Nintendo Promotes Splatoon eSports, Without Giving Teams Money For It, Because Nintendo

NoobFeed writes: "Right now, everyone is enjoying the Global Testfire event for Splatoon 2. At the same time, Nintendo is preparing the culmination of an eSports tournament of the first Splatoon, called Go4Splatoon Europe. The Grand Final of that event will take place in Paris on April 1, 2017 and will feature some more Splatoon 2 gameplay. Nintendo is adamant to push at least one aspect of this contest; the part where it’s happening and that they’re involved."

[PhoenixUp]

"In true Nintendo fashion, it shows a garish lack of effort and commitment to the very people it wants to bring in, outside of its own audience."

What else is new?

[Festano]

Classic Nintendo! Oh well. They have so many fanboys it doesn't matter what they do, they'll still love them.

[AzubuEntus]

Nintendo can literally gather fifty pounds of cow turd, slap a Nintendo seal on it, ship it, and their fanboys will still buy it.

[DanteVFenris666]

@azubuEntus

These games will prove you wrong

- 'metroid other M
- new star fox
- 'metroid federation fource

And a few others. If Nintendo makes a bad game their fans tend to go even harder on them. Metroid m technically wasn't a bad game just a terrible metroid game

[bouzebbal]

@DanteVFenris666:

the same and the same and the same licenses.
they aren't appealing anymore. Metroid was fun as side scroller, and the FPS on NDS or Gamecube were fun. The team ninja game on wii was ok, nothing crazy that would prove everyone wrong about these dying franchises.
times have moved, if nintendo are counting on these games to do something then they will be out of this war pretty fast

[-Foxtrot]

@DanteVFenris666

It mostly comes down to main line titles, although Star Fox was made out to be a mainline game I just didn't feel it was.

Main title Zelda, Mario, Smash Bros, Mario Kart and others usually get more of a free pass. We've seen this in Breath of the Wild, things which reviewers/fans overlook yet with nitpick another game for. Double standards.

[cleft5]

It's easy to point at Nintendo and be upset with these actions. But you all do realize that Olympic athletes don't get money for winning gold medals right? They compete because they want to and it is their dream to push themselves that far and earn that spotlight. These athletes get money from sponsorship deals. There is nothing stopping this from being true of the e sports athletes as well. I think people are far to quick to assume they should get paid for every little thing. The bottom line is that if you want the spotlight and want to be considered the best then you will put in the time and effort, knowing full well that their is no paycheck coming from Nintendo for you. This puts the spotlight on serious players, not on people looking for a fast payday.

[Apocalypze]

I suggest you do some more research , there ARE Olympic athletes who DO get money for winning a Gold Medal.

[thehitman1398]

Lol......
And to think I actually thought there was no way to defend nintendo$ and then you come along.

Thank you my friend for restoring balance

[rdgneoz3]

Countries give out money to Olympic gold athletes..

http://www.marketwatch.com/...
/\ US gold medal was $25k, while a gold medal for Singapore was $753k...

Also fun read, http://www.cnbc.com/2016/08...

[Yohshida]

At least they have first party eSports games.

[rocketpanda]

That's great if we were actually talking about that. Don't deflect what the question actually is!

[Yohshida]

They made a esport game, it could just have been a random game but they decided to make it competitive.

[Daavpuke]

I mean, Microsoft has that too, with its $1 mil Halo tournament. Gears was $300K.

[_-EDMIX-_]

Yeah I don't really know what you're talking about but Microsoft makes a lot of competitive games too.

[Yohshida]

What about Sony tho

[_-EDMIX-_]

@vid- Sony doesn't really have a lot of teams that produced that type of multiplayer content the closest thing I could think of is probably GranTurismo and even that game I would say has a very small Esports presence amongst its fanbase.

I would say a lot of Sony teams more so specialize in single player Concepts.

[remixx116]

MS has halo and gears

Sony has gt sport.

What's your point??

And ninty not even making a grand pot for these tournaments yet they expect people to fly out to Paris to compete in finals.

Even capcoms broke ass pays out to its champions.

[Yohshida]

Also add Forza Motorsport and Killer Instinct

[PixelGateUk]

'fan funding or donation streams'

No idea how this is a solution given the whole spine of post is about Nintendo not putting up money.

[Daavpuke]

That, at the very least, on the lowest possible tier, Nintendo can drive that. "Hey guys, pay this crap for us, we'll get that money there, kthxbye." In a similar way to how EVO drives charity donations for a fan vote-in: https://www.generosity.com/...

[PixelGateUk]

That's charity, the article does not suggest charity lol

[Daavpuke]

"similar =/= "same"

[Tankbusta40]

Nintendo is a joke. I wish people would stop buying their crap so they either changed or died

[Apocalypze]

I hope other Japanese companies do look and learn from the stupidity Nintendo has been consistently demonstrated. Nintendo was QUALITY back in the day but NOW is a different tone.

[spartan112g]

You say that, but Breath of the Wild is a 97-98 on metacritic.

[Silly gameAr]

I'm kind of waiting for the next batch of games. Can't ride that Breath of the Wild hype forever.

[wonderfulmonkeyman]

So because it's not focused around money, it's horrible.
Because Nintendo.
smh

[rjason12]

Don't you know? Anything Nintendo does is terrible. Even when they got highly acclaimed games or sell a ton of games there's always a smear campaign.

[Derceto]

Nintendo knows it doesn't have to invest any money. They are the "CoD" of the hardware division. No matter how sh**ty their releases are, their idiotic fans will just keep lapping up whatever pile of s**t they put out, while drooling at the mouth for more. How else do you end up with such a comical piece of trash like the Switch?

Why would anyone invest money in to anything in that situation, when you have an army of mindless lemmings to do it for you?

[xtheblackparade]

esports , it's in the game.

[chris235]

nintendo is still a thing?

[Platformgamer]

Not for long after that switch p.o.c. i hope

[feraldrgn]

They try their hardest to go cheap & not spend real money, so I'm not surprised.

[Platformgamer]

Splatoon and e-sport in the same phrase is a blasphemy

[Bjorn-c-blocker]

Wow so much anger in these comments.. You all know the switch is outselling the ps4 launch right now? right? The king is dead long live the king.. N4g on suicide watch.