>Brand the Famicom with their name outside Japan. >Get

>>387342287
What's that page from exactly?

>>387342287
Well, they got their wish. Hardly anyone refers to video games or systems as "Nintendos" anymore. It's now "apps".

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>>387342673
It's a flyer that was sent to retailers.

>>387342932
It always used to annoy me how they would misspell it as "pak" on purpose.

>>387342287
Well many were calling Game Boys and Nintendo unrelated consoles "Nintendo".

>>387342932
>6. Vowels in the passwords or password entry-system.
why

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The same thing happened to Sega.
"The Sega" has become a common term for the Mega Drive/Genesis.d

>>387345218
Because they wanted to avoid developers sneaking expletives in their passwords.

>It's an adjective
What

LMAO what Nintendo wrote that shit?

>>387342287
>mario doing the alt-right salute

>>387345491
Adobe is all kinds of mad that people say "photoshopping" instead of "image manipulation"

>>387347342
Is Mario /ourguy/?

>>387342287
Of course it's a noun you clowns, it's a fucking brand

>>387347643
I doubt it. Is Kleenex mad too?

>>387342673
>Super NES
Every time.

>>387348150
http://www.adobe.com/legal/permissions/trademarks.html#section-4

>Trademarks are not verbs.
>Correct: The image was enhanced using Adobe® Photoshop® software.
>Incorrect: The image was photoshopped.

>Trademarks must never be used as slang terms.
>Correct:Those who use Adobe® Photoshop® software to manipulate images as a hobby see their work as an art form.
>Incorrect: A photoshopper sees his hobby as an art form.
>Incorrect: My hobby is photoshopping.

>>387348960
>the image was enhanced using adobe registered trademark photoshop registered trademark software
really rolls off the tongue

>>387342287
>1980's
>trying to stop people calling your shit "Nintendo"
>2010's
>trying to stop people from calling your shit "XBone"

Im glad we still annoy these companies. DO WHAT WE WAN'

>>387347643
Kinda related, I remember Adobe getting mad at people for pronouncing .swf files as "swiff"

>>387342287
>Nintendo
>high quality

well that ship has sailed a long time ago

>>387349285
You should throw a ps4 from 300ft, anon. Sure it survives!

>>387348960
Sucks for them.

>>387349191

Theres a legal business reason behind the Nintendo one you dipshit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_trademark

You can lose your trademark if it become genericized and you dont take steps towards preventing it.

>>387349376

Are you implying a Wii, Wii U, Switch or DS/3DS would survive a 300 foot drop?

Gamecube and GBA used up the last of the Nintendium, my dude.

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>>387342287
Reminds me of this somehow.

>>387349504
How has Google avoided this?

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>>387348150
They sure are. Every company works hard to protect its trademarks, or they risk having them become generic terms and thus valueless.
https://www.juliandunn.net/2011/04/19/kimberly-clark-tells-journalists-its-not-kleenex-its-kleenex-brand-tissue/

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Well, they got their wish. Now everyone says "Playstation" when they refer to any type of game.

>>387349639
>REEEEEEEEEEEEE OUR BRAND STOP LETTING IT BE POPULAR

>>387349285
It wasn't even true then. Nintendos were notorious for bricking and whatever company made them wouldn't refund.

>>387349504
who gives a fuck if it's whiny control freaks backed by lawyers or whiny control freaks standing alone

trying to dictate the course of slang is something that only a totally detached person would attempt, and thus they earn what comes to them

>>387342287
>sithposting about it 30 years too late.

TSHI: dissapointed in the cooking of the duk meat.

>>387349938
there's slang, and then there's simply misunderstanding the name of something because you're a retard who never questions anything.

>>387342287

>Nintendo is an adjective, not a noun

Thanks, Nintendo of America.

>>387349541
Switch can:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8QCFNAgPDo

DS survived mount Everest. Common electronics do not survive that height.
3DS survived house fire.

I don't remember extreme cases for wii/wii u.

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>>387349662
savage

>>387349626
Better lawyers. There was a ruling on it by a US court this year, ironically I found this out by googling it.

Someone had registered several hundred domain names with google in them, Google challenged them and the Judge didn't think the defense had enough proof the trademark had become generic.

>>387349779
You're completely missing the point. If the brand name becomes genericized then it's no longer popular, it just becomes a medium with which to describe other non-branded products, harming the integrity of said brand. It becomes dissolved.

>>387345218
To prevent kids from spreading passwords like ENGAGE RIDLEY MOTHER FUCKER in Metroid

>>387349779
>REEEEEE JUST LET YOUR BRAND BECOME SOMETHING YOU LITERALLY HAVE NO CONTROL OVER

>>387350093
and then there's maude

>>387350313
and why the hell should we, as consumers, give a fuck? you're talking like we all have shares in kleenex and nintendo

Nobody's missing the point, it's just that the point is completely irrelevant to everyone that isn't directly employed by those companies

>>387347643
Every company that was in this situation is mad because it's bad for business and profits. Same for Xerox, Pampers and others.

