Their latest attempt to give Angry Joe a rage induced stroke.
Cue the screaming nerds. Nintendo has updated their Creator’s Program Rules to include Broadcasting on YouTube Live. Specifically, that you can’t. Or they’ll do… something nebulous in relation to that livestream. Probably claim all of the ad revenue, or kick you in the gonads or something:
Live streaming on YouTube falls outside the scope of the Nintendo Creators Program. You cannot broadcast content on YouTube Live from the account you have registered to the Nintendo Creators Program. If you plan to broadcast content on YouTube Live, you have a couple of options. First, you can broadcast content on YouTube Live from a channel that is not registered to the Nintendo Creators Program. Or, you can cancel your channel’s registration to the Nintendo Creators Program and instead, register your videos containing Nintendo’s IP to the program separately. Videos which had previously been registered through your channel would need to be reregistered individually.
Oh, Nintendo. You do so overgild the lily. It wasn’t bad enough that the Nintendo Creators Program was already a Lovecraftian nightmare of bizarre rules that literally no other company would bother with. As much as I love their games, things like this make me wonder just what they’re thinking.
In case you have the deductive qualities of a slug, nobody seems to like this change. And I doubt anyone will like the next change in the program. I mean, you can make all the videos you like of a Bethesda game shitting the bed. But Nintendo? You want to play Kirby Super Star for the internet? That’ll cost you extra.
It is literally easier to just not bother with them and leave Nintendo videos unmonetized. At least they don’t take videos down, as far as I can tell. And that way you sidestep the continually unfunny joke that is the Nintendo Creators Program.
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