[porcoda]

I’d guess it’s because the size of the community that gets angry is trivially small relative to the overall customer base of Nintendo. I’d also guess that the average person whose gaming doesn’t stray much further than casually playing Animal Crossing, Zelda, or Mario doesn’t care nor notice when Nintendo does this sort of thing.

[riversflow]

I honestly don't blame them. Couple of reasons.

First, having your assets in Garry's Mod is, in my opinion, a ticking time bomb for those assets going viral. This can be good, however in Nintendo's case their target market is kids and naturally they want tight control over the (squeaky clean) image of their characters. They have spent decades building that brand recognition and association.

Second, the only people who are going to get angry about this are Turbo-nerds, and Nintendo has already turned their back on Turbo-nerds. The overlap between people who are mad about this and who were already mad about Yuzu has to be substantial.

I don't know. I think this sucks, and it's particularly sucky that they just filed a DMCA action and didn't contact the developer directly. I feel bad for Gary.

All in all, it seems that they want to send a message that messing with The Plumber is just about as bad as messing with The Mouse.

[matheusmoreira]

I seriously hope these "turbonerds" as you call them wise up and start doing their thing anonymously so that the likes of Nintendo can do nothing about it.