There's no such thing as a Nintendo.
Can't have them trademarks become too generic
It's only pretendo
it was all a dream
It's a compliment.Nowadays it's out of fashion, but boomers and their accolades still call all videogames The Nintendos to recognize how big they are to the mainstream groups.ya apagale a tu Nintendo y vete a dormir
>>749241854The thing about this notice to me is how snippy it is, like whoever wrote it was actually offended by the misuse.
>>749242580you can in theory loose the trademark if it becomes too mainstream so to speak, so of course they were offended
>>749242580you make Mario sad with your words. look at him, he's crying big Italian-American boo hoo hoo tears because of how mean you were. You made Mario cry.
>>749242651Hasn't happened to bandaid yet, so Nintendo was safe by the 90's even if it's theoretically possible.
>>749242580He had the nintendo ninjas ready for any old Granny's ass
>>749242393Brownoid logic ofc
>>749242707or coke, or q-tips.is there any evidence to suggest that it weakens anything?
>>749241854Even when we had no new Nintendo consoles we'd still say things like: >Wanna play Nintendo on the Xbox or the PlayStation?
>>749242813https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_generic_and_genericized_trademarks#List_of_former_trademarks_that_have_been_genericizedThere's been some but not that many really and depends on region and their jurisdictions I guess
>>749242813Ibuprofen
>>749243090No?
>>749241854someone tell this nintendo to kill himself
>>749242857Literally nobody ever said that
>>749243328just did
>>749243002Some of the terms listed as still being trademark protected despite their use as generic terms really surprises me. Why the fuck wouldn't "bubble wrap" have its trademark cancelled? It's never called anything else
>>749241854
Trademarks are funny.
>>749243471Nani?!
>>749241854All corporations need to shut the fuck up.
>>749243328I'm no liar.
>>749242651mother fucker you think lose is spelled loose. why the fuck are you commenting on legal matters?
>>749242580When are they not being pissy? It's part of their branding.
>>749243421Whaat, you've never heard of Sealed Air Bubble Wrap AirCap Air Cellular Cushioning Material??
>>749243557Ha ha ha did you hear what Mcdonalds said to Wendys on Twitter? I can't believe they did that!
>There's no such thing as a /v/.
>>749242580They were probably still seething at the gaijin for not bending over and making video game rentals illegal.
>>749242813You have to understand the mindset. These companies hire the smartest most inbred jews they can find for their legal teams. If it so happens that the "other guy" has an even more inbred jew, its fucking over for them in all legal battles. They have to prevent as much friction as they can
>>749241854>snoygger serthingMost raped fanbase ever.-100million karma to ziony
>>749244087I fucking wish. I could be free of you ass clowns
>>749241854what about nintendo tapes?
Lol.
>749244474Absolutely mind broken subhuman
>>749243328That's how we say it in my neck of cali-wali (california to you)
>>749244878lmao nice
I have a nintendo
>>749243090>Not changing 'nintendo' to 'n o'
>>749241854This could have been a cheeky Sega ad
>>749244878>There's such thing as a Nintendo.>There's the NintendoI see. So it's just brown ESLs seething.
>>749245414Did you really think this was funny?
>>749244967California is where I fucked a really aggressive bottom named Mike on the railroad tracks behind a Ross Dress For Less
>>749242223Such a huge "twist" that it was in the instruction manual.
>>749246240Isn't it double twist? He wakes up and actually in the end it was still a dream
>>749245465I legit can’t imagine why even the most devout of tendies would seethe over that. Their fanaticism always finds ways to surprise me.
>>749242769as opposed to videogames for white people?
>>749241854>There's no such thing as a Nintendo>But there IS a Mario>Trust me, you don't wanna meet the Mario
>>749241854I'm sorry it hurts your feelings, but I've been calling them all nintendos for 40 years.there's the original nintendo, then sega tried to compete with their own nintendos, then sony entered the market with their CD nintendos, even microsoft made a few nintendos.now turn off that fucking nintendo and go outside to play, i gotta hoover the living room and send a xerox.
