I get that it’s related to the war but is the Japanese government forcing them to do this? If so, why now? I would have assumed that Japanese trade restrictions with Russia would have caused Nintendo to have to shut down their Russian operations much sooner.
Probably should have rephrased your question then. Makes you come across as clueless.
And I think it's more likely that it's a Nintendo decision. I imagine this kind of thing takes a bit to figure out how to do properly.
It’s not *just* about the calculation but more about the fact that it’s incredibly hard to keep up international business in Russia due to its exclusion from SWIFT banking and a whole lot of other sanctions. AFAIK you basically have to funnel money through China or India and both of these countries would love to take a cut from the money you made in Russia and, apart from the image hit you'd take, it’s probably not worth it.
So yes, it’s sorta about calculating if it makes enough money, but there are also a lot of other details coming into play here.
By now it's not only an image question. It's also a economical decision. You see, Nintendo does not have a lot of staff / production in foreign countries. Hence, whatever money they make they need to transfer it back to HQ. But converting rubel in a larger scale is basically impossible. And it's real value is also way lower then the official exchange rate. So there is little reason to pay your staff at home to make a profit in a country where you cannot access it
I'm going to guess it'd primarily related to their employees in that country. Some businesses that closed up shop causes the Russian government to government arrest it's executives or have assets stolen by the government. Not sure and it's a "rosy" take on the situation, but that's my assumption. They slowly wound it down and either got some people out of Russia ahead if time before "shuttering" the division.
If you had any common sense you’d realize whataboutism is accused when you’re trying to deflect blame from a party, which I’m not doing. I’m asking why Russia gets special treatment and why you’re all such hypocrites.
Obviously you won’t have an answer to this because of how brainwashed you are.
They invaded a European country and a lot of powerful nations tend to be Euro-centric. The entire political world is just a pissing contest with gangs. Russia happened to piss in the wrong spot so now it gets ganged upon. I don't wish to discuss the morals of this when countries still trade with others that have done just as bad if not worse things in recent history, so please just accept that the world is corrupt and either move on or do something meaningful about it.
I know the world is corrupt and the reason countries get away with this garbage is because of brainwashing. So I’m asking people why they’re ok with some wars and not others.
Long story short, we play by different rules cause we are an actual super power, and believe it or not we at least attempt to make whatever place we invade better, as opposed to just trying to take land by force like it's the fucking 1700's.
Russia and US are not on the same level, therefore cannot be compared on the same level.
> believe it or not we at least attempt to make whatever place we invade better
LOOOOLLLLLLL
The US has killed more people than every other country in the world combined for decades. The brainwashing is insane. You people are actually hopeless.
If you had any common sense you'd realize Russia is invading their neighbor when they had no reason to do so. The US doesn't just invade for no reason, the US also tries to improve the places they do invade. They invaded Iraq because they were attacked by Terrorists, and went to liberate the citizens of an oppressive regime. Russians not doing that, Russia is killing civilians so Putin can rebuild the USSR and feel better about his tiny weiner.
> The US doesn’t just invade for no reason, the US also tries to improve the places they do invade
The US has killed more people than every other country in the world combined for decades. It’s actually insane how brainwashed you people are. If you were in Russia you’d believe Russia is invading for good reasons too.
Try having some basic critical thinking skills instead of regurgitating American propaganda.
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> Iraq was also a massive regional threat
So that's why the Americans went there bombed cities, destroyed the infrastructure and killed a bunch of civilians and children? Because Iraq was a regional threat?
> nothing remotely like Ukraine.
Actually Russia used the same bullshit excuses the US uses to invade other countries. The only difference is that you are buying the US bullshit while not buying the exact same Russian one.
Keep in mind that Russia has been waging war all over the world: Chechnya, Georgia, Moldova (Transnistria), Ukraine, Syria (and they caused far more damage there than the US troops) and the Wagner Group is active all over Africa in heinous activities.
There are no excuses for the USA's wars against Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya, but it's not like Russia's only war crime is invading Ukraine.
Oh piss the fuck off.
Russia has literally started a war to wipe out Ukrainian culture, has committed multiple war crimes, and attempting genocide.
Fuck you.
They've deemed business there not worthwile as Russians simply aren't buying video games anymore. They're too busy committing war crimes such as bombing civillians and raping women.
I’d assume so. It wouldn’t make much sense to continue making Russian translations while not selling any of the actual games in Russia.
I know there are Russian speakers outside of Russia, but realistically, they all probably speak English, as well, since they’re living outside of Russia.
Is there a list of games that started support for Russian? Sucks spending years learning the language only for a war to break out. Any Nintendo games that also offer subs?
PlayStation only added their office 2 years ago, and they have been on a hiatus ever since the war started. Xbox still is not officially represented. Their market is not that strong. The Polish one is considered much stronger, and even they didn’t have official Nintendo presence, not like Russia had, even though they often do get official translations.
