Nintendo Live 2024 Tokyo Has Been Cancelled

What a sad world we live in!

Please, good people. Nintendo Life is big enough to not use Google Translate and its more often than not erroneus translation.

It's sad, so sad
It's a sad, sad situation
And it's gettin' more and more absurd.

Wouldn't be surprised if this is directly related to Splatoon. I love that series but the community around it is not on a good path at all. Either way, it's really sad nothing is off limits anymore.

@Coalescence is that so? Granted I only engage with the community I see when playing the game, but there it always seems so positive.

Are some people so desperate to end up in prison? Such threats with such an impact will inevitably warrant further investigation, and this side of crazy pro hackers (who usually have bigger fish to fry), there's only so much anonymity to realistically boast against such endeavours.

Noooo... Pfff be save people

Sadly just like with a lot of things these days the crazies always ruin it for everybody.

Sounds like the work of King Bowser... Darn it

And nothing of value was lost

@Rozetta It seems more or less accurate on this occasion, but I’d agree that if you need an instantaneous translation and can’t get a professional to do it then at least use DeepL…

Maybe Google Translate has improved somewhat as a result of developments in AI/large language models, but I’m still quite wary of its accuracy.

@Kirbyo The 'Splatoon 3 World Championship‘ is a big event where people who like Splatoon can play Splatoon together and have fun playing Splatoon which is of value to those people and now they can’t play Splatoon together at this event so something of value has been lost.

@Maxz Ah. I see. My bad! Just never cared for Splatoon myself. Didn't realize it meant so much to some people.

I've seen people wonder if it's because of the Splattercolor Screen. Honestly I wouldn't be surprised. I think it's an absolutely terrible special too especially with how it actually does some physical harm to some people.

Still no reason to throw threats out like that though. I hope all this can be sorted out in a fashion as orderly as possible. You just don't treat people this way.

As usual, a tiny group of nutcases ruins the thing for everyone else.

While it's obvious and understandable why they wouldn't disclose so, I wish there was some solid information regarding the motives for those threats, if only to have an idea of the source of the problem.

@BrazillianCara What you said. This is the most headline heavy no substance article I’ve read here on NL. Even if Nintendo didn’t specifically say what the threats entailed if there is more than one then someone is talking about it on 4chan or Reddit or someplace. This sounds big enough that there just has to be more to the story. @Yosher gave it a go but I don’t really know what they’re talking about.🤷🏻‍♂️

Edit: We’ll in defense of NL the article on IGN had only the same info, almost word for word, and no one on Reddit seems to know what’s going on either, though it seems like simply gamers upset about Splatoon and or Smash and nothing like where my mind went - they where requiring masks, no guns allowed, or Bud Light as a sponsor.😝

https://www.ign.com/articles/nintendo-cancels-japanese-esports-events-following-threats-to-staff-and-spectators#

https://www.reddit.com/r/nintendo/comments/18cs9gd/nintendo_live_2024_tokyo_has_been_cancelled_due/

@rjejr The Splattercolor Screen is a new special introduced this month which, when a player is hit by it, makes everything into gray (not gray scaled though apparently) and comes with a static noise. Apparently some people have gotten ill from these effects due to being sensitive to these things.

But even as someone who doesn't get ill from it, the special in question still leaves a lot to be desired. What it is, is basically a huge inky screen being deployed to hinder the opposing team. If the opponents get hit by it, they get the aforementioned effects. But the team that uses can barely look through it either, effectively causing your own team grief with this thing.

Judge for yourself with this short gameplay clip where a player gets hit by it: https://twitter.com/ins0mneea/status/1731077607889006702?t=stwga2JlJRw-XyvUET54Fw&s=19

@Coalescence As someone who's really invested with the community, I completely disagree. The splatoon fandom is very much one of the kindest, most welcoming and diverse gaming communities, especially for an online pvp shooter, which sure sure got their share of interesting fandoms. There's always going to be some toxic individuals, but that's a rare exception, not the rule. I really doubt the community was the cause for this, as far as I know nobody supports these kinds of threats. Granted, maybe the japanese side is very different and I'm just not aware, but I'd be surprised

@Yosher Also yes, please fix screen

Insane to me that NCL has to constantly remind people not to threaten their staff. I was considering flying to Japan to see Nintendo Live and probably would have, had admission not been through a lottery system, I’ve been enjoying seeing the competitive Splatoon matches (even though I need to catch of on Koshien) and it would have been cool to see one of these worldwide competitions.

