Stuff like this makes me hate Nintendo sometimes.... and I love their games, but seriously, after that I'm not going to buy a Wii U anymore, I don't care.

Speedrun a non Nintendo game. Problem solved.

I recall making a thread about this a week or two ago. It still sucks either way.

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?

I have to ask, what is the point of a "tool-assisted" speedrun? Why would I want to watch a computer play a video game? I would like to see how good an actual person can get at a game, using the original controller and everything.

Its generally done to show "cool" things with the game (effectively breaking its coding) but, in my honest opinion, seeing PEOPLE do it without tool-assist on the live game cartridge or disc is far more interesting as far sequence breaking speed runs go.

Tool-assisted speedruns can give input to players on certain exploits/alternative routes to attemp in normal speedruns; aside of that, data-mining and other things can also be found.

On the actual enjoyement of tool-assisted speedrun, there can be lots of possibilities. Frame-perfect platformings can be amusing, depending on who you ask. Zelda games on TAS are actually hilarious, among other examples.

Then, there are fan-made games designed to be tool-assisted. Especially those bootleg Mario stages; which people can only try at using tool-assisted hardware.

I can understand Nintendo not wanting people using roms or torrents of newer titles, but Super Mario World... Seriously? It's not this game is still being sold to mainstream audiences, outside of VC. It's just like what they've been doing with old Pokemon games on phones and what not. I seriously hate this stupid ass, we're not gonna sell them, so that means nobody should be able to still enjoy them. It's asinine.

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 :)