Nintendo properties seriously have some of the most incredible music i’ve ever heard in my life. I’m a professional musician and it’s no stretch at all to say that Zelda, Mario, and other Nintendo series’ music played a huge role in inspiring me to choose a career in music.
It hurts me to think about the immense amount of hours of passionate work that have been put into the scores of their games by composers like Koji Kondo only to have Nintendo clutch their rights to it and never officially distribute it to streaming/iTunes/etc.
What’s the point of depriving the world of the music made for their games? It’s all easily accessible online on YT, SoundCloud, etc. but it’s losing a massive audience by not being officially distributed. Videogame music will always be seen as second-rate unless it gets the treatment of OST’s like Gustavo Santaolalla’s TLOU scores, which stream tens of millions of times on services like Spotify and spread awareness to how amazing game music truly can be.
The only explanation I’ve seen is that Nintendo is worried that other companies will buy the rights to their music and use it in ways they don’t want. Is that even true? Can’t they decide to not license their music to people they don’t want using it, just like every classic rock band (Zeppelin, Beatles, The Who) who legally prevent people from misusing their musical property?
I hate Nintendo for a lot of reasons lately, but this one has been annoying me my entire life growing up as a fan of their composers. They’re limiting the audience of their composers’ works by being unnecessarily restraining.
What gives??
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