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- nintendo@lemmy.world
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But these won’t have the Nintendo Seal of Quality
We can use this instead:
The Machine is better than a lot of that stuff lol
That was only during a period of high rate counterfeit games being sold around for cheap. This isnt happening anymore because, well, digital piracy.
The Nintendo Seal of Quality is still put on Nintendo games.
My physical copy of Doki Doki Literature Club Plus on Nintendo Switch has one on the back of the box next to the barcode.
I thought they dropped “quality” years ago.
The word perhaps, but the seal is identical in design, color, and function. I believe now it just says “Official Nintendo Seal” which doesnt much change the function except they can’t be sued for licensing bad quality games I guess? Fits in with their anti-consumer theme though.
*Ominous rumblings of the horde of Nintendo lawyers being summoned.*
Nintendo cease and desist (or worse) in 5… 4… 3…
Why would be this be a concern? If they publish it in cartridges to be used in original systems, it shouldn’t be a problem for Nintendo, especially if the developers pay Nintendo whatever licensing fee needed.
I doubt Nintendo will let them buy a license. Why would Nintendo sell them a license for a handheld console they don’t even make anymore? It would not encourage sales of their newest product, and therefore they don’t care. Nintendo has historically stopped people from developing homebrew games for their older systems if they get too big or popular, why would they suddenly change now?
Nintendo is the MOST anti-consumer company of the three major console makers, with Sony following in second. There is no indication they would ever change to do anything that benefits the consumer. They tried to make us all buy NES Mario on Virtual Console twice, and now you can’t even buy VC games, you have to rent them.
+1 for the anti-consumer statement.
This is a company that goes after groups who hold tournaments with their games and issues takedowns against people on video platforms just playing their games. Genuinely an awful company (good games don’t excuse the behavior.)
Why would be this be a concern?
Because companies aren’t cool about stuff like this (even companies you think are cool are not always cool).
This is not direct action, but remember that this shows the thinking to avoid the wrath of a super-litigious company:
“Because the project depends on Nintendo’s proprietary libraries, [Valve] have asked me to take the project down.”
Speaking to PC Gamer via email, Lambert shared that he believed Valve “didn’t want to be tied up in a project involving Nintendo IP.”(context note for above: Nintendo 64 version of Portal)
I wouldn’t doubt the library used to make these games catching a DMCA (even if there was no legal standing for it).
I also doubt a company would even bother talking about licensing cartridges for platforms so old, though even if they did I don’t think pricing would even be viable for most games/developers.
Side-note: I can also see newly-made games as an extremely clear-cut non-piracy use for emulation which sounds like something companies would foam at the mouth to prevent.
I don’t know why you’re being down voted for being informative. Nintendo are a notorious bunch of greedy dicks and they do go out of their way to shut down anyone possibly enjoying stuff they no longer support.
