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potato_hamster on 04 September 2016
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Pemalite said:
potato_hamster said:


There is absolutely no way Nintendo could ever release any of these games officially. Ever.

It simply doesn't work like that. Fan projects are never made to the same checks and balances as actual legitmate video games are. That's fine and dandy on PC, but consoles are different. You're talking a huge undertaking just to QA and certify the game, and if any bugs are found, the only people that can realistically fix it are the people that made the games originally, which means they have Nintendo over a barrel. Aside from that, the code base could be a complete mess, and the game could just barely be functioning. What do you do with a game that appears to be far more stable than it actually is? Remember, if Nintendo releases it, Nintendo has to support it.

It's a gigantic mess. You will never ever see it happen. The best you might see is some of the developers being hired by Nintendo to work on Nintendo's own projects, but that's it.

Of course Nintendo could.
Those fan games are better than some of Nintendo's own recent (Or lack there-of) efforts.

Remember, Nintendo shut down those projects not when they first started... Or years after development... But after all the years of hardwork had been put in, bugs squashed, the games had a high degree of polish and were finally released. In otherwords... Nintendo was an ass.

Valve have historically taken modders who have made high quality mods and turned them into full AAA releases, some of which have even ended up on console, that's the right way to go about it, foster and support the community... Don't stifle and destroy it, you don't do anyone any favors.
Nintendo should rightfully be ridiculed on this, not defended.

Nintendo shut down 562 fan projects... Compound that with their war on Youtube content creators... And well, you get the idea. Nintendo aren't nice.
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1273071

You're right. Nintendo isn't nice.  But that's the only thing you're right about.

They still aren't buying and publishing fan projects ever. They really can't do that and it's ridiculous to think so.

Nintendo cannot and will not support fan projects. The simply can't do it. Your comparison to valve is a bit of a silly one. What valve-sanctioned mods (which, by the way is different than an independant release) have been published by valve and released on consoles? I'm almost positive the answer to that is 'none'. Supporting mods, and supporting independant releases that may or may not be built using engines that Nintendo develops and understands are two different things.

It doesn't matter when Nintendo shut them down, those fans started those projects knowing that the would never be allowed to release them freely. And the point remains, it doesn't matter how polished they may appear, the underpinnings of the game could be incredibly unstable, poorly written, incredibly unsecure. What if it turns out that buried deep in the code is a virus that infects the consoles the game are played on, and suddenly Wii Us every where start displaying hardcore porn periodically after the game has been installed for 30 days? Or, any of the other malicious things that can be done when a properly licensed game is ran legally on consoles? That would be on Nintendo. Nintendo simply cannot support these projects in any capacity, much less publish and support them. They would spend almost as much time combing through the game to certify and fix it than the would just making it themselves. It's just so silly to think they might do that.

You can ask anyone here that I'm not exactly a big fan of Nintendo, but this is different. Sony would shut down a fan-made Ratchet and Clank game. Microsoft would shut down a fan made Forza game. Nintendo is doing what any other company in their position would do. You can knock them all you want for shutting down let's plays and youtube videos. It's terrible that they do that. But there's a world of difference about making IP claims on Nintendo videos and shutting down Pokemon Uranium.