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How do grown ass adults look at this and think anything other than "damn, that's pretty cool!"? Literally nobody and no company has any conceivable money to lose over this and couldn't convince me otherwise. Law should have nothing to do with all this pussyfooting about legality.
Valve removed it because it used official N64 APIs that Nintendo holds as classified information. I think if it had totally been bottom-up crafted from scratch, it would have survived. But Valve does NOT wanna deal with a Nintendo lawyer.
Wait but why is Valve involved at all, then? Not like it's their fault that some people they have nothing to do with are building a game based on those APIs, so shouldn't Nintendo approach the developers of the port directly instead?
Valve holds the copyright to Portal, so Nintendo probably just "encouraged" them to pull some strings.
Nintendo have their own litigation-happy lawyers. With the exception of the Portal Collection release for Switch, both companies have nothing to do with each other.
Nintendo sues everyone they encounter in the faintest context of their IP with the power of a thousand suns. See also, the failed launch if Dolphin on Steam. Valve is justifiably cautious here.
Valve doesn't distribute the port.
Doesn’t matter
If fact it does for the claim that Nintendo would sue Valve otherwise.