The sister-comment to yours by user fat-chunk describes it much better, but we're not even talking about big commercial events and corporate entities. We're tal

The sister-comment to yours by user fat-chunk describes it much better, but we're not even talking about big commercial events and corporate entities. We're talking about community events run for fun, rather than profit. But even then, the point is that if they don't want to cater to these communities they can simply ignore any requests and not engage whatsoever. You say they needn't "bend over backwards for e-sports" but that's not what's happening. Maybe players would prefer the consistency you describe, maybe they even ask for it ... but more than anything they just want the ability to play. As it stands Nintendo are being pretty petty and are bending over backwards to fuck with them, when they could instead just ... not.