Just wanted to share these and discuss/see what other peoples' thoughts are around it. A short list of Nintendo shenanigans lately:

-Nintendo sues Amazon seller that manufactures USB devices for jailbreaking the Switch
https://www.polygon.com/2020/11/18/21574488/nintendo-rcm-loader-jailbreak-lawsuit-switch

-Nintendo releases update for the 3DS despite no longer manufacturing the console
https://gameranx.com/updates/id/212786/article/nintendo-3ds-receives-another-update/

-Nintendo releases official guidelines banning politics or "financial benefit from using the game"
https://www.nintendoenthusiast.com/animal-crossing-new-horizons-gets-official-guidelines-for-how-businesses-orgs-may-use-the-game/

-Nintendo cancelling online Smash tournament due to them using unapproved netcode
https://www.polygon.com/2020/11/19/21578200/super-smash-bros-tournament-the-big-house-10-canceled-nintendo-c-d

I have no real argument against Nintendo pursuing legal action against piracy - I think it's a massive buzzkill given that 99% of the games people play using emulators on their consoles are older out-of-print games that no currently existing gaming company would make money on, but corporations do have copyright laws.

I think Nintendo has the "right" to ban politics from their games - and I think, given some of the recent protests that were actually being organized through Animal Crossing (Hong Kong protests, Black Lives Matter protest), it's in poor taste to censor them. I also worry about how their new clause about how people can't make revenue off of the content will affect Animal Crossing Youtubers.

In my humble-opinion-based-entirely-on-conjecture, the 3DS update is more than likely a last-ditch effort to curb piracy on the 3DS. Which again, seems silly given that they're no longer making 3DS consoles or physical games (apparently the eShop still gets new releases, though). A 3DS hacking forum I'm on has already talked about how the update is bricking some of their homebrew software.

Banning a Smash tournament for using the wrong netcode (or, as Nintendo puts it, "use of illegally copied versions of the game) seems silly and petty given that 1. they have no way of knowing the tournament wouldn't be streamed using legit hardware and copies, and 2. 1. Melee is 19 years old and you can't legally get a new copy of it, anywhere, so I'm not even sure what the alternative would be.