Boycott Nintendo

[Rinshun]

Nintendo is going off the rails with their anti-consumer nonsense. They’re suing anyone and everyone just for having fun. Modders? Fan creators? Indie developers? Forget it; they’re all fair game for Nintendo’s legal team.

Instead of supporting the community that loves their games, they’d rather stomp on creativity and pump up prices on their digital store. Seriously, what’s with that? It’s like they want to suck the fun out of gaming while cashing in on nostalgia.

So let’s hit them where it hurts! Boycott Nintendo and show them we won’t tolerate their greedy, anti-gamer tactics. Support indie developers and keep the spirit of gaming alive!

[funewchie]

Escrito originalmente por Azoun:

I'm not sure its possible for gamers to boycott really good games realistically. Gamers do seem to boycott recent games, but that's just when they are really terrible or overly woke like Condord, or DA Veilguard.

That should be easy, then.
Nintendo doesn't have good games. They haven't for a rather long time.

[anicKin]

Fintendo

[Faded]

Escrito originalmente por Ritsuka:

Escrito originalmente por Faded:

Don't expect things you're not willing to do yourself. Where are your articles or sources?

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2024-10-24/sony-jeopardy-complaint-discrimination-retaliation

https://torrentfreak.com/dns-resolver-quad9-loses-global-pirate-site-blocking-case-against-sony-230308/

https://gamerant.com/sony-patents-ai-system-to-create-video-game-assets/

http://www.fosspatents.com/2023/04/for-more-than-decade-sonys-patent.html

https://patents.justia.com/assignee/sony-corporation

lets see here one of these is employees suing Sony, not Sony suing others, one is Sony going after Pirates as they should, and one is a patent for an AI system, nothing wrong about that, plenty of software is under patent, I see nothing of Sony offering cease and desists to streamers, suing an indie dev because of "patents" that didn't exist until very recently so a lawsuit can be brought up, or anything on Sony issuing copyright strikes to streamers. Oh and one as market (the foss one) who cares how companies attack each other? they aren't people. you have provided NO evidence that Sony is going around and suing people in the gaming community or issuing copyright strikes to streamers on youtube.
https://www.cbr.com/nintendo-youtube-legal-action-precedent/
https://www.sportskeeda.com/esports/news-i-got-sued-nintendo-ludwig-reveals-gaming-company-issued-cease-desist-super-smash-bros-tournament
https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2023/apr/27/game-on-game-on-nintendo-wages-an-ongoing-war-agai/
https://www.thegamer.com/nintendo-striking-youtubers-using-emulated-game-footage/ Emulators are a grey zone for me but under law in many countries including the US and i believe Japan, they are not illegal and do not break any copyright laws since they are free (not counting the idiots who tried to sell em)
https://www.polygon.com/2013/5/16/4336114/nintendo-claims-ad-revenue-on-user-generated-youtube-videos

They don't have as many cases against "indie devs" but neither does Nintendo. You've yet to provide any sources on your claims despite asking for mine. A bit unfair, no?

Whether or not Sony is as bad as Nintendo when it comes to cease and desist against streamers =/= Sony being anywhere near good standing. Patenting AI in games is acceptable to you, why?

EDIT: I'm still waiting for your sources. You jestered me after asking for mine but don't have the balls to back your own statements up. Palfans in a pokeball.

[Kriya Takagi]

Escrito originalmente por TheKazz:

Yep. I was really looking forward to Metroid Prime 4 but screw Nintendo they can kick rocks. They've never been my favorite company from a moral perspective but as you say this is the final straw. Hopefully I'll be able to find Prime 4 on the high seas but I will never buy another Nintendo product at least until their current CEO is no longer employed there.

this is like boycotting a restaurant but eating the food off another persons plate from said restaurant. if you are really boycotting you should not partake in anything made or created by the company you are boycotting against, even if the product is acquired by way of purchase, gifted, or theft. in other words you acquiring and playing metroid prime 4 renders your stance of boycotting meaningless since you are putting an interest above your stance where your stance should be above your interest

[Weyrling]

Escrito originalmente por Kriya Takagi:

this is like boycotting a restaurant but eating the food off another persons plate from said restaurant. if you are really boycotting you should not partake in anything made or created by the company you are boycotting against, even if the product is acquired by way of purchase, gifted, or theft. in other words you acquiring and playing metroid prime 4 renders your stance of boycotting meaningless since you are putting an interest above your stance where your stance should be above your interest

Definitely, if I'm going to stop dealing with a company they aren't getting my money OR my time.

