Twilight tapped Harry on the shoulder as her boyfriend was examining games in the WiiU section of Gamestop, the girl having become slightly bored during his browsing time.

"What're you looking at?" Twilight asked, needing to stand on her tip-toes to see over his shoulder.

"Smash Bros 4" Harry said in a discontented tone.

"Wow, that sounded enthusiastic" Twilight nodded "Not a good game?"

"Ehhh, good for some people, just not for me" harry shrugged, putting the game down and stuffing his hands into his jacket pockets, continuing to browse the section.

"How come?" Twilight inquired.

"Two reasons; the first being I don't find the Smash Bros gameplay fun, I never found it as skill oriented as something like Killer Instinct or Street Fighter, the items acted as too much of a wildcard for me, even though you can turn them off I know" Harry explained "And the second reason is the fanbase"

"What's wrong with them?" she asked, picking up a copy Wind Waker HD.

"To put it bluntly, I find them to be a bunch of two-faced, hypocritical, stuck-up jackasses" Harry sighed.

"That's quite an opinion, where'd it come from?" she asked, checking the back of the box.

"It started a few years back when I heard a few die hard Smash fans at school ripping the hell out of COD for adding being nothing more than the same game released year after year with a few new maps and modes that have no thought put into them and completely lacking the care and attention Masahiro Sakurai"

"And your counter-opinion is?"

"These are the fans of the series that has been practically the same game every time its released with nothing more than a few new characters, a few fun modes that get boring after fifteen minutes and their attempt to add in a story to Brawl was nothing more than a side-scrolling level about how the bad guys were turning everyone into trophies, pretty much just an excuse to have stages and boss fights" Harry continued "They've even started taking characters out of sequels and removing maps that people loved"

"Are they the kind of people its impossible to reason with?"

"Oh yeah, they're basically just refined Nintendo fanboys and we all know how bad they are" Harry said.

"I don't, care to fill me in?"

"Well, you might know Nintendo as the gaming company single-handedly responsible for saving the video game industry?" Harry asked.

"Yeah?" Twilight nodded "And now?"

"And now they're starting to make the decisions in line with companies like EA and Activision, who've been in the practice of fucking over their consumer base for nearly a decade now" Harry said, putting Smash down and picking up the box for Bayonetta 2 "Nintendo has now starting issuing copyright strikes against Youtube channels for showing their games, which is basically free advertising for them, and then in an attempt to make peace, they made a new deal with the Youtubers which was that they had to pay them a large percentage of money to play their games and record them for their subscribers to see"

"And that's a bad thing?" Twilight asked, raising an eyebrow "Seems like a fair thing to do?"

"Does it really?" Harry asked "Lemme level with you for a second, let's put this practice into an actual conversation shall we?"

"... Alright, fine" Twilight nodded "What do I need to do?"

"Hey Twilight, you hear about Donkey Kong Country Returns?" Harry asked.

"No... what's Donkey Kong Country Returns?" she asked in a confused tone.

"Right, so that's twice we've mentioned a Nintendo product so we now owe them... twenty bucks each, let's say" Harry said.

"What?" Twilight asked "Why?"

"Because I mentioned something that's theirs, something I already paid for mind you, to someone who might want to buy it for themselves, more money for them by the way if I do convince you to buy it, so because they own the rights to it I need to pay them money for talking about it" Harry explained.

"But that's bullshit" Twilight said "If you convince em to buy it then they get my money without having to spend money on advertising!"

"I know, but they don't think that its fair for that, to have these Youtubers play their games in front of thousands, possibly millions of people, once again without having to pay them to do it, who might go out and buy the game they're playing" Harry said, moving into the Xbox section "Now if we take someone like Pewdiepie or maybe even Markiplier, VanossGaming or how about a reviewer like Angry Joe, who are Youtubers with over a million subscribers on their channels, Pewdie having just under thirty seven million subscribers and Joe being the least subscribed with just over two million"

"That's... that's a lot of people" Twilight said in shock.

