 Hey folks so we have an update today about a video that I made over the weekend where I mentioned well the title was pretty self-explanatory Kataku is going to be pissed or Nintendo is going to be pissed at Kataku I guess is the way to phrase it and uh some people said that uh I was a little too harsh right Kataku has the right to post anything they want it dealt with emulation it dealt with piracy it dealt with you know people are saying Kataku never said certain things and I pointed out various ways in that article that Nintendo was not going to take kindly to what Kataku was doing but I made sure to never say in that video that Kataku doesn't have the right to make this type of content I do think it's kind of a stupid move for a company that does get review copies of games from Nintendo does have direct contact with Nintendo and you know got the switch OLED early and everything in between Kataku is a I know some people laughed at it but they are technically a professional video game journalism website and so obviously when you are in certain positions sometimes you need to reserve certain conversations for different places in different avenues like if they wanted to talk about this in a general podcast I don't think anyone would care but a full article on it is a little bit of a different story and Kataku has known for their controversies over the years in fact maybe that's the point maybe that's how they get their clicks I don't know uh but what's interesting about this article is that obviously I mentioned that Nintendo was going to be pissed and people thought maybe Nintendo wasn't going to care or they just wanted to use this to virtue signal the fact that Nintendo doesn't um you know support their older games and stuff like that even though this technically was about pirating Metroid Dread it really wasn't about the old games it doesn't really matter um I it is what it is I think Kataku has the right to make any article they want I just think if you are a company that's getting review copies of games there are certain standards that you probably should adhere to and I know you might feel like that censorship I feel like it's not really censorship it's just respect if a company is going to give you access to products early I'm not saying that you alter your opinion of those products but out of respect you should not push getting those products illegally at least that's just my opinion but I mentioned Nintendo was going to get mad and we have an update today well Nintendo's mad uh we don't know if they've been officially blacklisted but we do have a step in that direction and I'll explain that after I remind you we are giving away three copies of Metroid Dread uh to enter for now you just need to be subscribed I will have some other things at the end of the week but to win any of our giveaways you have to be subscribed so it's kind of just a general rule of thumb uh so yeah we'll be giving away three copies of this in what we're calling Dread Hover all right so Kataku's article is still up and they did edit it and um they took out all of the offending content that we talked about last time they edited it over the weekend so all the offending content that was an issue is gone um they did present an update of course saying in an earlier version of the story it was understood by many readers to be a direct suggestion to illegally download this just for this game we regret this interpretation it's funny they're not apologizing for what they said they're apologizing for how people interpreted what they said don't make what you said so obviously interpreted in that direction is my kind of response to that but it is what it is so as Kataku believes emulation is a vital part of the world of gaming not least when it comes to game preservation even though that's not what this was about well not directly encouraging anyone to break the law and download games they have not purchased we believe our readers are intelligent adults capable of making such choices for themselves independently of us now we're not going to get into all the arguments about if you buy a game if you can legally then download a rom it's actually illegal for that rom to even be available to download in the first place so we're all not going to do that you're not allowed to distribute roms that being said um i want to talk about something that happened because the article is still up so like who cares right nintendo obviously didn't do anything except they did because they forced something that they can control so i've been a nintendo youtuber for i don't know at least four years now i've been making videos by on zelda for maybe eight years but you know doing this whole nintendo prime thing for about four years four and a half years and the thing is i learned a lot over these years because when i first started doing this towards the beginning of the switch era nintendo had very different youtube policies than they do today um technically according to the letter of the law showing any gameplay or any trailers where the trailers are not being um criticized like you can you can review a trailer but just tossing a trailer in the background of a video when you're doing a news report um in order to putting gameplay of a game in there using music from these games technically according to the letter of the law this is all illegal uh and nintendo was one of the few companies out there enforcing that policy they would basically go on youtube and if you had gameplay clips trailer clips or nintendo music they would copyright strike your videos or at least take them down if they didn't give you a strike so they do a copyright takedown instead of a copyright strike this was a very rough time to be a nintendo youtuber because you had to talk about games without really showing them uh yeah not not very fun nintendo then implemented a white list a little bit during the we you era and that white list wasn't exactly great there were a lot of games left off uh and it just it wasn't a good time yet to be like a nintendo ambassador or nintendo something or other i can't remember to even use stuff and even then it was only white list available stuff you could use it was just not a good time to