By using this site, you agree to our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. Close
mornelithe on 20 September 2015
Edit Thread
SvennoJ said:
mornelithe said:

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 :)

The point is, I think, everyone has a different definition of entertainment, it doesn't always align, and all Nintendo's doing is forcing such activity underground where there will certainly be even LESS publicity for their titles.  There's plenty of stuff that people do, that I don't find entertaining, and really, I just don't pay attention to it.   Beyond that, I think Nintendo needs a new PR firm.  This constant nitpicking over meaningless shite isn't helping them.