Uh no, 

Youtube is a platform, and not a network.

Maker, Polaris, Nintendo Creators Program, Machinama, etc are all networks.

You do NOT own the content you are sharing if it's video games or movies. You own a licenses to view/play it. Your example is complete bullshit and just dumb. You are dealing with content owners not garden variety garden lovers.

Ghost Hunters has a ton of legal paperwork that they have to go through in order to use those places. Usually these places get a ton of publicity for those things. Therefore, creates income

 I really don't understand the rest of what you said. But if you are sharing someone elses copyrighted work without expressed permission from that person, then they deserve the ad revenue and you do not. If the copyright holder has given you a set guideline for using their content then you will not break that

Under fair use, reviews, commentaries and covers are allowed and Nintendo cant do crap all about them. 

Nintendo still has full control over their IP. A game is not like a movie or a song...the primary enjoyment received from a game is through playing it not watching it. So i dont see how this infringes on their IP.

Something key to note here is that people dont simply watch any random lets play video, the game and the IP is pretty much irrelevant in most cases, moreso in pewdiepie's case. These guys are famous for their personalities, humour, commentary etc.

Other youtubers are popular because of speed runs, being the best, world records etc. Others are popuular because they aim to teach others how to play games, through tutorials and how to vids.

So yeah im struggling to see why a gaming publisher would feel entitled to the ad revenue of a video of a gamer playing their game, which they have already purchased, for reasons other than greed.

If this was a matter of principle and IP protection they would have reacted a long time ago, its only because some of these youtubers have gotten really popular that they now want a piece of the pie.

This goes for all game publishers trying to do this not just Nintendo. Clamping down on movies and music however, makes complete sense from a publisher point of view but not games.

+1. Its a generational issue and Nintendo just doesn't get it. Youtube publicity is a big thing.

1. They aren't demanding full compensation. There can still be IP damage, and that might be Nintendo's reasoning.  

2. They DID react a long time ago by removing videos that made profit. People disputed this, and now their new policy is to only take a share of the profits. 

If somebody makes a song and has little portions of another song in it, they usually need to credit the original song owner with royalities (unless the other owner says they can do it for free.) Or if somebody has a cartoon character in their cartoon the same is true. 

It's funny, I came into this thread disagreeing with Nintendo, and slowly I am defending them more and more. 

My argument??? That Nintendo is in the right and other companies should keep better control of their IP and perhaps other parties are getting the money they don't deserve?

Seems like that... Ninty's thematics are more "childish" but mainly because they are family friend... I have 30 and I never felt any shame about liking Nintendo games even though I preffer Sony (and that have nothing to do about being "cool", "mature" or anything like that, just the type of gameplay I preffer).

Your other argument was that it's strange youtubers complain now but not last year.

LOL! 

So since the primary point of a game is playing and them watching the games being played wouldn't infringe the IP... should we then allow other people to make plushies, boardgames and other things based on Nintendo IPs since they don't conflict with the original purpouse of Nintys games?

Well if the game is irrelevant, them he (and others) could just do it without any game involved, let's see how that would work.

You know those people purchased the right to play not to profit from it. That is why its legal what Nintendo is doing. And speedruns or tutorials have very little to do with LP when they don't show the entirety of the game. And Nintendo isn't even forbiding anyone from doing showing it, they are asking for a share.

They wouldn't need to react if it wasn't big enough.

Nope... that was a comment regarding one specific point. That this YTber is complaining now that Nintendo is more open when he didn't complain about it in the past.