Submitted 1 month ago by possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip to showerthoughts@lemmy.world
No more lawyers
Yeah I don’t know about that. A company with that much IP would just sell rights to the highest bidder and stay afloat for ages. If Nintendo sells even just one of their main franchises like Mario, Zelda, Pokémon etc they’re gonna be fine for a long time and someone else is gonna sue the emulator guys all the same.
For example Sega, who went basically belly-up decades ago just sued Memento Mori devs for copyright infringement of in-game mechanics.
If nintendo went bankrupt, their assets and ip would be bought by some other company, and they’d be the ones bringing the lawyers.
Said it before, I’ll say it again: I wish Nintendo would go the way of Sega. Make video games, get outta the hardware game. They make good games, and while briefly I was enamored by the switch, their track record with consoles is hit and miss. I’m tired of buying new systems for Zelda, it’s basically all I play on Nintendo (though, I’m not a big gamer, so probably not most representative example). Give us Nintendo games on PC, Xbox, PlayStation.
Their track record on consoles is hit or miss because they don’t make the same product every generation like Sony and Microsoft. For every Wii and Switch, you get a Wii. U and Virtual Boy. They’re shitty with their IP, but hardware development is literally the best thing they do.
Disagree with the consoles bit, with a caveat; their handheld consoles are always the best in the space (gameboy, DS, switch). I’d be up for them focusing on this and releasing their bigger games (i.e. Zelda) on better hardware.
I feel like you get to have the odd “failed” console as long as the next one is a smash hit.
Sega had the Saturn and then the Dreamcast just before it was steamrollered by the PS2.
Nintendo had Gamecube not do so well, the Wii was a smash hit, the Wii U again did badly, then the Switch blew it all away again. They’ve found their niche. The Steamdeck is poking around in there, but I doubt it will get the traction Nintendo have.
MS are at their second duffer in a row, and frankly it looks like they’ll drop out in the future to me. They’re starting to be about games rather than hardware, even if it’s just to try and push subscriptions. The great cloud migration never happened for them. I think they’ll go pure publisher in future, even if they hold onto Game Pass.
Sony only really had a disappointment with the PS3. Every other generation has handily destroyed all competition. Even they’re doing a lot of PC ports which is nice.
They killed yuzu and ryujinx well before Switch 2 launch out of fear of piracy. Even the current switch DRM is insane. I feel like they put their dev team into full security because the OS is still an empty shell glorified game launcher. The DS had more features than this.
Even the yuzu forks can’t exist peacefully online, one them literally requires you to use Tor to access.
Nintendo is insane.
Last time I checked they had no plans for a Switch 2. The sales are still climbing
They plan to announce it before April and have already sent out Dev kits:
Eh it’s not like they’ve seriously stopped anything. There’s still plenty of forks of all the emulators they took down and there’s still plenty of places to download games. Nintendo is fighting a hydra and it’s likely just costing them more money and sales by fighting these scenes.
Everyone would freak out at the decades of IP. They’ll no longer have access to. Otherwise, nothing at all would happen.
Literally had to check to make sure I was in the Nintendo thread when I read your comment.
That being said, what the fuuuuuck are you on about?
Congratulations on discovering where you are
If nintendo cant successfully remove decades of ip from the internet while they are currently an active company, how do you expect them to do so if they have folded? This thread relates to emulation, which is alive and well, and likely not going anywhere.
How would Nintendo be able to remove “decades of IP” if they went out of business?
So, clearly you don’t understand how IP works.
Copyrights should be max 5 years
I’d argue that having them be 30 or 40 years would even be fine. An author who starts in their 20’s should reasonably expect to keep profiting off of their early work until they retire in their 50’s or 60’s. But the current state of copyright is just asinine, because it is basically written by and for corporations.
They don’t have to stop selling their work after the copyright expires, it’s just they no longer own a legal monopoly on it after they’ve had time to get the first to market purchases. Publishers, streamers, etc all carry works in the public domain currently.
Willie@lemmy.world 1 month ago
If Nintendo went belly up today, Microsoft would buy them.
That’d be kind of sad.
parpol@programming.dev 1 month ago
If Microsoft went belly up today, the retro community and linux community would have a field day.
zbyte64@awful.systems 1 month ago
Oracle or someone worse would buy them. That’s how capitalism works.
Jesus_666@lemmy.world 1 month ago
These days Microsoft are a major contributor to the Linux kernel, though. Sure, they’re trying to hold onto the desktop but on the server they’ve pretty much switched camps.
Mataresian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Considering the difficulties Microsoft had buying up Activision, I don’t think they will be allowed to buy up another game company of any remotely big size.
emax_gomax@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Now that trumps in charge. Microsoft could buy the Whitehouse and no one would bat an eyelash.