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every single nintendo direct is written like its advertising the first video game ever made. in this “game of strategy” you can choose to attack with swords [8 second clip of a guy attacking with a sword] or with spells [8 second clip of a guy attacking with a spell]

Remember when Nintendo was calling every game "the [name] game"

have they stopped that?

They still do, at least Nintendo of America does. If you watch a UK Nintendo Direct you'll see that they just say "game" instead of "the [game] game" like in the US. Which means that they make the narrator record two versions of the same line every time he mentions the name of a Nintendo game.

see to me this screams lawyer meddling. like a lawyer said "technically we have to phrase it like this in america or we're breaking some sort of advertising law" in a way that no other company cares about

aiui trademarks in the US act sort of like adjectives, so you'll hear the occasional "doritos corn chips" when any normal person would just say "doritos", because a "dorito" isn't a thing it's a /type/ of thing, i guess? and saying "dorito" is the first baby step towards genericization

so my best guess here is something like nintendo feeling a bit spiky about every console being called "a nintendo" for some time and they are leaning hard the other way?? but obviously this is absurd because who is ever going to use "mario kart world" to refer to all video games

Hold on there was actually an image that was apparently made where they tried to stop people from just calling the nes or snes "a nintendo" but i need to find it

Found it