From the outside, this comes across as a big temper tantrum by the VGBC people. I get the sense that they felt they should get a license based solely on the fact that they were doing tournaments already and no changes would be done despite communication otherwise.

I thought this was rather informative.

Yes, you need permission from Hasbro to run a Monopoly tournament:

You don’t own the rights to broadcast the game. You own a license to play the game. Consequently tournaments can’t broadcast the game, especially with money involved, without the approval of the owner of the product/IP. You can do it, but if the IP holder wants to shut you down they have every legal right to do so. In…

The majority of Nintendo fans do not care enough about Smash to attend a tournament. 

The “competitive SMASH” community and its fans make up less than a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of percent of Nintendo’s world-wide fanbase.

This move means absolutely nothing to them in the short or long-term.

In an ideal world, it would be DANNY F. DEVITO.

Yeah, that is always the dumbest argument. Like I have the legal right to call my…

This isn’t an idea that only existed for “a few years.” The Bob Hoskins Super Mario Bros. film (1993) was taking cues from an entire decade of Mario media which came before it. Numerous cartoons, the Japanese animated film, the English SMB1 manual all assume that the Mushroom Kingdom was a world unknown to Mario…

Nintendo needs to ditch and prevent any tournament that supports Melee and it player base in any way. The community of Smash players is already damaged enough because of the cases of sexual harassment toward minors, to allow an elitist and egomaniac community of players that only harms and destroys everything it…

Was chuckling to myself that this site is advocating for martinet...so that they can write 2 weeks of think pieces about how nintendo/the film makers are bigoted against italians for casting martinet

Why does it matter to Nintendo? Their games sell like hotcakes with or without the tiny, tiny percentage of their fans that actually care enough about Smash to attend a tournament.

This is my take as well. I like Charlie Day’s Luigi mostly because I like Charlie Day (and I do think he has some real talent as a voice actor as well), not because he was faithful to any original content. Chris Pratt’s Mario will primarily live or die in the comment threads by how much people care about the actor.…

Yea this is the part I don’t think people get, Nintendo couldn’t care less about “the competitive” scene.

I keep seeing people complain about Pratt not getting Mario’s voice right but to me, its FAR more jarring hearing Charlie Day as Luigi, yet no one mentions that. My gut says people just want to shit on Chris Pratt. If that’s your thing, fine, but stop pretending its the voice (which tbh, is fine. It’s not great,…

As a 3/8ths Italian-American, I am looking forward to Chris Pratt giving some proper representation on-screen. Contrary to long standing stereotypes, no: we don’ta all talka like a dis! I have never uttered “wahoo” in my life and I don’t know any other Italian-American who does. Good on him for not leaning into lazy…

actually that’s pretty debatable. it really comes down to the license agreement in place on the software at purchase and whether those licenses are even valid at this point.

The SWT organizer’s highly unprofessional statements aren’t doing them any favors either. You don’t go out accusing a third party evidence-free of sabotaging your chances if you’re trying to cultivate an image of innocence.

As someone who saw the original mario movie....in the theaters....as a 10 year old.....all these complaints are hilarious.

What strikes me as odd about this is Nintendo met with the like a year ago, told them they wouldn’t shut them down if they just went through the licensing process, they failed to get the license in time (Smash World Tour wanted a much more complex global license rather than a more limited NOA license), and now…