David Jaffe's take on angry Joe’s Nintendo monetization controversy

David Jaffe

Nintendo angered a lot of internet streamers a little while back with the reveal of their monetization program, which greatly limited the revenue said streamers could earn through YouTube. Angry Joe, a popular online video game personality who never typically streamed Nintendo related videos had uploaded a Mario Party 10 video last week which had been taken down very quickly. This has lead to very long rant that David Jaffe has now randomly weighed in on.

Angry Joe posted a response video where he ranted against what he called Nintendo’s “Anti-YouTuber policies,” while also saying he would never upload a Nintendo video again. He has criticized Nintendo’s monetization program that makes it impossible for someone that doesn’t do exclusively Nintendo videos to participate.

God of War creator David Jaffe has slammed both Angry Joe and Nintendo via a series of tweets on Twitter. He says that he fails to understand why Nintendo would choose to go this route with their program. According to him streamers who complain about their videos being taken down are arrogant.

Jaffe has a good point, as while the system isn’t very conducive to video makers, it is their property and you have to comply to be able to make money off of their products. It will be interesting to see how this develops as this issue is far from over.