Mr Khan said:
News, yes. Reviews, yes. Let's Plays, no. I find the argument that the point of watching the let's plays is the commenters personality to be specious at best. To head off the counterexample, nobody would give a damn about John Madden if he were not commenting for the NFL, that's what brings the eyeballs. Minecraft, Metroid, or Medal of Honor is what brings the eyeballs, not Angry Joe, however much folks may feel otherwise. With news and reviews, you're making an original contribution. With let's plays, you're presenting the work itself with some sort of thin veil that's supposed to make it "okay" to try to make money off of playing videogames. As Lafiel may have mentioned earlier, if Nintendo is doing the same thing to news or reviews, then that is wrong. |
Is this is true, then why they are some expotentially more popular than others. To say that people don't watch for the individual and their commentary are not believable. If Pewdiepie can get millions of people to watch him play a horror visual novel (corpse party on PSP), then your statement doesn't hold a lot of weight.
Nintendo throws everything under one umbrella and it's disingenious. I don't even like Let's Play, but I don't understand why Nintendo has taken such a hostile position to something generally loved and accepted.
