RTA in Japan has revealed exactly why Nintendo titles won’t feature at the huge speedrunning event in The Land of the Rising Sun. The team says that they were told by Nintendo that they needed to apply for permission to feature each individual game in the tournament. Therefore RTA in Japan will not be using any Nintendo-owned title for this summer’s event, which takes place 9th August to 15th August. Instead, they will apply next year to feature Nintendo first party video games. The event previously featured a large number of Nintendo games with the iconic Super Mario 64 having the highest viewership of the tournament last year.
Japan: Nintendo games excluded from big speedrunning event as organisers had to apply for permission for each game
smh
When it comes to this, Nintendo are a joke. People get into Nintendo games because of speedrunning, it’s great marketing with not a penny spent by them. But as ever with Nintendo, they don’t want anything Nintendo-related happening without full control over it.
Nintendo has been very anal about having their games streamed for YEARS! Did they not think to ask sooner? I mean FFS, this is the company that’s been issuing strike after strike to well known YouTube creators for creating lets plays over old Pokemon games 😑 seems like they’re just throwing the proverbial adage for a bit of free advertisement.
Literally free publicity that they are missing on because they will probably exploit a glitch in a game and that makes Nintendo insecure