It's time again for one of my predictions, this time I'm going to predict that, by the time the Nintendo Switch is released, Nintendo will have changed (or will change on the same day) their YouTube policies. I make this prediction with very few reasons at my hand:

1-Kimishima is now in charge, since he's previously been the NoA CEO it should come as a no brainer that he is far more open minded;

2(ish)- Kimishima went on in the latest financial briefing to say that the trailer for the Switch recieved up to 23M views on YouTube and the overall reception of the Switch was overwheming, again backing the first point;

3-The Switch's misterious button is likely a share button

So what do you think ? am I crazy optimistic or may I be be right?

I agree, Nintendo wants to be more mainstream, both for its mobile effords and for its regular consoles. And they can't have that when some of the most watched youtubers refuse to play anything Nintendo related.

I'm going for crazy optimistic.

I think their strict youtube policies are not because they don't value youtube but because they do recognize its power.

If it is a share button they will change their youtobe policies alright to the point where you can only share your videos on Nintendo sanctioned youtube channels that will make them money :D

Is there a mysterious button? Seems to me like the four buttons are Start, Select, Home and On/Off buttons.

You may be right since they are the only of the 3 manufacturers to be so strict and if they want their console to be more social then youtube is a need.

Gosh I hope so. There's only a few game companies left as absurdly borderline-illegal with their use of content ID as Nintendo. They need to change these policies, desperately. Angry Joe doesn't review their games. ProJared - freaking ProJared - hasn't done any Nintendo game reviews in ages because he had multiple vids content IDed despite being one of the most clean cut examples of fair use on YouTube. Thankfully he still streams some Nintendo products. And don't look for much Nintendo game discussion on the Cooptional Podcast after one of their 3 hour videos got content IDed and all revenue seized due to 30 seconds of Pokemon trailer footage. And it's only hurting them cause those those three and others who have stopped putting Nintendo content on their channels mostly had good things to say about their products. Not to mention that nature of Content ID and the spurious nature of the claims it makes leave Nintendo exposed legally.

Hardly..

I hope so... I dont understand their negative views towards shareing media of gameplay.

Lets play's dont mean lost sales, they mean free marketing.
Its very common that I go look at a lets play for a game I plan on buying.
I want to see what actual gameplay is like, and sometimes trailers just dont do a good enough job of it.

What's worse, it doesn't top negativity.  Someone pissed at Nintendo will make a video that skirts Content ID.  But someone like Joe or Jared or Johnny aren't going to compromise the quality of their content and bend over backwards for Nintendo.  Especially Joe, who uses tons of illustrati e footage to create detailed reviews.  And let's plays?  Fat chance many will risk that.  So it drives away positive coverage leaving only the negative.