Saw this on Twitter just now. Looks like Nintendo might finally make it easier for YouTubers to monetize their videos.

"We are ending the Nintendo Creators Program (NCP) to make it easier for content creators to make and monetize videos that contain Nintendo game content. We will no longer ask creators to submit their videos to the NCP, and creators can continue showing their passion for Nintendo by following Nintendo’s guidelines, located at https://www.nintendo.co.jp/networkservice_guideline/index.html.

The NCP will come to a close at the end of December 2018. Please note that we are no longer accepting videos and channels, and will not review any that have been submitted, but not yet registered. The NCP website will be taken down on March 20, 2019.

We appreciate and encourage the continued support of content creators, and thank them for their dedication to helping us create smiles."

Source: https://r.ncp.nintendo.net/news/

What's this?
A rare good business decision by corporate Nintendo?!
What kind of bizarro world did I step into?!

The same world as the one where Sony has gone censorship happy with Japanese games.

Try telling that to a die-hard Sony fan 20, 15, 10, or hell, even 5 years ago.

Or now

Hopefully they don't make us learn Japanese to follow their guidelines.

Also hopefully they release their claims on previous videos if they're no longer sharing revenue from them.

Oh yeah, that was a thing.

Hopefully that's the beginning of the end of their terrible Youtube practices.

Nice to see Nintendo is being more sensible about these sorts of things, though I do find it somewhat amusing the details regarding their new policies were dropped not too long after the YouTube massacre of channels uploading leaked gameplay/music.

I doubt this has anything to do with helping people. It was probably too much of a hassle reviewing videos for what little ad revenue they made, so they're bailing.