 Today should be a glorious day for Nintendo fans the Super Nintendo classic edition released Golf story just released yesterday. We're on the tail end of 18 new games releasing for the switch We just had this positive news in a video. You can watch up here That was all about how switches software situation in year one is breaking records for Nintendo systems And everything seems to generally be going well for Nintendo. It doesn't mean there hasn't been issues You know the voice chat even though they did patch some things with that So some issues with communication on switch and everything is not perfect But this is a better very very good year for Nintendo, especially for Nintendo switch But Nintendo couldn't just let sleeping dogs lie. They had to do something today that can directly affect us potentially and Is going to affect all Nintendo content creators and it's going to affect you guys as well Let me read this little email that I printed off. I might throw up a screenshot of it of What Nintendo sent me this morning? Then this is an update on the Nintendo creators program something we haven't talked a lot about It says thank you for using the Nintendo's creator program We have updated the Nintendo's creator program user guide with information on how revenue generated during live stream broadcasts on YouTube Will be handled in the Nintendo creators program Livestreaming on YouTube falls outside of the scope of the Nintendo creators program This means that you cannot broadcast content on YouTube live From the account you have registered to the Nintendo creators program Please check the user guide for details. Thank you for your ongoing support of the Nintendo creators program as YouTube continues to evolve We will work to provide you timely information to help you manage your account with the Nintendo creators program In short Nintendo is saying that if you use their creators program, which a lot of youtubers do Because we don't have a choice really there's some of my videos that have been ran through that creators program that You cannot live stream Nintendo games on YouTube. That's what they're saying as for what the punishments are they infer That the fact that you cannot do it means one you can get kicked out of the Nintendo creators program Which would take all your revenue away from all the videos that you have registered through it and Two they could go as far as to get your account shut down for for going against this because again Nintendo does own all the the copyrights and all the legal rights to the games So they do not want you live streaming it They can shut it down though this obviously some of this might be in response to the PewDiePie situation where the developers of a particular indie game went after PewDiePie because of how their feelings on how he's been acting and we're gonna take away DMCA claim all his videos on that game And try to get it so PewDiePie could no longer live stream that game as well And they had every legal right to do that, but Nintendo is doing this blanket thing They're not targeting an individual youtuber that's causing problems They're targeting every single Nintendo youtuber that exists Because all of us at one point or another are probably using the creators program even if we're not using the creators program Nintendo's claiming our content anyways and So yeah, basically Nintendo is saying sorry you live stream our games We can get your account shut down on YouTube That's what this all boils on and you could say I'm overreacting But I'm really not because this is what it means when when Nintendo puts out a blanket statement saying you literally cannot use Our games in live streams that that's what it means It means that they will the only way to to prevent you from doing that is to take action against your channel And that's just oh man is that so frustrating as a content creator and For some people this might not matter that just means The Nintendo does clarify in their FAQ that you could that this only applies to YouTube So, you know if you're a youtuber you can just push your audience over to twitch and you can live stream on twitch But there's also this caveat that since obviously Streaming on YouTube has gotten more popular YouTube itself. I actually find YouTube's streaming platform better than twitch is you can stream at higher quality Users don't have to subscribe to you or you don't have to have so many subs on your thing To make users be able to select quality so like I can stream at 1080p But if you can only watch at 480p, that's fine You can do that twitch is kind of a stickler about that kind of thing So like I can't really stream at 1080p on twitch because there's a lot of people that won't be able to actually Stream my stream, which is a problem Twitch itself has some issues with which is a great platform I have nothing against twitch But there's also this the reason that I think YouTube streaming is really blown up is that you don't have to divide your audience for your content delivery Right. I want to still live stream games for you I still want to create all these videos that I do but I don't want to have to I can stream the twitch I have streamed a twitch in the past, but I don't want to have to tell my YouTube audience Hey, look I'm live streaming you want a live stream. I got to make a quick video here and tell you hey Go over to our twitch channel tonight and watch this live stream. I don't want to have to do that I shouldn't have to do that I should be able to stream right here on the same platform that I'm putting videos up on and YouTube lets you do that Nintendo's taking your right to do that away. So obviously, what does that mean for me? What does that mean for us? What does that mean for our live streams? Well, I'm still going to try to live stream. I don't know what Nintendo is gonna do I don't know if they're gonna shut down my channel You know, I'm going through this it says the update of Nintendo's creators program user guide So maybe if I stop using the Nintendo creators program, this will no longer apply to me. Maybe I don't know I never really officially joined the creators program. I've only submitted individual individual videos into it So I have used it I rarely use it if anything I try to create content that works around the creators program So I don't need