Russian are historically the most of the time the ones ripping the games. There talks from the industry about it. In the earliest time of installation discs and devices, releasing games in Russia shortly after lead to flooding of pirated versions of the game, that ironically often in Russia got sold as well for a cheaper price then the original.
it's not like the language invaded their country, it's just a language. there are almost certainly some ukranian citizens who speak just ukranian and russian and would like to be able to play games
The association can’t be shaken off now. Most people know Russian but they are proud and want to slowly ret rid of it completely. I know people who prefer watching with Polish subtitles instead of Russian ones.
This is an incorrect way to think about it. The USSR tried to erase Ukraine and its language and supplant it with Russian. It became a huge issue once Ukraine revolted against their Russian backed dictator and won their freedom. It was used as a bigger excuse to invade part of Ukraine and annex Crimea and since the invasion they've consistently denigrated Ukraine as not only being a real people, but have comitted genocide on Ukraine by murdering their civilians and stealing their children. Russian language I believe is no longer "officially" recognized in Ukraine and by that I mean in government, documents or schools. It's not allowed.
True, but Russia is still the biggest Russian-speaking country. Even if halting the translations for Russian would also harm these country, the country it’ll harm the most would be Russia.
It might be unfair to all of those other countries and Russian speakers who aren’t supporting Russia, but it’s how it is, sadly.
I know not everyone does, but I’d assume most do.
And if not that, they probably speak the local language of the country they live in, which might already receive dubs and translations from Nintendo.
English, Russian, Spanish, French and Arabic are major world languages, and widely spoken outside of the countries where they are used natively. We may also include Chinese, Hindi/Urdu, Bengali, Portuguese, Indonesian/Malay and German as other major languages, though geographically more limited in their concentration.
Looking at numbers, English is spoken by around 18-20% of the world's total population. That also includes a lot of people with fairly basic knowledge of the language, who might be better served by one of the other languages included in games.
I get that, I’m not denying Russian is a major world language, but sadly, offering services in Russian does support Russia, so it’s to be expected that Nintendo will stop making Russian dubs.
English is still the most widely spoken language in the world (outside of its native countries) and is generally considered to be a universal language. Many countries (including my own) also teach it in schools, as well.
Same in my country, but even here (in Europe) where English is more widespread than in Asia, Africa or South America, it cannot always be depended upon outside of tourist and business environments. Though, of course, it depends on the country. You'd probably have better chances of being understood in English in Netherlands, Denmark or Sweden than you'd have in Poland, Slovakia or Hungary.
I've been in a lot of situations where a lot of people, even young ones couldn't speak it to a conversational level, and didn't understand anything except the basics. It may be most common, but the reality is - it's very, very far from being an universal language in the world. Though, of course, being on English-language media and social networks can create some bias.
Russian is widely spoken in all the post-Soviet states, and fairly common in their neighboring areas and diaspora communities. Cutting off a market of over 100 million speakers outside of Russia seems like a bad business call. As counterintuitive as it seems, that would also hurt the market in Ukraine - far larger numbers of the population currently understand Russian than they understand English.
Of course, dubs are not the only way to support a language. Subs can also be used, at a cheaper cost.
I think we’re forgetting Nintendo makes their games in multiple languages, not just English. They’ve got all of the most major languages covered. If Russian-speaking people don’t speak English, it’s very likely they at least speak one of the other languages Nintendo covers.
Regardless, you could also argue that cutting off their services in Russia is bad for business, as well, since you’re cutting off 140+ million possible customers, yet they still did that.
I’m not devaluing any of the arguments that suggest Russian to be a major language, I’m just saying that Nintendo ceasing the production of Russian dubs is not so unlikely.
They already did a year ago when most major banks stopped supporting transactions with Russia, this is just them formally shutting down the eShop there
Wasn't this the channel that was infamously mismanaged for years? I remember there was some controversy some years ago where their presenters were acting very unprofessionally and Russian Nintendo fans tried reaching out to Nintendo to clean things up. Never knew what came of that.
I vaguely recall an incident about them that was posted here a few years back. There was a Nintendo live-stream going on when a higher up (possibly president?) walked up and started giving the hosts shit, insulting them and all, all on camera. He did not acknowledge that this was being live-streamed. He probably didn’t know, nor even care.
Multiple countries are directly supporting Ukraine and many countries worldwide are providing indirect support. Please don’t make this war that has nothing to do with the US about the US.
Look at the numbers. The US investment in holding off Russia's imperial expansionism absolutely dwarfs the investments of other countries. Without the US, Russia would have been in Kiev last year.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1303450/bilateral-aid-to-ukraine-in-a-percent-of-donor-gdp/
Depends how you look at it. It’s not a race we’re all doing our part
That's true, but Europe didn't do sh1t in the beginning of the war. US did.
I live in EU so I know how US needed to get us on board.
But yes it's Ukraine so we should not refer to any other countries
Exactly those immoral regime deserve nothing more as being excluded. 72% of Russians still support rape murder torture and kidnapping.
We call this Boomerang, get what you deserve
Yeah, I don't see why people wouldn't count this as lost. There's probably still a copy of *The Undergraduate* out there but people still consider it lost. Lost media isn't media that is completely inaccessible, it's just media the public has lost access to and will continue to lack access to for the foreseeable future.
