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 I genuinely think that they’re not as much as malicious as they are stuck in very outdated thinking that’s prevalent in Japanese business.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.

There is no cost to applying for a license to host an event with Nintendo IP. You just need to ask for permission.

Nintendo doesn't work like your typical western companies where failing to increase profit each quarter = death (investment funds like blackrock play a big part in this, but that's a different story). They have a number of mobile games, but they don't invest heavily on those, despite said games being high earners - Fire Emblem Heroes' revenue has decreased consistently year by year, but still brought in ~48mil dollars in 2024. If anything, that's proof that they are not exploiting brand value for short-term profit. Their problem is a brain-damaged overzealous protection of their IP, which isn't uncommon in Japan: Johnny and Associates controlled with an iron fist all the photos and videos that could or could not be shown of idols under their management

This thread: "Nintendo so stupid. Everyone hates them! They're gonna go bankrupt cuz no ones going to buy their games because of their bad business practices!" Reality: The Switch 2 has one of the strongest console launches, despite increased prices. Their games continue to hold more value than others, with used games selling for near, or even above, their original sale price. Their consoles and games remain the #1 pick for families with kids. You people are delusional. Yes, Nintendo's practices are scummy. No, this does not affect their numbers in any way. They are still wildly successful, and even if they weren't, they have such a huge reserve of capital that they could operate in the red for 20 years and still be fine.

Putting out a kart racer is problematic. I got to play an alpha POC from a fairly large studio. It borrowed heavily from Mario Kart. The physics felt right. The challenges felt right, the weapons felt right, and the balance to let underdogs still be competitive seemed great. In the end it didn't get greenlit. I think in the end a lot of what Mario kart has is standing on the shoulders of their IP. It's undeniably fun It is a great party game, But cart racing isn't for everyone and If racing isn't your thing you can at least still identify with your favorite characters. If you took Mario kart and replaced all of the characters with Miis, I don't think anybody would want to play it.

It would be incredible if somehow every streamer and tuber just stopped broadcasting anything Nintendo, which seems to be something Nintendo wants. I wonder how much of a hit they'd take without those content creators.

Thing is, even if you look at all the Mario Kart characters, there's only a handful that are big names. Nobody wants to play as a Shy Guy. Even Link and Zelda feel wildly out of place, although maybe they wouldn't have done in a Links Awakening style rather than what they went for. I think Sony could do an Astro Bot on it and put in a bunch of their other characters in there. Lego has potential if they can get a bunch of their licensed characters in there (although you know with that kind of money floating around, most of them will be DLC locked behind Harry Potter packs, etc). A horrendously expensive MCU license maybe with some chibified characters. I think Mario Kart just has that easy "an idiot can play it" gameplay, but it doesn't get boring once you know what you're doing. It's a really hard balance to get right. The only recent attempt was CTR, and it didn't have that first factor at all, it was hard as nails.

> > > Reality: The Switch 2 has one of the strongest console launches, despite increased prices. Their games continue to hold more value than others, with used games selling for near, or even above, their original sale price. Their consoles and games remain the #1 pick for families with kids. Their pricing is pricing out many families, and I don't like that. I've remained firm in my stance that I'm not going to buy this console. It doesn't matter if everyone else around me buys it, I'm simply not going to do it. It's too expensive, same with the games, and I simply don't want to Gabe said piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem, but Nintendo has now made it both lol

They will keep doing it at each and every opportunity they get, even if they have to create new opportunities to do it, they will do so, always. They have already shown who they are.