I’ve noticed in a lot of Reddit threads the outright hostility towards Nintendo games and Nintendo fans in general gaming subreddits.

I really hope this isn’t the case here.

  • I really hope this isn’t the case here.

    Wait. You really hope an entire collection of instances and, furthermore, the entire collection of communities within each instance, will have the same exact opinion, of -at the moment- being pro-Nintendo.

    You really must be joking right?

    There is absolutely 0 chance you will find one opinion spread among an entire community, let alone here in the Fediverse where it’s multiple communities.

    Each person has their own opinion and/or agenda and that’s the best part. I really hope this side of the entire continues to not be able to be labeled a singular thing since that is immoral and outright incorrect, on all fronts.

    So to answer your question: Who knows? To each(user) their own.

      • Every place is the wrong place to ask this question.

        Putting a label or asking a community to reveal their manifesto is not a good look or how conversations should be started.

        The correct thing to do is participate in communities you seem to like and if you find out that you don’t agree with that community on one or more fronts, then by all means, please create a new instance and/or community on your own and run it according to your preferences. This is the intended purpose of the fediverse: If you don’t like it, do it better by yourself.

        I wish to hear all opinions in here by all kinds of people.

        I wish to hear the worst and the best arguments on a topic.

        Doing what you ask, as in join a pro-Nintendo community will 100% have a bad outcome since it will, by definition, be an echo chamber.

  • My love for Nintendo games has a direct correlation with how much I am frustrated at Nintendo for their harsh stance against emulation and their general shittiness towards customers.

  • Replies here have no chill.

    Anyways, I’m a Nintendo fan myself, gameswise.

    Corporate-wise? NCL’s better than most companies, but I’m anti-corporate as a rule.

    • Why would I bash against Nintendo?

      People like to bash Nintendo because of them going legally against fans that decide to revive older games that no longer available to be played using legal and/or official means.

      This is really a gray area and people agree/disagree on this.

      If for example OOT is not able to be played at all but a dude hacks the code and puts it on an emulator, then is that wrong or not?

      Legally it’s wrong, but there’s an argument to be made that since Nintendo doesn’t offer this game, technically their are not losing profit.

      Ultimately it’s a totally gray area and civil discussion on the topic should be welcomed and not suppressed, ever.

      • If for example OOT is not able to be played at all but a dude hacks the code and puts it on an emulator, then is that wrong or not?

        Legally it’s wrong, but there’s an argument to be made that since Nintendo doesn’t offer this game, technically their are not losing profit.

        The dude didn’t hacked the Code of OOT and the dudes behind the Emulator also didn’t hacked or pirated the software of the device. Its called clean room development and is totally legal; it would only become legally questional or outright illegal when they reuse codes they attained from the reverse engineering of the devices software.

        Dumping the ROM of a Cartridge is also not illegal as you own the Cartridge and therefore the Software/ROM. Providing it to others who may or may not have the Cartridge, now THAT is a grayzone.

        So the argument still stands across the board= Emulation is not Illegal, regardless of Nintendo spouting that false claim or using Emulation for their own retro games collections or VC or Nintendo Online.> People like to bash Nintendo because of them going legally against fans that decide to revive older games that no longer available to be played using legal and/or official means.

        People like to bash Nintendo because of them going legally against fans that decide to revive older games that no longer available to be played using legal and/or official means.

        Was it scummy by Nintendo going against Guasti (original developer of AM2R)? Absolutely, was it in their legal rights? Absolutely.

  • For right now I don’t think it would be fair to say one way or another. Most of the communities are pretty generalist because there’s not a ton of users so you’ll get alot of different opinions on just about any topic. It’s going to be awhile before Lemmy has a dedicated Nintendo community or any specific hobbiest groups for that matter.

    Personally I’m mostly neutral on nintendo, I dont care for many of their games myself(except for some of the casual party games) but my sister is a big fan so I’m able to appreciate them through her. I’m sure many others probably feel similarly.