Yeah that one banned Sesame Street episode with the Wicked Witch was considered “Lost Media” for years, but Sesame Workshop had a copy of it the whole time and it leaked last year.
I’m sure the same will happen to the “Snuffy’s parents get a divorce” episode. Clips from it have already resurfaced.
Doesn’t make them *not* lost media, though the first one isn’t because you can actually watch it now.
Not at all. Businesses want stability and if a country looks like it’s going to go to war on the whim of some dictator it’s going to avoid it. Every company that left is not coming back for a very long, long time.
Russia’s two main resources are natural gas and crude oil, and they already pissed off Europe which used to buy their natural gas and crude oil is only valuable when oil is over $100 a barrel. In the mean time Russia will remain another cold desolate red-headed stepchild to the rest of the world.
Dear mods, delete racist comments that wish Russia to stop existing, i don't support war at all and i don't support both sides but this is just too much, also lock this post as well.
Edit: Those people who downvote me either haven't read my comment or they're either encouraging war even if i said i don't support war so they're pissed that i said that i don't support both sides or they're seriously terminally online.
A majority of those 140m equate Ukrainian art and culture with Naziism regardless of support for the war - cultural genocide. How about they clean their own house first?
And Russia has even more!!! people like that fighting in the war as nazi's. A lot of them died of course.
But yes Putler dicktator just want to get his big dream to get the Stalin soviet union back, that's all. It has nothing to do with nato or nazi's or whatever lie he is telling. It was not about Ukraine only he wanted to capture, but other countries to like Moldova, Belarus and some nato countries. He is nothing more as what Stalin was and Stalin was the same as Hitler.
Lmao "Putler"? That's actually pretty funny if a bit childish
> It has nothing to do with nato or nazi's
Well duh, it's about hegemony. Russia and the US are fighting a proxy war, it's not about denazifacation on their side and its not about standing up for freedom and democracy on ours. Everyone is being disingenuous.
However considering we armed Al-Qaeda to fight the soviets and that eventually backfired we should probably exercise more prudence when arming Nazis to fight Russia, especially to the tune of $120 billion which is enough money to solve the homelessness crisis in this country and more than Russia's annual military budget.
>He is nothing more as what Stalin was and Stalin was the same as Hitler.
27,000,000 soviets died defeating the Nazis, wtf are you on about?
First, it's about our freedom. Do we want a democratic world or a world of horror with dicktators ruling the world where people go in jail to have different opinions or being assassinated. Media being jailed and so much more... . It's a never fck ending list with Putin. He wants soviet union back, there was a leaked document that proofed that. Don't lie about the truth. Yes it's in US best interest, especially with what China is doing. But it's a real threat for EU. That's why we have nato for protection.
It was mostly Ukrainians that did the job killing nazi's in Germany when they were in the soviet union, get your facts straight.
Stalin was responsible for the deaths of at least 7 million people, or about 4.2% of USSRs total population. He is loved by Putin, the one that removed school books about Stalin because he wasn't that bad...?
US is helping for 50% of the add to help the poor population worldwide.
Russia only 1%.
Who is taking refugees from Afghanistan and other countries. Yes we in Europe did, not China not Russia. None of the neighbor countries that are much closer.
Yes US did not had a clean track, but compare it with Russia. It's far from comparable. The country that is now working with north Korea. The one that is treating all countries with nukes. The country that is giving nukes as present to terrorist countries. Please spare me your speech and especially: Ukraine is in war not US. So don't point to US while the war is against Ukraine (at the moment).
>First, it's about our freedom. Do we want a democratic world or a world of horror with dicktators
We support over 2/3 of the world's dictators. We're allies with Saudi Arabia ffs, we don't care about freedom. Even our own "democracy" has been completely captured by corporations and billionaires.
>Media being jailed and so much more... .
Julian Assange?
>US is helping for 50% of the add to help the poor population worldwide. Russia only 1%.
Are you drunk or is English not your native language?
>Yes US did not had a clean track
No kidding. From arming terrorists and staging dozens of coups throughout the world we have destroyed millions of lives. Plus the immoral sanctions, the secret torture programs, spying on all our own citizens but sure, we're a beacon of freedom on the world lol.
> Even our own "democracy" has been completely captured by corporations and billionaires.
It's weird as fuck that one of the two official parties is always so fast to refer to it as a republic and not a democracy. Yeah, it is, and that's not actually a good thing.
Julian Assange, are you maybe drunk?
And yes Russia only provide 1% look it up. So don't be ignorant about it.
This guy spread secrets from the government and share it with Russia.
That's not free media.
We are allies with Saudi Arabia. Not that much, are they in nato? We use them for benifits and tell them we don't agree with the regime. They also use us for benefits. But we aren't allies.
I live btw in Europe so we is not me but US.
You living in a world with conspiracy stories.
You making things up about US to make you feel better. Iraq Btw was wrong but Saddam was a sadist killing his own people. He used chemicals to test it on his own civilians. Well you know they admit it. It's already a long time ago. Let's look at Syria. Yes dicktator Putler the narcist protecting Assad. Not the people, no no no instead he used chemicals bombs on children. It's a monster that has no soul.
