Comment on Github: Nintendo Submit DMCA Notices to Ryujinx Forks
Tattorack@lemmy.world 1 week agoThey don’t want people to play their old games either. Nintendo creates an artificial scarcity by only occasionally releasing older titles to their newer consoles, despite that those older titles are quite literally running on emulators… Emulators that use a lot of the open source code the community they hate has created.
_sideffect@lemmy.world 6 days ago
Last I checked, no company wants any of their games to be played for free.
Tattorack@lemmy.world 6 days ago
And yet there’s an incredibly high demand for playing old Nintendo games. When Nintendo occasionally sells emulated old games on newer consoles, they tend to sell pretty well. The NES and the SNES mini were much sought after abd best-sellers.
So imagine if Nintendo offers the games in their entire retro library (that they are licensed to offer) with an official emulator for people to buy. That would evaporate the piracy of retro Nintendo games pretty quickly.
However, Nintendo doesn’t want that. They like completely manufactured, artificial scarcity. And so there’s piracy. A lot of piracy.
_sideffect@lemmy.world 5 days ago
Sure, but that still doesn’t address what I said. No company wants their IPs stolen.
Tattorack@lemmy.world 5 days ago
It does. Piracy is a service issue. The games exist. They’re easy to emulate. Company tries to pull off artificial scarcity. Players become pirates