Hopefully the public can still find some way to enjoy these events live, but given that this is still somewhat new ground for Nintendo, I kinda doubt it, despite Nintendo Live 2023’s success.

Why are people like this? Then those are the same people that whine when companies withdraw from the public completely. Leave other people alone. No one should have to fear for their life because you are mad about a video game. Humanity has got to do better.

@Ryu_Niiyama it's not surprising that a very small percentage of people are like this and it only takes a handful of the billions of people alive to ruin something.

Really sad to hear, hopefully everyone is still okay.

We live in the age of fear.

I’ve recieved my share of death threats, being told I should’ve been aborted in the womb, that they’re going to kill my dog, my food will be poisoned, etc. as a video game programmer and a TV station traffic engineer. Even viewers of TV shows get so invested into the world of the shows they become rabid.

I can’t post the solution to this on this website. I respect their rules. But yes, people have a need for power (one of Six Pillars of Selfishness) that when the slightest thing isn’t their way, they use hyperbolic hysterical rage to try to get a point across.

At the companies I worked at, we just filed a local police report and then ignored them. These types hate being ignored.

Also, there was a spree shooting at an American university recently, and Nintendo (I’m guessing here) might be on edge from that criminal event, and is being extra cautious.

@Coalescence Same, I love watching comps, but it's so sad to see stuff like this happen.

@rotekps_aniger If events were cancelled for every mass shooting in America, nothing would ever happen.

the speculation on the threats being made by splatoon fans totally makes sense unfortunately. of all nintendo franchises, splatoon has the most toxic fanbase by far, it somehow draws in racist and alt-right creeps despite being a family-friendly game (i cant count the amount of racist or otherwise offensive usernames ive had to report, plus "fans" both in-game and on social media just REALLY do not like japanese people. the amount of mockery of the japanese language and "engrish" is WILD, so many splatoon fans joking about japanese people being inherently stupid because their native language isnt english)

so yeah, if the game attracts those types in the west i wouldnt be surprised if the same is true in japan. if only people could leave their... "politics" out of a family-friendly game that is aimed primarily at children

@sunspotty Nintendo is for everyone, including people you do not agree with.

@ZeldaFan83 uh, yeah?? thats literally what i said?

Looks like the Switch 2 is out of the bag.... lmao....

@Yosher Thanks for the link. Seems a weird thing for people to be THAT upset over that they have to threaten people over it but I guess that's what humans are like now. 😝

@rjejr It's just speculation if that's what this is all about (or at least partially) but I mean, it wouldn't surprise me at this point. People get mad defensive over their favorite games.

@BrazillianCara @rjejr - Something smells. It's almost like Nintendo is making this up for some reason.

Does anyone have any third-party evidence of a genuine threat to Nintendo? (I don't buy the 'toxic Splatoon community' idea). Japan is very safe, violent crime is rare, and they would have more than enough time to ensure there is sufficient security.

As some people have said, threats are made all the time to companies. The police should have a better idea whether this is a genuine threat worth shutting down an event. It would be more believable if the event was in New York or some other major western city.

@Prizm It does seem weird to me, this happening in Japan. Enough threats to have to shut down not 1 but 3 events? Feels like this is more of a "Nintendo doesn't want the bad publicity" thing than a "people are coming to get us" thing or even a "Japan is wild" thing. I don't think they go by the American motto of "if you cancel it then the terrorists win" mentality over there.

Hold the event, hire some security, arrest who you need to arrest. 🤷‍♂️

@Yosher I knew you were just speculating, which really is more than the article did, but what I didn't understand was what you meant about the screen. Which is why I thanked you for the link.

Lol if its about splatoon fanboy babys, they should just cancel the whole genre. It will also hurt the innocent, but treats like these need to be punished hard.
Same as wat samurai did with the Waluigi messages for smash. That hey revealed piranha plant. I almost pissed my pants from laughter when that happened, and yeah i love that character.

If people think these threats are just jokes - take a Japanese politician that was running for PM that was shot with a HomeMadeGun and ask yourself how safe are you? And Japan is a relative safe country to start with. Bodily harms threats shouldn't be taken lighten in this day and age. If people haven't forgotten about this event that happen not to far back.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Shinzo_Abe#:~:text=While%20delivering%20a%20campaign%20speech,where%20he%20was%20pronounced%20dead.

What exactly were the threats over?