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This type of content by the DHS could literally damage Nintendo's brand, and all of us are painfully aware at how strongly Nintendo protects their brand. I'm fairly sure they WOULD throw the weight of all their lawyers against the administration for even daring to associate human rights violations with them.
The trick is to reply to posts about it saying something like “I can’t believe Nintendo are supporting the actions of ICE. I refuse to let my kids anywhere near Nintendo products!”
Ragebaiting Nintendo into suing the Trump administration is such an absurd situation and I'm even MORE flabbergasted at the fact it could actually work.
Alternatively: "Using Nintendo music is fine. They didn't go against ICE over it, so they obviously don't care about it"
Exactly this. If I recall, there's a principle in at least some IP* law suggesting that each time you don't defend your absolute ownership of the IP, you are making it easier for others legally get away with infringing in future.
I know just enough to imagine this could wildly differ between patent, trademark, copyright, and whatever other realms there are in IP.
*Intellectual Property, for anyone unfamiliar with or not quite placing the acronym.
The trick is for it to obviously cost them more to not act.
Good luck with that, hasn't worked so far.
Not that you shouldn't boycott the shit out of Nintendo if you want to, just don't hold your breath while waiting for them to do something that isn't profit motivated.
Duh, just get enough people on Twitter to say they'll cancel their Nintendo Online subscriptions and sell their Switches if they refuse to act and they'll do it in a dime.
Also, people literally forced Disney's hand by cancelling all of their subscriptions. Bullying corporations is extremely easy now that we have access to their social media.
I'd say good luck getting sintendo fans to do this, but I'm a delusional optimist.
On one hand, I hope it works and on the other I wouldn't be surprised if the biggest bootlickers would go around mass reporting and doxxing anybody who does this.
Sintendo. That couldn't be a typo. I like that.
Similarly, I have zero hope Big N nintendogs would ever do it too. They're okay with N just destroying competition while they keep producing slop with Pokémon. They have a whole nation that still supports them even if the rest of the world boycotts N.
They did, but the difference there is that disney already took a position and realised they'd fucked up directly (fiscally, disney absolutely does not give a fuck about morality or ethics ) and then had to backtrack.
Nintendo haven't (actively) taken a position yet, if they do then they'd have to face the backlash of whichever way that went in the court of public opinion.
by not taking a position they only get the backlash from the passive "support" of a position.
That is a rare case. If people actually cared and kept their word most non-maga owned news outlets would be out of business. Yet, people still watch, read and subscribe to those outlets despite them constantly posting about how crappy those orgs are. People are creatures of comfort. I imagine most that cancelled their subscriptions turned them right back on once they heard Kimmel was no longer suspended. Most major retailers and companies that dropped their DEI policies saw little to no loss.
Companies respond to big money, if enough people turned away from those companies they’d behave very differently
This is more important
It could, but fighting over it definitely will.
Even without any reprisal from the administration; the hypothetical lawsuit would be a very public affair. Nintendo would be inserting itself directly into the fight over US immigration law; and approximately no one in the US would see it as them defending their trademark rights. The anti-imigrant crowd would see it as a direct attack on Trump's deportation efforts. The anti masked-officer-shoving-people-into-an-unmarked-van-and-sending-them-to-a-venezualan-contrantion-camp would also see it that way.
In contrast, if they do nothing, no one is going to look at that tweet and think that Nintendo was actually involved or approved of it.
They are only human rights violations when the bad countries do them.
You can’t win a lawsuit against a dictator.
They’re far more likely to send a random Japanese employee to be introduced to Trump as Mr. Nintendo, present Trump with a Pikachu figurine that’s been spray painted gold, tell Trump that Pokeman references make his stormtroopers look childish, and offer a bribe.
I wonder if there is a legit way to get some betting company to cover this, because i'd lay good money on Nintendo taking the shittiest route possible (well, the second in this case, the shittiest would be to actively endorse it ).
Because money.
They aren't quite as bad as Disney so far, but I suspect that's only becayse they haven't been given the chance yet.
Yeah its the Nazi game but the fans still buy it.