KOTAKU: Nintendo Hates Female Gamers and Wishes Breast Cancer for all of them
Nintendo of America not allowing SSBM to be streamed at EVO [Up: Decision Reversed]
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KOTAKU: Nintendo Hates Female Gamers and Wishes Breast Cancer for all of them
Earthstrike
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Wow, obscenely idiotic decision by nintendo.
cj_iwakura
Member
That must be one hell of a list.
Nintendo tends to be D-bags from time to time, Nintendo being D-bags is why PlayStation exists.
They had a great offer on 3DS where you got a free game after you buy three.
Ignore him, he's full of shit and has delusions of grandeur.
EDIT: Just for fun this is his Neogaf account, as I'm mostly positive they're the same person.
The Metal Face
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I never understood the lengths to which Nintendo didn't want Smash to be competitive until just now. To go as far as to ban EVO from streaming it too. Come on, how can I support this?
I wanted to believe that it was all growing pains with a pinch of lost in translation and shit was working to get more progressive within the sprawling mire that was Nintendo. Instead, we get dicked over in the most hilarious of ways in an era of gaming where everyone's sharing/streaming/experiencing something. To think a community as legendary as the Melee community did actual good to get their opportunity only to get shit on last second. Nintendo has their shit together enough to do this, but can't pull their collective self out of the sand long enough to understand the significance of this move in a 2013 world.
Disgusting.
I agree, this is nowhere near the level of stupidity of them going with clunky old cartridges for the N64 and alienating many 3rd parties from developing on their system because of how much memory they held and how much they cost to manufacture. In doing that they helped Sony and the original Playstation by effectively driving 3rd parties like Square over there for a while.
However in more recent memory, this is one of the things that makes the least sense NOA has done over the past few years that I can remember. "Like what are they even thinking?" is my thought on this right now.
+ Skullgirls losing their place against it.
Unspeakable Evil
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The fact that Evo is in a couple of days makes it sting even more.
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Deleted member 13876
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None of those licensors really has any reason to raise a stink about this, and if they did Nintendo should have put their foot down and told them why doing that would enrage people more than anything else. There's a small chance that IF this is the scenario at play that they tried doing this, but I doubt it.
freenudemacusers
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Well that's fucking stupid of them. GG spitting on your most dedicated fanbase Nintendo.
SolarPowered
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I'm not a handheld person. MK8, Bayo2, Zombi U and W101 are the only things I care about atm. Not gonna give a fuck about Smash after Brawl. It is a wait and see there.
I feel for you man. At least your moment of clarity was fast and furious like a giant bandaid being ripped. I came to the conclusion that Nintendo is crazy messed up over years as the Wii rotted to death.
:/
slightconfuse
Banned
Lol this is an Nintendo move alright . Stuck in 2002
I was so enthusiastic since I heard SSBM was part of the Evo stream. I have no friends to watch SSFIV with, as I've been doing for the last however-many years. This year, I could finally share it with my SSBM-friends.
Good way to shit on their parade, NoA. It just wouldn't be Nintendo if it wasn't completely mindless.
Good way to shit on their parade, NoA. It just wouldn't be Nintendo if it wasn't completely mindless.
Triple Da G.O.D!
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Hit the search and saw my question asked about why Skullgirls after all this still on Stream 2 on Saturday night.
Something, something, history.
Something, something, history.
CrazyTank940
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Technically this isn't the first chance, it's pretty much the last. They waited until nearly the last fucking second. They should have spoken up earlier, during the time of the charity, that they wouldn't want their game streamed. What this became from then to now was fans getting excited to donate money to a good cause and seeing their game live on stage in high levels, and now Nintendo just swoops down like "lol don't get your hopes up". When one of the benefits of being the top game was final day streaming, Nintendo should have said right then "we don't want a part of this". I doubt NoA wasn't aware of this drive either, it had to have picked up some attention somewhere in NoA with the amount of money it raised.
Starfish Hero
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Oh it is, but at the same time you are overstating how much of a gaffe this one is. You did call it evil if I'm not mistaken, and I can only think of one thing in the top 10 of Nintendo fuck ups that was truly malicious.
Please let these articles catch like wildfire and convince them to stream this shit. Save some face, Nintendo.
Bobby Roberts
Banned
I absolutely think the two are linked.
I think this is a matter of Nintendo wanting to be in control of how their games are played in front of a large audience. It's a marketing concern more than anything, I imagine.
This is a completely ridiculous and altogether STUPID move on their part, but I'm willing to bet it comes down to their lack of control over how their game will look on the stream, and they'd rather remove the game from the stream entirely than have gameplay broadcast to hundreds of thousands of people that doesn't fit into whatever their marketing vision might be.
test_account
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I think it would be better to contact the higher ups in Nintendo (or for any company for that matter) rather than contacting the consumer support if someone wants to give the comapny their opinion. I think it would have a better chance to reach the people in charge when contacting the people higher up in the company at least.
Nintendo at least has to go into detail why they're denying broadcasting access right? Just saying "nope" is going to continually make people more angry.
Off the top of my head, free unity license for Wii U games. Or maybe you don't like Indie games.
How about the two for one special of Fire Emblem Awakening and Shin Megami Tensei 4 where you buy both, you get $30 on the eShop free.
This really sucks, but the tourney organizers really should have made sure everything was square before promising anything. I'm really surprised they didn't make sure they had Nintendo's okay.
No they had a stream schedule set up with Smash in it already, if this decision is reversed, they can put Smash back in the time slots it had before.
tehrik-e-insaaf
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Guys please read my earlier post --- Nintendo doesn't out-right own all the IP in Smash Melee --- I'm betting the Pokemon Company came out and complained because they have exclusive rights/decision over all streaming and broadcast-related use of Pokemon characters
freenudemacusers
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And Kadey raises a good point, people have already put a lot of time and energy into this. Shameful shit.
I was hyped to see it, too.
I was hyped to see it, too.
I don't buy this for a second. This could have been figured out ... how long ago?
Operation Rainfall?
I'm not trying to defend Nintendo's position here, I'm just saying there are bigger odds this is something that NoA itself could handle (and that has a heavy PR connotation due to the donations going to a breast cancer research organization) thus has a chance of success over, say, region locking, which is surely way beyond their reach.
if you think they're ever going to change or become more self-aware you're out of your mind
Some are bigger than others, for example, the Pokemon company and game freak. I doubt they care about EVO but if they were the issue, I have heard negotiating with them is a bitch.
What exactly happened in 2002 that relates to this situation?
AhmazingArab
Banned
Because "Logistic Reasons"
CALL KO- oh nm
cj_iwakura
Member
I still think pulling this days before Evo is some pretty high level maliciousness, yeah.
Why would Konami or Sega complain? It's not like they have characters in this game.
Edit: Nice stealth edit.