My dominatrix charges more than Nintendo, and the outcome is the same.

It's about sending a message.

damn nice work

We’re still talking about a video game company right? What the fuck dude! You (and anyone upvoting you) ought to go for a walk and reflect on your priorities. I’d further strongly suggest seeking out some mental health support.

Looks like money got to their heads. What a shame.

And when I thought Nintendo couldn't get any lower it just does it again.

Nintendo sits on a load of hard cash and has Apple-like profit margins. They’re not going away anytime soon and I think that’s for the best. They’re one of the last AAA publishers focused on innovation in gameplay which is why I can forgive them being mildly brain damaged sometimes.

I worded it in a dumb/certain/silly way but, unless drastic changes happen, I do find it likely to happen. Look at how often Nintendo is surfacing negatively on the news: * harassing a small dev studio over patents, * trying to kill emulation while profiting off it, * bricking hardware already sold to customers, * demanding unreasonable prices for new games, * dictating if you shall be allowed to feature one of its games in a speedrunning event... Nintendo stopped being seen as a company that *enables* your fun, to become one that *gatekeeps* it. That's brand damage - and really bad for Nintendo's console sales; people are only willing to invest in a console if they're reasonably certain they can have fun with it. And at the same time, there are voices within and around Nintendo pushing the company towards the mobile market. Remember Pokémon Go? Or Ishihara saying the Switch 1 would flop, because of smartphones? If Nintendo console sales decline meaningfully, those voices will become louder and louder. Eventually Nintendo will focus primarily on the mobile market. However people don't typically *buy* mobile games; the monetisation strategy is completely different - microtransactions, gacha, lootboxes, all that crap. Most players (the "minnows") won't drop a penny on the game, but huge spenders (the "whales") compensate for that, so it works. The minnows aren't just freeloaders, mind you; they're required to keep the game alive. So mobile game companies need to fine-tune the pressure in their games - it should be just enough to encourage people to spend some money on the game, but not enough to shoo the minnows away. But we're talking about Nintendo here. A company willing to damage its own brand for a few additional pennies. Nintendo would not be able to see all those minnows and say "hey, that's cool", it would go full "ARE THOSE FREELOADERS STUPID? DON'T THEY KNOW THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO BUY STUFF?". It would tune the pressure way up, and ruin its mobile market, *after* it ruined its console market. ...perhaps it should go back to selling playing cards.

No load of hard cash is large enough to allow a company to systematically screw things up; specially not under an economic system that equates "stable profits" with "failure to grow". And Nintendo's actions aren't the result of [metaphorical] brain damage; there's a consistent pattern here of *exploiting brand value for short-term profit*.

I’ve read that with current Nintendo finances they can afford to not make any profit for something like 10 or 20 years. I genuinely think that they’re not as much as malicious as they are stuck in very outdated thinking that’s prevalent in Japanese business. They don’t get any short term profit from things like this.

Nintendo has ALWAYS been like this. The SNES could easily play games from Japan on the NA console. But Nintendo wouldn't allow it. how? look at a North American SNES cartridge. notice those notches on the bottom? inside the console where you plug the cartridge in you'll see two pegs for where it connects to said cartridge. just little plastic pegs. Japanese Super Famicom carts didn't have this. So how do you play Japanese games on your US SNES? remove those pegs. you remove those little plastic pegs and suddenly your SNES is region free.

I feel like there are much higher targets for the signal right now.

People should remake the game they like so much and move on from nintendo bullshit

I think Astro Bot is already better than any 3D Mario. We're missing a really good kart racer though. CTR wasn't it (and certainly not after they stuffed a load of DLC into it weeks after release), and the last one I really enjoyed was Speed Freaks on the PS1...

That corporation is still operating as if they're in the 80s, going by their "good old Showa values": heavy-handed proprietary control of their content and platforms, while making heavy use of nostalgia and its properties to keep the money coming in from casual gamers.

Rosalina can give me a paddlin' any time.

Aim at foot, pull trigger. What company lets such an opportunity of free showcasing and advertizing run through their fingers?

As good, maybe, but not better.

I mean... The Switch hardware was obsolete before it even came out.

My line in the sand was when Nintendo went after GMod hosting of their character models. When they go after emulators, I was upset but at least acknowledge there’s an economic relation there - and there’s some legal basis for protecting their copyright (even if the emulator itself is technically outside their rights). But taking down models used solely for fan creations is just pointlessly mean. No developer I know is upset about people putting up animations of their game protagonists doing silly shit like slipping on banana peels or getting blown up.