"Oh yeah, now if we take a million people from each of them, say they all buy the same sixty dollar game, times sixty dollars by four millions and that gives Nintendo a nice little profit of..." Harry said, doing the math inside his head "Two-hundred and forty million dollars"

"Holy shit" Twilight said, her eyes wide as dishes "That is a lot of money"

"Eh, chump-change really, but if this all happens once a day, every day for a year, we times two-hundred and forty million by three-hundred and sixty-five then we end up with a round sum of eighty-seven billion, six-hundred million dollars per annum" Harry worked out "Now this is where we're talking some serious money"

"Now we're talking hypothetically here, that kind of money coming in every year would be enough for Nintendo to end bail America out of debt in about twenty years, but still, that is a fuck-ton of money" Twilight nodded "And didn't you say that that wasn't even their entire fanbase"

"Yup, if my figures are correct, Pewdie is about to hit thirty-seven million subs, Vanoss closing in on thirteen million, Markiplier getting close to eight million and Joe on his way to three million, we add all those people together... that gives us sixty-two million people, times that by sixty and then that by three-hundred and sixty five?"

Twilight ran the math through her head before  her face hit the floor, realizing the money this company could make.

"That brings us to... one trillion, three-hundred and fifty-seven billion, eight-hundred million dollars per annum" Twilight said.

"Now, its all theoretical as that many people will never be able to throw that kind of money at Nintendo due to things like lack of income, budgeting on poorer families, lack of console access or outright stinginess, but in a perfect world they could be making that kind of money by allowing Youtubers, and only these Youtubers to show their games free of charge" Harry continued.

"But they're charging people?" she asked.

"Yes, but that's not the only thing they're doing, they're also forcing Youtubers to submit their videos for approval by a Nintendo representative themselves, which means that they have to wait several days, even a week for their video to be checked and approved, with revenue taken off it, and bearing in mind that Youtube is some people's full time job and that the Youtube crowd will find somebody else to watch if you're not uploading means that on top of the huge viewers base you're losing, which means less money earned by add revenue which barely anybody clicks on, they're having money taken off them" Harry explained.

"And what if this Nintendo guy doesn't like the video?" she asked.

"Then it doesn't go up and you lose all the money you could've gotten as well as a possible copyright strike against your channel, and three of those means it gets deleted" Harry shrugged.

"Wow... Nintendo are assholes" Twilight whistled.

"Strangely enough though, Nintendo of America gets that this is a mistake and they're willing to take this system down and give more back to the people, but its Nintendo of Japan that are fucking things up for everyone, just a bunch of old, greedy, Japanese men who can't see that Youtube is helping boost sales" Harry continued "And now several Youtubers have started boycotting Nintendo so their huge viewer base isn't getting exposed to these new games and aren't buying them"

"So they lose money?" Twilight asked "I think I'm getting this now"

"Nope, they don't lose a cent" Harry stated with a fake grin.

"What?" Twilight asked "Why?"

"Because like I said, Nintendo fanboys are as stupid as they are loyal, they're under the impression that Nintendo cares about their consumer base when for the past ten years they've done nothing but fuck them over, but because they used to be the 'best company ever' their sheep as still loyal to their master"

"Wow... that's really depressing" Twilight said.

"Yep, gamers are fucking idiots who don't realize they're only hurting themselves" Harry chuckled "That's why I've never seen Nintendo as the best company ever"

"And who do you think is?" Twilight asked, picking up a copy of Battlefield 3, reading the back of the box.

"I think its quite obvious, Rockstar Entertainment" Harry said, picking up a copy of GTA 5 and stroking it affectionately.

"Huh" Twilight said, crossing her eyes "I don't even think you like me that much"

"Do you let me load up with guns and murder people on the street?" Harry asked, Twilight grabbing hold of his hand and smiling sweetly at him.

"I would, but then I'd have to share you with those mean men in prison" she giggled, kissing him on the cheek and walking past him "Now come on, its my turn to shop and rant about useless shit"

"Where are we going?" he asked, following after her.

"Underwear shopping" she answered.

"Awesome, just don't sneak off without me when we're there" Harry requested "I don't quite feel looking like a sex-pest today" Next Chapter: Plan Formulated. Awaiting Execution. Estimated time remaining: 5 Hours, 49 Minutes