It serves a reminder that corporations aren't your besties or your friends. No matter how cool they seem to be via promos, [ress conferences, directs whatever. It's all to sell you and get the maximum amount of money from you.
There are tons of reports of developers saying that Switch verisons outsell the Steam verisons, and if homebrew comes on Switch with the ability to put pirated games on the console, its going to hurt publishers, big publishers have enough money to take damage from privacy, while small publishers dont, just my take
Because in the end of the day, would it affect you right now as a consumer? No offence but attacking emulation just screams fanboyism to me, and I mean emulation only and not piracy. Of course you're gonna say it will conclude to piracy but what can we do? Pretty much all consoles/platform will be pirated eventually, i'm just happy that emulation is there for preservation purposes as well as an option if you want higher resolutio etc. Every system in existence has been emulated one way or another, You'll probably be happy in the future that you have the option to play your favorite game in a higher resolution and possibly better framerate.
I just brought it up as a side note, It was kind of offtopic, homebrew would hurt smaller publishers way more than emulators on PC however, thats my take on it,I dont want to derail the thread
Why does Nintendo want sales from people who see their hardware as nothing but a barrier between them and the definitive version of their games? I'm one of those people and I have a Switch, I'll buy whatever games I emulate but I'm sure as hell not investing myself into their "ecosystem". I'm not paying for multiplayer and I'm not going to buy anything digitally. Any games I buy at retail will be at a significant discount. I am not a valuable customer to them.
Hold up, i get it that corporations arent your friends, but you are straight up advocating piracy. Not emulation, but piracy. Like its no big deal
What if people using their legal rights couldn't care less about Nintendo's aim and interest?
This. Nintendo's interests clearly don't align with the consumer. They're a major part of the ESA, the group that has been lobbying against loot box legislation/oversight and against preservation groups for bringing offline multiplayer games back online and once fought the circumvention of DRM in games that are no longer playable by "legitimate" means.
Piracy isnt good at all. Especially not when the system still climbing a uphill battle in terms of 3rdParty support.
Any links you could provide ? I find that interesting :)
I'm just stating the reality of the situation that enthusiast-level users that are rendering Breath of the Wild at 8K won't be appeased by the limitations of the Switch's hardware and it's time to acknowledge that those enthusiasts are an entirely separate audience. I know exclusives are made to sell consoles but what's the point if they're not going to invest themselves in the platform?
If there were 100 million Switches in the wild, no, emulation by itself (ignoring piracy) would probably not affect me as a consumer. But at this stage, successful emulation would mean people don't need to buy a Switch to play Switch exclusives. As a result, far less Switches will be sold, and that WILL affect Nintendo's output (and possibly some 3rd party decisions) and so me as a consumer.
Also Patreon gives a financial support system for people to work on this stuff full time.
I cant help you if you think that emulation and Piracy on a system that has been out for a year are good news. Ask publishers and devs if they think the same....i doubt it.
What? First of all, in terms of hacking, it's almost always Nintendo's fault because of their bad security mechanisms. Failoverflow hacked the WiiU in months and even did not release anything because they thought it would not be worth it. As far as emulation goes, Nintendo systems seem to be an easy target to get at least something running but look at Dolphin, for example. It is still not perfect and potentially one of the biggest emulators out there with an insane amount of hours put into it. Citra only now is really able to do emulation at high speeds with modest computing efforts.
