Well, well, well. Nintendo has it out for all of the fan sites promoting one of their most popular cash cows. Last weekend, a letter arrive on Serebii.net's footstep from a higher-up from the company informing it and other partner sites to remove all of the sprites and images of the new additions to the already too many for my taste roster now grown to hold 649 Pokemon. While most fans have discussed about what they wanted to have as part of their teams with the release of the Japanese Pokemon Black and White on the horizon and my country's versions coming to a local Game Stop come early Spring 2011, others have thought of this as a silly move. Nintendo had never gone this far to ban a fan site to remove anything in relation to any of their past games. When HeartGold and SoulSilver were in Japan, most of those same mentioned fans wanted to know more about how the worlds of Johto and Kanto were expanded and enhanced. There wasn't a problem about what screenshots could and couldn't be shown. There wasn't a problem with showing off the trainers' character designs or those of the Pokemon. This tactic is silly and one that, had Nintendo done this from the start of the series back in the late '90's, we would understand. We're in 2010! There will be more people leaking images and video gameplay from any and all video games. There will be more "illegal" downloading and music files. Heck, we're still going to be sitting pretty at home with a bowl of popcorn in our arms as we watch films that would had cost us close to about $10 or more to see now in theaters.
Nintendo, beyond angering the fans, if you didn't want anyone to see any of the new Pokemon designs, that only means one thing: You've lost all creativity! In other words, this generation, the 5th I believe, sucks. It's almost saying, "We're sorry that we tried so hard to create more monsters for you, the fans, to collect. We know that you'll going to waste countless hours collecting them along with using Game Shark and other cheating programs but before judging on how you'll catch the clown otter, we need more time to perfect the designs so that you won't be ashamed in plopping down your $35-$40 buying any of our two games." Yeah, yeah, that whole quote wasn't as witty as I thought it was going to be but hey, this site's still new. Cut me on some slack. I should cut myself some lack. Nevertheless, the subject is about three days old, or more depending on where you read about this story. If not here, post your thoughts on what you think should be done if Nintendo tries this shtick again for any of their upcoming titles.
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