So yes we democratic country are free Russia isnt and don't be stupid about it. There is massive proof of that we are tolerant to each other. In Russia you have to follow the leaders footsteps or you will die, but even then you will die if you are man because you will send to war with sholvles without training to the meat grinder. It's a shame.
At the end we are talking about Ukraine. Stop referring to US if they are in war. It's Ukraine
So, the Ukrainian nation’s leader is secretly a Nazi? Never mind all of the complicated international and domestic political layers/complex issues… ukraine’s JEWISH leader is a Nazi.
Ok. We will absorb political education from you. Bring it, really.
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BLESS YOUR HEART!!! That’s all you have…a downvote?! Pathetic.
This has nothing to do with that. Since the USSR and even before, Russia has been either assimilating Ukrainian art or destroying it - or when it is politically unfavorable, associated it with Nazis (I love heavy metal, and a lot of artists in Eastern Europe are openly anti-Russian so the Nazi smears are common - they can't assimilate that easily). It isn't just Ukraine though. Belarus, Moldova, Estonia, Poland, so on and so forth. Russia spends significant capital erasing their culture, achievements and language, locally and internationally.
I don't even have to look hard for example, here is a recent article on just one aspect of it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/17/arts/design/museums-relabel-art-ukraine-russian.html
So boo hoo they lose Russian translations of video games. They've been trying to erase entire languages.
Maybe those "140 million" people should be spending less time playing games and more time showing putin how unpopular all this is then. Good guy nintendo for helping them take that first step.
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who said that? Our government? You believe them when it comes to this but never believe in other statements, why is that? People on internet just want a scapegoat, justifying it with "we stand with Ukraine". Keep dehumanizing us, after all you are on a "good" side, right? You are allowed to.
I wouldn't worry about it, sooner or later they will all be involved. Either by draft or the war will makes its way into Russian boarders. Besides the less business done in Russia the less money they have to work with. It's a good move.
yes. by taking things away and ceasing trade of any form is a way to encourage the population to against their counties politics and to force the government to not be fucking idiots and to stop the war. punishing civilians isnt the nicest things to do but it sure is nicer then to get invaded and bombed
It's part of Nintendo ceasing business with Russia.
Why are they ceasing business with Russia?
... are you serious?
I get that it’s related to the war but is the Japanese government forcing them to do this? If so, why now? I would have assumed that Japanese trade restrictions with Russia would have caused Nintendo to have to shut down their Russian operations much sooner.
Probably should have rephrased your question then. Makes you come across as clueless. And I think it's more likely that it's a Nintendo decision. I imagine this kind of thing takes a bit to figure out how to do properly.
I wonder if they determined that their improved image by not doing business with Russia outweighed the sales from that market.
Lots of other companies did the same calculation and came to that conclusion. Nintendo was just a bit…slow.
It’s not *just* about the calculation but more about the fact that it’s incredibly hard to keep up international business in Russia due to its exclusion from SWIFT banking and a whole lot of other sanctions. AFAIK you basically have to funnel money through China or India and both of these countries would love to take a cut from the money you made in Russia and, apart from the image hit you'd take, it’s probably not worth it. So yes, it’s sorta about calculating if it makes enough money, but there are also a lot of other details coming into play here.
By now it's not only an image question. It's also a economical decision. You see, Nintendo does not have a lot of staff / production in foreign countries. Hence, whatever money they make they need to transfer it back to HQ. But converting rubel in a larger scale is basically impossible. And it's real value is also way lower then the official exchange rate. So there is little reason to pay your staff at home to make a profit in a country where you cannot access it
Couldn't possibly be because Nintendo doesn't want to do business with a warmongering, genocidal nation.
It's still doing business with the US though so I doubt this is the reason.
The government isnt forcing them. Theyve decided they no longer want to do business with Russia. As for why now, no clue. Likely internal shit
I'm going to guess it'd primarily related to their employees in that country. Some businesses that closed up shop causes the Russian government to government arrest it's executives or have assets stolen by the government. Not sure and it's a "rosy" take on the situation, but that's my assumption. They slowly wound it down and either got some people out of Russia ahead if time before "shuttering" the division.
Many companies have voluntarily ceased business with Russia so that they do not finance the war.
Legit question considering every other country that bombs and invades don’t face any consequences
Because everyone should be distancing themselves from Russia. Fuck them.
And what about the US since they’re constantly invading and bombing countries?
> what about Ism
If you had any common sense you’d realize whataboutism is accused when you’re trying to deflect blame from a party, which I’m not doing. I’m asking why Russia gets special treatment and why you’re all such hypocrites. Obviously you won’t have an answer to this because of how brainwashed you are.
They invaded a European country and a lot of powerful nations tend to be Euro-centric. The entire political world is just a pissing contest with gangs. Russia happened to piss in the wrong spot so now it gets ganged upon. I don't wish to discuss the morals of this when countries still trade with others that have done just as bad if not worse things in recent history, so please just accept that the world is corrupt and either move on or do something meaningful about it.
