Not a PDP fan in the slightest, but I do agree with him.
Some parts of the policy seem sketchy though, like the approval period and such. This may or may not be used by Nintendo but could easily be abused by other devs if this becomes the new norm.

I also heard really old games are listed in the policy (cant confirm since I havent read it) but NES/SNES/N64 games are listed in the policy somehow? o~o c'mon Nintendo, some of those games are 30+ years old XD With GC games I can SORTA understand, but NES/SNES era shit..?

Sure, I conceded to indies. I find it hard to believe that these big-named multi-billion dollar publishers who advertise on television are very depedent on a youtuber or group of youtubers to advertise their games, so much so that they'll "learn the hard way." It is quite obvious that these let's players who make money are more dependent on the game releases than the publishers are on their "advertisements." Especially when you consider the negative advertisements that can arise too (people see things about the game they don't like and decide not to buy it.) Anyway, it's quite obvious you didn't read the entire quote tree, because all of your points were addressed in it and discussed. 

They can't lose what they didn't already have. Most of the let's players who do Nintendo games aren't PewDiePew sized entities anyway. 

Yeah, also Gaga and Bieber should also let him put their copyrighted music up to make all the money off of, because it'll totally introduce new listeners.

In fact J.K. Rowling should pay Pewdiepie to read the Harry Potter books on Youtube, because that will totally help them sell, after all reading books and listening to audio books are totally different experiences.


Do we have ANY proof that Lets-Plays increase sales figures? Because I've heard findings that demo's flat out hurt them. Indies don't count because we're a different story.

On this site the reason is going to be given to Nintendo i guess, but pewdepie has it ;)

Sure he might benefit from diversity, but the biggest youtuber in the world, the guy that gets more than 10 million views a day and more than 4 billion views a year is gonna be scared that some major companies might put similar restrictions? Of course he isn't scared. Especially since his most viewed videos are internet flash games and indie games. 

Hollycrap lets playing is serious bussines now, LOL. To be honest he is right but why didnt he complained when you werent allowed to upload any nintendo games at all? Nintendo makes now the things a little better with their programms and all of the sudden he makes a statement now instead when things were worse?

Seems he has his own little agenda here fearing that other people who dont lets-play because of the money would now be able to do it and steal his show.

http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/how-pewdiepie-fired-skate-3-back-into-the-charts/0137447

Truth. There is no better way to piss off the current generational crowd than to dip your hand in the cookie jar of their favorite Youtubers.

The real reason is that Nintendo just wants people to stop watching computers (which they have no real money involved in)and actually go play their games on their consoles.

They pay millions in advertising to hype their game the way they want. I agree that let's plays vids help get exposure to a small community that are already fairly adept with games, but companies should be wary that they have no control over what cost this exposure comes at(spoilers, value, quality). The digital age is entering an interesting online monetization era and I have a feeling user created content will be the first to suffer once big business sees where the $$$ going.