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After shutting down several popular emulators, Nintendo admits emulation is legal
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They could so easily turn some of the coolest people in the gaming space into permanent customers if they had a Nintendo fan hall of fame. Have a recreation of Peach's castle as a series of web pages on the Nintendo website. nintendo.com/halloffame/castle_entrance.html or something. Each room in the castle is for a different bit of outstanding contribution. Smash bros players, speed runners, and modders. Take Kaze Emanuar who recreated SM64's source code and say "that was neat" and he would move heaven and earth for you. The project M team. Anyone who's ever found how to do ACE in an old game. The people at GDQ. Point Crow and Small Ant.
These people FUCKING. LOVE. NINTENDO. and Nintendo FUCKING. HATES. THEM. They could be embraced, they could poach all the free advertising, game designers, and interest in their old library they could ever want. Nintendo would spend less money for more and make every happier by doing so. They must have some tax benefit for employing so many lawyers instead. You just get an intern to go into their twitch streams, banter a bit, donate 5 subs, and ask them to play Secret of Mana because you're bringing back wii games on the Switch 2. They'll make a video titled Nintendo BEGGED Me to Play Their Old Game and everybody will win.
TheDrink? Like Trunks? Witnessed.
You just made two fantastic points. I didn't even think about how to circumvent the IP perils but it seems like it wouldn't be that much effort. Almost certainly LESS lawyer hours. And that gets to the one comment your post raises for me: the carrot and the stick method aren't 1:1. It would just take so much less effort to do a carrot method. Even if you had to interact with fans, maybe show up at a Smash tournament to kiss babies and pop champagne, you had to bother uploading ROMs to Nintendo online (and had to have a meeting about it first), and have a snarky twitter account then that is LESS effort than one sticky situation where Smash players throw a fit. You have to deal with big creators getting copystrikes on their accounts and making arguments with lawyers of their own less. You're paying less in lawyer fees with no decrease in the fidelity of your IPs.
And then you can think about the benefits. Nobody is going to play an OoT randomizer instead of TotK. In fact, they're going to be first in line. People in general like exposure. It's general marketing practice that getting acquainted with Zelda makes them more likely to buy the big ticket item afterward. If it matters to you, when you do have to make a controversial final call (e.g. someone's not listening to your requests) and it seems harsh, you'll have some goodwill so people will take your side and give you the benefit of the doubt.
The stick method is the inferior method. There's just no way it couldn't be.
It would be an interesting and brave new world to see fan games on the VC.