Nintendo’s PR department working overtime it seems, given their recent controversies
(For the unfamiliar: basically, the streamers have to get permissions from Nintendo to stream their games. Some famous streaming groups failed to do so and they had to delete all their VODs involving Nintendo's games after Nintendo's warning.
[I assume other game publishers technically/legally can do the same, but I don't see them practice this without causing a huge backlash from the community.])
Also, they've been pretty assertive about DMCA, and they aren't very kind with streamers from what I understand. (Also, they really seem to not be interested in supporting the tournament communities for their games like Smash.)
Given that I find myself strongly compelled to stand up to this ridiculous behavior on the part of Nintendo and I have the time and resources to do so ...
I am going to purchase, on ebay ... what ? A plain old retail Nintendo Switch ?
Then I will send that switch (or two, or three) to ... who ?
Let's say I have a budget of USD $10,000 - who can I pay to do original, clean-room reverse engineering of this device ?
The goal here would be to publish everything that I can pay people to find.
Suggestions ? Who should I be in contact with ?
Like, what are even hoping to achieve? Aren't modders and the like probably already trying to do what you are trying to do?
And why do you think $10k is a significant amount of money to anyone who could achieve what you want done?
You can buy a decent engineer's spare time for two or three months, if they're being generous about it and particularly want to help. Where would one place $10k that it would meaningfully accelerate reverse engineering the Switch?
You either do it for anything but the money, or the money has to be a lot larger than $10k.
I am hoping that Nintendo attempts to stop me from doing this.
In this one in particular, they dont have to be supportive of anything at all. Why would there be an entitlement to get support from them?
Given the recent events in context of the past 2 decades of nintendo's behaviour, the smash scene would love for nintendo to not be involved at all. There is no entitlement whatsoever for nintendo's support (unless "support" literally just means allowing us to run events with no help of any kind from nintendo other than not shutting it down, in which case it really doesn't strike me as too unreasonable).
Recent cancellations of event sponsorships over the use of a hashtag pertaining to Nintendo's actions in a previous event: https://kotaku.com/nintendo-cancels-splatoon-stream-after-te...
Revelations about past Nintendo activity repeatedly extinguishing Smash events both through strategic and tactical measures, disclosed after The Big House cancellation: https://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1srfu4r
Nintendo cancelling the independently run The Big House event: https://kotaku.com/nintendo-shuts-down-smash-tournament-over...
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"I follow Nintendo news pretty religiously and for some reason can’t figure out what you’re talking about."
May I ask which sources you follow? I'm surprised none of these were covered.