Popular Colorado Gamer Sued by Nintendo for Millions of Dollars

As an industry, gaming has truly become the most definitely popular and lucrative avenue in the entertainment business.

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In 2022, the industry as a whole generated an astonishing $190 million. 

Then comes the huge money involved with companies acquiring developers. For example, Microsoft acquired Activision Blizzard in 2022 for an unprecedented $68.7 billion.

To put that into perspective, when the Denver Broncos were bought in 2022 by the Walton-Penner group, the sale broke records for $4.65 billion. Even the most popular sport in the country doesn’t even sniff the money video games make.

Quite possibly the most famous and ubiquitous name in gaming has to be Nintendo, though. 

The company is almost solely responsible for the extreme rise of at-home gaming in the mid-1980s, after the industry looked to be left for dead.

Even today, Nintendo’s consoles and video games are viewed as the high watermark of quality and innovation. 

However, the company is notoriously stingy with their brands, and have filed countless lawsuits against both YouTubers and streamers for copyright infringement. 

While some view them as too harsh, with Nintendo, it’s best to try to play it safe knowing how trigger happy they get with lawsuits.

With that being said, a Colorado gamer and streamer has been testing the waters with this, and has found himself in deep trouble.

Colorado Streamer “everygameguru” Gets Sued for Millions By Nintendo

A streamer from Castle Rock, Colorado who goes by the name “everygameguru” is currently facing some serious charges by the video game giant Nintendo. 

The streamer, whose real name is Jesse Keighin, has cultivated an audience of thousands of people spanning many different platforms.

What his audience would watch him for was definitely unique; playing unreleased games made for the Nintendo Switch console.

Somehow, Keighin was able to gain access to games on the Switch that hadn’t been released yet, which is a pretty clear case of copyright infringement. 

According to 9News, the lawsuit claims that Keighin has streamed 10 Nintendo games before they were released, and has broken copyright infringement from Nintendo properties more than 50 times in total. 

With a fine of $150,000 per offense, Keighin is looking at a maximum fine of $7 million, which is truly unbelievable.

Nintendo has contacted him before and many of his accounts have been banned from platforms, but it never stopped him.

In fact, he sent an email to Nintendo saying, “I have a thousand burner channels, We can do this all day".

According to 9News, Keighin said on a stream that he just plans to file for bankruptcy to avoid it setting any sort of precedent for both video game emulation and streaming.