China:

They threaten a crap ton to scare devs into not entering court, but tbf I’m pretty sure the guy they got was for actual piracy, and the court ordered the millions in alleged damages to be paid in $40 installments to Nintendo per month for the rest of his life.

Edit:

It was set at 20-30% of his salary so yeah I guess that’s still a pretty hefty chunk of change.

They care more about protecting their IP and public image, not end privacy of users.

They make a big fuss anytime a public request comes up like the FBI a few years ago, but they have zero issue funneling everything into the NSA just like every other Silicon Valley shmuck.