>>749241854Never understood why this upset people so much.
It's funny how the Donkey Kong incident scared Nintendo so shitless that to this very day, it continues to hang a shadow over them. I didn't think an entire company could get PTSD, but Nintendo proved me wrong. They will NEVER forget the Donkey Kong incident until the day they finally go under.
>>749242059I remember the Super Pretendo
>>749247797What incident?
All those intender tapes keep making the kids violent
>>749246587Y-you're welcome...
>>749247857he's probably talking about universal suing nintendo because king kong = donkey kong. i don't remember or know the specifics
>>749247857They got scared by the phrase "it's on like Donkey Kong" because they thought it would weaken the copyright.
>>749244967>>749245587I love a happy reunion
>>749247857Miyamoto was brutally raped by an escaped gorilla named Donkey Kong during the summer of 92
>>749241854How come this was too hard to understand for a whole generation of femoids?
>>749241854Unironically brilliant from their marketing/legal team
>>749248286>i wish women would understand video games better
Nintendo.
Lego getting anal about everyone in America calling them "Legos" still gets me when no one in their right mind would call them "Lego bricks" as that's just more words and the only "Legos" are the bricks themselves and the brand itself is "Lego". Everyone gets it.
>>749248428I can't even imagine how they could believe that anyone would give a shit about their trademark. It's just such incredible corporate retardation.
>>749241854>You can't say the n-word. It's our word.
>>749248509Common usage isn't the issue. The issue is what might happen if a lawsuit occurs over the right to use the name and a judge rules that the name is ubiquitous enough that it can no longer justifiably refer to just the specific product owned by a specific property.These rules exist to protect companies from other companies, not to protect them from the consumer.
>>749248610>These rules exist to protect companies from other companies, not to protect them from the consumer.you might not believe this but I don't give a shit. i don't care if they waste millions of dollars defending their fucking shitty plastic bricks from the weeblo corporation. fuck them all.
>>749248703>t.weeblo shill
>>749248610okay? so why the fuck have kleenex, nintendo, lego, etc. all attempted to educate the consumer on what words are and aren't allowed?
>>749248509It’s not retarded. You sell thing. You have a name for thing. You want to keep the name associated with you, the person actually making the named thing. If a name becomes strongly associated with a product to the point it becomes an actual common word, people can now sell your thing with your name. There’s nothing corporate about this behavior. This is part of human mercantile behavior since the advent of trade itself. You don’t want someone else claiming to be you.
>>749248802So it doesn’t become common lexicon which removes their trademark, it’s not very hard to figure out. Are you a thirdie?
>>749248820>You don’t want someone else claiming to be you.People want Taylor's version. This argument is retarded.
>>749248509I bet you couldn't believe that random people on twitter and whatever other clickbait sites can just spout whatever and it will be forwarded to possibly millions of peoples and they'll believe everything and care.It was different times. Maybe reading something like that from that magazine that you had access to meant something to someone. Lego personally asked me to do this.
Honestly, I don't even know why people get so upset about this. It's just a name. Seems kinda petty.
>>749248914There is no argument. You’re not seriously pretending you’d be ok with someone using your name and identity?
>>749248972we're talking about tissues and plastic bricks you mongoloid
>>749248965/v/ gets upset over everything Nintendo does.
>>749249015The actual issue is about identity. You do not want someone claiming to be you.
>>749249051>The actual issue is about identity.of product. not something unique.
>>749242813Aspirin, Escalator, Cellophane, Thermos, Laudromat and Zipper all lost trademarks through genericization.
>>749249075Do you get butthurt at industries like Champagne which has been made for over a thousand years holding on to the name champagne? Or tequila being made in Mexico? You’re being obtuse for no reason other than basterd bloody bitch Nintendo.
