It's Time to Accept That Nintendo is a Supervillain
It's Time to Accept That Nintendo is a Supervillain
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A super villain? They aren't even the most evil gaming company.
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There are a couple supervillains.
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Its just 6 giant supervillains fighting each other over the ruins of tokyo. I think for a lot of people Nintendo is the favorite but if any of them win or if they stop fighting we all lose.
This is just how giant corporations work in markets. Its when they start working together to destroy the city that things get really bad. (Look at what tyson and cargill did to meat prices in the US, for instance).
And if you look at who is trying to do that, well which company has been buying up game companies with the hopes of corning the market on AAA titles?
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They are pretty much tied with EA rn.
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ok like... they're filing patents for bullshit and litigating a bunch of dubious cases, but afaik no one has been cut up with bone saws and stuffed into a piece of luggage.
I don't put it past wario but....? did I miss something? because that's literally who EA's selling out to
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I dunno, Nintendo at least still makes good games somewhat frequently
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Nintendo, you mean the law firm?
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So true, Nintendo, Disney, Nickelodeon, pretty much any institution I really looked up to as a kid has turned out to be pure evil.
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Nobody should ever look up to companies.
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I was a kid, what the hell did I know.
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Maybe they are just a company... Idk how people even developed a parasocial relationship with it
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Because children are easily manipulated, and they'll carry that shit over into adulthood.
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because it made them feel feelings.
same reason anyone has any parasocial relationship. apparently people watch people stream or influence and develop feelings for them.
i don't personally expereince any of this so it bafflest he crap otu of me... but apparently that makes me mentally ill in the current technology economy where it's considered 'normal' to gift people 100/1000s of dollars to listen to them whine online.
at least with Nintendo I am playing for a console and a game to play. not for the experiencing of living viscerally though somebody else.
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Gamers think they hate video game companies, when they really just hate capitalism.
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Already did
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I think it's important to separate Nintendo's legal department from product development. While the products are expensive, they are high quality and are generally enjoyed by their target demographic. Their legal department is a supervillain, sure, but that's a separate thing entirely from the product development side IMO.
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I understand the sentiment, but why is this an important separation? The legal department speaks on behalf of Nintendo more than any other branch in the company. It's all a trickle effect from the higher ups and the type of culture they want to develop. As a consumer, whether or not their actions come from legal or product development, it should still reflect on the company as a whole and impact my decisions on what to spend my cash on.
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You can obviously decide to buy whatever you want.
My point is that their legal team doesn't seem to impact their product development team much at all. Nintendo develops their IPs pretty consistently, so you're unlikely to get into a situation where they just sit on something and sue the crap out of anyone who tries to use their stagnant IPs.
Compare to Disney, who is more litigious and doesn't do a lot with their core IPs (when's the last time you saw Mickey Mouse star in a high profile film or game?).
If you like Nintendo products, the good news is they'll continue creating them. The bad news is mostly around preservation, Nintendo really wants you to hang on to old hardware if you want to play old games. They're also very touchy about how their IPs are represented in the media, so be very careful when you use them in a YT video or something.
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Did somebody forget about Microsoft?
They have been for a long time now. They're only going to keep getting worse until someone or something stops them, and I can't see what that would be.
I think we should support game development designed around "infringing" on some of their bullshit patents. I love Pokemon and they're doing fuck-all with the franchise, so I'd love to see more indie devs' takes on the concept. Have you seen all the really cool "fakemon" that have existed for decades on Deviant Art?
Oh there's more than just on DeviantArt, fan games like Pokémon Uranium are full of fakemons that can rival anything Nintendo is putting out.
Coromon seems pretty similar, I only played a small portion so far though