I mean Nintendo is Nintendo but of all the absolutely rock bottom, bottom of the barrel actions they could possibly take...blocking top level players promoting their games and showing them being played and promoted at the highest levels was the hill that Nintendo decided to plant their flag on? Now the event organizers had to pull all Nintendo games from their summer event and have to seek individual licenses for ANY Nintendo game run at the event moving forward. What...Nintendo want a cut of the charity money too?
It's incredibly easy to turn people off of a game that they would otherwise naturally want to play.
People in 'Country A' playing 'Game X' do or say something that offends people in 'Country B'.
Millions of people's opinions on game X have been soured, they'll miss out on a positive gaming experience and game sales will suffer.
Allowing anyone to stream or show video game footage undermines the massive effort that studios put into branding and marketing games.
Seeing other people play games doesn't increase game sales and has the opposite effect with an unknown decrease in game sales.
Not being able to see other people playing a game online will increase game sales.
In the future platforms will adopt Steam's (2hr no questions asked) return policy and studios aggressively block anyone from posting video game footage online.
In exchange everyone will get only the game footage that studios put forward and 100% of users will get a fresh, unspoiled gaming experience.
Game reviewers will return to text-based reviews being restricted to using only images and footage provided by studios.
Reviews will be a massive waste of time when 100% of the risk has been removed from the game buying process.
Buying a game and trying it out will take far less time than watching someone give you their opinion on that same game.
It generally takes a few minutes of actual hands-on gameplay to know if any game is a good fit.
Giving 100% of users the full experience of 'discovering' games for themselves is good for users and the platform.