be a nintendo youtuber um especially if you were someone who cared about money uh because if you're obviously making a living off youtube and suddenly nintendo yanks your ability to make money on covering nintendo content if you show the content uh it's a bit of a problem but here's the thing nintendo did eventually around 2017 2018 uh change that policy uh they now allow us to freely use any trailers allows to use any video game music so long as it's video game music there is a few exceptions jump up superstar is an example was actually produced by a major music company and they refuse to release that copyright to gamers to use so any remix or any use of jump up superstar will be copyright claimed but if it's a a song that was made you know by nintendo's internal symphonies and all that stuff you can use it freely in videos you can use their trailers you can use everything pokemon games are a little different because the pokemon company has different policies and they're a lot stricter pokemon youtubers will know all about this uh but in general metroid drive you can do whatever we want breath of the wild too we can do whatever we want we can show as much gameplay as we want i can have commentary i cannot have commentary doesn't matter nintendo just let us really use it in fact it's so actually good for nintendo you can emulate the games emulate them in 4k like the breath of the wild emulated in 4k show it running at 60 fps sometimes even higher you could throw mods in it and you could put all of this stuff right here on youtube they will not stop you and they do not care usually um in katakus article they had a video clip that they themselves put up on youtube this video clip was showing the game running on pc in 4k showing metroid red running in 4k again nintendo doesn't care in fact nintendo only takes down videos like this when they appear before a game comes out because clearly they're either breaking nda or they have an illegal copy of the game so nintendo will take out videos before release but once release happens emulation they don't really do anything about it they just let you throw it up there because hey it can be your legal right then they can't prove that you have legally obtained the game so again they'll just let it go but this kotaku article got a lot of attention and some people might point to my video but it's not just my video right there was actually a lot of attention on twitter and several other youtubers and news outlets that talked about this uh that said you know what it's kind of a bad look for kotaku who was sent stuff from nintendo to then turn around and talk openly about pirating a nintendo game that just came out this wasn't talking about pirating n64 games compared to nintendo's n64 online service this was talking about a brand new just release game within 24 hours of its release date and how amazing it is on some other platform and that hey um you should just go download it or like you know hey you only need a pc you don't need to buy the game you don't need a switch you don't need any of it just go just go have a pc and go enjoy it in 4k for free it was it wasn't said and so little of words but it wasn't a good look well nintendo's ninjas are they're real they're very real we've heard enough stories about not only them doing stuff online but doing stuff in person uh to recognize that nintendo and their lawyers and their team behind the scenes takes this stuff very seriously now we don't have any evidence that kotaku itself has been blacklisted which is something we said was a possibility for those who don't know what blacklisted mean basically means nintendo stops talking to us they stop responding the questions they stop allowing interviews to be happened and obviously more importantly they stop sending you early copies of games and consoles that obviously can affect kotaku's bottom line because having this early access and having the ability to do interviews does drive viewers i could just speak that for myself i you know was able to somehow get access to a switch OLED even before the media did and yeah we had a little bit of increased viewership on those switch OLED videos because not many of us had one that early so yes early access absolutely can help you with viewership so having that early access is even more important today when you're competing against non-traditional media you know such as youtubers like myself i don't get early access to things usually so um them having early access gives them a benefit uh to do coverage that i can't do you guys saw what i did with switch OLED i actually would like to do that kind of coverage with games and consoles moving forward i'm just not afforded the access to do it but here's the thing um while nintendo is not going to be able to legally make that article go away they can request kotaku things now but there's nothing they can legally do because kotaku is free to talk about whatever the hell they want to talk about nintendo can't do anything about the freedom of press but nintendo did do something that they haven't been doing for years they took out their videos showing the game running on pc and 4k despite the fact that they don't do this and there's other videos of it running in 4k on youtube nintendo hasn't touched they only touch kotaku and here's what it says video unavailable this video contains content from nintendo who has blocked it on copyright grounds and good luck with kotaku trying to fight against that because technically nintendo's always had the legal right to take out videos and they could pick and choose any video they want to take out and they chose specifically to take out kotaku's video talking about and showing the game running in 4k on pc now i can't take out the article because of freedom of press but the video itself shows gameplay of their game so they can take it out um again this is a very interesting sign because nintendo didn't do this really until late yesterday right this wasn't something they just did over the weekend nintendo waited until it was business week and they said oh yeah um kotaku and maybe they even made a kotaku request to take it down themselves and kotaku said no and then nintendo said screw it we're