172 points

Say it with me once again:

Fuck Nintendo.

They’re the Disney of the video game industry.

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Yeah, I have zero desire to give them money. Luckily, there are solid options that aren’t them, notably the steam deck for portable gaming and pc/xbox/ps5 for home gaming.

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Console Gaming is a lot less worse than Nintendo, but if you (or someone else) wants to be ‘pure’, they are also not recommended. Consoles are locked-down PCs controlled by the companies, not you, and they abuse their captive consumers by charging multiplayer online, having less promotions (and getting worse with time at that, by eliminating the physical disks), demanding subscriptions with ever more grades and higher prices, tying games to a digital account they can revoke, and not letting the users use the hardware as they see fit in general. PC gaming avoids most or all these issues, with steam excelling in everything (sans the digital license tied to the account, but even that is mitigated because their DRM is weak, and games frequently are found on the high seas if needed), and GoG (and itch.io, etc) respecting completely its customers (offline instalers, completely at your control).

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23 points

Theres a reason I havent owned a nintendo console or branded item since the gamecube.

and its not because of money.

its because Nintendo, as a company, is an enormous cunt that I wish would fall into ruin.

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12 points

They’d sue you for playing their games on their hardware if they could

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I bought a used Switch and run custom firmware on it. Nintendo execs seething right now cause that’s perfectly legal. I am untouchable

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F is for friends who say Fuck Nintendo

Cease and Dissist - Nintendo Diss Track

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66 points

Soooo they’re banning 99% of pokemon content?

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40 points

99.999999…%

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0 points

Arin was right.

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…Recent laws in Japan have criminalized console and game modding, as well as save file editing…

WHAT? why?..what???

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We really need to push for more right to repair laws and things not produced by the copyright holder (say for 5 years) should lose all copyright protections.

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Because:

Due to an amendment in December 2018 of the Unfair Competition Prevention Act in Japan, certain gaming-related activities and services have now been declared illegal. This includes:

  • Distribution of tools and programs for modifying game saves
  • Selling product keys and serials online without the software maker’s permission
  • Game save and console modding services
    As such, sales of products such as Pro Action Replay and Cybergadget’s “Save editor” have been discontinued.

https://www.reddit.com/r/emulation/comments/abk551/save_game_editors_and_console_modding_now_illegal/

It’s meant to ban sale of hardware devices and services that allow playing pirated games on Switch and such, but due to the way it’s worded it just bans them all.

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54 points

Can’t wait for Nintendo to sue Microsoft because VS Code can be used to edit save files.

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32 points

lol man is just a game. Let me have fun exploring hidden rooms. No one is committing a crime by modifying their own game save.

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18 points

For some of us, finding ways to cheat IS the game.

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21 points

In other words, Japan apparently hates property rights.

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10 points

Successful lobbying by Sony and Nintendo I imagine.

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