[Schorsch Wadschinken]

Escrito originalmente por Kriya Takagi:

this is like boycotting a restaurant but eating the food off another persons plate from said restaurant. if you are really boycotting you should not partake in anything made or created by the company you are boycotting against, even if the product is acquired by way of purchase, gifted, or theft. in other words you acquiring and playing metroid prime 4 renders your stance of boycotting meaningless since you are putting an interest above your stance where your stance should be above your interest

This analogy makes no sense, you aren't taking anything from anyone. You're simply choosing what to do in your free time. The only thing relevant in a boycott of a video game company is that you don't give them any money

[Kazuma]

the problem with trying to boycot nintendo is that only a small percentage of people know about this issue (nintendo being bully stupid and that pokemon is a half ass baked brainndead game), most of their comsumers are kids that don't really care, parents that don't know any better, fanboys that will suck their ♥♥♥♥♥, and us who are well involved in the game politics world. we are just a minority, and if we try to speak to those other people they won't gonna care, they just "saw the new trailer for pokemon and you can now put a ribon in pikachu's head ,wow" they won't even understand the severity of what nintendo is doing with this lawsuit, they will just say, hey but if pokemon invented they can do watever, remember that people are stupid, most childrem are stupid, fanboys are stupids;
and lets be honest most of us who say they will boycot, don't have the self restrain to not buy something. I stopped buying nintendo stuff for real after this palworld issue, for me I'll just stick with old games on emulators and thats all, they don't deserve to be talked about the new stuff. if they release an fzero gx remake, ♥♥♥♥ them, to late. i don't care anymore, aero gpx already took their place.

[malgrumm]

Escrito originalmente por Kriya Takagi:

Escrito originalmente por TheKazz:

Yep. I was really looking forward to Metroid Prime 4 but screw Nintendo they can kick rocks. They've never been my favorite company from a moral perspective but as you say this is the final straw. Hopefully I'll be able to find Prime 4 on the high seas but I will never buy another Nintendo product at least until their current CEO is no longer employed there.

this is like boycotting a restaurant but eating the food off another persons plate from said restaurant. if you are really boycotting you should not partake in anything made or created by the company you are boycotting against, even if the product is acquired by way of purchase, gifted, or theft. in other words you acquiring and playing metroid prime 4 renders your stance of boycotting meaningless since you are putting an interest above your stance where your stance should be above your interest

Ok then lets play devils advocate here, there are plenty of games that haven't been made by Nintendo on their consoles so going by that logic we'd also have to boycott the whole lot
of non-Nintendo games as well which is stupid.

[Weyrling]

Escrito originalmente por malgrumm:

Ok then lets play devils advocate here, there are plenty of games that haven't been made by Nintendo on their consoles so going by that logic we'd also have to boycott the whole lot
of non-Nintendo games as well which is stupid.

If you're boycotting Nintendo than "their consoles" are in fact Nintendo products you would need to boycott.
If you already own one it's kind of too late to do that, of course.
IDK if they get a cut of game sales on their consoles so boycotting "other games" for a console you already own is a maybe.

The point of a boycott is to stop supporting a corporation financially when they do things you don't like, and for those motivated to drive a boycott, to hit them as best one can in the only place they actually care about: Their bank account.
That means yeah, if they make money off something only indirectly affiliated with them, you shouldn't buy that thing either.

[WabbaCat]

.... no problems there.

[ImmoranWarrior]

To be perfectly honest, I was already boycotting Nintendo on account of their questionable design choices (I'm looking at the likes of Krystal and Clawroline), and this has only strengthened my resolve in maintaining my stance.

[Bonifangith]

Hopefully SEGA will give Pal world a partnership with them when they release the Dreamcast 2.

Sega does what nintendont!

[glitchhunter09]

The other issue with boycotting Nintendo, specifically Pokemon, is the games are designed for a target demographic that's too young and stupid to care about things like "corporate bullying". And children are so stupid, they eat Nintendo content, specifically pokemon, right up.

[Halvos]

Escrito originalmente por Bonifangith:

Hopefully SEGA will give Pal world a partnership with them when they release the Dreamcast 2.

Sega does what nintendont!

Currently PocketPair is partnering with Sony actually, they are supposedly working on a Palworld anime but that's a rumor.

[funewchie]

Escrito originalmente por glitchhunter09:

The other issue with boycotting Nintendo, specifically Pokemon, is the games are designed for a target demographic that's too young and stupid to care about things like "corporate bullying". And children are so stupid, they eat Nintendo content, specifically pokemon, right up.

Do they?

Back in 1998, children ate up Pokemon, as they had few other options.
It's now 2024, and they have many, many options (despite Nintendo desperately trying to remove those).
Pokemon isn't quite the invincible juggernaut Nintendo thinks it is.