Nintendo in particular leans way too hard on old intellectual property.

The first step to their continued survival is admitting that they lost. They put up a good fight, but betting the farm on nostalgia was already pissing in the wind 20 years ago. AI is a hurricane in comparison.

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jonhohle 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Do you think Nintendo, Disney, and other IP holders, are going to roll over? Just like RIAA did when MP3s were being traded? They are bigger now than ever and the rest of us are stuck with laws that threaten fair use, eliminate first sale rights, and threaten people who just want to fix the stuff they bought.

The bear will only be poked so much before it decides to get up. If the fight seems existential, it’s not the content owners who are going to end up losing.

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joquarky 2 days ago | parent [-]

I'm excited because the tighter their grip, the more quickly people will realize that intellectual property is obsolete.

Intellectual property is a violation of nature anyway, so good riddance when that time arrives.

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jonhohle a day ago | parent [-]

And OpenAI and Anthropic get to pick up all the pieces and control the lifetimes of work and billions of dollars spent to create it?

I’m all for copyright reform, but handing it to two companies puts us in a significantly worse position, imho.

	▲	joquarky a day ago \| parent [-]
		So what? If it wasn't those two corporations it would be other giga-cap corporations. IP has been subverted by large companies with full time staffed lawyers to make sure they always win. The only way to beat them is to be another huge company with teams of lawyers. If you think individuals have any of these rights anymore, then your're living in some alternate reality.

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mahboi 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

GameCube/GBA era was the last time they made great games with any consistency. Every single series had a significantly worse game for Wii/DS, yet the Wii sold way better and all the IGN reviews were great. 10/10 for Skyward Sword.

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fl4regun 2 days ago | parent [-]

I'm sorry, I disgaree firmly, there's tons of great first party games on both the Wii and the DS.

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mahboi a day ago | parent [-]

That's alright. Smash Bros, Zelda, Mario Sunshine/Galaxy, Mario Kart, Mario Party, Paper Mario, those are the big ones where I was disappointed in the Wii sequels. And the motion controls were overall a downgrade, which it seems even Nintendo admitted. Do you prefer the Wii ones, or are you just saying they were still great?

There are also people who say Nintendo lost their way with the GameCube and that the N64 was the real deal. Well, I can see that with Zelda at least. I was a kid at the time and went back to play Ocarina.

	▲	fl4regun a day ago \| parent [-]
		I'm saying mario galaxy is generally just as well regarded as sunshine and 64, I grew up on sunshine, its obviously my favourite but galaxy takes the second place over 64 for sure. we also had metroid prime 3. MKDS was the best portable mario kart at the time, MK Wii was also a great game even if it didn't have the same kinds of advanced techs (which casual gamers don't even care or know about), paper mario is almost impossible to compare since it changed so much from ttyd but also an quality game. none of those to me signal the loss in quality like we saw with all the "new super mario/luigi" rehashing that we saw during the wii u and 3ds era.

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skeaker a day ago | parent | prev [-]

Agree and disagree. The OoT remake that just came out is basically all-in on banking on nostalgia, and it's sold out basically everywhere, so obviously what they're doing works even today. Them taking stuff down like this though is just obviously out of line, for much the same reason. If your stuff is flying off the shelves and selling out the world over, it should not matter to you that some people are ripping stuff for free on the internet somewhere. You made your money already, what more do you want?