gonna take it out it's a very interesting thing and some people are gonna say boo on nintendo of course screw you nintendo why are you flexing your muscles like this but the bottom line is there is sort of an unwritten agreement between companies that send you products especially early access to products and the people covering them now look nintendo absolutely 100 cannot and should not be influencing reviews and impressions of products and people sometimes think if you're sent a product early that already can influence and there's not really any evidence of that per se although i'm not going to say some people aren't more likely to say nice things like you know if i got metroid drive early when people suddenly think my impressions of metroid drive which don't come out till either today or tomorrow um are going to be tainted maybe they probably already think that just because nintendo is in my youtube channel name the thing is you can't do much about that but um there is like this unwritten expectation where you're not going to promote people do illegal things with the game so close to the game coming out now if they had talked about you know playing this a year from now two years from now you know if nintendo refused to drop prices and the sales appear to be really low and they talk about that kind of stuff maybe nintendo just turns turns the other cheek and moves on they have other big games coming out that they can worry about uh but the thing is this is a critically acclaimed masterpiece it is right up there to be potentially game of the year it was less than 24 hours later and kontaku was telling you how awesome it runs on pc which already was probably going to irk nintendo and then openly talked about piracy in relation to metroid drive so like and by the way they talked about it in a way that made it sound like it's okay to pirate it i know they're updated clarifications as we are not advocating for that but they are at the same time they even mentioned how much they support they support you know emulation for the purpose of preservation which i i gotta say something about this um this is just my personal take preservation doesn't necessarily mean get to play whenever you feel like game preservation is just the idea that a game is never gone forever so it's where you take a game like metroid drive you put it on a modified switch you dump the files on your computer and then the files are all you upload those files to a cloud drive or whatever and those files are always backed up remember the legal precedent technically isn't that you get to play those files the legal precedent is that you can back them up and a lot of this has a main test in court so who knows anything about that and i'm not saying that emulators themselves are illegal they're only illegal if they're using source code here's the thing when you look at um just the idea that you know they're saying we support emulation but then also hey you know people have a right for game preservation game preservation it's not about playing the game game preservation is about the files not vanishing um and by the way the whole point of backing the files is so you can be able to reflash them to something and play them on the original system it's a whole mess of stuff bottom line is game preservation has nothing to do with a readily available brand new game that you can walk into any store right now and buy a physical copy or download digitally the whole argument of this article was about pirating metroid dread and kataku's defense was simply hey um we don't promote pirating games also emulation is amazing also by the way this entire article is about this it it's kind of like kataku is realizing what they did and talking out of one cheek and nintendo is like you know what we've had enough of your bullshit kataku and we're going to take all the video now i know some people are still going to defend kataku and that's totally fine that is your right i will say this kataku is probably one of the last journalism website gaming journalism websites on the planet that should be defended um this is just a small minor thing in the grand scheme of things that has done um there's been arguments in the past they've even been busted for paid reviews so i i'm not going to go too deep down the rabbit hole here uh but kataku has kind of sort of become i don't know is it like the dead spin of like the the video game world is that the national inquire i don't really know what we say about kataku these days most of the really really good writers are long gone stefan detillo left obviously um jason left station schreyer left so a lot of the big names that that actually would produce some really good content sometimes i've already moved on so it is what it is um nintendo's obviously not happy i don't know if kataku will ever inform us if they've been blacklisted and i guess the the the time to find out is maybe when we get to like shimigami tensei five time and if they don't get a review copy of shimigami tensei five because they might already have a review copy of mario party at this point but if they don't get a review copy of shimigami tensei five or they don't get a review copy advance for one plus two reboot um that will be very telling that nintendo has thrown them on the shit list which i think some people think should have been coming a long time now so i don't feel bad for kataku whether or not you support what they did or not is kind of irrelevant i said nintendo is going to be pissed and i was right nintendo is clearly not happy and is going out of their way to do things they just don't do it anymore all right folks i am just a little bit just from the nintendo pride hopefully this was a bit of an entertaining look at things um if it wasn't i apologize for wasting your time i do have another video coming later for actual news uh we have some sales updates for switch olad and some other things to talk about so we'll get into all of that later today but i really wanted to update this story since it does appear that nintendo is pretty pissed and they are doing everything they can at least legally to uh take out some of this kataku content all right folks i will catch you guys in the next video