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> Legally, it would probably be easy for the games industry to crack down on broadcasting, but instead they have encouraged it, seeing it as a new way to engage

by Zikes 11y ago

> Legally, it would probably be easy for the games industry to crack down on broadcasting, but instead they have encouraged it, seeing it as a new way to engage users and generate revenue. Nintendo is a notable outlier in this instance. They are notoriously strict about broadcasting games, to the point where even many reviewers simply won't touch their games. Even though a review is absolutely protected by copyright law, it's just not worth the effort when all of the industry's video hosting services are stacked in favor of games publishers and developers. [0] SEGA also has a sordid history in this regard, having sent out huge swaths of takedown requests on YouTube, effectively shutting down many content creators and endangering the livelihoods of even more. [1] [0] http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2015/02/06/nintendo-updates-their-bad-youtube-policies-by-making-them-worse/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2015/02/06/nintendo-u... [1] https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121206/17321021296/sega-goes-nuclear-youtube-videos-old-shining-force-game.shtml https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121206/17321021296/sega-...

Mithaldu 11y ago
Nintendo is an outlier in another sense too. They straight-up do not understand the internet and customers. This is evidenced by how very long the 3DS account system had games you bought online tied to the physical machine, instead of the account you used. They're not strict. They're just helplessly ignorant.
- Zikes 11y ago
  I think it's a bit of a culture clash. Nintendo of America seems to do what they can, given the short leash Nintendo of Japan has them on. There seems to be something about Japanese culture that is fundamentally incompatible with the "share everything" West.
  - Laforet 11y ago
    They just don't buy into the subscrption model at all and it is not limited to just games. A lot of major Japanese music labels pulled their titles from Apple Music lately because they worry that it competes with the sales of physical albums, without realsing that the market has been in decline for at least a decade.

by Zikes 11y ago

Mithaldu 11y ago

Nintendo is an outlier in another sense too. They straight-up do not understand the internet and customers. This is evidenced by how very long the 3DS account system had games you bought online tied to the physical machine, instead of the account you used. They're not strict. They're just helplessly ignorant.

Zikes 11y ago
I think it's a bit of a culture clash. Nintendo of America seems to do what they can, given the short leash Nintendo of Japan has them on. There seems to be something about Japanese culture that is fundamentally incompatible with the "share everything" West.
- Laforet 11y ago
  They just don't buy into the subscrption model at all and it is not limited to just games. A lot of major Japanese music labels pulled their titles from Apple Music lately because they worry that it competes with the sales of physical albums, without realsing that the market has been in decline for at least a decade.