Hey Nintendo, how about you just release an emulator on PC and sell ROMs yourself? I’d gladly buy pretty much every first party title you make. You could even limit it to older games and I’d still buy a ton.
I don’t want to keep Nintendo hardware around, but I do want to play Nintendo games. My wallet is ready.
Nintendo isn’t know for handling “the internet” very well. Just look at their online services compared to their competitors over the years. We still use friend codes ffs.
Among computing hardware companies Nintendo is really second only to Apple in making sure to remind us to never buy their devices on a regular basis. Well, unless you count Sony perhaps but not sure I would count smart TVs in quite the same category.
Wouldn’t it be funny if people made a switch 2 emulator quickly and host it through i2p or tor, maybe git through those or just send patches so it can’t be taken down, that would be horrible. I hope people don’t do that to Nintendo.
Because its their fault there are un-patchable vunerabilities in the Switch’s hardware, yessiree. 🙄
Welcome to the gaming world! Pick your poison!
It’s either:
- Companies who treat customers like shit (Nintendo, Epic)
- Companies who treat their workers like shit (Xbox, CDPR)
- Both (Sony)
Steam is not perfect (it has DRM), but aside from that they’re cool
Their DRM is optional, and many games on Steam are DRM free, meaning you can copy the files to another machine not running Steam and it would work just fine. And Steam’s DRM, if used, is the least annoying DRM out there IMO.
I think there’s a point to be made with harm reduction too- valve makes their drm easy to use and seems to be on the less invasive side
Absolutely. Steam DRM existing likely doesn’t increase the number of devs using DRM, but it probably moves devs from worse DRM schemes.
Now that we have viable PC handhelds I no longer have a reason to care about Nintendo. Blast the pirates or don’t, I’m not buying their shit either way. On the other hand I’ve got a lot of friends who actually have decent money in Nintendo’s ecosystem who use emulators to play the games they own in a way they prefer. This has left a bad taste in their mouths…
