Amid ongoing litigation between Epic Games and Apple various confidential files about the work of the company’s partners continue to get into the network Tim Sweeney… Scans of edited internal documentation hit the digital space on Tuesday Nintendo, which describes the requirements for all potential platform-holder partners within Japan.
In particular, the Nintendo leadership requires Japanese companies to have no ties to the yakuza at all.… If potential partners are somehow affiliated with organized crime, then no agreements can be signed between the parties.
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Among the disclosed lines of the document, one can discern a number of Nintendo’s requirements for its partners: companies and their employees should not have any direct or indirect ties with the yakuza, should not provide financial means or receive funding from criminal groups, should not resort to business threats, should not must disseminate false information and rumors about partnerships, and must not engage in other “activities that could harm Nintendo’s reputation.”
Epic Games is not a Japanese company, but Nintendo is associated with it through the use of the engine Unreal Engine and the release of the battle royale Fortnite on the Nintendo Switch… In addition to information on the yakuza, Nintendo’s trial documentation contains general information about the terms of Epic Games’ partnership with the platform holder. In particular, it confirms that Nintendo retains 30% of the revenue from all third-party games and microtransaction revenue.
Other documents revealed that the Switch version of the game brought developers more money than the iOS and Android versions combined.…
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