>>387350552
But JUSTIN BAILEY is a password and that has vowels.

>>387350281

It hasn't become generic because Google is the only notable player in the search engine market. Nobody uses Bing to google shit.

xbox nintendos are better than playstation nintendos. nintendo nintendos are for babies and autismics just like legos.

>>387349541
Also can survive literally having a fucking hole in the middle of it screen.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBVyF0I2Ruo

They are Lego Blocks and Toys. If you say "Legos" near me I will gut you like a fish.

>>387350938
Okay, yes, it all makes sense when you look at the numbers and from the business' perspective. But putting out memos and notices to retailers, employees, etc. trying to control the evolution of language regarding your product is like a farmer sending emails to the meteorologists telling them that the weather was shit last year and they need to do better. It just comes off as infantile, fruitless whining.

The disconnect between accounting departments and the actual physical world is becoming insanely large

>>387350575
Shouldn't you be playing shuffleboard?

>>387350797
You dense nibbledibble, anon was stating why protecting trademarks is not REEEEEtarded and why they do it. Consumer interest was never the question.

>>387351143

I would like to remind you that Autismics® is not a generic term, and if you continue to use it as such, the next shitpost will be coming by way of our legal team. Here at Autismics of America®, we take the brand we're trying to build very seriously, and cannot afford to have our brand genericized to refer to any act of unrestrained autism. Please be of understanding.

>>387342932

I take it that #23 isn't a problem in PAL territories, right?

>>387342287
That's true japanese autism

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>>387351379
Legos

>>387349639
>you're hurting our trademark!
Why the fuck should anyone care about some companies trademark? What benefit do I gain by helping a megacorp keep a trademark from becoming generic?

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>>387351424
I don't understand the question.

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>>387351664
I never understood why they had to make it purple in America. These colors are perfect.

>>387350558
And why should I care?

>>387351606
nobody said protecting trademarks is retarded, all (>>387349779) was doing was pointing out the same thing I did, how stupid and infantile it looks from the paying customer POV

To the everyman, it legitimately looks like they are complaining about their successful status as a household name

>>387347643
Why though?
Doesn't it reinforce their position as the leading product?

Isn't google happy that literally everyone now says ''let me google that'' instead of ''let me search that'' since it gives them literal monopoly through language?

>>387342932
Funny enough, they're called cassettes in Japan.

>>387352000
only if you're fuckin stupid

>>387351858
You made a reference to a show from 40 years ago, that's obscure enough that the only feasible way you'd know about it is if you watched it growing up. I'm calling you old.

>>387349662
>Now everyone says "Playstation"
This is the second time i have seen that assertion that normalfags call all cidya "playstation" instead of just saying video game.
Is that true? Post some black twitter or facebook or some other proof showing that cause it sounds hard to believe.

>>387351379
lego'es

>>387352034
From the little I understand, if the trademark is overused in common speak, it becomes a generic trademark, and if that happens they can't protect it anymore, meaning anyone can use the name, which means no one will be able to tell the real products from the fake ones, and the produc quality will drop. People will lose faith in the product and stop using it.

>>387352220

Aren't you also a dusty old man by that line of reasoning?

>>387352184
In what way? Seeing some company screech that I said, for example, kleenex instead of tissue paper. It doesn't really help their cause. Sure they are doing due diligence as per copyright law, but it makes the consumer distance themselves from them.

>>387351089
JUSTIN BAILEY was a fluke, along with almost all the other passwords in Metroid, since they're all randomly-generated. The only real password is NARPA SWORD.

>>387342287

A Mustang is a Ford, a Camry is a Toyota.

Is a NES or a Gamecube not a Nintendo?

>>387351664
Nope.

>>387352445
Like someone else said, it's due to the separation between the companies and the regular people.
The accountants tell the suits that the trademark might go generic, and that cost the company money. The suits make marketing put out ads telling people to not use the trademarked name generically. Regular people see those ads and hear the company whining about not earning as much money.

>>387352560
it's just semantics, a NES is a videogame developed by Nintendo, not a Nintendo

>>387352345

Lego Blocks and Toys my Eggo.

>>387351757
Not having the fury of a team of higly-paid lawyers upon you

>>387349232
Did they want us to only refer to them as "Shockwafe Flash format media file for internet use" or something unreasonable like that?

>>387352220
my joke you missed there was that you asked if i should be playing shuffleboard and i 'already was' in the context of my joke screenshot. I obviously got the elderly implication as evidenced by my tabs.

Good morrow to you, sir.

>>387352369
oh

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>>387351664
It's okay when Nintendo does it

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>>387351225
This one still gets me. It cut through the fucking battery and circuit board and still played the game properly, even the rest of the screen worked fine.

