This is something I've never understood about Nintendo, they could always make so much money by bringing in these Indies, making them officially licenced products and taking a cut (no matter how small it would still generate quite a bit) or even go full ham and just integrate them into your team and develop it.
But they always pick the lawsuit with a value that likely amounts to peanuts when compared to their budgets or even the potential gains.
Never quite understood that but I do live in a place where lawsuits are more punishing than prison sentences so maybe Japan has good courtrooms ?
They're less likely to screw up their IPs for ideology like other publishers
And yet the Treehouse still exists, "localizing" the Fire Emblem games to add transexuals where none were before, injecting woke ideology, removing entire gameplay functions, deleting whole conversations and replacing them with silence, etc etc.
This is something I've never understood about Nintendo, they could always make so much money by bringing in these Indies, making them officially licenced products and taking a cut (no matter how small it would still generate quite a bit) or even go full ham and just integrate them into your team and develop it.
But they always pick the lawsuit with a value that likely amounts to peanuts when compared to their budgets or even the potential gains.
Never quite understood that but I do live in a place where lawsuits are more punishing than prison sentences so maybe Japan has good courtrooms ?
It's the double edged sword of their grip on their IPs.
They're less likely to screw up their IPs for ideology like other publishers but are HIGHLY litigious compared to others.
And yet the Treehouse still exists, "localizing" the Fire Emblem games to add transexuals where none were before, injecting woke ideology, removing entire gameplay functions, deleting whole conversations and replacing them with silence, etc etc.
I will never forgive them for what they've done to TTYD....
it's about sending the message