Comment on Github: Nintendo Submit DMCA Notices to Ryujinx Forks

• Tattorack@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

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  • _sideffect@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Sure, but that still doesn’t address what I said. No company wants their IPs stolen.

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    • Tattorack@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨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

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      • _sideffect@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        This original post was about ryujinx, a switch emulator.

        There’s no scarcity at all for switch games.

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