People basically forgot about this issue because the Xbox One pulled a worse FU to video gamers, and Nintendo and Sony basically waddled off to do whatever it is they do.
Holy Grail, huh? Cool story, bro.Nintendo wandered off to wisely not involve itself in this generation's console war and instead cater to their built-in fanbase.
edited 25th Jun '13 1:44:21 AM by 0dd1
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The reason Nintendo did this ad revenue thing isn't just because they're corporate greedbags or that they just wanted to protect their I Ps. Well, it is the latter, but here's where it gets more substantial.
Valve themselves had to specifically put in their policy that people could earn ad revenue from Source Filmmaker made films and even commercialize on them if it used all original assets. People were still allowed to earn ad revenue from content created with Valve assets, but they could not actually sell said videos.
A similar thing happened with Nintendo, they protected their I Ps this way. If they didn't, to what extend could people earn from their assets? I mean, if people used their characters in a fan film and proceed to actually sell that film, even though it doesn't contain any actual assets from any of their games, would that still be illegal? (Yes, yes it would.)
So, in this case, even the "but Let's Plays aren't like sharing films, we still do our own shit" argument becomes void because of the aforementioned. If Nintendo would just let the Let's Plays run loose, to what extent could people earn money from not just Let's Plays, but other types of Internet videos using the I Ps?
Signatures are for lamers.They will earn what, $3 a month?
Holy Grail, huh? Cool story, bro.Double post - apparently Nintendo changed their minds. Since everyone is doing a 180 on their controversial policies, maybe Sony will undo that PS+ online play thing :P
And a video from some guy who I heard the news from who tends to swear in some videos but I haven't watched today cuz lolinternetconnection