, and they aren't very kind with streamers from what I understand. (Also, they really seem to not be interested in supporting the tournament communities for their games like Smash.)
I asked this a few days ago but did not get any responses...
Given that I find myself strongly compelled to stand up to this ridiculous behavior on the part of Nintendo and I have the time and resources to do so ...
I am going to purchase, on ebay ... what ? A plain old retail Nintendo Switch ?
Then I will send that switch (or two, or three) to ... who ?
Let's say I have a budget of USD $10,000 - who can I pay to do original, clean-room reverse engineering of this device ?
The goal here would be to publish everything that I can pay people to find.
What difference would $10,000 make? That's the primary question.
You can buy a decent engineer's spare time for two or three months, if they're being generous about it and particularly want to help. Where would one place $10k that it would meaningfully accelerate reverse engineering the Switch?
You either do it for anything but the money, or the money has to be a lot larger than $10k.
Calling it lack of support is probably a bit misleading, in reality they are actively undermining the competitive scene by things like shutting down tournaments/streams, preventing outside orgs (eg evo, mlg) from picking up smash, etc. Some of the other commenters gave links which have more details on this.
Given the recent events in context of the past 2 decades of nintendo's behaviour, the smash scene would love for nintendo to not be involved at all. There is no entitlement whatsoever for nintendo's support (unless "support" literally just means allowing us to run events with no help of any kind from nintendo other than not shutting it down, in which case it really doesn't strike me as too unreasonable).
That tailing took place years ago. Nintendo has never been kind to anyone using their IP in ways they don't like. I love Nintendo, but there's no denying they can be very fierce and litigious.
This New Yorker article is dated Dec 20. The tweets from the ‘stalking’ thread were posted Dec 21. Not defending Nintendo for anything here, just pointing out this theoretical ‘PR spin’ timeline doesn’t add up.
Agreed, I personally don't think this interview had anything to do with trying to put out that fire. Not even really convinced Nintendo cares all that much about the leak, tbh, pretty much nobody I know outside of the HN crowd even heard about it.
