It's finally gotten way out-of-hand, even for me. Gen XI will be the first main series Pokémon games in 30 years I won't be pre-ordering, let alone even buying. First-party Switch games were already way too expensive, rarely ever going on sale, and now we may be moving to an $80 standard. And it seems the main selling point of the Switch 2 in the latest Direct was a bunch of ports. At that price point, there's no reason not to just get a Steam Deck and sail the high seas for first-party titles. At least Valve won't brick my device if I hurt their feelings.

This is why more games should openly embrace modding. A "we're legally not allowed to do this gameplay mechanic" writeup and let the community unofficially provide it.

Yeah, post gen-6 is where i stopped. It felt like the games were really dumbed down, and they leaned way too hard into 3d graphics.

The same thing they've done with lots of emulators, tell whoever is hosting the source to cease and desist or face a lawsuit.

Once it's out in the wild there's not much they can do

"Fuck it, we're doing Pikachu."

Nintendo is why DRM is a thing. The NES CIC lockout chip avoided the 2600's shovelware problem... and created an abusive monopoly, that generation. Nintendo secretly had color screens developed for the upcoming Game Boy, switched to black & white, and left the screen manufacturer hung out to dry. Which is why the Game Gear and Lynx *coincidentally* have the same resolution. Nintendo was politely informed by SNK that they'd be making their own handheld. A year later the Game Boy Color dropped as a secret fuck-you to the Neo Geo Pocket. Nintendo informed Sony they had cancelled their SNES-CD add-on by announcing an SNES-CD add-on made by Philips. At the Consumer Electronics Show. *After* Sony's big presentation about their SNES-CD add-on.

We need distributed source control

*The monkey paw's finger curls...there was much rejoicing.* 

As someone who was 20 when Pocket Monsters came out in Japan and only played Red/Blue, which generation is 6?

Not sure if joke...

As in, distributed storage a la I2P or Freenet, so that there is no central company or person to send copyright threats to

I had to look it up too. X & Y, Kalos region

The X and Y games set in the Kalos ( France ) region. Also the same generation they released Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire ( remakes of Ruby and Sapphire ( Hoenn region, Japan ) ).

> Nintendo informed Sony they had cancelled their SNES-CD add-on by announcing an SNES-CD add-on made by Philips. At the Consumer Electronics Show. After Sony’s big presentation about their SNES-CD add-on. Sony really ended up winning with that one in the long run, though.

Nintendo has been called "Big N" for a very long time, so I wouldn't attribute that to this.

Yes, but that doesn't make it any less of an absolute scum sucking move.

>Never give Nintendo your money yes. > they are devils yes. > with subpar games no. There's good reasons why nintendo games are the most pirated games.

Only through Ken Kutaragi's intense spite.

I'll never understand why Nintendo hates their fans so much. Just because Japanese copyright law is shitty, doesn't mean that you have to be equally as shitty. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think there is a law forcing Nintendo to enforce copyright. They willingly choose to be assholes.