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Besides being a beautiful website, I was rather touched by their call to action: "Seeking stability only clouds your soul. Fear of failing only kills the seeds of innovation. We must create a more exciting future where people feel free to dream and leap into a world of possibilities. We must create a freer future where people are eager to truly live." It's hard not to love Nintendo. Also TLDR for those that didn't sc…

> Besides being a beautiful website And at first glance, it appears to work fine even with javascript disabled.

What do you mean by 'at first glance'? With JS disabled I just get an empty black page.

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I love Nintendo as much as the next guy but they're hypocrites when they come to comments like the above because they're second only to Disney with regards to how aggressively they chase after their IP. So many fun indie projects have been taken down because of Nintendo. And we're not even talking about commercial games but stuff kids have thrown together as tribute to Nintendo and have put online. YouTube reviews, T…

I don't think this is unique to Nintendo though. I feel like it's a Japan Culture thing. There's a kick start project for Street Fighter history where a studio backed out of doing an interview due to it not being sanctioned by Capcom. When ever I need to work with companies in Japan, it's a struggle of bureaucracy and politics.

On the other hand, Sega is known for being much, much friendlier with fan projects.

Sometimes Sega even hires the developers, as was the case with Christian Whitehead, who did some Sonic ports for them, and then went on to make the critically acclaimed Sonic Mania.

Re: Yamauchi No.10 Family Office

#103

Besides being a beautiful website, I was rather touched by their call to action: "Seeking stability only clouds your soul. Fear of failing only kills the seeds of innovation. We must create a more exciting future where people feel free to dream and leap into a world of possibilities. We must create a freer future where people are eager to truly live." It's hard not to love Nintendo. Also TLDR for those that didn't sc…

Sometimes the comments make you happy you read them. Yours did! Thank you! :) ;p

Re: Yamauchi No.10 Family Office

#104

Besides being a beautiful website, I was rather touched by their call to action: "Seeking stability only clouds your soul. Fear of failing only kills the seeds of innovation. We must create a more exciting future where people feel free to dream and leap into a world of possibilities. We must create a freer future where people are eager to truly live." It's hard not to love Nintendo. Also TLDR for those that didn't sc…

It's so rare to hear about Japanese startups - either becoming successful within Japan or outside. Are other mature East Asian countries going through a similar phase?

Korea has many startups.

There's rumors of a startup scene in China. /S

Greater China has lots: HK (tho not a country in itself, but a special region of China) has some. Republic of China Taiwan has lots.

Singapore has a huge amount.

There's also a lot of people doing more "craft based" or "small business" startups in all those areas, such as cafes, organic or urban farms, manufacturing of various kinds.

Tho that is not the same as VC funded tech startups, some of these things do go that way. There's lots of delivery and gig economy startups. Lots of payment startups. Much of the innovation in social and payment that occurred in the last 6 years has been lifted out of East Asia and copied by startups everywhere.

A good resource for "out of the Anglosaxon / SV" bubble is TechInAsia.

https://www.techinasia.com/

The interesting thing about reading startup perspectives in Asia, is they are very aware of what happens in SV. An awareness that doesn't, unless you are an analyst at one of the big international VCs, go both ways.

Also interesting to note the culture in these places around entrepreneurship, it's very normal for people to consider having their own business. HK has one of the highest "company per capita" rates in the world, tho surely some of that is due to its special economic statuses. I don't know as much about other East Asian cultures, but ethnic Chinese culture is very "entrepreneurial", as in, many people have shops and businesses of various kinds. At least to me it seems to be an acceptable or desirable thing to do at a higher rate than the traditional Anglosaxon culture I also spent a lot of time in.

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We've changed the title now. Submitted title was "The Craziest Website You Ever Did See". It's a good submission (especially because it's not correlated with anything else! https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor... ) but: " Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize. " https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

We realize why. But, I wonder what would make it a more attractive title, because it truly is worth seeing. Amazing! Indeed.

Across all submissions, HN has to push back against the escalation of all the various sites that are truly worth seeing to different subsets of readers.

The goal is to help readers figure out whether they’re interested not to “one crazy trick” or “you won’t believe #7” them into clicking through.

Re: Yamauchi No.10 Family Office

#106
post #39

Besides being a beautiful website, I was rather touched by their call to action: "Seeking stability only clouds your soul. Fear of failing only kills the seeds of innovation. We must create a more exciting future where people feel free to dream and leap into a world of possibilities. We must create a freer future where people are eager to truly live." It's hard not to love Nintendo. Also TLDR for those that didn't sc…

I love Nintendo as much as the next guy but they're hypocrites when they come to comments like the above because they're second only to Disney with regards to how aggressively they chase after their IP. So many fun indie projects have been taken down because of Nintendo. And we're not even talking about commercial games but stuff kids have thrown together as tribute to Nintendo and have put online. YouTube reviews, T…

> So this is often less about protecting IP and more about profiting on retro gamers hobby channels.

I doubt Nintendo’s bottom line is affected at all by this “revenue stream”. It is all about keeping the value of their IP high.

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Japan has strict IP laws with no concept of fair use, so you do need to get permission for a lot of things. That's part of why entertainment journalism like games/music is super bland there. (Of course there's also a big unofficial fanart for profit community, which some companies tolerate because it gets them an artist pipeline.)

Nintendo of America are just as aggressive and, as I've mentioned before, other Japanese games studios aren't nearly as proactive in shutting down fan content. Sega, for example, practically endorse it. As someone who's actively involved in the retro gaming community on Twitch, there is a very stark difference between Nintendo and almost every other studio.

The studios' US branches are usually nicer than the Japan ones; Nintendo is the rare US branch that's just as mean.

Sega and Capcom will try to get you permabanned if you're Japanese and do a monetized stream of their games without permission: https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2020-08-06/hololiv...

And Atlus Japan won't give out streaming permissions even though Atlus US doesn't care at all.

Re: Yamauchi No.10 Family Office

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It's so rare to hear about Japanese startups - either becoming successful within Japan or outside. Are other mature East Asian countries going through a similar phase?

Korea has many startups. There's rumors of a startup scene in China. /S Greater China has lots: HK (tho not a country in itself, but a special region of China) has some. Republic of China Taiwan has lots. Singapore has a huge amount. There's also a lot of people doing more "craft based" or "small business" startups in all those areas, such as cafes, organic or urban farms, manufacturing of various kinds. Tho that is…

My impression in Japan is that startups have traditionally considered incredibly risky and is a liability in getting loans and future job prospects with established companies - but that’s also changing as the generations shift.

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> Besides being a beautiful website And at first glance, it appears to work fine even with javascript disabled.

What do you mean by 'at first glance'? With JS disabled I just get an empty black page.

oops... you are right, my JS was accidentally left enabled
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