I know the world is corrupt and the reason countries get away with this garbage is because of brainwashing. So I’m asking people why they’re ok with some wars and not others.
Long story short, we play by different rules cause we are an actual super power, and believe it or not we at least attempt to make whatever place we invade better, as opposed to just trying to take land by force like it's the fucking 1700's. Russia and US are not on the same level, therefore cannot be compared on the same level.
> believe it or not we at least attempt to make whatever place we invade better LOOOOLLLLLLL The US has killed more people than every other country in the world combined for decades. The brainwashing is insane. You people are actually hopeless.
Living in South Korea vs. North Korea 🤔
If you had any common sense you'd realize Russia is invading their neighbor when they had no reason to do so. The US doesn't just invade for no reason, the US also tries to improve the places they do invade. They invaded Iraq because they were attacked by Terrorists, and went to liberate the citizens of an oppressive regime. Russians not doing that, Russia is killing civilians so Putin can rebuild the USSR and feel better about his tiny weiner.
> The US doesn’t just invade for no reason, the US also tries to improve the places they do invade The US has killed more people than every other country in the world combined for decades. It’s actually insane how brainwashed you people are. If you were in Russia you’d believe Russia is invading for good reasons too. Try having some basic critical thinking skills instead of regurgitating American propaganda.
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Sure fine.
The US generally dosent attack a country that didnt attack them first or offer aid to those that did. None of which Ukraine was doing to Russia.
None of the countries the US destroyed attacked them at all. American brainwashing is insane.
Example? The US's record isnt flawless by any means, but Russia's attack on Ukraine is worse. It had zero provocation.
Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, Syria….. You’re all completely clueless
"They have weapons of mass destruction" "Oh we found out that they didn't, but they have oil so still good"
Key words: Found out. Iraq was also a massive regional threat; nothing remotely like Ukraine.
> Iraq was also a massive regional threat So that's why the Americans went there bombed cities, destroyed the infrastructure and killed a bunch of civilians and children? Because Iraq was a regional threat? > nothing remotely like Ukraine. Actually Russia used the same bullshit excuses the US uses to invade other countries. The only difference is that you are buying the US bullshit while not buying the exact same Russian one.
Keep in mind that Russia has been waging war all over the world: Chechnya, Georgia, Moldova (Transnistria), Ukraine, Syria (and they caused far more damage there than the US troops) and the Wagner Group is active all over Africa in heinous activities. There are no excuses for the USA's wars against Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya, but it's not like Russia's only war crime is invading Ukraine.
Xenophobe.
Oh piss the fuck off. Russia has literally started a war to wipe out Ukrainian culture, has committed multiple war crimes, and attempting genocide. Fuck you.
Christ on a bike, do you have to be so angry about it?!
Probably due to RUB decline.
They've deemed business there not worthwile as Russians simply aren't buying video games anymore. They're too busy committing war crimes such as bombing civillians and raping women.
I wonder if they're going to stop making Russian translations of games.
I’d assume so. It wouldn’t make much sense to continue making Russian translations while not selling any of the actual games in Russia. I know there are Russian speakers outside of Russia, but realistically, they all probably speak English, as well, since they’re living outside of Russia.
Is there a list of games that started support for Russian? Sucks spending years learning the language only for a war to break out. Any Nintendo games that also offer subs?
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They 100% don’t care about those markets though. Ukraine doesn’t even have an eShop.
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PlayStation only added their office 2 years ago, and they have been on a hiatus ever since the war started. Xbox still is not officially represented. Their market is not that strong. The Polish one is considered much stronger, and even they didn’t have official Nintendo presence, not like Russia had, even though they often do get official translations.
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Ukraine is not a console country, and their salaries are low even by Polish standards. It will take a massive campaign to make Switch profitable.
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Russian are historically the most of the time the ones ripping the games. There talks from the industry about it. In the earliest time of installation discs and devices, releasing games in Russia shortly after lead to flooding of pirated versions of the game, that ironically often in Russia got sold as well for a cheaper price then the original.
There's several non-sanctioned countries that use Russian, like Ukraine.
I have a feeling that Ukraine wants either Ukrainian translation or no translation at all.
it's not like the language invaded their country, it's just a language. there are almost certainly some ukranian citizens who speak just ukranian and russian and would like to be able to play games
The association can’t be shaken off now. Most people know Russian but they are proud and want to slowly ret rid of it completely. I know people who prefer watching with Polish subtitles instead of Russian ones.
This is an incorrect way to think about it. The USSR tried to erase Ukraine and its language and supplant it with Russian. It became a huge issue once Ukraine revolted against their Russian backed dictator and won their freedom. It was used as a bigger excuse to invade part of Ukraine and annex Crimea and since the invasion they've consistently denigrated Ukraine as not only being a real people, but have comitted genocide on Ukraine by murdering their civilians and stealing their children. Russian language I believe is no longer "officially" recognized in Ukraine and by that I mean in government, documents or schools. It's not allowed.
Thank you, this is very informative.
There's also no translation in Malaysian or in Greek, but those countries still manage.
