To elaborate a little more, the phrase “and sometimes even whole templates or demonstration builds” is misleading: it’s ONLY those ones that can be fairly called “asset flips”.

Can we be a bit more specific with what we’re calling an “asset” here?

I think this needs more buyer education. The practice is technically legal, so we need people like Wild to inform the public that these games are asset flips and are not worth your time.

I don’t think I want Nintendo to dictate the types of games that appear on the eShop with a heavy hand, or we start harkening back to…

Are these the same companies that put their games on sale in the Nintendo eShop for a few cents so that they rocket to the top of the sales charts, then raising the price back up, and fooling unsuspecting customers into thinking they are good games?

I so agree with you 

30 year old games that they still own and still use/might use all the same.

Small businesses often can’t get licensing deals for IP as larger companies want proof a market exists for products first. This kind of market research is expensive and small businesses can’t afford it. So what small businesses often do is beg forgiveness and break IP law by producing products without licenses. Then…

You cannot make money from someone else’s intellectual property without their permission. Whether it’s a huge company or a self-published artist. I would expect that if someone decided to publish their own Batman comic via Kickstarter, for example, they’d get similarly shut down. It’s really not that difficult of a…

I’m a “jaggoff” but I am a content creator, and have done guides in the past, and this is actually very easy to understand since it’s explained very easily on the USA’s official copyright pages:

While I agree this is a shame - I am trying to think about it from Nintendo’s perspective:

I’m an IP attorney. I can’t claim to know the exact claims Nintendo’s lawyers made in this case, but when it comes to trademarks, the legal foundation is based on the premise that you have to protect them. If you don’t push others away from using your marks, then the courts may deem them invalid or generic. (E.g.,…

“It really is a disappointing turn of events.” - I don’t think you can call it a turn of events when what happened was EXACTLY what everyone knew would happen. I’m sorry - I’m sure they’re super cool guides and every ounce a labor of love - but unless you get pre-approval from Nintendo (in the form of a legally…

Those guides in Gamestop have been officially licensed and there’s contract agreements. This guy was making money off of Nintendo property with no agreement.

Once again: Obvious thing that was going to happen, obviously happens.

It’s the exclusivity, I think. Nintendo can make their own game guide, or maybe have a deal with someone like prima, and in the latter case, that exclusivity includes if prima never makes it, thus it becomes a legal liability for prima to then come to nintendo and say “hey, we had a deal, why are you not taking down…

I mean, stop trying to pull one over on Nintendo. Every week this site posts something where it’s like “Nintendo shuts down [X]” like, Protip: If you are working on something based off Nintendo property and you are not working for Nintendo, stop.

The ones you see at GS are licensed merchandise coming from a reputable publisher (like Prima) where, yes, the license holder gets a kickback from every copy sold. That’s the difference, Nintendo didn’t shut it down because the guy was (rightfully) charging for the work, they shut it down because they weren’t getting…

Then you get on the e-Shop and it’s even worse, with 100 times as many games and still no real organization.

So I never really paid attention to the release drip of NES and SNES games, but the other day I fired them up for the first time and... holy crap, nothing I assumed was going to be on there, were. Also, just the wall of box art without search or sort options was intimidating. It was like trying to navigate a GameStop…

I’d say there’s next to zero chance that any of the mainline Pokemon games will be on the service.

Because the truth is NES and SNES libraries were also 80% garbage. Most games of that era, especially though a modern lens, weren’t good.