I obviously meant piracy. English is not my native language.
My point is that It makes no sense to pretend not to understand the difference between retro gaming and being able to access current generation games for free. Everyone knows that emulation is not a synonym of piracy. Everyone also knows that being able to access recent and still marketed games for free has absolutely nothing to do with the essential and necessary preservation of video game history.
Whether you find it legitimate just because you feel like it is your choice and everyone is free to do what they want. But we must stop being hypocritical: this is not really about anti-consumer or "anti-freedom" practice. This is about our personal desire. Wanting something is not enough to make that thing automatically ethical and morally right.
Nintendo's poor management of joy-cons is an anti-consumer scandal. Just like the potential loss of games purchased digitally. Protecting your intellectual property, and refusing to allow people to access your work for free (which simply means stealing) is not wrong. The fact that you, personally, buy games does not change the fact that this practice gives the option not to buy the games.
Emulation is legal. It is stealing that is not. Of course, we can pretend we don't understand Nintendo's problem here if you like, but I find that to be a little hypocritical.
Wanting something (a more powerful console, for example) does not give us the moral right to do whatever we want. Anyone who has a job knows that all work has value. It is paradoxical to fight, in a very legitimate way, against poor working conditions in this industry while finding it normal not to value people's work by refusing to pay for it. Because if we're being honest, emulation in general isn't the problem here, and everyone understands that.
Piracy directly correlates with goodness, availability and easiness of legal options.
To legally obtain Switch roms, you need hackable Switch.
It will push people towards piracy, even if they own legit copy (as downloading is still illegal even if you own legit copy).
Obviously it doesn't make it right, but people will continue to do so, as there's practically zero change of getting caught.
I'd imagine in world where Nintendo sold legal roms, there would be much less piracy.
Because people would be willing to pay for legal roms.
Similar to what is happening with streaming (at least in some countries), Netflix all but killed piracy, since pirates lost advantage of being available and not tied to TV schedule. (And potentially 1-2 year delay if you didn't live in US).
and now with price increases and content being split between dozens of services, piracy is on rise again.
