Nintendo Bands Livestreaming Via Creators Program, Uploading Still Allowed

As yet another example of Nintendo’s overly strict attitude towards anything that has to do with its IPs or services, the company recently announced that it will no longer allow live streaming from its Creators Program. Users can still upload videos of playthrough clips and the like, but live broadcasts are banned even with non-Nintendo IPs.

The Nintendo Creators Program is basically a platform where players create content that the company would post. After getting all of the ad revenue from videos that are monetized, Nintendo shares the money with the content creators. Until recently, this included live stream videos, Engadget reports.

The Japanese video game publisher made the changes by simply updating the rules for the program. In it, all participants of the program can no longer use YouTube Live to stream their playthroughs or any activity on their accounts. What’s more, the new rules did not specifically mention its IPs, so it can be inferred that even streams of third-party titles are included in the ban.

Of course, if content creators really wanted to, they could still do live stream videos of their gaming sessions. They would simply need to do so using another account that is separate from the Creators Program, as the company notes in its post:

“Live streaming on YouTube falls outside the scope of the Nintendo Creators Program. You cannot broadcast content on YouTube Live from the account you have registered to the Nintendo Creators Program. If you plan to broadcast content on YouTube Live, you have a couple of options. First, you can broadcast content on YouTube Live from a channel that is not registered to the Nintendo Creators Program. Or, you can cancel your channel's registration to the Nintendo Creators Program and instead, register your videos containing Nintendo’s IP to the program separately. Videos which had previously been registered through your channel would need to be reregistered individually.”