>>749249124>Localization vs literal translation
>>749243002>The Treaty of Versailles took away Heroin's trademarkThat has to be the craziest subplot of all time
>>749242580Nintendo gets like that any time they try to convey something legal to consumers. You should see Nintendo's official stance on emulation that was so embarrassing to read they had to change it.
>>749248260KWAB
>>749249146Yes? If you made something that penetrated the culture so hard that it because the default fucking word, you should congratulate yourself with a handjob, order a plaque that says "We Won", and then fuck off forever.A wise company would lean in to it instead of trying to pretend that people will follow their dumb fucking rules like in this post >>749249124. That image represents the height of corporate bug speak. There isn't a human being alive who would say that retarded shit at a fucking soulless corporations request.
>>749249124The correct usage is shoop, shoopin', shooped.
>>749249323>so embarrassing to read they had to change it.Some less boot-lick friendly attorney on their team pointed out that it objectively legally was not true at all and in fact, they could get in trouble for having it as their position if they asserted it.
>>749248260Kek What A Bitch
>>749249370Companies lose more than they gain when they lose their trademark to genericization. It's not really worth it for them.
>>749249370>company The champagne industry is not a “company”. It existed before corporations existed. Are you ESL?
For some reason in law school the class that I did the best in was about trademarks. I basically signed up for it as a joke but got the highest grade in the class. Enjoy this banger btwhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRi8LptvFZY
>>749249443Are you asserting that you give a fuck about any random businesses bottom line? Why? What happened to you?>>749249465Shut the fuck up, retard.
>>749241854>high quality products
>>749249370>There isn't a human being alive who would say that retarded shit at a fucking soulless corporations request.You are genuinely stupid as fuck. Most people don’t do it “at their request” they do it because it’s literally correct. Calling all soft drinks coke is fucking retarded. If a corporation says >hey this drink isn’t coke don’t call it coke And you continue to call it coke you aren’t spiting le ebin corpo overlords, you just look inbred
>>749249545Tendies are at their happiest when Nintendo is making money. It’s the single most important thing in their life.
>>749249545No one cares anon, it’s being explained to you why companies themselves care, and you’re being aggressively retarded for no real reason.Reeks of ESL and third world
>>749249627t. Some dumb faggot that has definitely said “this is photoshopped” before.
>>749249709>it’s being explained to you why companies themselves careOf course the fucking companies care, are you retarded? What the fuck happened to you people to make you so fucking stupid?This retard >>749249627 literally just creates a completely random argument and then claims it's mine. It's so fucking asinine.
It's all moot anyway since Nintendo got what they wanted. Very few people call Nintendo products "Nintendos", much less non-Nintendo products. This is just getting mad over something that's no longer relevant.
>>749249808>directly being quotedMental illness
>>749249824It was more about parents calling everything video game nintendo back in the day
>>749249886My bad, I thought you were a part of the conversation. I guess I was wrong? You're just here to shit on the floor?
>>749249808Asinine would be getting butthurt at a nintendo as campaign from a half century ago then having a meltdown because the word champagne exists and is legally associated with a specific type of sparkling wine
>>749249969Asinine would be thinking that any of that is happening.
>>749249730You get photoshop confused with coke?
>>749247797It was a frivolous lawsuit to begin with and those are always scary.
>>749249927No, it's because they named their system something retarded. "Nintendo Entertainment System" is a mouthful, so OF COURSE people fucking just shortened it to "Nintendo". And then the dumbasses doubled down with the "SUPER NINTENDO ENTERTAINMENT SYSTEM". You stupid fuckers.Meanwhile in Japan, it was just called the "Famicom", and literally everyone fucking called it that because "Famicom" is simpler and snappier to say.
a nintendo is the nes, because that's all the acronym is: "nintendo entertainment system" = "nintendo game console" = "nintendo"
>>749250137Nintendo really wants people to call the Switch 2 The Nintendo Switch 2 System from the Nintendo Switch Family of Systems and it is retarded. No American at NoA has the balls to push back and say this isn't how English speakers talk. Reggie begged them to not name the New 3DS that because he said people would go into stores and ask for a "New 3DS" and they'd get a new in box 3DS.
