A giant corporation plus "youtube program" will always sound villainous to me.

In my country, Argentina, a third world country, a hairdresser has to pay for having her radio on while she works, and some of that money she paid may end up in Mick Jagger's or Paul McCartney's pocket.
I don't understand why lets players think they can make money using videogames they havent made for free.

I`m glad Ninten is finally opening up to allowing others to post their content on youtube, though there are still some issues with it, like giving 60% as opposed to 90% and limiting what games they can show footage of. Ideally it would be great if Ninten would just all people to upload freely, but I understand if they don`t want to give people total freedom. I hope they fix it to be better once it`s official.

I'm not really sure.

Well, it's their copyrighted material so they should be able to do with it as they wish. LPers will get angry, sure.

Nintendo will get less marketing, which is _all_ that matter here, than others that have no requirements like this. That's all that matters. Nintendo is not going to make bank with the revenue from the actual content, they might get a few tens of thousands or few hundreds of thousand dollars _total_ per game from the revenue of the adds. As apposed to good marketing which can mean millions in sales.

It's a bad move. The norm is that youtube lets plays lead to _sales_ not massive money for the people doing the lets plays.

As far as I know this youtube program is set up, that the ad revenue goes first to Nintendo and then is shared with the youtuber. So Nintendo sits between Youtube and the youtuber.

This is a problem because of two crucial points.

1. Nintendo can change the percentage. The Nintendo Creator's program says that this rate "may be changed arbitrarily." What happens if the youtuber say things Nintendo does not like?

2. It can "regularly take up to three business days" for registered videos to be reviewed and okayed by Nintendo. Once again one has to wonder what kind of content Nintendo will approve?

In the current form nintendo`s youtube program might turn out to be pretty restrictive.

On the other hand, I read somewhere that reviews of Nintendo products don`t have to be part of the program as long as the review does not contain to much game footage.

 It's much better than nothing to be honest. I guess we'll have to wait and see how things go!