Why Nintendo Sues: (Over?)Protecting its Property by Battling Counterfeiters, Suing Streamers & More

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  • Опубликовано: 17 янв 2025

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  • @matrixguardian4539
    @matrixguardian4539 Месяц назад +13

    Imagine being so ruthless with lawsuits and winning every single one until karma strikes. I hate it when giant million dollar corporations have the automatic advantage over smaller or independent companies/individuals. Don’t you think that’s a little unfair?

  • @jkn2k
    @jkn2k Месяц назад +16

    I only know that the Steam Deck 2 is going to emulate the switch 2 even better 😂

    • @jsmith3946
      @jsmith3946 Месяц назад +1

      by the time steam deck 2 comes out we will probably be on switch 3

    • @mr.awesome6011
      @mr.awesome6011 Месяц назад

      For all 50 people that buy it

    • @WhehW2
      @WhehW2 Месяц назад +1

      Nah, Nintendo is putting pressure to stop Switch Emulators before discontinuing/ending the 2017 Console.

    •  28 дней назад +1

      Except most casual gamers don't play Steam Deck, just the Big Three (Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo).

    • @EstradaDuran-sg6co
      @EstradaDuran-sg6co 18 дней назад +1

      @@mr.awesome6011
      gaben literally shitted on iwatas grave

  • @Cueya
    @Cueya Месяц назад +8

    So when they wanna license their IP out to say ...Universal, they can charge a premium because they've protected it well, the end

    • @Cueya
      @Cueya Месяц назад

      @FlatEarth_Gamer ohhh my crippling 🎱 addiction ❄️ 👃

    • @Cueya
      @Cueya Месяц назад

      @FlatEarth_Gamer last hug you got was from a little baggie filled with white powder

  • @BowsettesFury
    @BowsettesFury Месяц назад +4

    Nintenjisanji gets sue happy when anyone does something better than them. It’s just that simple.

  • @LightningSix
    @LightningSix Месяц назад +6

    The NES was released in the US in October 1985, not September 1986. The Sega Master System was released in the US around September 1986.

    • @jaredt2590
      @jaredt2590 Месяц назад +1

      Yes, if you lived in NYC you could have bought one in October 1985. The nes released in the rest of America in June 1986 with the second wave of games.

  • @darthwoody9917
    @darthwoody9917 Месяц назад +4

    They used to care about quality control but now look at the Switch E-shop.

    • @keithtorgersen9664
      @keithtorgersen9664 Месяц назад +1

      Thanks for bringing this up. The majority of the indie games sponsored on the Switch are either way too dark or literally have hentai in the title.

  • @macethorns1168
    @macethorns1168 Месяц назад +6

    15:25 ROFL uh games on CDs were **not** faster by any measure whatsoever. Load times were a *constant* nuisance.

    • @iforgetiremember5243
      @iforgetiremember5243 Месяц назад

      I 'member they made it agonizing to play Chrono Trigger and FFIV on PS. The load times on Mortal Kombat also just about killed it for me on PS. Also going from THPS2 on PS to the PC version made me crap myself from the near-instant loading it had. Load screens/sequences were the bane of my existence back when I was a kid.

    • @jaredt2590
      @jaredt2590 Месяц назад

      Floppy disks were superior to cds until the 1990s when they got the load times down.

  • @nicholasharvey1232
    @nicholasharvey1232 Месяц назад +1

    5:56 This part of the video gives me feelings of deja vu.

  • @Riz2336
    @Riz2336 Месяц назад +6

    I love Nintendo mostly for nostalgia reasons but Sega is so much cooler at the end of the day when it comes to this stuff

  • @seanewing204
    @seanewing204 Месяц назад +3

    RUclips streaming is not illegal, as it's transformative. People are not watching the streams as a replacement for playing the game, it's a fundamentally different experience. Nintendo also lacks the standing to sue over emulation sites. Reverse engineering is not illegal, as you've mentioned in another video. So, emulators aren't illegal. The vast majority of ROM's on these sites are also NOT Nintendo IP's and don't feature Nintendo code. It'd be like Canson suing an artist for using their paper for stolen art.

    • @jaredt2590
      @jaredt2590 Месяц назад

      “Nintendo also lacks the standing to sue over emulation sites.“
      Older consoles from the 90’s and earlier which are easy to emulate on new tech are all public domain now.

  • @HisVirusness
    @HisVirusness Месяц назад +4

    Not only did the GameCube use MiniCDs, but it also read the disc backwards. So, if your disc got scratched up and you went to Hollywood Video to get it buffed out and repaired, the disk became completely unreadable.

    • @blakegriplingph
      @blakegriplingph Месяц назад

      That was a myth. It was more or less a non-standard mini-DVD with different sector encoding and burst cutting area.

    • @HisVirusness
      @HisVirusness Месяц назад

      @@blakegriplingph Repairing the disc via buffing still ruined it. I know; it's happened to me.

