They’re trying to slow-boil you into having to play exclusively by their rules. In a couple years they’ll want to forbid you from having the console in your home, you’ll only be allowed to use it in official Nintendo-branded Play Rooms located at select locations. They’ll cost $20/hr to use, and you have to buy the console first.
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2ugly2live@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Is Nintendo mad at us? I know it’s a business, but it’s like they’re trying to top themselves with every announcement.
ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Literally none of you understand why nintendo is doing this
Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Japan has very strict IP laws, nintendo lost out on licensing in the past because of this, so they pursue all infringement aggressively so they aren’t judge as not sufficiently defending their ownership.
But it doesn’t really matter to you or the thousands of other people who post this because you don’t really want to be educated and just want to be rewarded for your clever words.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 10 months ago
You’re answering the questions, but then you’re also throwing in these odd misanthropic asides. Is this a bit?
I appreciate your insights into Japanese IP law and Nintendo biz lore in this thread.
2ugly2live@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Damn, you really are angry.
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Japanese IP laws are no more strict than other major blocs due to trade agreements. Nintendo has never “lost out on licensing” due to IP laws. Beginning in tbe 1980s, they have been extremely and aggressively litigious as a matter of company policy. They literally see everything they produce as theirs… you don’t own the things you buy from them. You pay them for the enjoyment of using their things. They’re about as hardcore neoliberal as it gets. In other words, they seem evil because they are evil.
p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
At this point, I’m just calling this an excuse.
I mean, fuck Japanese IP laws, but also fuck Nintendo for trying to gaslight us into pretending everything is normal and standard. Nintendo of America is not in fucking Japan.