>>749250137Heh. Back then, yeah, we just called it a "Nintendo." Then when the SNES came out, it was the "Super Nintendo."NES became "Regular Nintendo" in my neck of the words after that. The kids who had a Genesis just called it a "Sega."I think it wasn't until the 5th Gen that calling consoles by their actual model name became commonplace where I grew up.
>>749250478By that point, it became irrelevant. Calling everything the same thing only invites confusion. Calling everything a "Nintendo" made some sense back when there were only three relevant consoles on the market, two of them belonging to Nintendo. But once the Playstation hit, that went completely out the window. Not to mention, "N64" sounds cooler to say than "Nintendo".
>>749242651>>749242707>>749242813>>749249124So, to explain, the baseline for this is not "is the term for the trademark very popular" but "is there a generalized name for the thing that is not the trademark". If there is no known generic name for the type of item which your trademark is, you probably will lose the trademark. Escalator makes escalator staircases. Zipper makes zippers. Cellophane wrap is made of cellophane. aspirin was robbedQ-tips are cotton swabs. Coke is cola soda. Band-aids are adhesive bandages. Nintendos are video game consoles.At the time in the late 80s, 'video game console' wasnt a popular generic term, so nintendo was actually at risk, but since the 90s the risk has disappeared.
>>749250608https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUy8FjH_qeA
>>749250608I think some trademarks might still be at risk. Band-Aid is a registered trademark, but I think it's a ubiquitous enough term that if some bad actor tried to use it themselves for their own stick-on bandage, there might be grounds for them to defend that decision. If the judge is in favor, then Band-Aid loses the trademark.
>>749250791>Won't anyone think of the multi-billion dollar conglomerates profits?
>>749250896I mean it's not like I care. I'm just making an observation. I always buy off-brand anyway.
>>749250791its not 'is the trademark name popular' its 'can Avery G. McConsumer recognize a non-branded generic name for an identical product'
>>749251463Yeah, but isn't that still what Band-Aid is? Everyone calls those kinds of stick-on bandages "bandaids" even to this day, even if it's not the actual product.
>>749250587Not to mention that calling the PS1, "the Sony," wouldn't make sense, because unlike Nintendo and Sega, Sony made bajillions of electronics completely unrelated to video games back then, and it would've just caused untold confusion. Likely why the practice slipped away to begin with. Could you imagine going to your friends and saying, "Yo, I got a Sony."Their only response would be, "a Sony, what, retard?"
>>749252032The only reason this was even an issue was because Nintendo and Sega's attitudes at the time. Back then, both Nintendo and Sega of America were against moving onto the next console. Nintendo only created the SFM/SNES reluctantly due to pressure from the Megadrive/Genesis. SoA did NOT want to move on from the Genesis ever. But once it became clear that all the major console manufacturers would have no choice but to move onto the next generation of hardware eventually, this attitude was quietly dropped. Because once more than two major home Nintendo consoles existed, you can't really justifiably call ALL Nintendo consoles "Nintendos".
>>749248260KEK
>>749249627You're genuinely retarded
>>749248581rofl
>>749249124But how am I meant to pronounce ® in conversation?
>>749254056like this: "the image was enhanced using adobe TRADEMARK photoshop TRADEMARK software"never forget to use the trademark chuddy
>>749254056rRRROBOTNIK
>>749244878phew.
>>749246587mutt's rule out of nowhere. OBSESSED
>>749243471>Hey, all our ________ are gone
>>749257904FUCK
>>749246587>thanks-a so much for to saying-a nigger
Need gigachad grandma edit with "why yes, I call every gaming toy a nintendo" bottom text
>>749243471>There's the Entertainment System. There's game software.
MARIO NO THE ADVERTISERS!!!
>>749261491Sweet new SCP just dropped.
