It's great because now I don't have to buy hardware or software. Looking forward to emulating switch 2 games before they're even released like ToTK, lol.

[–] yournamehere@lemm.ee 13 points 1 day ago

"please buy our new switch"

nah, i m good.

[–] SoftTeeth@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

If they spent half their lawyer money on making good games they wouldn't be losing money to competition

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 day ago

Arguable, but I think they do both.

[–] b34k@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think Nintendo first party games are great. And I certainly don’t think they’re losing money… the Switch has the most global sales of any current console by a lot. In fact, the PS2 is the only non-Nintendo console to have sold more.

[–] SoftTeeth@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Strange that they targeted Palworld but not any of the other monster collector games that came out in the last 10 yesrs that weren't nearly as successful.

They don't need the money, but them wanting other developers money is what makes them do these petty lawsuits. And if they really wanted the money then they could have just made the pokemon game that Palworld ended up filling the niche for.

But they're lazy and greedy instead of a fun games company so they choose to hire lawyers to suppress real competitors

[–] john89@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 hours ago

Keep in mind everyone, nintendo started out as a toy company and never lost that culture.

They aren't your friends and they aren't "better than the rest."

[–] g1ya777@lemmy.world 74 points 2 days ago (54 children)

[–] john89@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 hours ago

Me using a gaming laptop, a solution which has been available for over a decade.

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[–] sma3in@lemmy.world 26 points 2 days ago (2 children)

we know emulation is legal, but we're still going to legally have a legal reason to take y'all emulators to court angry face

[–] IMALlama@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

Strategic lawsuits against public participation (also known as SLAPP suits or intimidation lawsuits), or strategic litigation against public participation, are lawsuits intended to censor, intimidate, and silence critics by burdening them with the cost of a legal defense until they abandon their criticism or opposition

There are many, many variants. The idea is the smaller player can't really afford to fight in court, so even if the larger actor has shaky legal claims they will still win.

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[–] IceFoxX@lemm.ee 86 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So the lawyer says that Nintendo, despite knowing that the emulators themselves are legal, has unlawfully caused take downs and reputational damage. Sounds kind of illegal

[–] egerlach@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Not really. It sounds like they haven't gone after them for emulation, but instead for emulation-adjacent things: copying ROMs, circumventing digital locks, etc.

They explicitly mention (one of?) the developers of Yuzu sharing ROMs in the article.

In other words, the emulator itself isn't illegal, but in order to use the emulator the way most people want, you have to do illegal things, and that's what they go after you for.

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[–] mariusafa@lemmy.sdf.org 25 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

I prefer my nintendont 2 (aka steam deck). Fuck Nintendo bastards and taking down all cool emulator free software projects.

[–] john89@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 hours ago

Glad I still have my solid copy of Yuzu.

Never buying another console again, and it's been years since I bought a video game.

The companies only have themselves to blame.

[–] secret300@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Nintendo needs to burn. The fact they can just shut down whatever they want is disgusting and needs to be stopped.

[–] john89@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 hours ago

[–] eugenevdebs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 135 points 2 days ago (19 children)

[–] john89@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 hours ago

Heck, piracy is almost always morally correct because developers are only doing the least while charging the most.

If they want to treat business as "us vs. them", then that's what they're going to get.

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[–] Soulifix@kbin.melroy.org 228 points 3 days ago (48 children)

Nintendo 5 years from now: "After suing multiple fan projects and intimidating them to cease projects, Nintendo admits that they were just fan projects"

This is the company by the way that's behind on the times of technology. Like, how long did it take them to adopt broadband technology on their consoles? The Wii?

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[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago

More like nintendon't!

[–] Razzazzika@lemm.ee 13 points 2 days ago (3 children)

What bugs me is i thought it was cause of the switch 2 pending, but turns out the switch 2 won't be fully backwards compatible

[–] stooth64@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago (9 children)

The Switch 2 has a new hardware size and some software (like Labo and Ring Fit) has a physical component that is sized to the original Switch/Joy-Con. It could be referring to that.

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