Nintendo cracks down on Super Mario speedruns on YouTube

[SvennoJ]

mornelithe said:

SvennoJ said:

He concluded by calling the initiatives as “petty” on Nintendo’s part, adding that the company is “not getting it” with regards to the benefits of speedrunning.

What are the benefits of tool assisted speedrunning? I can't think of any. Never have I thought, wow look at that person completing that game in 5 minutes, I must buy it now.

Oh, I get it, everyone's supposed to have fun only how Svennoj has fun.  What were we thinking?

Wether I find them fun to watch is irrelevant to the statement. The article talks about the benefits to the gaming community, introducing old games to younger games. I don't see those benefits. Maybe it's just my kids that don't find speedruns fun to watch. They watch tons of let's play videos, yet never got excited about some old game from a speedrun. I think it's mostly for older nostalgic gamers.

Benefits for Nintendo are certainly not there. And I can see why they dislike the advertisement of emulators.
Of course they may do more damage by taking down those videos. What they should do is get a few people posting speedruns with help of the dev tools, beating all the other records. That would be a funny retort :)