UPDATE 2.50pm UK: "Nintendo UK has now confirmed to Eurogamer it will not be present at this summer’s Gamescom. The company’s statement is below:
“Gamescom is a great event, and each year we evaluate whether Nintendo should participate or not,” a Nintendo UK spokesperson told Eurogamer. “After careful consideration from all perspectives, we’ve made the decision not to be present at gamescom 2024. Players will have opportunities to try out Nintendo Switch games at other events throughout the year.”
Same with them but they are not nearly as well known for their scummy behaviour and going after harmless projects.
Aside from hyper-aggressive protection of their IP to try to stop piracy, I legit can’t think of any scummy behavior Nintendo does that other game companies don’t do at either an equal or worse level. That includes MS and Sony.
EDIT: Further, emulation of a current-gen console may technically be legal depending on how you do it, but it’s not harmless. Some can/will use it in an essentially harmless way, but you and I know that the vast majority of users will use it to enable piracy.
Well, in this specific instance, from what I read, one of the strong point against devs was mentioning improvements for games not yet released. Whatever the case, the repercussions it is going to have (or well, having) on other opensource projects is really sad.
As a long time Linux user, I remember how infamous MS was. Though, social media wasn’t that strong back then.
What rock have you been living since 2017 that you can’t think of something scummy that Nintendon’t has done? I at least can’t recall Sony suing a mother for theming a friggin’ birthday party.
Can you share a link, a quick search didn’t return anything.
Got the company wrong, it was TPCi who sued for the party.
Still, not much of a difference considering Pokémon does is the grossest money-printer for Nintendon’t, and it wouldn’t be offbrand for Nintendon’t anyway to sue children dressing as Mario for Halloween, considering the stuff the linked article says is not any far from the instances where Nintendo has wiretapped or gaslighted ope source developers. Given the corporation, just because I have not heard about it doesn’t mean it hasn’t already happened.
TPC did go too far in that instance, though it was a fan event, not a birthday party, but still, I agree with you there.
As for Nintendo, that is just a satirical site, so let’s ignore that, and not go into hypothetical.
Still, no matter how much we like (or dislike) any company, they aren’t our friends. The only goal of a company is increase profits, and if we think the way they are doing isn’t fair, then we should definitely vote with our wallets.
You are more than welcome to raise awareness of Nintendo’s issues in the community, just keep it friendly with other people who may or may not share your opinions. As the rules state, no hate-speech or personal attacks on anyone.
Wait. What?
Doesn’t matter, US law says emulation is legal. When Nintendo starts respecting the law I’ll respect them.