| bunchanumbers said: It was a move for profit. Angry Joe knew what was going to happen but he knew he would get tons of views from his rant against Nintendo. Plus it let him off the hook for making Nintendo videos and somehow paints him as a antihero among his viewers. Probably was the smartest thing he has done. He has gotten press he wouldn't have received otherwise. |
his reviews have all over 1m views, up to 4+m - he won't get more viewers with this
in my opinion he did it to show the fans that donated him the WiiU, that while he is grateful "I had more fun with the WiiU than with my XB1 and my PS4 combined"(literal quote) he can't use it to make videos, the time spent to make a decent video is much better spent on something he can monetize
popularity won't last forever, only some years, maybe a decade if you are lucky, so I can totally understand that he wants to spend his time in the limelight on videos he can actually generate income from
btw as somebody who wasn't born with millions of youtube subscribers he knows how hard the beginnings are and how necessary every penny you gain from ad revenue to pursue this as a career while hoping for a great breakthrough like he had, so he can empathize with the Youtubers that are just scraping by and sees that this Nintendo policy is not something that could fascilitate more people being successful in making a livelihood as a Youtuber with it's limitations to older games and the ad revenue cut thing - that's the reason pretty much all of the popular channels reject that policy
