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Let's dive into the first one because Nintendo did something interesting. So Nintendo and Valve sort of teamed up over the weekend or really late last week to block Dolphin Releasing on Steam. Now this story ended up getting misreported in a lot of places and the too long didn't watch version of the 17 minute video I put over the weekend on it is basically Valve reached out to Nintendo and said, hey what do you think about Dolphin Releasing on our platform? Nintendo said, ah we think it violates DMCA, can you please remove it? Valve goes, sure and they use their terms of service that allows them to remove anything to remove it. Nintendo never actually filed a legal takedown so there isn't anything legally Dolphin can do to respond because it was removed due to Valve's TOS not due to Nintendo taking legal action. That being said, Nintendo did issue a response to Kotaku who reached out to them for comment and here is what they had to say. Nintendo is committed to protecting the hard work and creativity of video game engineers and developers, a spokesperson for Nintendo told Kotaku in an email. This emulator illegally circumvents Nintendo's protection measures and runs illegal copies of games. Using illegal emulators or illegal copies of games harms development and ultimately stifles innovation. Nintendo respects the intellectual property rights of other companies and in turn expects others to do the same. Obviously Nintendo doesn't do themselves any favor with the court of public opinion when they are this strict. This isn't a statement that's really surprising, we know how much Nintendo dislikes emulators and dislikes ROMs so this is really par for the course for what Nintendo typically does but it is something that just makes people get more and more frustrated with Nintendo and them trying to state that emulators themselves are fully illegal is questionable at best. Honestly there's only ever been one lawsuit over emulators that Sony lost back in 1999, however that was over a very specific use case of emulators having to do with firmware and a BIOS. We haven't actually seen emulators fully defended in court, mostly because video game companies are probably afraid to take them to court in case the courts just completely favor emulators screwing over these video game companies or the emulator people fearing that they're going to actually favor the companies and suddenly emulators become illegal themselves so there's also some controversial stuff within the dolphin emulator that's including Wii keys and decrypting games which is also still questionable legally we don't actually know because it's never gone to court. Like most things with emulation most of it's never gone to court so emulators aren't blanket legal they're also not blanket illegal it's more of a completely gray territory and this is Nintendo's stance on it. Alright diving into our next story tears of the kingdom oh boy tears of the kingdom remains number one for the third week in a row how amazing is that wow three weeks in a row at number one in the UK how did that happen well all this information comes from Christopher Dring the sales have actually declined 50% week over week and yet it still remains number one now Breath of the Wild itself actually climbed from number eight to number seven but one interesting note on tears of the kingdom sales these are only boxed sales this doesn't include any digital data is it is already almost surpassed Hogwarts legacies box sales in the UK which is the current best-selling game in the UK this year so maybe even one more week even if tears of the kingdom loses its number one spot might still put it ahead of Hogwarts legacies so that's extremely impressive for the Zelda series to pull off naturally Hogwarts legacies going to be a really popular game in the UK it's also a very good game so it's worth the popularity but yeah very interesting to see what's happening with tears of the kingdom and I'm just excited to see those sales continue to rise we'll get updated data later this week to find out if it's still number one in Japan as well so our next story deals with live alive or live alive or live alive I don't you know what I never really figured out how to pronounce it you guys can let me know down in the comments below because live and live are spelled exactly the same so what do you want me to do with that it is what it is well there might be a sequel coming for the game the game actually never originally had a sequel but this comes from an official net square enix q&a where the games producer Takashi Tokita when asked if there could be a live alive to said the following if the upcoming PlayStation slash PC launch can combine for a million in sales and you add that to the switch sales of course it gives him confidence to ask Square Enix for permission to make another one in other words the upcoming release on PlayStation and PC if they can somehow get to a million in sales they are willing to go to Square Enix to be like hey can you fund another one of these I think they just want to get into that autopad traveler situation where it sells a million every time you do that it actually encourages Square Enix to invest and allow him to make another one now a sequel has never existed for this IP before this was an old game getting remastered and coming back so we'll have to wait and see what happens here but it was a fantastic game it introduced a lot of people to this game for the very first time last year and I really hope it does get a sequel so here's hoping that live a live actually sells well on the competition's hardware now next up is our last story but one that I've actually got a bit of a statement on but we got to get into the details because a new class action lawsuit has spun up to go after Nintendo for Mario Kart Tour now Mario Kart Tour for a little while featured a gotcha style mechanic to get new characters carts and gliders on what I was like a pipe system I can't remember what it was called some sort of warp pipe or whatever it was just a loot box let's just call that what it is and you spend in-game gems and you could just get like random stuff and those gems could be earned but are also primarily bought via actual real-world money now the potential class action lawsuit was filed by a father on behalf of his son who's a minor stating that the system promoted using dark patterns which is a term for tricking consumers into spending money there's actually some exact definitions of it and at the time of me reporting on this the FTC does not consider gotcha mechanics random awards for spending money to be a dark pattern as defined by the law now the suit alleges the minor spent over $170 with the father's credit card which was attached to the child's Nintendo account Nintendo discontinued spotlight pipes I guess that was the name of it in September of last year and replaced it with a more traditional shop where you spend money for exactly what you want this is one of many lawsuits over gotcha mechanics in games notably one last October went in favor of game maker take two companies have gotten in trouble for dark patterns in many places in the world but again gotcha mechanics specifically are not considered to be a dark pattern legally at the moment that is well it's argued to be a form of gambling unlike real-world gambling you always get something for your money versus losing your money the majority of the time you