From Polygon's article, Nintendo will shut down their controversial content program at the end of December, (and replaced with more lenient guidelines.)
Nintendo of Japan's annoucement and Nintendo of America's annoucement.
The idea of the system was to let Nintendo take about 40% of advertising revenue for gameplay of nintendo games. Essentially having a royalty fee. With the system coming to a close, Nintendo is now saying they welcome creators to make content with their games an add "creative input".
Now in the case where no "creative input" is added, nintendo said this:
We encourage you to create videos that include your creative input and commentary. Videos and images that contain mere copies of Nintendo Game Content without creative input or commentary are not permitted. You may, however, post gameplay videos and screenshots using Nintendo system features, such as the Capture Button on Nintendo Switch, without additional input or commentary.
This could be troublesome for people that do TASes, while it can be argued that superhuman gameplay of these games can be seen as the "creative input", it is objectively just gameplay footage without any commentary like a let's play or even a speedrun would have. Although is very easy to tell the difference between a TAS and a Longplay, in the eyes of Nintendo, they may not know the difference.
So what are some thoughts you might have about this? Could this have a positive or negative effect on the site? Do you think Nintendo is doing enough to become more open to online content?
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Now in the case where no "creative input" is added, nintendo said this:
We encourage you to create videos that include your creative input and commentary. Videos and images that contain mere copies of Nintendo Game Content without creative input or commentary are not permitted. You may, however, post gameplay videos and screenshots using Nintendo system features, such as the Capture Button on Nintendo Switch, without additional input or commentary.
This could be troublesome for people that do TASes, while it can be argued that superhuman gameplay of these games can be seen as the "creative input", it is objectively just gameplay footage without any commentary like a let's play or even a speedrun would have. Although is very easy to tell the difference between a TAS and a Longplay, in the eyes of Nintendo, they may not know the difference.
From what I can understand, there would be no problems for TASing in general, as it is considerable as a kind of play with its own creative input. However, it could be a problem in case Nintendo requires the gameplay video to be specifically recorded with official "Nintendo system features", as TASing is necessarily played through emulators.
By the way, there's something I think is more likely to cause problems, specifically for videos of ROM hacks and bootlegs (bold mine):
A11: Examples of unlawful, infringing, or inappropriate content include, but are not limited to, content that incorporates Nintendo intellectual property and:
Violates applicable laws;
Infringes the intellectual property rights of Nintendo; and/or
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Title is a bit off for summarisation.
It's not "shutting down" it's being "revised" or "replaced by more relaxed guidelines".
You can have more of a read about it thanks to the version that Nintendo Japan (aka HQ) wrote about it.
Seeing as you wrote what Nintendo America wrote whilst providing Japan's.
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From what I can understand, there would be no problems for TASing in general, as it is considerable as a kind of play with its own creative input.
I believe that by "creative input" they mean adding your own content to the video, such as verbal commentary, expressing your opinions, splicing the gameplay footage with other unrelated (preferably original) footage, and so on and so forth.
I doubt that by "creative input" they mean "playing the game in an unusual or special manner". It's not that kind of "input" (ie. button presses used to control the game. I highly, highly doubt they mean that with the word "input".)
They explicitly allow so-called Let's Play videos, but from the context I believe that what they mean is the sort of Let's Play video where the player is speaking and commenting while playing (ie. providing additional original material, in the form of verbal commentary). While it's not 100% clear, I think that it's not a permission to simply post pure gameplay footage with no additional content. (It would be nice if they made that a lot clearer.)
It's not clear if they gonna delete game play videos without creative input or don't allow to monetize them. I hope they just don't allow to monetize them
edit: by reading some stuff and watching some videos it feels like this is the deal of more modern games. Like Breath of the Wild or Mario Maker etc. Like Nintendo didn't really like if whole playtrough of Breath of the Wild are uploaded on youtube and then many people just watch that instead of buying switch and copy of the game. It looks pretty logical to me. It doesn't feel like that Nintendo gonna annihilate all those longplays, tases, playtroughs of retro games. But i guess we will see what gonna happen LUL
I believe that by "creative input" they mean adding your own content to the video, such as verbal commentary, expressing your opinions, splicing the gameplay footage with other unrelated (preferably original) footage, and so on and so forth.
Makes sense but sounds a bit too extreme, because it would mean that bare gameplay videos wouldn't be permitted.
There's really nothing to worry about now. I upload direct feeds on Splatoon 2 gameplay and they stopped receiving content ID matches. Commentary won't be necessary, so the usual TAS uploads should be fine on YouTube as well.
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For my part I'm providing commentary (sometimes bad commentary) on console verification videos. The last few have not been flagged. I'm trying to work through the backlog at a rate of one per week at https://YouTube.com/dwangoAC so we'll see how things progress there.
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