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this post was submitted on 20 Sep 2024
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First, they are not overprotective with their games. They are suing for patent infringement over bullshit because in Japan they own patents for things as stupid as "riding a creature in a game". And this is what's happening here. They are hampering progress because they want to be the only one in the monster catching genre. They can vigorously fuck off.
If Nintendo disappears, someone else will come. So many companies died and nothing happened. It's a videogame, they're not making life-saving devices.
If someone buys a Pokémon game now they are rarely uninformed, they are rewarding a company for their shitty behaviour. It's not the first Pokémon and it's not the first time Nintendo acts shitty. But their fanatics will keep defending the company no matter what. At that point, what else can you expect? It's like buying an EA game and then crying because it's full of micro transactions and useless dlcs, etc.
Also, yeah, if you're uninformed and get scammed over stuff that's been happening for years, it's all on you. Fool me once and all that.
I agree that they can fuck off with the patent thing. I'm not trying to defend their actions. Also yeah, if someone buys a pokemon game after not liking the previous one, then cries about it being bad, that's on them. But not all of them have played one of the bad ones before. Although I guess if you don't research before you buy, you can't be too surprised. Also you have to keep in mind that the people complaining about the pokemon games online aren't the majority of the people buying it. Most people buying them just want a pokemon game and don't care too much about it's quality as long as it still has what they like. Although that doesn't excuse all the bugs and stuff.
But with Nintendo disappearing, how does that benefit anyone? If you don't like Nintendo games, you can already just not play them. People buying them buy them because they like them. Them disappearing doesn't help people who do like Nintendo games, and it doesn't help people who don't like Nintendo games.
They have killed tons of fan games just because they have enough money to throw at lawyers so people won't even try to fight them.
They kill competition with these practices.
They are against emulation and game conservation while actively screwing consumers who try to legally play their games...
And the list goes on and on. They are a bad company that happens to make some good games. Those few good games are not enough to redeem them for the rest of what they do.
Edit: typo
Emulation still exists though. And the fan games are made by and for Nintendo fans. They usually also want to play the new Nintendo games as well, not just the fan games. And those fan games wouldn't exist without the Nintendo games they're inspired by. I mean, I guess if you only play old Nintendo games or fan games based on them, Nintendo disappearing could be good. But I would bet that there are many more people who want to play Nintendo's new games, and will want to play the ones that are released in the future, than people who only want to play old ones/fan games.
Edit: Also
So there should instead be 1 less company in the console space? That will increase competition?
Emulation exists despite Nintendo trying their best at every chance they have to destroy it. Not thanks to them.
And fan games exist only until Nintendo decides they have to be shut down. Which is frequently.
For the Nintendo future games? Well, what can I say? Again, it's a video game company. And as Palworld and others are showing, many others can do what Nintendo does in better ways. We won't have another mario if they close? There will be someone making a new platformer as good. There won't be a new Pokemon? We already have better alternatives.
But if they disappear, games like Palworld will have a chance without having to risk being sued over all this crap.
Edit: Nintendo is the one hoarding these patents that then they can weaponize against competition, so yeah, if they disappear, competition will get better because they won't have to be worried about being sued for things as dumb as putting a confirmation window after resuming a game from sleep.
Because if they kill Palworld, that proves they are willing to cross that line and deserve to be destroyed, and they very clearly WANT to destroy Palworld.