Actual picture of a Nintendo Spy trying to capture his target:
Nintendo are starting to sound and look like the mafia...
Well, Yamuchi looked like a straight up gangster, so I'm not surprised. You don't take a card-making company that had been active solely in Japan into a multibillion-dollar video game publisher and global conglomerate by being a nice guy.Ninkuza
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unless they literally send hitmen to hackers houses (or actual ninjas).
Kimishima also looked like straight out of a Yakuza movie.Well, Yamuchi looked like a straight up gangster, so I'm not surprised. You don't take a card-making company that had been active solely in Japan into a multibillion-dollar video game publisher and global conglomerate by being a nice guy.
He was definitely using some yakuza-business strats. Also, it takes Jupiter size balls to tell off Microsoft the way he did.
their lawyers have to do something. they have to protect their IP. companies all over the world do this shit, is Nintendo supposed to not because they have a friendly image?
frankly, it's getting old hearing people complain about this shit. if you are doing a homebrew Nintendo thing, you know how they are by now. either have your shit locked up or STFU.
the guy who made Another Metroid 2 Remake finished the thing before dropping it. that's how you do it. a lot of these other people have years-long projects and are fundraising over it. that's.... that's not how you do it!
also LOL:
Kimishima also looked like straight out of a Yakuza movie.
also LOL:
I don't have any friends either; I'm a loner by choice, but LOL.
We're talking about Nintendo, man! They're the guys selling a non oled shitty 720p screen in 2020 and in a few days 2021. Yep!clearly Nintendo was totally wrong in trying to reach out to this very talented engineer and offer him some kind of financial agreement rather than go straight to criminal proceedings. they should have left him alone and let him continue hacking items that they currently were selling.
that's the funny thing about all this. they were probably trying to hire this guy, who was a super engineer with a high profile in the Nintendo hacking scene. yet these Tweets are painting the narrative that they are "intimidating" him. lol.
im not sure if anyone knows this, but in big business, if they get hacked, usually they like to work with the hackers, hire them on, or failing that, get some kind of knowledge out of them. it's kind of a common thing.
Counter-point: Console hacking *makes* corporations money. The PSP was a commercial failure...until it got hacked to buggery and everyone started buying it for that reason alone.Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
It's creepy, but when your hobby involves potentially costing a giant corp billions, they are going to take action.
That stuff reads like it was put together by some goofball with an agenda and time on their hands. I doubt the veracity of those "documents" very much.
Nintendo as The Senate:how is this legal
Yakuza games produced by Nagoshi are for children and teenagers.Ninkuza
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Hackers are? They are the reason so many PSP games were canceled.I keep telling you the firm I worked for in the 90’s was raided by the fucking Police on Nintendo UK’s orders.
And they used children to gather the evidence.
So yes, I can believe all this shit. Fuck Nintendo, they’re not your friend.
Yakuza games produced by Nagoshi are for children and teenagers.
The switch is for yakuza.
Hackers are? They are the reason so many PSP games were canceled.
Well.. that's some version of history I guess?Counter-point: Console hacking *makes* corporations money. The PSP was a commercial failure...until it got hacked to buggery and everyone started buying it for that reason alone.
Well.. that's some version of history I guess?
PSP sales were terrible compared to expectations, and software sales continued to go down every year despite the userbase growing. Sony had several straight years of financial losses in that era, and were in general doing terribly.. partly due to the PSPs failure.
Sony's business model in general was to lose money on hardware and profit on software. So a hacked device that everyone was just buying to pirate/use for other reasons than buying games was a worst case scenario for them.
A simple cease and desist letter is a form of threat/intimidation.Sorry, trying to find the intimidation part, what did they do?
That’s the thing, nothing seemed like intimidation to me. Also, anyone surprised by this does not know the internal workings of large businesses.If true..... gross.
A simple cease and desist letter is a form of threat/intimidation.
Google did the same thing!!111
That’s the thing, nothing seemed like intimidation to me. Also, anyone surprised by this does not know the internal workings of large businesses.
I don't disagree, but just because it's normal doesn't mean it isn't true.That’s the thing, nothing seemed like intimidation to me. Also, anyone surprised by this does not know the internal workings of large businesses.
Which is why Sony made so many hardware revisions and supported it for something like 10 years, because they were losing so much money. That was their strategy on the PS3, it was not their strategy with the PSP. While the PS3 was hemorrhaging money the PS2 and PSP were both making a profit for Sony. In fact PlayStation as a whole was, for a long time, the only division turning a profit.Well.. that's some version of history I guess?
PSP sales were terrible compared to expectations, and software sales continued to go down every year despite the userbase growing. Sony had several straight years of financial losses in that era, and were in general doing terribly.. partly due to the PSPs failure.
Sony's business model in general was to lose money on hardware and profit on software. So a hacked device that everyone was just buying to pirate/use for other reasons than buying games was a worst case scenario for them.
And what if it is ? They are just trying to protect their Intellectual property like all major corporations do.I don't disagree, but just because it's normal doesn't mean it isn't true.
Before anything came out “no Nintendo would not do this, you are paranoid” and after it comes out “well do not be daft and naive of course they did that, just like any other large corporation”.
That kind of approach was meant to intimidate and impose fear (few are so thick not to fear a lawsuit from such an aggressive corporation, but if caught in the act there is enough for a restraining order or two...). Intimidation is not just roughing people up like gangster movies and anything beyond physical pain meaning it does not count shows a bit of a “well it was not happening to me so how bad can it be?” IMHO.
I don't disagree, but just because it's normal doesn't mean it isn't true.
Which is why Sony made so many hardware revisions and supported it for something like 10 years, because they were losing so much money. That was their strategy on the PS3, it was not their strategy with the PSP. While the PS3 was hemorrhaging money the PS2 and PSP were both making a profit for Sony. In fact PlayStation as a whole was, for a long time, the only division turning a profit.
I'm surprised by some of the responses here. No one thinks Nintendo should just roll over and ignore threats to their IP, but civilized societies in theory have institutions to deal with this. By all means, send a cease and desist letter and sue, but staking out their house, spying on their families, and confronting them in person? Pure gangsterism.