Angry Joe Nintendo Angry Rant - Very Funny

[Jizz_Beard_thePirate]

UltimateUnknown said:

Jizz_Beard_thePirate said:

Well, I am pretty sure Nintendo is doing the samething... Cause if you look at 1:11, it says "your video is avaliable and playable" which leads me to believe that all that Nintendo (or rather the bots) did was just getting all the ad revenue and not actually shutting down the video

Oh and I also don't really believe in the notion of "this is free advertising" cause imo, I highly doubt the sales of a game can increase due to "Lets Plays" to a significant margin (unless they are very cheap or free to play) so neh. If anything, more often than not, it does the exact opposite

I disagree with this view. I buy a majority of my games after watching some sort of Let's Play. Reviews are simply not trustworthy anymore. I would much rather watch a bunch of gameplay and decide if it is for me. If there were no Let's Plays I might not have been willing to take the risk on some of the new franchises I've gotten into. The most recent being Ys: Memories of Celceta and Freedom Wars on Vita, both of which turned out to be amazing games.

Well, me, as well as plenty of people that I know had instances where we would have probably bought a game since we were so on the fence about it but decided to save our money and watch a "Lets Play" instead and spend that money on something else. The issue where it happens the most imo is on story driven games. Like for example, if I were to watch a "Lets Play" of Game of Thrones from Telltale games, why would I buy the game since the gameplay itself is average but the story is fantastic? Of course, you argue to "support the developers," and you aren't experiencing it properly and etc but I would much rather save my money cause I am greedy. But, if there wasn't a "Lets Play" on it but a lot of people as well as a lot of websites are talking about the game, I might get curious enough to actually buy the game.

And the same logic applies to a lot of other games. Yes, games are an "interactive" experience but if the game isn't a multiplayer centric game, the game's story will essentially be almost the same experience visually as to what you are watching provided the game is a story driven game and it isn't like an esports/online centric game. Not to say that games will bomb due to having "Lets Plays" but I highly doubt "Lets Plays" help in the grand scheme of things

Edit: Obviously, there are some exceptions to this