Make sure to patent an obscure action after you see it used in a game reveal of the game at a GameFest so you can claim you technically had a patent before the game was released.
Or, hear me out: You can not buy and not play their games. You can support other publishers who align better with your values, and lift them up instead.
No we don’t do that, here on Reddit we just comment sail the high seas/yarr/picture of jack sparrow and then complain whenever a game has Denuvo in it.
This very reason is part of why I'm going to actually support Nintendo. They may not be the best when looking at gaming as a whole, but for me and my family Nintendo games are far better in terms of many of the practices game studios use to separate people from their money in ways I hate. No bullshit "ultimate" editions. No money sucking battle passes. No games released in a broken state. The one legitimate gripe I'll give is the absolute refusal to let games go on any significant sale.
Of course others are free to not support Nintendo with their wallet, as is their right.
Yeah, the OG Switch being emulated so quickly is kinda an exception to how long it usually takes. I imagine Nintendo is going to make it much harder this time round.
Computer hardware quickly outpaced the PS2 and PS3, but it still took ages for those consoles to receive passable emulation. There's usually more to it than just hardware power.
It won’t take a couple years. It’ll be emulating within 6 months. The real question will be how long will that stay up with the recent Nintendo take-downs.
I have faith but you have to put things into perspective.
Switch Emulation was lucky. Nintendo used off the shelf hardware. The Tegra X1 was widely known and well documtented, Nintendo’s security was perfect but Nvidia forgot too hardware patch their launch units, Nintendos security was ultimately undermined by NVIDIA rushing things out…
Let’s continue…Nintendo signed a legal agreement with the two biggest Switch emu devs about them never touching Nintendo hardware ever again, other scene contributors left the scene out of fear to be sued or because of the toxicity within the emu scene…it leads to a very narrow talent pool who could even develop such an emulator.
So you would basically have to fund your project by yourself, work on it full time snd have Nintendo breathing in your neck. It’s not worth it.
Maybe some very basic games that could have released for switch 1 anyways. Considering they're backwards compatible, there might not be that many unless Nintendo stops licensing new switch 1 games.
Someone needs to develop an emulator though, and most of those guys have disbanded and been deterred. What ever happened to EggNS?
That's not how this works. The steam deck could run switch 2 games natively if they were made for it, but they aren't. It needs to emulate the switch 2.
To emulate a device, you need a computer significantly more powerful than the device you're emulating.
Switch 2 is too similar in power to steam deck for it to realistically emulate it.
That’s not entirely true, the steam deck runs switch 1 far better than the actual system. Switch 2 games do not seems that much more demanding than switch 1 for now
I mean if you can play switch 1 game on it as it seems, architecture must be similar, also Nintendo sued multiple emulators in the running of announcing it adding to the possibility of similarity. Nintendo console also have a pretty big dedicated branch of emulation push by fans.
I guess we'll see, but I'm pretty skeptical. The switch 2's GPU has twice the cores as a steam deck so unless they just don't use that power it sounds pretty unreasonable to me that a steam deck will run switch 2 games well along with the overhead of emulation.
Like, yeah the steam deck runs switch 1 games better than a switch 1... But the switch 2 is running switch 1 games at 4k 60fps and 1440p 60
Yes, good thing. It's a game. You know that people within that group would never purchase their product? To an adult, it's still a kiddie video game with steep entrance fees and alot of money to down way after that again. It's Nintendo's fault or they are aware of the economical situations of alot of potential customers and chose to put the pedal to the metal. It's potential nobody's fault but definitely not the pirates. It is now a company with rich spoilt posh brats whose parents can afford it. At least the people who could never have such advantages in the real world can still enjoy some nonessential good company's nonessential goods. Also, pc will never be inferior to anything.
You’re literally the person in the meme… emulating games that will most likely sell millions of copies is not doing anything to Nintendo. Some people could afford it but don’t want to give Nintendo their money.
So u like the products they make and want to play them, but don't want to pay them for that product and so you just get it illegally and play it. Yeah, not stealing. Emulation isn't the problem, piracy is. If you don't want to give them money, rent the game. Borrow it, buy it secondhand so u don't give Nintendo money. Stealing it is not the way.
Piracy isn't stealing by legal definition. You're not taking anything nor depriving inventory.
As for your question, sure. Nintendo knows there are people who aren't going to pay $80 for their games. They've already factored that into their business plans when they made the decision to raise peices.
If they don't want nor expect someone's money to begin with, then there's nothing being lost when a person pirates. And at that point, there's no valid argument that says why someone shouldn't pirate in this scenario.
They're illegally downloading the company's product that they developed, and playing it without paying for it. There are legit ways to play the games without giving Nintendo money (renting, used market). People who pirate games obviously do value those games in some way because they want to play it. They just take the illegal, "free" way because it's an option. If there were no available avenues to pirate, you would have the true sense of whether a consumer would pay for it or not. Either they pay some price for it, or they won't and market prices would adjust for that or not. And if it didn't matter to Nintendo at all like you suggest, then they wouldn't be taking such strong stances against piracy.
Emulation is not unethical by itself, piracy is and will always remain that way. I'm not saying people are inherently bad to do that, but let's not delude ourselves.
It's all well and good until you want multiplayer or motion input. Also (at least in Ryujinx) there can be a lot of lag in different games (f.e. when shock is used in MK8DX)
Omg did you know you could play any console’s games on pc for free making consoles obsolete omg , people buy consoles because of the hassle less and more streamlined experience, though am a pc gamer I believe playing on original hardware gives a superior experience to first party games
Sorry, but I actually have self respect and care about my time. I don't "emulate", I spend my time elsewhere. But hey, you wanna advocate for piracy and completely ruin any argument you have, go ahead.
I pirate, yes. Where's the lie exactly? Whether the games are pirated copies or not, they're still being emulated 🤔. You're not making sense.
Regardless, what does that have to do with your original post? Emulation here means playing games. Per your own words, if you don't have time for it, then you don't have time to play games.
Again, that's fair. Not everyone has that amount of time to dedicate to a hobby.
Emulation is not piracy, and people like you who lie about emulation are the reason emulation does not get the legal support it deserves.
The legal consensus for emulation is that you must first purchase the console and purchase the games. And you’re not advocating for people to buy the Switch 2 and its games.
Be upfront your a pirate and stop hiding behind emulation like the hypocritical coward you are.
Playing a pirated game in an emulator is still emulation. Because emulation is simply the act of running the software. I'm not sure what's tripping you up here? Emulation in itself doesn't care about where your bits of data came from. At the same time, emulation != piracy, but no one said that?
You're arguing with the voice in your head on this point. I hope you're winning...
Nah, I’m arguing with you, a liar and hypocrite. Who lies about emulation to justify piracy because they want free stuff and the false sense of superiority.
You say you emulate? Do you purchase your games before you emulate? No? Then you’re not emulating, you’re pirating.
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u/SecondBottomQuark 1d ago
Did you know you can emulate Nintendo games on a PC or Steam Deck and download cracked copies?