Pewdiepie Complains against Nintendo Youtube Policy

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NightDragon83 said:

Barkley said:

It's within Nintendo's right to demand a part of the revenue but it's also incredibly stupid. Unless you're at the very very top of the pile you earn very little through youtube as it is.

Taking 40% of the revenue of someone who is advertising your product for free is ridiculous, there's a reason other companies haven't gone down this root.

Nintendo are just trying to grab money with this move and i've always viewed them as a pro-consumer company who are passionate about games and care about what they create first and foremost. This move has really thrown modern-nintendo into question for me. Are they not that company anymore?

Also Nintendo send the money to you in USD through PayPal, this means in countries with other currencies you have to pay associated fee's ontop of the 40% nintendo are taking.

Nintendo has always been about the money first and foremost.  Anyone who says otherwise is just kidding themselves.  Nintendo's legendary business practices of the 80s and 90s are such that if Sony or especially Microsoft tried to emulate them today, people would be screaming bloody murder.

Very true. Nintendo's totalitarian mentality in the 80s and up until the mid-90s worked when Atari was going tits up and when Sega was their only real competition. When Sony entered the game and allowed developers more freedom, the it was the beginning of the end for Nintendo and it has been a steady decline since(except for the Wii which was an anomoly whose success came from a fad/gimmick).  With Sony/Microsoft catering for third parties, almost everyone is done with Nintendo. I sincerely don't think the Wii U will sell more than the Gamecube at this rate and I don't have one iota of sympathy for the company. I love their games and have very fond memories of the NES/SNES/N64 era(GCN also to a lesser extent) but their mentality is puts me off enough to actually consider NOT buying a Wii U.