to use it so I could just you know deal with all the revenue side of things on my own I don't really know what's going to happen. All I know is me as a content creator I'm going to continue streaming Nintendo games right here on YouTube until Nintendo does something to my account That makes me not able to do that anymore And I really hope that doesn't happen and the thing is this affects people Nintendo even works with right? Nintendo works with content creators like CND and you know Lamar Wilson and if they live stream Nintendo games now They could you know in theory have their channel get shut down now is Nintendo going to go as far as the Effect people that they like to directly work with probably not they probably have those kind of content creators even game explain I don't know white list where they can pretty much do whatever they want I mean we see game explain upload video game trailers, which Nintendo definitely doesn't want you to do But again, if you make it to that white list you could do whatever basically You're an ambassador for Nintendo at that point. We're not a Nintendo ambassador we're Nintendo fans here at Nintendo Prime and When they make policies like this it just infuriates me as a content creator it Nintendo The creators program is bad enough Mostly because even if I wanted to abide by it like if I if I cancel my contract with BBTV and just join the Nintendo creators program full-time I can only do the games that they let me do I can't I can't talk well I can talk about but I can't show gameplay of any games that aren't on the white list Which by the way a majority of Nintendo's classic library of games are not on the white list So I wouldn't be able to show you most of Nintendo's content over the years that sucks even some of their new content I can't show you I wouldn't be able to show you things like from Ubisoft or all these third-party companies Without Nintendo taking money from it and does Nintendo have any rights to those videos? No, but they would if I fully joined the Nintendo's creator program anything I created that didn't have Nintendo gameplay Nintendo would also take a 30% cut Which by the way is worse than my contract with BBTV and BBTV They give me stuff in return right Nintendo's creator program is a program that they just Allow you they allow you to make revenue That's all Nintendo creators moment. It doesn't give you access to games It doesn't give you any other benefits other than we will revenue share with you We will allow you to use gameplay footage and if you fully join our Our program and make it so every videos, you know under falls under the creator program thing Then we will we will allow you to create content But we're always going to claim 30% of revenue giving nothing to return So you could create a podcast as an example like we do that has no gameplay footage and Nintendo will just take a 30% cut And you get nothing in return from Nintendo Whereas with BBTV I get access to specific apps that I use through Chrome that helped me with my videos and helped me work on tagging I get I have one-on-one personal training right now that I every two weeks I'm in a class that that helps me improve the quality of my videos and quality of my thumbnails the quality of my titling Uh, I have it. I'm in audience growth programs. I have direct contact with youtube now. I did not have that before uh, but through uh Through BBTV they've got me in contact with youtube so I could talk to people at youtube about how to help my videos Stop getting claimed by nintendo or stop getting claimed by x y and z What workarounds I can do gameplay footage what workarounds I could do with this What workarounds I can do with that But in general most of my videos are not claimed by nintendo The thing is something gets claimed for my live streams live streams always get claimed And that's fine. I don't really live stream with the intent of making ad revenue anyways So that doesn't bother me that they claimed it. It's never bothered me It was never going to prevent me from live streaming nintendo games But this is something that literally nintendo saying no and because they have an automated system that's claiming my live streams I actually do worry that eventually nintendo is going to issue a dmca strike against my channel Uh, because I continue to live stream nintendo games. I don't know what's going to happen I don't know what the future means I don't know just because nintendo has the power to do this now doesn't mean that they're going to do it Uh, but the fact that nintendo is essential to say sorry you cannot live stream Uh, that that sucks. That's a shot And I love you nintendo. I want to work with you. I want to go to your events. I want to support you I want to keep showing off your games to the world And showing how much I love them or if i'm critical of them or they could get better But you're making it harder and harder for that to happen And it sucks And I as much as this makes me want to head on over to twitch and we do have a twitch at twitch.tv.com Dot com slash. I think it's uh nintendo prime tv Uh, I believe is the url. I'll have a link to it down in the description You can go over there and I'll try to put all of our live streams from youtube also on twitch Uh, and maybe even encourage people to go watch us on twitch more than they watch us on youtube I don't know but this is Because if I if I do end up getting the dmca strike, I am going to have to stop streaming on youtube So I guess now is the time for me to say hey go over and subscribe to our twitch channel I'm gonna have make sure every single live stream we do here at nintendo prime is on our twitch So if the day inevitably comes and I have to switch you guys will at least already be over on twitch Uh to enjoy that content anyways folks I am Nathaniel ruffles from nintendo prime if you like this video, you know what to do and if you dislike the video Hit that dislike button. I hope you guys are enjoying your snes classics today Your switches your 3ds is your we use your we use your ds is your whatever system you happen to be playing on If you're emulating whatever I don't support it, but if you're doing it, I hope you're having a good time love you guys Sucks nintendo's doing this, but whatever What am I gonna do right? I'll catch you guys in the next one