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Nintendo sues Switch emulator Yuzu for ‘facilitating piracy at a colossal scale’ (www.theverge.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 213 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Honestly, I'm surprised this didn't happen sooner. Emulating old hardware is one thing, but they have a current vested interest in their most recent console.

Still, Nintendo's lawyers can rub spurge on their eyes, and I hope the Yuzu devs find a great lawyer (or better yet, are safely hidden behind some kind of digital or geopolitical veil).

[–] [email protected] 45 points 9 months ago (1 children)

safely hidden behind some kind of digital or geopolitical veil

When will people learn that the safest place to develop a Nintendo emulator is Pyongyang?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago

I guess that depends on your definition of "safe"

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, it has always felt like we had something we couldn't wish for or expect. And it's a much better experience than using an actual switch.

Sadly the only surprising thing about this is how long it took for Nintendo to do something, I guess they worked on having as good of a chance as they could.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

It would be a waste of time to litigate a case they think they'll lose, after all. Unfortunately, once the devs included proprietary code in the application, they kind of sealed their fate.

Maybe they got a little too excited over TotK and thought they were under Nintendo's radar. Maybe they felt like they owed the community an app that could play Nintendo's highly-anticipated game practically on day one. I dunno. Either way, it was a miscalculated move, and now they're reaping the consequences.