If you’ve always wanted to go to the Electronic Entertainment Expo trade show, you could maybe go this year if you were making money for Nintendo.
The publisher has started emailing people in its “Nintendo Creators Program,” its YouTube partners initiative in which it splits money with people making videos of Nintendo games, to ask them if they want a three-day badge to attend E3 in Los Angeles next week. The emails started going out late last week and over the weekend. Nintendo is not covering travel or accommodations, so those who are thinking about taking the publisher up on the offer should probably get on Kayak immediately.
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Check out the full email below:
But inviting YouTube partners isn’t a guaranteed win for Nintendo. The company is not — at least according to the email — enforcing any coverage restrictions on people who accept badges. That means these folk could potentially come in and spend their entire time covering Sony games, for example. Additionally, the Nintendo Creators Program has already turned off a number of established video creators on YouTube. Top personalities like PewDiePie have said they won’t partake in Nintendo’s program because the company has no claim to the revenue made through YouTube.