“And when you consider the more user friendly Switch experience, I don’t think they’re in as much competition as more hardcore gamers and PC users would think.”

Pretty much. It’s a premium device for a premium user base. It’s why Valve doesn’t really try to market it as something that’s competitive to Nintendo’s…

Yeah, the comment about Switch sales slowing down as the Steam Deck heats up was a little silly. As mentioned, the Steam Deck is no longer held back by wait times or stock. I don’t know if the Deck will even have lifetime sales of what the Switch sold in just 2022.

Thats very true, but the general consensus seems to be that VGBC is telling the truth without the same corroboration. Lack of response doesnt indicate agreement. And random Google docs trashing industry members doesn't give a good look. With Nintendo stating it didnt require the cancelation of Smash World Tour, these…

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.

That makes sense- but is the issue the broadcasting of the game or that taken in conjunction with the monetization of the game? I’d be pretty confident I could host a free Smash tourney in my basement amongst my friends and coworkers where first prize is a pizza- but if you change those variables (free to entry fee,…

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…

In summary...

I mean Third Reich fanfic might have great stories but…

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…

As a general rule, if the survival elements aren’t causing any stress, you don’t actually HAVE survival elements, you just have some mildly annoying busywork at times. The whole point of survival elements is that they need to cause you stress, with the possibility of your game just being fucking over because you…

Yes. And Yes.

the update says that they’ve known about it since last year. Nintendo gave them a ton of extra time to sort it out with them. I feel like they may have refused to give Nintendo any royalties, or maybe the rules laid out weren’t to their liking.

Yeah, just reading the updates. They apparently knew they’d be shutdown since last year because they were unlicensed with Nintendo, but Nintendo had already given them one year to sort things out with them. That year is up. They wanted to keep running it unlicensed.  I’m guessing that they couldn’t reach an agreement…

So let me get this straight... Nintendo lawyers sit down with SWT TO’s a YEAR AGO to say “we want you to get a license to do this but as long as you do you’re okay,” SWT says “we’ll try,” later says “lulz this is hard we want to operate without a license for awhile,” Nintendo says “we never said you could do a…

Something REALLY doesn’t add up here. SWT looks pretty sketchy based on these back-and-forths and written statements to be honest.

The updates from Nintendo seems to make this out to be more complicated than the surface appearance (and the rage-bait headline) suggest.

Not necessarily. There was a lot of allegations against all the highest PR players in the Smash community that involved pedophilia. Also the organization “VGBC” when pressed on it (granted by mostly just one well known YouTuber named Technicals) refused to acknowledge a ban on a player named “Nairo” who was confirmed…

this is good context. I’m willing to bet part of the problem is if they decided to support it but in the future Nintendo decides to pull out the tournament wouldn’t end. So they killed it in favor of going with Panda which didn’t have a preexisting tourney to worry about.

125 blocked ads from this page from the time I clicked “Reply” on your comment. An article like this is genuinely just written to help drive site visitors, and not to actually inform and drive insightful commentary. 

I mean, I’ve been on here for like a decade and...  it was good for like 4 years and the last six have been a downward spiral, including its current EIC.