Sacrifices to the Church of Nintendo
Why Hacker News recommends it
Pointed to in threads about Nintendo lawsuits and takedowns as an explanation of how the company behaves.
What it is
EmpLemon examines Nintendo's brand-protection strategy, its aggressive legal actions and its relationship with fans and creators.
Recommended by 1 HN commenters across 1 different months, 2024 to 2025.
What Hacker News said
Recommends subjectsigma · 2024-03 · on “Gitlab confirms it's removed Suyu, a fork of Nintendo Switch emulator Yuzu”
These videos talk about it a little: [LINK] [this video] [LINK] TL;DR: forming a hydra-summary of the three: Nintendo’s strategy has been to position themselves as a premium video game brand since the 1980’s. They use high pricing, exclusivity, and close integration with hardware to distance themselves from other companies. Because they want to position themselves as the one and only Nintendo, knockoffs and copycats represent an existential threat to their brand. They also want parents to have absolute trust in the family friendliness of their games and knockoffs could diminish that as well. Because of this they do literally every scummy thing in their power to aggressively pursue and litigate an
Cites indrora · 2025-11 · on “Sued by Nintendo”
See Also: Sacrifices to the Church of Nintendo [1], "Currently at Nintendo" [2], Attorney to Nintendo: WTF? [3], Nintendo tries a DMCA and fails [4] as well as the various deluges of Switch 2 bans for used games[5]. [1] [this video] [2] [LINK] [3] [LINK] [4] [LINK] [5] [LINK]