The suspect accused of sending threats to Nintendo and attending audiences through the now-cancelled Nintendo Reside occasion in Tokyo earlier this yr has now admitted to the fees (thanks, Splatoon Torikara).
What’s extra, when explaining the motive behind his threats, the 27-year-old particular person blamed his actions on… get this… dropping at video games.
In an announcement throughout court docket proceedings (translated through Google), the primary merely mentioned “I used to be stressed from taking part in video games. After I saved dropping, I grew to become more and more annoyed”.
Now, we’re unsure about you, however after we’re not doing nicely at video games, we have a tendency to easily put them down for some time, discover one thing else to do, and are available again after we’re feeling a bit extra level-headed.
On this case, nonetheless, the person despatched threats to Nintendo, writing “I’ll make you remorse bringing such a s***ty recreation into this world”, earlier than threatening to “kill everybody concerned”. These threats then prolonged to Nintendo Reside’s spectators, through which he warned Nintendo to “watch out about occasions which have spectators in attendance”.
Prosecutors acknowledged that “there isn’t any extenuating room for infantile motives” and have really helpful the person be jailed for one yr, with damages estimated to be round 700 million yen (approx $4.4 million). The decision is now scheduled to be handed down on twenty fourth July 2024.