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Nintendo made $10.8 billion in FY24 with mobile and IP income up 81.6% (www.pocketgamer.biz)

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 months ago (1 children)

And they still feel the need to have a legal team that rivals Disney hunting down and harassing every fan project and emulation team.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Every emulation team? Did they sue others too?

[+] [email protected] -10 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Internet people: NINTENDO IS DESTROYING ALL EMULATORS raaaaaaaa

Reality: Nintendo sued exactly one emulator that was literally charging people to play pirated games

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

This is incorrect they actually issued dmca take down notices to about 20 emulator forks, Gary's mod content, a couple home brew projects and an out of court settlement with Yuzu. This is just recently.

Nintendo has a history of being hostile to the emulation, homebrew and modding community.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Actually, charging people for emulation isn't illegal. The main problem, that I can figure out, is that they specifically marketed / advertised that upcoming Switch games (TotK) runs better on Yuzu than Switch. Main issue is that they did it before TotK was released.

Disclaimer: Not a legal expert, just what I could figure out from reading different stuff / articles.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Exactly, which is why I said “charging people to play pirated games” (though I suppose it was really just one game, so no plural was needed.)

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 months ago

Oh I see why they shut down the Super Mario Maker 1 servers, money is getting tight at Nintendo.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

All mobile games besides Pokemon GO felt very mediocre to me. The quality wasn't bad but not exellent either.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

PoGo model update has entered the chat.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I got the Cofagrigus mask before the update and have not taken it off since. My girlfriend hates how her character looks now though.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I wonder how much they make off the infinite amount of garbage "games" on their eshop

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

Unfortunately, Nintendo mobile practices are nasty.

I suspect Nintendo applied the japanese mobile scheme to global market, but its a mistake on the long run: Such practice for a company considered family-friendly can be bad, as it can trigger regulations.