I think people are totally sidestepping the fact that this really only affects those who are trying to make money by just playing through a Nintendo game. If you aren't even monetizing your videos, and are just doing it for fun, which is what this whole shebang started as before monetization was invented, you'd be fine. All Nintendo is saying is "If you're going to make money off of showing our product, the least you can do is give us a cut." Big or small, at least they're working to have both, instead of just prohibiting them completely from being monetized.People are calling Nintendo money-grubbing...but the opposers are the ones who are moneygrubbing, for wanting to keep all the money to theirself, even though their content in the video is well over 60% not theirs.
How can you say that when A) making videos about games are quickly becoming a serious profession, a job that can actually sustain you, and B) it is a fact that videos can drive sales, and we don't have any reason to think that they could do the opposite. It should also be made clear that this will affect more than just let's players, so it's kind of pointless to keep using that as the basis for your entire argument. On top of that I find it questionable to say that over 60% of the content within a video belongs to Nintendo - that depends entirely on the video, you can't just throw out numbers like that from nowhere. What if you're a guy doing reviews, and you're using footage behind your commentary on the game? Who's to say that some Let's Players don't do a whole lot more with their video than the game itself alone could do?
On top of all this, there is the fact that other publishers seems to be completely fine with stuff like this. What gives Nintendo the idea that they're so special, that they deserve more than everybody else? The thing isn't that they deserve that money, it's that they're too traditional, they're refusing to see that things are evolving. Nintendo can use Youtube as a tool to help their brands reach an even wider audience, but right now they're doing everything they possibly can to prevent content creators from wanting to get involved with them. Like TB put it, anyone who values their own work and time should stay far away from Nintendo's deal, and if they don't Nintendo could pull the plug on their job whenever the heck they want.