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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] 58 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

So instead of making their games more easily accessible and re-releasing old games, which has been proven to reduce piracy and may even be profitable, they just throw money at a lawsuit attacking an emulator?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago

Don't forget good hardware too. The switch is an absolutely terrible hand held device. My hands cramp up nearly instantly trying to play on it.

I have purchased BOTW and TOTK for the switch, but I play them on my steam deck with YUZU Waaaay better experience.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Wait, how does that reduce piracy?

[–] [email protected] 25 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Having a good service that's easily accessible and re-releasing games from older consoles (many of which people have been rallying for) = less of an incentive to pirate them. Obv it will still exist, but it'd be in less of a demand. I almost never pirate PC games since the vast majority of the ones I'm interested in are readily accessible, unless it's from a shitty AAA company like EA.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

I haven't pirated any of these gams And it's a little bit off topic But damn I would so buy Mario party or Mario tennis or even arms if it wasn't $60

Like I think the games are cute But I'd rather buy 3 indie games with way more worth in play time then a $60 tennis simulator that I will drop in a week or a party game that I will only use on the rare occasion I'm hanging out with friends

I'm actually kind of happy that Nintendo is shutting down the Wii U and 3ds eShop because now it feels more ethical to pirate all the small $60 games I wanted to play

Hell id gladly spend $30 on many of these games

Tl;Dr these games are not worth $60 and I'm a little salty about it

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Ever heard of a small indie company called Valve?