It really is one of the most Gamer focused platforms out there, like every pitch for it is extremely Gamer stuff. I think that’s why it gets so much glowing coverage here, aside from the barely contained Kotaku salt about losing Nintendo access. I have like no problems with it at all, it’s just weird how many articles…

Steam deck sold a million units in the last year, which to put that in context, the nintendo switch sold a million units in the last week. 

Did you play it? 

If you get rewards for voting for one game and no rewards for voting for a different game that does effect the legitimacy of the voting, does it not? Set aside whether you thought sonic was bad or genshin is good for a minute.

Are you talking about the part where tourney organizers were /correctly/ informed they were at legal risk for participating in an unlicensed tournament organization? Where’s the evidence, as claimed in the original statement, that panda influenced nintendo to reject their license?

If you were stealing food to feed yourself you’d have a case to be like “I’m just looking out for the little guy this is Good” but it’s a fucking video game. You’re already in the top 10% in the world if you can afford a device to play it on at all. Your self-justification looks like the greedy self-serving shit it…

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.

Or was it, tbh. They’ve been weirdly cagey about who all is allowed into the scene and nintendo explicitly mentioned health and safety as a factor in the denial.

You aren’t purchasing a piece of software. You don’t buy the code. What you’re saying is you misunderstood what you’re paying for and you think you are morally allowed to violate a legal contract based on your inability to understand what you paid money for.

“the team also allege that Panda went around undermining them to the organisers of the individual events that link together under the umbrella title of the World Tour. They also say that while Nintendo continued saying nice things to their faces, Panda had told these grassroots organisers that the Smash World Tour was…

Wow a comment from 2006

That wasn’t her overall point, though. 

Four twitter links and a tiktok with a bunch of backlinks. Man this site is cooked. We’re never getting the gawker era kotaku again. RIP

Pokemon isn’t made by nintendo. 

“Morally?” Do you really think it’s like your natural or divine right to enjoy a video game? 

“no material impact on the company”

Pretty sure a judge in a court of law will have to decide whether that’s true, not randos on the internet. 

based on canon an awful lot of these creatures are sentient and many of them communicate in some way so they pass the harkness test. The power dynamics are pretty messy though.

I hope someone is getting paid bc damn this kinda glowing coverage shouldn’t be free.

“When this stuff happens with Nintendo, there will typically be some who will point out that legally Nintendo is in the right.”

“But the reality is that Nintendo doesn’t have to do this.”

Nintendo doesn’t have to charge money for its games. It could give them all away for free. Genshin Impact is free. Why do I still…

It doesn’t really handle those open worlds that well, botw was empty as fuck and never put more than like five enemies on screen and it still had a ton of slowdown /and/ it was less than 720p on handheld.