gamble for no return now the reason we know about this lawsuit is because it has appeared in federal courts and we'll see what happens we you know I don't really know what's gonna happen with the suit is Nintendo what is Nintendo gonna lose right now there's been many of these class action lawsuits or other lawsuits filed against gotcha mechanics and so far none of them have actually gone in favor of people complaining about them and I think there's a key reason why it's not going in favor at least right now they some places have been trying to push it for a while I mean FIFA they've been trying to stop FIFA and their gotcha mechanics for a long time and yet still aren't able to do it completely so let me explain why this might be the case because the idea isn't that adults are choosing to spend money that's not what's making these gotcha mechanics stop the idea is that it's a minor spending money and often spending their parents money now here is where I chime in and this is gonna make me look like I'm in favor of gotcha mechanics and I want to be very clear I don't really enjoy gotcha mechanics I don't find them to be useful I think it's a just a dumb way a sleazy way a lazy way to make money but it works and some people love it fire on them heroes uses it dragalia lost use it before that got shut down there's a little bit where you know Animal Crossing pocket camp so I get it like this is the mechanic that's very popular especially with free to play games or whatever but here's my thing with the whole gotcha mechanic thing and this whole should it be legal should it be illegal or really why parents in particular are going after these companies I am tired of parents blaming companies for their children using their credit card let's be real that's what this lawsuit's about why was your credit card connected to your son's nintendo account which is strange you actually don't need to use a nintendo account to buy things on mobile devices usually go through the app stores your charge goes through the google play store it goes through the apple app store you don't really need it attached to the nintendo account I don't know how relevant it being attached to the nintendo account really was but regardless of how it was spent whether it was spent through a nintendo account or spent through an app store parents and I am one so I feel like I could speak directly to this I have children ripe in the age to be manipulated by these games I've got a seven year old I've got a 10 year old I've got a 12 year old ripe in the age to be completely manipulated by all these mobile games my kids have tablets they do play them these mechanics do exist in some of the games and you know how my children aren't really worried about it aren't really addicted to those mechanics of spending money I don't let them participate in those mechanics I think parents forget what it means to be a parent when I was a kid we didn't have the gotcha mechanic stuff but what we did have was the ability to sneak things and break the rules and do things we weren't supposed to do or gosh forbid pick up a telephone and call certain hotlines that charge you per minute or even sometimes per 30 seconds and rack up phone bills I did that once when I was a kid there are so many ways that kids could you know do these sorts of things and yes today it's worse it's even easier for kids to do some of these things but it's only easier if a parent isn't doing their job this lawsuit exists because a father's credit card was used to spend over 170 dollars on a game how that child had access to the credit card isn't being debated here however oftentimes it comes up in the court cases and this is often the case why companies win these lawsuits why the hell did the child have access to your credit card it's a fair question we are in a world where all the controls even through nintendo's own account system exist to block charges my children can't spend a dime without me knowing heck right now my children can't even install an application on their tablets without me knowing because I have to manually approve it because I set up all their devices this is the crazy thing about all of this is it creates the excuse for a lack of parenting a lack of paying attention to what your child is doing a lack of knowing what your child is into if you don't know what games your child is playing what applications your child likes to use that is on you as a parent if you don't know that your child is racking up charges on your credit card how do you not know since your child shouldn't have access to spending money on your credit card they shouldn't be able to add a credit card because you can lock down the devices to prevent that so them stealing your credit card to spend it won't work oh and on top of that they shouldn't just freely be adding your credit card to children accounts and then allowing them to try that there should always be password protections uh parental having to go to a parental app and asking permission the bottom line is well I don't actually like gotcha mechanics parents step up be better we live in the world of technology if you are going to give your child access to your phone their own phone your tablet their own tablet do research and accept the responsibility of what that means if I give children my phone they not only need to have a face scan of me to buy something they also need to have my fingerprint and they need to know a passcode and if they know all three of those things or someone get access to all three of those things you know what that's on me to update and fix it and see it right away which the thing is when my account gets charged I get an email so I would know literally within a day if someone spent money on my account now my children's devices they can't do anything they're completely locked out they can only play the games I allow them to play they can only play them for as long as I allow them to play I have set play limits oh and they definitely can't spend anything because there's no cards added to their account if they want to buy something it goes to the parents account and then I approve it and I buy it for the child it is so stupid that parents are passing off their responsibility as parents on to game companies it is not nintendo's responsibility to monitor your child none of these purchases can be made without being 18 or older if they're being made by a minor that is on the parent for not paying attention to their kid not locking their kid down it's not me being a strict parent it's me being a smart one be smart be better what happens with this lawsuit I don't know I would like to see gotcha mechanics go away but also whether they go away or not doesn't excuse your responsibility as a parent because instead of spending money on gotcha mechanics you know what he could have spent money on he could have bought stuff straight from the store and got exactly what he wanted and still spent hundreds of dollars maybe even more because maybe the keyboard wanted to buy everything in the Mario Kart 2 or store and I don't think that should be illegal it's a free to play game it's got to make money somehow so yeah have a store where you can buy things because children shouldn't be able to buy things can we just agree on that if you are a child that needs a credit card to be 18 or older in the United States you shouldn't be able to buy things that's on the parent that's all I have for you guys today and I'll catch you in the next video