Nintendo may ban sharing of its game content on platforms such as YouTube if it detects violations

September 2 (Portaltic/EP) –

Nintendo ha updated its guidelines for gaming content shared on platforms like YouTube, Twitch and other social networks, so that may prohibit the use of content from its games if it detects violations, such as posting content that harms the gaming experience in multiplayer mode.

The ‘streamers’ and video game content creators routinely share content that features how they play a game of a video gamemake known special features of a title or simply use their images and create compositions that include elements of video games.

Thus, these publications are shared on online image and video sharing platforms, such as YouTube and Twitch, or social networks like X (former Twitter), Facebook or Instagram.

In the case of Nintendo, it allows users and streamers “express yourself creatively” by sharing your own original videos and images, which use content from Nintendo games. However, in order to do so, content creators must respect some “basic rules”, such as sharing this content on “appropriate sites.”

In this sense, one of the guidelines that the video game company collects is that “reserve the right” to oppose any content that they consider “illegal, infringing, inappropriate or that does not conform to its Guidelines.” Now, Nintendo has updated its policies for these platforms, adding to this guideline that They also reserve the right to “not permit the use of Nintendo game content in the event of such violations.”

That is, users will be able to continue publishing and monetizing their videos and channels as long as they use the monetization methods specified by Nintendo, however, in case they commit the violations marked in the guidelines, the company will be able to directly prohibit the user in question from using content from their games.

This is what the Japanese company has detailed in a Update in its Guidelines document of Nintendo game content for online image and video sharing platforms.

Following this line, they have also adjusted the actions considered as violations. Specifically, in addition to the guidelines that were previously included, Nintendo has added as inappropriate content that which involves actions that can be considered as detrimental to the gaming experience in multiplayer modesfor example, “intentionally interrupting the progress of the game.”

Likewise, another of the novelties that has been clarified is that, within the content considered graphic, explicit, harmful or offensive, content with statements or actions that may be considered offensive, insulting, obscene or “otherwise disturbing to others.”

With all this, Nintendo will be able to prevent ‘streamers’ or content creators from publishing videos with its video gamessuch as, for example, the titles of the Pokémon saga, always the company that consider the content to be infringing.