>>387352823
>calling a console a video game in the same breath you utter the word semantics

hhhhhhnnnngggfffffppptthhfhfhfuck, anon

>>387345218
Confusing zeros with an O, fives with an S, sixes with a G, etc

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>>387342287
You are like a little baby, watch this

>>387353326
>S
>G
>vowels

>>387352975
So they're going to everyone that uses their trademark generically? THAT'S their plan to improve business?

>>387353398
going to what?

>>387353398
Preferably stores and media

>>387353490
everyone

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>>387353490
>>387353523

>>387353496
stores and media don't dictate which terms become slang for products

>>387342841
THANKS OBAMA

>>387349662
I've literally never heard someone using Playstation as a generic term for a console, most people I know who know nothing about games has said "game system" or "gaming machine" (I've heard Nintendo once)

>>387353178
Nintendium and black magic.

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This thread reminds me of the invader Zim episode that dubs "ADHESIVE MEDICAL STRIPS" over every instance of Band-Aid

>>387353375
>Yo here's my address, pay me you pirate fuckers

The balls on Bill. Jesus.

>>387351929
Murica is special

>>387353249
never said I cared much for it ;3

>>387353375
>>387354031

I would have just sent him a floppy disc with a copy of BASIC and said 'sorry Bill, you can have it back.'

>>387342287
They were mad that people were referring to all systems as "Nintendo" not just theirs. It hurts their brand.

>>387353375
>hardware must be paid for, but software is something to share. Who cares if the people who worked on it get paid?
-Bill Gates

nice quote

but the NES name is
the entertainment system
it's made by nintendo so it is the Nintendo's entertainment system
but it's name
is the entertainment system, the ES.

Frankly I hate it too when people call every console "the Nintendo/Playstation/DS". God it triggers my autism so much. When the 3DS came out I and my cousin were arguing if it could be called a DS or not.

>>387354591
There are people who call the 3DS ''ds''?
wtf

>Hey, anon. Do you want to come over to my house and play the SUPER NINTENDO ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM™?

>>387353375
He has a point tho

>>387354763
normalfags
back in 2012 everyone were used to calling it DS, and it could play DS games and looked like one

>>387354591
I have this problem but only with the original gameboy and the gameboy color but to be fair, there are only a few GBC games that you can play with the original gameboy and most of them have weird color/graphics.

>>387354916
the gbc and gb also have 8-bit hardware. pokemon red/blue and gold/silver are obviously the same engine.

>>387342287
>Having to go back to 1990 to find shitposting material

Seriously this console war shit has gotten out of hand. Grow up and buy a PC.

>>387351929

That was the GOAT console.

>>387355068
What a shitty post. You should be ashamed of yourself.

>>387354868
I mean, it's not completely unreasonable
Everyone called the gbc and gba gameboy, it's not that far fetched to do the same with the Dual Screen product family

And nintendo really blurred the lines with the XL releases

>>387355034
>there are only a few GBC games that you can play with the original gameboy and most of them have weird color/graphics
I don't understand your post do you agree with me or not and did you read this part? This is a good reason why they should not be coupled together but most do.

>>387353375
This completely sounds like something Bill would say, and you can't really argue with him.
Won't stop me from pirating.

>>387355335

He figured out the secret was to stop marketing software to people savvy enough to pirate it. Now you have to use Linux if you don't want to be fucked in the ass.

>>387342287
Xerox & Kleenex would like a word with Nintendo on that.

>>387351929
Actually the lavender was better.

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>>387356341
>Xerox
Posting for completeness, and because I find these notices amusing.

>>387356341
No one outside of America uses xerox and who the fuck says kleenex instead of tissue?

>>387357228
I agree with you about Xerox but i've never been to a place that doesn't at least recognize kleenex as a catch-all term for tissue

>>387345491
The same thing happened to Microsoft.
"The bone" has become a common term for the Xbox One.

>>387348960
>even adobe agree with Stallman.

>tfw americans still call the NES/Famicom "The Nintendo"

>>387342287
Actually, the "Nintendos" are devil machines
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOy2xaqbNQc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilPmPar2SM4

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>>387350174
There's this too, they don't make 'em like they used to.

>>387349376
wow it's almost like it isn't a handheld and was designed with kinetic force not at all taken into account because they assume normal people don't drop their home electronics ever

Like, try dropping your pc, television or dishwasher from 1 meter or more

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Was the N64 ever referred to as the "Nintendo 64 Entertainment System" outside this document?

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>>387357845
>Look at this Pokemon cards
>They are Yu GI Oh
>Jinx upsdie down is a penis and a vagina
>Pikachu, the God's reborn

>>387358674
videogames are cheap toys

>>387359018
????

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>>387342287

>>387349558
Poor little Tim Fuckley.

>>387349558
Is this guy mentally ill? I wonder if his "lawyer" explained fair use to him.

>>387349191
>>387357445
>Give your console a stupid name.
>Be surprised that consumers gave it an equally fitting nickname.

>>387359620
>saw this pic/thread
>wanting to practice his skills™
>half shitposting/halfpracticing
>gimp crashed
Guess no more shitposting.