If nintendo was really interested in free marketing and money from more sales, they would match sony's policy on youtube. Asking for any amount of money from youtube creators's ad revenue is basically asking for them not to make any vids except for "reasons why not to buy a wii u".
Word of mouth is one of the most influential methods of marketing and it can be one of the most damning things to a console or game. There are more benefits to letting gamers and youtubers make vids about nintendo's games or console than there are cons for them. Yeah yeah, there's the classic defenses, "if they make profit, then it doesn't matter" or "It's their content, they can do what they want" but then again, I wonder how nintendo got into it's current state as a company and as a brand. They can ill afford to alienate any more gamers or their revelence in the future gaming world will be nothing but faint nostalgia.
There's little to no reason to come to nintendo's defense on this because it's a asinine policy. Perhaps, nintendo needs a better prospective of the gaming market and of gamers.