>>749261491NINTENDO
>>749261491Mario if he epstein
>>749241854nintendies have gone too far...
>>749261491Release the Nintendo files NOW
>>749261491mario if he youtube thumbnail for analog horror
>>749261675
>>749261491Thanks for the new wallpaper nig
>>749261860Nice
>>749261491>>749261858>"I-IS THAT... MY HECKIN' CHILDHOOD VIDEO GAME MAN WITH A BLACK CENSOR BAR OVER HIS EYES?!?! AIEEEEEEEEEE SAVE ME NINTENDO MAN!!!"
>>749247364don't reply to racist fucks, they are /pol/tarded
>>749261080Just for you.
>>749262324FUCK. FUCK. FUCK.
>>749262324YOU FORGOT THE E ON THE VERY FIRST WORD YOU FOOL
>>749261491Redacting the M would've been the cherry of top
>>749248286Nobody called it the whole 'Nintendo Entertainment System' each time they mentioned it, so very naturally everyone just started calling it the 'Nintendo'. >Why not call it the NES?Because referring to something by it's acronym is a bit odd, unless that's specifically how it's marketed. It wasn't marketed as the NES, it was marketed as the Nintendo Entertainment System. We do retroactively refer to it as the NES, but only to distinguish it from the SNES. Similarly, during it's time, nobody called the SNES the SNES either, they called it the Super Nintendo.
>>749241854>>749242020Trying to remind the public that your trademark isn't a generic term for something should be grounds for losing your trademark to genericization. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRi8LptvFZYLook at this parody of the modern legal system masquerading as public advisory, I want all of these people put out of a job.Similarly making a remake should be grounds for losing the copyright on the original.>>749242813Unfortunately it requires the legal system to be working as intended and this has not been the case for 50-150 years.>>749248820Literally every company is moving the manufacturing to China and allowing some Chinkshit company to claim that they are them, trademark in the modern age exists for fraud, blackmail and black male.
>>749264738
>>749242857Maybe if you're a retard
finally, i can post these
>>749254056you enunciate the (PRODUCE NAME OR BRAND) clearly and slightly louder than the rest of the sentence, and add a half beat pause afterwards
>>749257904
>>749241854In Poland Adidas became so ubiquitous in the early 90s that to this day we call all the sports shoes 'adidas'. I guess that's the situation nintendo wanted to avoid.
>>749247580We are all tendies all along.
>>749241854it's a japanese phrase isn't it?
>>749241854lmao they were always full of shit
>>749270796Well in some countries, you can lose your trademark on a name if said name becomes commonly used as a day to day word. In France we have sopalin for paper towels for example, which used to be an actual paper towel brand, but it was literally too succesful and they lost the right to the name because everyone called paper towels sopalin, no matter the brand. I'm guessing this is what they wanted to avoid with OP's image
>>749241854Explain this then?>Pic relatedRaiden Shogun cutscene on the Nintendo Switch must've been amazing
>>749250608https://youtu.be/rRi8LptvFZY
>>749245587So why do you feel so proud announcing you're a faggot?
>>749241854So what exactly should I call the "Nintendo Entertainment System"? The "Entertainment System"? Should I just call the SNES the "Super"? Maybe don't put your fucking brand name in the name of the device you're selling if you don't want people calling it that. It took Nintendo like 4 console generations to realize you should actually name your console something other than your company name.
>>749248703Then why even comment, you fucking retard? I wish someone mugs you and stabs you to death next week.
>>749249545If it's a business that I willingly transact with as I gain something from it, then yes it is in my best interest that they continue to be in business, you fucking moron.
>>749250896>"Oh lookit me, I rage against corpo all the time, even if the situation doesn't call for it! Rah raah! Hey /v/ am I cool now?"Moron.
>>749248428You call them "Lego" like you call a flock of sheep "sheep"But I guess you apes call sheep "sheeps" too, you fucking ape niggers
>>749249824>mootwho?
