Nintendo confirms it won't attend Gamescom 2024 (www.eurogamer.net)

submitted 7 months ago by Seven@feddit.de to c/nintendo@lemmy.world

23 comments fedilink hide all child comments

UPDATE 2.50pm UK: "Nintendo UK has now confirmed to Eurogamer it will not be present at this summer's Gamescom. The company's statement is below:

"Gamescom is a great event, and each year we evaluate whether Nintendo should participate or not," a Nintendo UK spokesperson told Eurogamer. "After careful consideration from all perspectives, we’ve made the decision not to be present at gamescom 2024. Players will have opportunities to try out Nintendo Switch games at other events throughout the year."

top 23 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[-] slimerancher@lemmy.world 38 points 7 months ago

That saves us from all the rumours of Switch 2 getting announced at Gamescom this year.

[-] bigkahuna1986@lemmy.ml 13 points 7 months ago

Nintendo exec goes to the bathroom

Youtubers: ArE yOu AnNoUnCiNg ThE sWiTcH 2 In HeRe?

[-] CluckN@lemmy.world 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I bet when the execs zip up their pants it makes the Joycon click sound

[-] Seven@feddit.de 11 points 7 months ago

It’s been a while since I attended Gamescom. But I can completely understand why they are dodging the Gamescom. Only the announcement of a complete new Zelda or 3D Mario could be interesting but everyone is waiting for news regarding Switch 2.

[-] Iapar@feddit.de 3 points 7 months ago

What does Nintendo and me have in common?

We suck ass

[+] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de -33 points 7 months ago

Nintendo is asshoe anyway. Nobodi like nintendoofus.

[-] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 7 months ago

Then why are you posting in the Nintendo community?

[-] essell@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago

I guess we all need assholes in our lives, else we get backed up with our own ****.

Speaking metaphorically

[-] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Unlike those Xbox and PlayStation assholes

[+] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de -8 points 7 months ago

Same with them but they are not nearly as well known for their scummy behaviour and going after harmless projects.

[-] Grangle1@lemm.ee 9 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Aside from hyper-aggressive protection of their IP to try to stop piracy, I legit can't think of any scummy behavior Nintendo does that other game companies don't do at either an equal or worse level. That includes MS and Sony.

EDIT: Further, emulation of a current-gen console may technically be legal depending on how you do it, but it's not harmless. Some can/will use it in an essentially harmless way, but you and I know that the vast majority of users will use it to enable piracy.

[-] slimerancher@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Well, in this specific instance, from what I read, one of the strong point against devs was mentioning improvements for games not yet released. Whatever the case, the repercussions it is going to have (or well, having) on other opensource projects is really sad.

As a long time Linux user, I remember how infamous MS was. Though, social media wasn't that strong back then.

[-] veniasilente@lemm.ee -1 points 7 months ago

What rock have you been living since 2017 that you can't think of something scummy that Nintendon't has done? I at least can't recall Sony suing a mother for theming a friggin' birthday party.

[-] slimerancher@lemmy.world 7 points 7 months ago

Can you share a link, a quick search didn't return anything.

[-] veniasilente@lemm.ee 0 points 7 months ago

Got the company wrong, it was TPCi who sued for the party.

Still, not much of a difference considering Pokémon does is the grossest money-printer for Nintendon't, and it wouldn't be offbrand for Nintendon't anyway to sue children dressing as Mario for Halloween, considering the stuff the linked article says is not any far from the instances where Nintendo has wiretapped or gaslighted ope source developers. Given the corporation, just because I have not heard about it doesn't mean it hasn't already happened.

[-] slimerancher@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

TPC did go too far in that instance, though it was a fan event, not a birthday party, but still, I agree with you there.

As for Nintendo, that is just a satirical site, so let's ignore that, and not go into hypothetical.

Still, no matter how much we like (or dislike) any company, they aren't our friends. The only goal of a company is increase profits, and if we think the way they are doing isn't fair, then we should definitely vote with our wallets.

You are more than welcome to raise awareness of Nintendo's issues in the community, just keep it friendly with other people who may or may not share your opinions. As the rules state, no hate-speech or personal attacks on anyone.

[-] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 7 months ago

Wait. What?

[-] pmmeyourtits@ani.social -2 points 7 months ago

Doesn't matter, US law says emulation is legal. When Nintendo starts respecting the law I'll respect them.

this post was submitted on 16 Apr 2024

51 points (96.4% liked)

Nintendo

18510 readers

1 users here now

A community for everything Nintendo. Games, news, discussions, stories etc.

Rules:

No NSFW content.
No hate speech or personal attacks.
No ads / spamming / self-promotion / low effort posts / memes etc.
No linking to, or sharing information about, hacks, ROMs or any illegal content. And no piracy talk. (Linking to emulators, or general mention / discussion of emulation topics is fine.)
No console wars or PC elitism.
Be a decent human (or a bot, we don't discriminate against bots... except in Point 7).
All bots must have mod permission prior to implementation and must follow instance-wide rules. For lemmy.world bot rules click here

Upcoming First Party Games (NA):

Game | Date

Mario & Luigi: Brothership | Nov 7 Donkey Kong Country Returns HD | Jan 16, 2025 Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition | Mar 20, 2025 Metroid Prime 4 | 2025

Other Gaming Communities

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

slimerancher@lemmy.world

CosmicSploogeDrizzle@lemmy.world

CosmicSploogeDrizzle@lemdro.id

picandocodigo@lemmy.world