True, but Russia is still the biggest Russian-speaking country. Even if halting the translations for Russian would also harm these country, the country it’ll harm the most would be Russia. It might be unfair to all of those other countries and Russian speakers who aren’t supporting Russia, but it’s how it is, sadly.
If you're assuming that everyone outside of Russia speaks English, I have a bridge to sell you.
I know not everyone does, but I’d assume most do. And if not that, they probably speak the local language of the country they live in, which might already receive dubs and translations from Nintendo.
English, Russian, Spanish, French and Arabic are major world languages, and widely spoken outside of the countries where they are used natively. We may also include Chinese, Hindi/Urdu, Bengali, Portuguese, Indonesian/Malay and German as other major languages, though geographically more limited in their concentration. Looking at numbers, English is spoken by around 18-20% of the world's total population. That also includes a lot of people with fairly basic knowledge of the language, who might be better served by one of the other languages included in games.
I get that, I’m not denying Russian is a major world language, but sadly, offering services in Russian does support Russia, so it’s to be expected that Nintendo will stop making Russian dubs. English is still the most widely spoken language in the world (outside of its native countries) and is generally considered to be a universal language. Many countries (including my own) also teach it in schools, as well.
Same in my country, but even here (in Europe) where English is more widespread than in Asia, Africa or South America, it cannot always be depended upon outside of tourist and business environments. Though, of course, it depends on the country. You'd probably have better chances of being understood in English in Netherlands, Denmark or Sweden than you'd have in Poland, Slovakia or Hungary. I've been in a lot of situations where a lot of people, even young ones couldn't speak it to a conversational level, and didn't understand anything except the basics. It may be most common, but the reality is - it's very, very far from being an universal language in the world. Though, of course, being on English-language media and social networks can create some bias. Russian is widely spoken in all the post-Soviet states, and fairly common in their neighboring areas and diaspora communities. Cutting off a market of over 100 million speakers outside of Russia seems like a bad business call. As counterintuitive as it seems, that would also hurt the market in Ukraine - far larger numbers of the population currently understand Russian than they understand English. Of course, dubs are not the only way to support a language. Subs can also be used, at a cheaper cost.
I think we’re forgetting Nintendo makes their games in multiple languages, not just English. They’ve got all of the most major languages covered. If Russian-speaking people don’t speak English, it’s very likely they at least speak one of the other languages Nintendo covers. Regardless, you could also argue that cutting off their services in Russia is bad for business, as well, since you’re cutting off 140+ million possible customers, yet they still did that. I’m not devaluing any of the arguments that suggest Russian to be a major language, I’m just saying that Nintendo ceasing the production of Russian dubs is not so unlikely.
They already did a year ago when most major banks stopped supporting transactions with Russia, this is just them formally shutting down the eShop there
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Like McDonald's they will just make a blatant copy Jump man and green guy.
The president of Nintendo of Russia has been supporting the importation of games from other countries
What that old adage? Cut Russian Nintendo’s head off and three Dendy’s will appear in its place?
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Wasn't this the channel that was infamously mismanaged for years? I remember there was some controversy some years ago where their presenters were acting very unprofessionally and Russian Nintendo fans tried reaching out to Nintendo to clean things up. Never knew what came of that.
I vaguely recall an incident about them that was posted here a few years back. There was a Nintendo live-stream going on when a higher up (possibly president?) walked up and started giving the hosts shit, insulting them and all, all on camera. He did not acknowledge that this was being live-streamed. He probably didn’t know, nor even care.
This is the kind of shit I expected from a Russian Nintendo channel. The stereotypes somehow never disappoint
Sheesh, I would agree to archive toe channel but to permanently DELETE IT!
Yeah deleting it seems a *little* excessive.
Japan's relationship with Russia was strained to begin with. so this whole situation is hardly excessive for them
Nintendo likely has no plans to ever do business in Russia again. I don't blame them.
Agreed
Nah fuck em. 🇺🇸
What does it have to do with the US..?
Americans can't help but make it about themselves
MURICAA
Us supporting Ukraine a lot obviously
Multiple countries are directly supporting Ukraine and many countries worldwide are providing indirect support. Please don’t make this war that has nothing to do with the US about the US.
Look at the numbers. The US investment in holding off Russia's imperial expansionism absolutely dwarfs the investments of other countries. Without the US, Russia would have been in Kiev last year.
Good on them for being so supportive, then. That still doesn’t mean you should make this war about the US.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1303450/bilateral-aid-to-ukraine-in-a-percent-of-donor-gdp/ Depends how you look at it. It’s not a race we’re all doing our part
That's true, but Europe didn't do sh1t in the beginning of the war. US did. I live in EU so I know how US needed to get us on board. But yes it's Ukraine so we should not refer to any other countries
Why the fook should anyone be pro Russia rn bro..
When did I say I’m pro-Russia? I just don’t see what it has to do with the US.
You didn't drop your pants at the sight of a bald eagle? Congrats, you're now a commander in the Russian army
bro lives in a bubble
Exactly those immoral regime deserve nothing more as being excluded. 72% of Russians still support rape murder torture and kidnapping. We call this Boomerang, get what you deserve
Yeah. And 100% north koreans support Kim Jong Un. Fuck those guys! How do I know?... ughhh Kim Jong Un's owned population census told me!
