<story><title>Nintendo Is Taking Down My Videos [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSZYpDk9Xm8</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bragr</author><text>&amp;gt;Nintendo sure knows how to take an opportunity for good PR and turn it into a PR nightmare for essentially no gain. Nintendo definitely manages to succeed in spite of their corporate antics and absolutely not as a result of them.&lt;p&gt;Counterpoint: maybe none of the people they have drama with are their core customers. Nintendo seems to have a similar &amp;quot;Disney Adult&amp;quot; problem as Disney where you have a population of vocal adults who think they are the core customer, but in reality the company moved on to selling to those people&amp;#x27;s children or grandchildren years ago.</text></item><item><author>jchw</author><text>Well, regardless of what you think about who is in the right morally and legally, I will say one thing: Nintendo sure knows how to take an opportunity for good PR and turn it into a PR nightmare for essentially no gain. Nintendo definitely manages to succeed in spite of their corporate antics and absolutely not as a result of them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jchw</author><text>Video games still have a reputation for being a children&amp;#x27;s affair even though less than a quarter of people who play video games are under 18. Granted, the demographic may actually be a little skewed for Nintendo, but frankly, I doubt it&amp;#x27;s that much different.&lt;p&gt;Even if this is true, though, I am pretty sure that videos on topics like &amp;quot;Breath of the Wild multiplayer&amp;quot; absolutely appeal to Nintendo consumers, even younger ones. Thinking about all of the schoolyard banter and rumors about video games, I can only imagine how crazy it is that these days, some of the wild &amp;quot;what if?&amp;quot; scenarios are actually made true by skilled, motivated fans. I do not play many video games these days, so admittedly it is hard for me to be sure. However, I have seen the way that kids respond to this DMCA garbage, and I have never gotten any impression other than that it feels like a great injustice and an unfortunate reality.&lt;p&gt;If Nintendo really didn&amp;#x27;t care about the demographic of these videos, then it truly begs the question why they care so much to suppress it. They also were doing the same thing when it came to videos of Switch games running on the Valve Steam Deck.&lt;p&gt;Clearly, they have some motivated interest.</text></comment>
<story><title>Nintendo Is Taking Down My Videos [video]</title><url>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSZYpDk9Xm8</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bragr</author><text>&amp;gt;Nintendo sure knows how to take an opportunity for good PR and turn it into a PR nightmare for essentially no gain. Nintendo definitely manages to succeed in spite of their corporate antics and absolutely not as a result of them.&lt;p&gt;Counterpoint: maybe none of the people they have drama with are their core customers. Nintendo seems to have a similar &amp;quot;Disney Adult&amp;quot; problem as Disney where you have a population of vocal adults who think they are the core customer, but in reality the company moved on to selling to those people&amp;#x27;s children or grandchildren years ago.</text></item><item><author>jchw</author><text>Well, regardless of what you think about who is in the right morally and legally, I will say one thing: Nintendo sure knows how to take an opportunity for good PR and turn it into a PR nightmare for essentially no gain. Nintendo definitely manages to succeed in spite of their corporate antics and absolutely not as a result of them.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>viraptor</author><text>Pointcrow is not really their customer. He&amp;#x27;s their free marketing service. Most of his content seems to be based on Nintendo games - and that works for at least some of the actual customer base. Reviews and trailers are fun and all, but I think every game I bought in the last few years was a result of me seeing a stream of someone having fun playing it. I know others who do the same.&lt;p&gt;They essentially put an advertisement of how much they suck in place of a free ad space they were given.</text></comment>