    • @sedrosken831
      @sedrosken831 Месяц назад

      @@HisVirusness Interestingly I can report the opposite -- I've had Gamecube discs resurfaced and they worked fine -- definitely better than before, if not better than new.

    • @MrPoeGhost
      @MrPoeGhost Месяц назад

      I've had multiple GameCube discs resurfaced and they work fine.

    • @HisVirusness
      @HisVirusness Месяц назад

      @MrPoeGhost 👍
      Back in 2005, it didn't work for me.

  • @thecatwrangler9448
    @thecatwrangler9448 Месяц назад +9

    It is true… I was the Donkey Kong Don, but now that you’ve exposed my racket to the greater public I think you know what the price will be. Don’t let your SNES out of your sight or you never know what will be planted in it.

  • @DLAbaoaqu
    @DLAbaoaqu Месяц назад +3

    Would they sue if you included a screenshot in an illustration?

  • @jaredt2590
    @jaredt2590 Месяц назад +1

    After a certain period of time your game console and its games become public domain. This happened to the nes in 2003 and since that time of you want to buy one that isn’t made by Nintendo you are free to do so but they still try to act like they’re above the law and stop people from playing their games so they can charge them money to play public domain stuff, like if universal was going after sellers who were selling Frankenstein and Dracula.

  • @Imperium83
    @Imperium83 Месяц назад +1

    Gary Bowser was doing a lot more than just making roms lmao.

  • @WAEVOICE
    @WAEVOICE 14 дней назад

    Consumers would likely have a better understanding of the practices of such a corporation if they were dedicated to keeping a brand alive for a third as along as Nintendo clearly is.

  • @divinedelaware7541
    @divinedelaware7541 5 дней назад

    Asians be tight about they bread. Couldn't go a nickel short at my Chinese restaurant growing up. Ijs🤷🏿‍♂️

  • @tashpetersen1939
    @tashpetersen1939 Месяц назад

    Nintendo is the video game equivalent to the estate of Georges Remi. (aka Hergé).

  • @finkelmana
    @finkelmana Месяц назад +4

    I didnt realize how much or for how long people have been stealing from Nintendo. It makes them a little less scummy.

    • @Only_Some
      @Only_Some Месяц назад

      all they are doing is protecting the brand and its image

    • @DerpCrusader
      @DerpCrusader Месяц назад

      lol
      lmfao

    • @robotnikkkk001
      @robotnikkkk001 Месяц назад

      ..NOPE,IT'S DIFFERENT..NO MATTER HOW HUGE THEIR PROFITS ARE,THIS WILL not CHANGE THEIR HABITS...BECAUSE THEY afraid THAT THESE LOST PROFITS WILL MAKE THEM STARVE TO DEATH
      ......WHICH IS............ORIGINATING FROM *_AGRICULTURAL JAPANESE MENTALITY FORMED BY CONSTANT FEAR OF FAMINE THROUGHOUT MILLENIA DUE TO CONSTANT LACK OF ARABLE LAND_* ..........
      ....THE SAME REASON WHY SEGA FAILED SO MISERABLY.......THO....
      ...LIKE....KNOW HOW DREAMCAST HAS FAILED??BECAUSE OF SUPPLY SHORTAGES!!!LIKE SEGA TOP MANAGEMENT EXPECTED DREAMCAST TO FAIL SO THEY'VE ORDERED TOO LITTLE.......OF CHIPSETS AROUND WHICH DREAMCAST IS BUILT..........SO THEY FAILED TO SATURATE MARKET BEFORE PS2 CAME AROUND........JUST wow......
      ...KNOW WHAT'S NINTENDO'S FUTURE?? *_Wii U 2.0_* .......LIKE THEY WANTED TO SAVE MONEY ON everything ABOUT RnD.......CUTTING COSTS everywhere.....AND LIKE....WHAT THEY'RE DOING NOW....IS purging TO KINDA......U KNOW......"if piracy of nintendo stuff will result in death penalty,then everyone will NOT even think of".......THAT'S WHAT IN THEIR HEADS......
      .....SO...STEAM DECK IS AROUND,STEAM LIBRARY WILL soon BE AVAILABLE ON MOBILE......ALL CONDITIONS TO BECOMING A SOFTWARE COMPANY REGARDLESS OF NINTENDO'S WISH.....HEHE.........

    • @engalo-vamart
      @engalo-vamart Месяц назад

      Moon Channel also covered this topic, they're a lawyer so they add additional information about what gets taught in law school.

  • @jsmith3946
    @jsmith3946 Месяц назад

    sega wasn't years away the master system and nes came out the same time and where competitors of one another could you not spend 5 minutes looking that up and bowser didn't make the product he was the hr rep basically and gave advice

    • @jaredt2590
      @jaredt2590 Месяц назад

      Sega was always right there with Nintendo. When the nes released in Japan they released their first console on the same day, after failing to compete successfully twice they won a place in the market in what became the 16-bit era.

