A "Do Not Forgive Nintendo" Hashtag Has Been Going Viral in Japan

Oh how people can defend a bootleg copy of a game 🤦

I #DoNotForgiveSOMEONE for coming up with this sooner.

Oh, gosh...

#WeAlwaysForgiveNintendo

Out of control

I can't remember the last time I was this excited about video games.
If there's never another Direct will I feel this way forever?

This is getting to a point, where I have to wonder waves of downsizing will hit several gaming news outlets, once the directed was broadcasted.

#DoNotForgiveNintendoLife

Isn't the true souls of the "fanboys" of the other systems?

They haven't forgave Nintendo for leaving the complexity of the Nintendo 64.

Seriously. I thought it had to do with a meltdown of PS4 and Xbox fans since the Switch outsold everything last year. Haha. Luckily, it was everything but that. Funny stuff.

Hate will always go viral.

Nintendo says sorry about the direct trolling. We are talking jape of the century april,may,june,july and august fools. I know i''m quoting red dwarf but it could happen lol

Well looks like half the fanbase has been put in the loony bin waiting for this direct. I expect the rest of us to follow shortly.

Wait, people were defending a game that copied Nintendo's pattern? lol It's good that the hashtag took such an interesting and hilarious turn.

I don't think Nintendo deserve to get away with this,
every time Nintendo get attacked by patent trolls people rush to defend them
Now they are doing the same thing
I looked up the game and it's clearly not a rip off of any Nintendo game.
Judge forself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRHMHrWMItk

@bones Ninty got us hook, line, sinker, rod and copy of Angling Times

@May_Nyan I haven't been following since the first story on the lawsuit, but there is more than one point of contention, so I can't really judge it. Seems a bit Pokémon Rumble, but only on a surface level.

There are elements Nintendo wants to protect. I don't see anything in that video that's obvious, though. I mean, in general, it looks like at least 100 other mobile games none of which are made by Nintendo, and the one item mentioned in the other article: virtual stick touch controls has been in almost every action mobile game since 2009 or so.

It could be Nintendo is going to try and stop everyone from using that control scheme, they certainly pioneered a few similar schemes with the DS and stylus, but that seems unlikely.

I'm guessing there's something stronger in the suit we don't know about yet.

I have to say the cutting but amusing sarcasm in the Nintendo defense camp is pretty great.

I have too many awesome games to play and not enough time. #DoNotForgiveNintendo

Sorry we're Trolling you. Please understand. Lol!

Because of Switch and its stellar first year line-up, I wasn't able to get to all of the PS4 games I wanted to play in 2017. #DoNotForgiveNintendo

Trolling or not. They got everyone on board. Follows spiked on nearly any company involved (Riot being the minority here in the increase).

Overnight alone Nintendo expanded their social media reach by over 300 followers. Whoever is demanding the jobs of these people because they feel slighted obviously doesn't know how marketing works.

Somehow I'm reading that hashtag like it's being said by Segata Sanshiro

Oh for goodness sake, it's a bootleg, get over it!!

The love of Switch in japan is kind of surreal. I wouldn't be surprised if, in Japan, Switch goes on to become the #1 console of all time at this point. It's beyond being a popular item there, it's becoming an iPhone-esque cultural status symbol.

Mother 3 still not legally available in the west.

#DoNotForgiveNintendo

@MarioThePainter It isn't, did you even look at the game?

Nintendo did not bake me cookies.

#DoNotForgiveNintendo

I thought they'd use it sarcastically but in a different way.

I'm not sure I'll ever forgive Nintendo for abandoning the home console market.

wow that's was confusing and seemed like a pointless story

I will legitimately not forgive Nintendo if they localize Mother 3 and kill one of the last great running gags in the industry today.

I'm just not seeing the similarities between this and Zelda, and even so I would opt for Zelda between the two. Nintendo basically has a direct deposit from my bank account and I'm fine with that.

@HeroponRiki
#buythemother3englishreproductioncartandstopcrying

No GBA slot.

#DoNotForgiveNintendo

Well, I won't forgive NOA for carelessly invoking the spirit of Chibi Robo for some cruel tease. Just go away.

This sounds exactly like US political hashtags and how they get co-opted.

@progx maybe that's because the Switch didn't outsell everything. The PS4 was the best selling console of the year by some margin

Lol, I initially thought this had to do with the underwhelming Direct-mini!

#IDoNotForgiveNintendo'sSwitchEShop

I read on Gameinformer that they are asking for 40 million yen, not dollars. You should correct your previous story.
It's roughly 300k dollars.

How can a piece of hardware be “god like”. That’s kinda insulting to any actual deities, isn’t it?

Well best way to defeat a message is to appropriate it, then distort and undermine the original meaning/intent.

...As the world turns...

They tweet the hastag, as they wait in line for a Switch raffle and game pre-orders

@AlexOlney Just like American politics. Ba da ba ba baa still lovin' it

@shani how did they abandon the home console market when the switch is a home console that can become a handheld. It's a hybrid but first and for most a home console above all else but it also depends how you use it since people are gunna use it for its portability since not everyone has time to just sit down and play at a tv.

@edgedino Nope, the Switch is just a portable/tablet (from a technical standpoint).

Ask all those millions of people who bought the Switch (two thirds of them are using it mainly as a portable) or all those developers (they especially see it as a handheld) who are suddenly interested in developing for or porting to the Switch. They all name playing on the go as the main appeal.

The fact that people like me are almost exclusively using it at home doesn't change that. Just as hooking up an android tablet or Windows Laptop to your TV doesn't make it a stationary PC.

Crybabies lol

@shani sure from a technical standpoint but that still doesn't change the fact that it is still a home console. The fact that portability is a main appeal is due to the fact its a hybrid console that can do both but is still a home console even if other people see it as a portable doesn't change the fact that it is both.

@edgedino Well that's a bit like getting a coffee on the go (in a paper cup), bringing it home and claiming that it's home-brewed coffee as well. ^^
You can drink that (by now cold) coffee at home too, but it wasn't brewed with your coffee machine at home.

Ok I admit, that anology doesn't quite get my point across but it's the first thing that came to my mind.

@shani don't worry you have time to come up with an analogy that makes sense.
On a side note though I do use it more in handheld mode but i know it is a home console but Nintendo has been trying to make a hybrid since the GameCube with its handle, though i wouldn't be surprised if they soon released a new switch purely for portable only with non detaching controller parts and a flipping top that folds onto the back to keep it protected and can play other switch games.

@carlos82 Links or it didn't happen

@TossedLlama Best comment I've seen in a while