Angry Joe's Final Nintendo Rant! With FEELS

[Aeolus451]

sc94597 said:

Aeolus451 said:

To each their own on that. I believe that if someone sees huge portions or mere minutes of game then it's like advertising. Doesn't mean that everyone who sees it will want to buy the game but it does help sales some. If the game is good then those vids should really help sales. Advertisers get paid though. Youtubers are basically the same thing and should be able to make money off of advertising a company's product. Consumers shouldn't pay money to see those advertisments.

Not all advertisement is good though. A lot of developers don't provide demos, for example, because demos can hurt game sales just as much as they can help them. If one's opinion of a game is dependent on the let's player and not the actually quality of the game or Nintendo's personalized advertisement, then there can be unforeseen negative consequences and risks just as much as there can be positive ones. Here's an interesting Extra Credits video about the topic of demos, and I think they can be applied to let's plays as well. 

 
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I'll agree with you about that on demos. Demos only show a tiny bit of a game and the demo itself can be bad while the game is actually good. I think that youtube and Let's Play type videos are mostly good for video game companies. Those vids are a form of free advertising for 'em and some vids might point out some things that are bad about a game but those vids are free. It's unwise for nintendo to piss off youtubers because they can make bad reviews on games or just say bad things about nintendo just to spite 'em. It's like political advertising where the majority of it is highly negative.