I knew there would be people boycotting Nintendo over this. It's that they're trying to monetize on other people doing LP series for games, taking that money from those people and even companies. Some of these LPers make their living doing this (as I know a few people on Twitch who make their living off of streaming), and Nintendo doing this is going to make things harder.
It isn't just the 3DS that costs money in order to record game footage, but even getting quality hardware to record footage from console games costs a lot of money. There have been plenty of games that I bought thanks to someone doing a LP or streaming, which I expect Nintendo to probably go after next if they did this.
The internet can be a good or bad thing for your big company, as news spreads like wildfire. This is bad publicity for them, especially with E3 around the corner and one of their big 3DS releases coming out in June in Animal Crossing. LPers will stop doing Nintendo games, which will probably result in that game not getting some extra exposure, which might end up with some lesser sales.