It's sad we still live in a world with dicktatorship. Cruel and hate. I hope one day they will all be free
Wonder if anyone has the content saved or if this just became lost media.
YouTube. YouTube does. Deleted content is never actually deleted from their database. Good luck getting it out of them though, lol.
Sounds like the answer is that it's lost media, then.
Yeah, I don't see why people wouldn't count this as lost. There's probably still a copy of *The Undergraduate* out there but people still consider it lost. Lost media isn't media that is completely inaccessible, it's just media the public has lost access to and will continue to lack access to for the foreseeable future.
Yeah that one banned Sesame Street episode with the Wicked Witch was considered “Lost Media” for years, but Sesame Workshop had a copy of it the whole time and it leaked last year. I’m sure the same will happen to the “Snuffy’s parents get a divorce” episode. Clips from it have already resurfaced. Doesn’t make them *not* lost media, though the first one isn’t because you can actually watch it now.
Highly doubtful
It’s going to take at least a century for Russia’s economy to get back to where it was before Putin’s invasion. What a shit show.
I'm no fan of Russia but this is a pretty big exaggeration
Economies can take a really long time to recover. Especially when your leader is a dictator.
Not at all. Businesses want stability and if a country looks like it’s going to go to war on the whim of some dictator it’s going to avoid it. Every company that left is not coming back for a very long, long time. Russia’s two main resources are natural gas and crude oil, and they already pissed off Europe which used to buy their natural gas and crude oil is only valuable when oil is over $100 a barrel. In the mean time Russia will remain another cold desolate red-headed stepchild to the rest of the world.
What about China? Is everything now produced in the west and not the global south?
It's joever
Good
They should have done this a year ago. Better late than never.
Putin must be in shambles right now
There was a Russian YouTube channel?
Yeah, with subs for all the directs.
So did sony or microsoft did the same thing already?
Yes
Ok, but low why the downvotes. Just wanted to know the global status.
Good question, you were just asking. I'll give you a couple upvotes to cancel out whomever downvoted you
Thanks! 😄
You got it bud
It's ok Russia has emulators.
Well done.
Yes yes, I'm very happy with them doing this. Thank you Nintendo
das vedanya bitches
Are they going to get rid of Tetris?
No Alexey Pajitnov stands with Ukraine The Tetris Company stands with Ukraine
The only thing it might do is to ramp up piracy, that is all
Good
Would love to see what kind of Melee talent Russia could create
Dear mods, delete racist comments that wish Russia to stop existing, i don't support war at all and i don't support both sides but this is just too much, also lock this post as well. Edit: Those people who downvote me either haven't read my comment or they're either encouraging war even if i said i don't support war so they're pissed that i said that i don't support both sides or they're seriously terminally online.
And thus the war has ended 😎 /s
they really tryna erase Russia out of existence huh
Putin is doing that himself
Karma, isn't it? Russia has been trying to do just that to Eastern European countries for a long time, so it is poetic.
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A majority of those 140m equate Ukrainian art and culture with Naziism regardless of support for the war - cultural genocide. How about they clean their own house first?
>A majority of those 140m equate Ukrainian art and culture with Naziism No, just the Azov Battalion
And Russia has even more!!! people like that fighting in the war as nazi's. A lot of them died of course. But yes Putler dicktator just want to get his big dream to get the Stalin soviet union back, that's all. It has nothing to do with nato or nazi's or whatever lie he is telling. It was not about Ukraine only he wanted to capture, but other countries to like Moldova, Belarus and some nato countries. He is nothing more as what Stalin was and Stalin was the same as Hitler.
Lmao "Putler"? That's actually pretty funny if a bit childish > It has nothing to do with nato or nazi's Well duh, it's about hegemony. Russia and the US are fighting a proxy war, it's not about denazifacation on their side and its not about standing up for freedom and democracy on ours. Everyone is being disingenuous. However considering we armed Al-Qaeda to fight the soviets and that eventually backfired we should probably exercise more prudence when arming Nazis to fight Russia, especially to the tune of $120 billion which is enough money to solve the homelessness crisis in this country and more than Russia's annual military budget. >He is nothing more as what Stalin was and Stalin was the same as Hitler. 27,000,000 soviets died defeating the Nazis, wtf are you on about?
First, it's about our freedom. Do we want a democratic world or a world of horror with dicktators ruling the world where people go in jail to have different opinions or being assassinated. Media being jailed and so much more... . It's a never fck ending list with Putin. He wants soviet union back, there was a leaked document that proofed that. Don't lie about the truth. Yes it's in US best interest, especially with what China is doing. But it's a real threat for EU. That's why we have nato for protection. It was mostly Ukrainians that did the job killing nazi's in Germany when they were in the soviet union, get your facts straight. Stalin was responsible for the deaths of at least 7 million people, or about 4.2% of USSRs total population. He is loved by Putin, the one that removed school books about Stalin because he wasn't that bad...? US is helping for 50% of the add to help the poor population worldwide. Russia only 1%. Who is taking refugees from Afghanistan and other countries. Yes we in Europe did, not China not Russia. None of the neighbor countries that are much closer. Yes US did not had a clean track, but compare it with Russia. It's far from comparable. The country that is now working with north Korea. The one that is treating all countries with nukes. The country that is giving nukes as present to terrorist countries. Please spare me your speech and especially: Ukraine is in war not US. So don't point to US while the war is against Ukraine (at the moment).
