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.
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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?