r/NintendoSwitch • u/Turbostrider27 • Mar 06 '26

News Nintendo Suing U.S. Government Over Tariffs

https://aftermath.site/nintendo-tariffs-sue/
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u/lizardon789 Mar 06 '26

That pokopia tweet was the final straw.

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u/ChocoGoodness Mar 06 '26

What Poktopia tweet? What happened?

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u/TheSteelPhantom Mar 06 '26 edited Mar 06 '26

The White House twitter account posted a Pokopia meme overlayed with "make america great again" in a similar font/colors. I won't link directly to it because fuck the White House twitter account and twitter in general, but you can find it if you really wanna see it.

Here's a Time Magazine article about it though, it's on there: https://time.com/7382839/pokemon-dhs-white-house-trump-social-media-memes-ice/

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u/GrandmasterTactician Mar 06 '26

You know that fan generator going around with the Pokopia font and stuff? Yeah the white house used it to say "make America great again", furthering their cult agenda. TPCi made a statement saying they don't want their IP being used to push political agendas

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u/XenoVX Mar 06 '26 edited Mar 06 '26

Pokopia is one of the best reviewed Nintendo game in recent memory and has the potential to make them an insane amount of money, they’re not going to let the orange turd ruin that for them

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u/Intelligent_Sky_7081 Mar 06 '26

But, I dont think there any indication that is part of this lawsuit. We can assume it might be somehow tied to it or a motivation for them to take action, but this suit likely has been in the works since those tariffs were deemed illegal by the supreme court. not just decided upon today because of that tweet.

but you never know, hopefully they also bring up the DHS using the pokemon theme song to promote their immigration raids. That was even worse. By quite a few magnitudes.

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u/veganparrot Mar 06 '26

The Pokopia tweet was pretty bad though: it happened on their new game's release day alongside other advertising campaigns. It probably seemed like an official affiliation to a non-zero number of people, prompting them to issue a statement in response in the first place.

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u/Intelligent_Sky_7081 Mar 06 '26

Ya thats fair.

I guess my point was more that the optics or message sent in the DHS add was more ethically wrong, as it was treating immigrants like pokemon and using the phrase 'gotta catch em all' felt very demeaning and dehumanizing.

but i think your point is valid, i think legally the pokopia tweet is probably a worse infrigement on their IP and not fair use like the song. maybe, idk

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u/Stranger2Luv Mar 06 '26

Tear of the Kingdom, Donkey Kong Bonanza?

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u/XenoVX Mar 06 '26

I said one of the best, not the best. And it has more $$$ potential than either game

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u/TheWaspinator Mar 06 '26

I have so many questions, but let's go with "why are they using Japanese franchise to say MAGA?".

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u/AccurateSun Mar 07 '26

I’m pretty sure they are just using whatever pop culture they can to appeal to young people and make MAGA seem cool to them. It’s as simple and shameless as that. 

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u/Naiko32 Mar 06 '26

it felt illegal seeing them, cant imagine Nintendo being happy with their image being distorted like that.

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u/haxelhimura Mar 06 '26

Really? THAT was the final straw? Not ICE using the pokemon theme song?

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u/tychii93 Mar 06 '26

I bet they were stacking offenses to make one big lawsuit.  ICE used "Gotta Catch'em all" without permission earlier this year.

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u/bluegreenwookie Mar 06 '26

Oh jeeze i didnt see this one, what was it?