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

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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

Here is the latest stable build of Yuzu that I've got from 24 hours ago for anyone who wasn't able to download it in time.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

It needs to work both ways then. Nintendo needs to pay for all the free advertisement that emulators provide.

Anytime I mess with an emulator and play an old game it triggers nostalgia. I then purchase new software and hardware from the company it belongs to.

This is some shady shit that Nintendo is pulling.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I totally bought stardew valley and recommened this game a bunch of times to people after "trying" it. In fact, I have bought it twice on PC, once on Switch, and on iOS.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago

Fuck Nintendo

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

I pirated BotW and TotK and others

Which made my brother buy a Switch and TotK and Mario Kart and a Nintendo Online subscription and aaaa...

Piracy increases sales, goddammit. Literally free advertising.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

I would also like to add that piracy does not equate to a loss in sales.

There are plenty of things I would never spend money on, but I would check/try them out of they were free.

For example, a VR headset. I will never buy one since I get dizzy too easily generally. But, if there was one that I could try for free I'd try it.

So, If im using one at a library, it does not mean that a sale was lost. It just means I find the value of this thing to be less than what you are charging for it.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 8 months ago

Nintendo is a shady company. When somebody improves their product all they care to do is destroy it and whoever supports it.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 8 months ago

This is like a CIA Pulitzer. Nintendo could not have made a better endorsement of Yuzu's performance.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 8 months ago

fuck Nintendo and their shitty buisness.

Emulators are not only good for preserving games, they are good for consumers - preserving their acess to games they own.

their "illegal" bullshit is just because they don't port their games to anything.

Nintendo can eat shit and learn how to port and sell their older titles as well

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