  • @Yoshizuyuner
    @Yoshizuyuner Месяц назад

    Microsoft and Sony don't have that much valuable ip to protect, come pair to Nintendo specially sense they usually pretty good with making systems not so easy to break into for there Systeams

    • @jsmith3946
      @jsmith3946 Месяц назад +1

      not true the ps1 and ps2 got hack pretty easily when they came out

  • @cardinaloflannagancr8929
    @cardinaloflannagancr8929 Месяц назад +1

    Too bad they're more concerned with squeezing out a nickel and spite than earning a dollar with superior hardware and software. It's been that way since the nes and is really sad. Sort of how Disney become more concerned with politics and being woke than actual entertainment and value.

    • @engalo-vamart
      @engalo-vamart Месяц назад +3

      The word 'woke' is such a nothing term, the problem is poor writing, and the presences of skin color and sexuality is unrelated to it.

  • @ocstrangeness
    @ocstrangeness 28 дней назад

    Funny, I mod nintendo switches.

  • @nigratruo
    @nigratruo Месяц назад +1

    I really don't like Nintendo and have always boycotted them, they are greedy bastards to the extreme and as somebody that likes freedom in tech, their vendor lock-in, that you can only get their games when you also buy hardware from them, is just silly. No wonder the hardware they sell is always so shitty. They are just small minded and petty and greedy suing everybody all the time, somebody with more confidence in their own games would not care, as imitation is the biggest form of flattery. Luckily there is a whole huge world of gaming out there that is not Nintendo.

    • @WhehW2
      @WhehW2 Месяц назад +2

      It's no surprise Nintendo is a Trillion Yen Company. Also, if you take hatred of the Company too far, you might have a problem. It's fair that we didn't like Nintendo's corporate behavior; that's an opinion, but inciting hatred or violence against corporations is unanswered.

    • @nigratruo
      @nigratruo Месяц назад

      @@WhehW2 I don't hate them, I just ignore them categorically, but they are pathetic and petty in the worst, just because they are a "Trillion Yen" Company, they are super rich, yet want to squeeze and sue anybody, even the small people, because their greed is insane, no altruistic instinct, no generosity, they never heard about that. They go after emulators especially, for their games that they don't even sell anymore. I don't have to deal with them, but if I was a company that big, I had a much better reputation and would not be so petty and greedy to the extreme. I did not ask for violence or hatred against them, anybody that reads these words can make up their mind about where they stand. Nintendo has a lot of fanboys that don't care about the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer, so yeah, these people will excuse any behavior of their cult leader.

  • @TumehStudios
    @TumehStudios Месяц назад

    Nintendo is just like apple

    • @yarc9
      @yarc9 Месяц назад

      Nintendo is like Disney they like suing

    • @TumehStudios
      @TumehStudios Месяц назад

      @ Nintendo is like Disney when it comes to family friendly

  • @kendalljenkins9938
    @kendalljenkins9938 Месяц назад +1

    If you want to sell ROMs or pirated Nintendo hardware, don't do it in the US. There are plenty of countries you can move to and do it all you want. Nintendo never sues any Chinese company. Maybe it's guilt for all the horrendous war crimes that Japan committed against Chinese people in WW2. Also Nintendo never sues Amazon, which sells way more pirated Nintendo ROMs and content than every other ROM site combined. I can only assume that Bezos has some really creepy videos to blackmail Nintendo with. Reggie and Myamoto must have spent some time on a certain Carribean island once owned by Trump and Clinton's best friend.

    • @br1qbat
      @br1qbat Месяц назад

      Companies don't sue in China because Chinese law doesn't protect IP

    • @jsmith3946
      @jsmith3946 Месяц назад +1

      no they never sue them because there are to damn many of them they are one of the biggest electronic pirates in the world also and hard to tract

    • @mr.awesome6011
      @mr.awesome6011 Месяц назад

      Didn't Clinton try to get Trump whacked over the summer? Or his wife idk

    • @robotnikkkk001
      @robotnikkkk001 Месяц назад

      ....WELL, *_NINTENDO MADE RESELLING SWITCH CARTRIDGES ILLEGAL IN JAPAN_*
      .....AS FAR AS I KNOW,THO......
      ...SO IF YOUVE BOUGHT OFFICIAL LICENSED CARTRIDGE.....FROM anyone else but nintendo themselves YOU'VE COMMITED A PIRACY.......OK???
      .......ADDING THIS TO NEWSOM'S FRESHEST AMENDBENT ABOUT "not buying but getting a license to physical use"...........
      ......ARE YOU ON SIDE WHICH IS ABOUT MAKING PLAYING VIDEO GAMES A luxury?

    • @Bob_Smith19
      @Bob_Smith19 Месяц назад

      China is a legal black hole and the CCP who’ll protect its serfs at all costs. That’s why they do nothing to China.
      Amazon is nothing compared to the Chinese sites. That’s where a massive amount of pirated ROMs are sold.