I have been following this scandal since news dropped a few days ago!

The history of N64 is interesting but this Nintendo Paranoia actually goes back even further, around 40 years ago with Release of original Nintendo Entertainment System (NES). During late 70s and early 80s there was a market crash for gaming due to all the shovel ware and crap that was being released. One famous example was the ET game released by Atari that sold so poorly, that the company actualy buried 10,000s unsold copies in the desert lol.
The other problem is early 80s was the rampant rise of copied games being sold illegally or even JUST friends sharing copies with each other. So when Nintendo finally released it incredibly popular NES console, they made sure to add "Official Nintendo Seal of approval" on all their games to show that it is genuine and not fake. This point in history was the start of Nintendo growing aggressive and zero tolerance on any one that remotely tries to infringe copyright, even if legal because of grey areas that all of us are allowed to exploit fairly.
Its not just a business or copyright issue. Nintendo is a Japanese company with their own cultural approach to how they treat customers and worse, their employees and business partners. You would not beleive how badly they treated their business partners, especially third party companies who made Nintendo games for them. The same issue on their employees and naturally no surprise how they treat customers. Without any of these parties, Nintendo would be Nothing!

The other main problem is this stupid argument against piracy and confusion on what is the actual truth of matter! Pirating software to resell is a genuine problem and i am against it 100%. But to copy a game that is yours, to share with a friend or even to download is fine. The argument against downloading for personal or fair use is that all COMPANIES say that every downloaded game represents a lost sale. This is biggest lie and propoganda in creation of existence. Ok maybe not that big, but still BIG.
Many of us download to try and maybe never play again. In 99% of my case or most people, if we never had the option to download for free, we would have gone on with our lives and never thought about the software again until it was in second hand store for $2. And thats the other problem. Companies like Nintendo, Sony and Micrsoft DO NOT like retail stores that have resell section for used games. The same companies even tried to develop a security system against the resell option of games which FAILED miserably.

The point of all this is do demonstrate the flaws and exploits of Corporations and what they actually think about their customers, consumer rights and creativity in wonderful communties who actually improve these consoles or hardware because they are limited or dont actually follow trends of market. The truth is that small exploits like lockpick or homebrew is not really a big issue. Coroporations mindset is that every shared game is a lost sale. They are convinced so much on this lie that they insist that any form of creativity or sharing outside their closed market places, must be crushed!! They want ALL the money Where large % of that does not exist and they want you to be afraid of them.

All the bullshit about loving there fans, loving youtube channels, twitter gushing, etc etc is just useful PR for them. They ultimately do not understand a big % of their customers because whole point of homebrew and custom Roms, etc etc is exactly because these corporations just sit on their small success and licenses and then do nothing to improve them or listen to feedback from their actual fans.

Sorry for ramble, but i could literally go on and on. Another interesting point that i will end on. Why nOW with Nintendo? Well again its a number of factors but main two are these. [1] With release of Steamdeck and the new reanaissance of handheld consoles that have allowed amazing emulation opportunites. [2] Zelda is basically biggest franchise and money maker for Nintendo. They hate that it got released 2 weeks early because again of number of factors. I gurantee you, it will now be massive success due all the PR on all social platforms. Just look at the post sales data when it finally launches. Proof that coprporations dont want to accept, that filesharing can actually be huge tool for improving their profits. It doesnt matter for Nintendo. Like i explained before, corporations are parnaoid and selfish and brutal. They want all the money despite the fundamental lack of understanding of both Filesharing and even more important, their customer base.

If anyone from these Companies are reading this, hire me as consultant and i will show you what your CEO, shareholders and lawyers simply fail to understand. Fist rule, the more you attack communities and filesharing, the more you drive a passion for filesharing. Every head you cut, five more heads will grow in its place and thrive. Torrenting is a movement that will never die and any actions to crush it will result in alienating your customer base and the growth and interests in usefnet and Trackers!