Games are playable, that's the difference compared to books. We can argue back and forth until the cows come home, but as long as there is no proper jurisdiction it's just a matter or opinion.

In differing grades. Is a Visual Novel like Phoenix Wright where there is only one actual path really as much 'game' as a game of unlimited content, Minecraft?

Pizza? Authentic Italian? YES, PleasE! With mushrooms, bacon, salami, pepperoni, peppers, yellow cheese, tomato juice inside with basil, olive slices and some Italian wine, red of course, to go with it!

Had been without ever returning, an old fan of Nintendo. That was up until and the era of Super Mario + Wario Land games, Pokemon 2nd gen for handheld (never got to advance or DS, if we exclude emulation), super mario (all stars, world 1 + 2, kart), Castlevania games for snes and the amazing N64 (for which i always owned 2 games and downloaded in emulation like 300).

After N64 they COMPLETELY lost me, as well as ANY other company focusing on consoles. Spamming upgrades, renovations, newer models that have to replace the old ones, constant progress, maniacal technological progress and overconsumption, are my biggest turnoffs; as well as my thin and weak wallet's, of course.

For years i was happy sinking in emulation. Of course i did not own anything of what i downloaded and played. Lately, they started suing sites and forcing them remove roms for ALL of their consoles, thing which made me one very angry pirate. And now, this... Guys are way off their heads.

They are not what or who they used to be. And their last good game i played, was REMAKES of good old games of theirs, in advance and DS. They are stagnant and repetitive, too, besides "dick moves spammers" (removal of old roms). The worst. Even worse than Sega. Those two deserve each other. Aw, damn, enough talking about them, we give them passively much more worth and credit than the amount they trully deserve. May everyone stop playing their sh*t and more importantly, waste their precious time, on trying to make others find good old games; doubly so since they banned the free distribution of said games from emulation sites! Let them rot!

Well this is a "BETA" program, so hopefully the feedback they are getting is "This isn't going to work".

Well, duh. This is Nintendo. They've always operated by their own wacky disengaged-from-fans playbook.

Stop using YouTube, people. Find other streaming services. If a service provider isn't providing the service you want anymore, go elsewhere.

Okay. Name 3.

And please no "adults only" services

Well, it will be interesting to see where this ends up going. It's pretty obvious that Nintendo has no understanding of how Youtube works. Take a look at this screen-cap that I grabbed just today on a recent video from their own channel if you need some proof. They wrote an interesting comment in the comments section. :P

Of course they don't know how to youtube, or youpipe. They only thing they know is sitting with their behinds on mario's tube and luigi's pipe.

Let's see. Viddler crashed off the radar...Blip is basically nothing more than a network for The League of Super Critics known as Channel Awesome, Vimeo locks you down unless you pony up...nope, can't really think of anyone else.
This amuses me, but they could just blame the PR guy. I wish they got rid of their useless head nodding PR boss, Reggie. Things were amazing with Howard Lincoln at the fore.

You know, I didn't mind Reggie much until after the whole "Nintendo Treehouse Livestream" that they did during E3. They basically spent 3 whole days showing developers talking about and playing Nintendo games on Twitch Livestream, and then after the whole thing Reggie made a comment about why Twitch streaming support isn't available on the Wii U, stating that he "didn't see what was fun about it." If you don't see what is fun about it, then why did you just spend 3 full days doing exactly that, showing gameplay with Nintendo reps while people watched on Twitch? It doesn't make any sense...

Really? They couldn't see the fun of audience participation, the fact that they were live with a living breathing audience? ProtonJon's Fortune Cookie streams (5 or more games are randomly picked from his titles and then voted on via Strawpoll) are a blast! Some of the funniest moments of my life I've seen thanks to Twitch!

I have to wonder if they were even aware of Twitch Plays Pokemon, and why they haven't even said, 'Hey, that's a cool thing, we _____ it.'

There has been an update on the creators program page basically saying that Nintendo got more people registering for the program than they expected.

https://r.ncp.nintendo.net/news/#list_3

Also, there is an interesting line right here:

"NOTE: (If you have not submitted your channel for registration yet)
If a video within your channel contains game titles outside of the list of
supported games, please remove it from the channel before registering."

Is that "a video", or "a video containing footage of a Nintendo game"? In other words, does the wording imply that if you have a non-Nintendo video on the channel, then it cannot be registered with the program? If so, I guess that they're taking a "You work for us and only us" approach. That seems familiar...NES era, anyone? :P

Sounds more like the mob... Or a faction.

I really hoped no one would sign up for it but if they are successful this could be very bad.

Although the sheer number of channels and videos might make them think twice, although the promise of how much money they could steal from YT channels will keep them going.

Here is what I think the outcome would be: Nintendo wouldn't be able to effectively manage the number of people trying to work with them, and ends up alienating them. Then Nintendo shutters the program, all the while blaming other parties for its failure.

But then, I have filed Nintendo under the same folder as EA and Ubisoft: Good games, bad company.