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>THANKKU GOD SATAN PULLED THOUGH WITHU MY REQUEST. DIS PIECE OF SHIT ALMOST TURN MY WII AND DS INTO LIFE ALERT! I GIVVU HIM REGGIE AND HE STILL WORTHRESS.

The Gamecube era was abysmal for Nintendo and they were simply buying their time as Hiroshi was forming a plan in the background. It wasn't until HE came back with Wii/DS to bail out Iwata, Reggie was put in charge of everything in America because that was basically the only market making them money and they needed a charisma man who could actually speak english. Then Iwaya almost killed the Wii trying to turn it into a boomer workout and health monitor which was only save by his other failure:The Wii U and his timely demise.

>the myriad cases during the wii u/3DS era when they took down fangames like AM2R and pokemon prism, in a fashion even more draconian than anything they do now

They had to because as history shows they were planning on making apology games for past blunders like Other M. Dread is literally "we finally did everything the fans asked for: The game;the title included". They are going balls to the wall with palworld right now because Pokemon is basically the only thing keeping them afloat, if they actually gave a shit about IP law they would throw C&D's out like hotcakes to some of their IP's whose violations that would make even a lawyer cringe.
No matter how many balls it takes nintendo to drop they will keep going tooth and nail at "throwing balls patents" because that's literally 1/3 of their lifeline due to Iwata and Miyamoto.