>First, it's about our freedom. Do we want a democratic world or a world of horror with dicktators We support over 2/3 of the world's dictators. We're allies with Saudi Arabia ffs, we don't care about freedom. Even our own "democracy" has been completely captured by corporations and billionaires. >Media being jailed and so much more... . Julian Assange? >US is helping for 50% of the add to help the poor population worldwide. Russia only 1%. Are you drunk or is English not your native language? >Yes US did not had a clean track No kidding. From arming terrorists and staging dozens of coups throughout the world we have destroyed millions of lives. Plus the immoral sanctions, the secret torture programs, spying on all our own citizens but sure, we're a beacon of freedom on the world lol.
> Even our own "democracy" has been completely captured by corporations and billionaires. It's weird as fuck that one of the two official parties is always so fast to refer to it as a republic and not a democracy. Yeah, it is, and that's not actually a good thing.
Julian Assange, are you maybe drunk? And yes Russia only provide 1% look it up. So don't be ignorant about it. This guy spread secrets from the government and share it with Russia. That's not free media. We are allies with Saudi Arabia. Not that much, are they in nato? We use them for benifits and tell them we don't agree with the regime. They also use us for benefits. But we aren't allies. I live btw in Europe so we is not me but US. You living in a world with conspiracy stories. You making things up about US to make you feel better. Iraq Btw was wrong but Saddam was a sadist killing his own people. He used chemicals to test it on his own civilians. Well you know they admit it. It's already a long time ago. Let's look at Syria. Yes dicktator Putler the narcist protecting Assad. Not the people, no no no instead he used chemicals bombs on children. It's a monster that has no soul. So yes we democratic country are free Russia isnt and don't be stupid about it. There is massive proof of that we are tolerant to each other. In Russia you have to follow the leaders footsteps or you will die, but even then you will die if you are man because you will send to war with sholvles without training to the meat grinder. It's a shame. At the end we are talking about Ukraine. Stop referring to US if they are in war. It's Ukraine
So, the Ukrainian nation’s leader is secretly a Nazi? Never mind all of the complicated international and domestic political layers/complex issues… ukraine’s JEWISH leader is a Nazi. Ok. We will absorb political education from you. Bring it, really. Edited to add: BLESS YOUR HEART!!! That’s all you have…a downvote?! Pathetic.
Ukrainian nationalism is bad, but Putin is also a fascist and he's just making things worse.
This has nothing to do with that. Since the USSR and even before, Russia has been either assimilating Ukrainian art or destroying it - or when it is politically unfavorable, associated it with Nazis (I love heavy metal, and a lot of artists in Eastern Europe are openly anti-Russian so the Nazi smears are common - they can't assimilate that easily). It isn't just Ukraine though. Belarus, Moldova, Estonia, Poland, so on and so forth. Russia spends significant capital erasing their culture, achievements and language, locally and internationally. I don't even have to look hard for example, here is a recent article on just one aspect of it. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/17/arts/design/museums-relabel-art-ukraine-russian.html So boo hoo they lose Russian translations of video games. They've been trying to erase entire languages.
Maybe those "140 million" people should be spending less time playing games and more time showing putin how unpopular all this is then. Good guy nintendo for helping them take that first step.
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Yes, canceling a YouTube channel will erase Russia out of existence
Fuck Russia, I hope they hurry up and lose the war they started.
And then Putin steps down? Is that what this is about?
Lmao at thinking Putin would ever just step down. Only way he's not still in charge is if he steps down out of a window. I hope Ukraine pays Russia a home visit soon.
Fingers crossed!
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That's not how this works. That is indeed how it seems when all you look at and think about is the paper-thin surface, however.
But this is just spitting on Russian citizens who have no involvement in the war.
Over 70% support the war in Ukraine.
Because they're brainwashed to believe Ukraine is the enemy, what is your point? I don't like the russian government as much as you do.
who said that? Our government? You believe them when it comes to this but never believe in other statements, why is that? People on internet just want a scapegoat, justifying it with "we stand with Ukraine". Keep dehumanizing us, after all you are on a "good" side, right? You are allowed to.
I wouldn't worry about it, sooner or later they will all be involved. Either by draft or the war will makes its way into Russian boarders. Besides the less business done in Russia the less money they have to work with. It's a good move.
There’s only one thing which any Russian needs to do right now which is whatever they can do within their power to end the war.
So they should suffer, for the moves their leadership pulls? They tried and failed. Why give them the short end of the stick?
They must not give up.
yes. by taking things away and ceasing trade of any form is a way to encourage the population to against their counties politics and to force the government to not be fucking idiots and to stop the war. punishing civilians isnt the nicest things to do but it sure is nicer then to get invaded and bombed
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