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These emulators are usually useless for piracy until after the console has reached its end of life. People start working on them as soon as possible but they do
by foobar33333 6y ago
These emulators are usually useless for piracy until after the console has reached its end of life. People start working on them as soon as possible but they don't work well for years. The switch is almost at the end now and there still isn't an emulator which works very well.
When the competition for emulators is buying a hackable switch and running dumped games natively with 0 bugs or slowdowns. I doubt switch emulators have prevented the sale of a single switch game.
- brundolf 6y agoYou may be right about the ramp-up time, though the Switch is only at like 50% of its lifetime and I wouldn't be surprised if the next console is a "Switch 2" or something with backwards-compatibility, given what the other console makers have done
- cheschire 6y agoWhat you say is logical when considering things generically, however I’m struggling to remember a decision that Nintendo ever made that was based on what other console makers have done.
- isaacimagine 6y agoI mean, after the success of the Wii Nintendo released the Wii 2 *ahem* U.
- Jasper_ 6y agoThe typical lifetime of a Nintendo console is 5 years (N64 was 1996, GameCube was 2001, Wii was 2006, Wii U was 2012 because the Wii was such a smash success, Switch was 2017). The release cycles have been slowing as of recent but we're far more than 50% in.
- brundolf 6y agoThey've already announced an enhanced "Switch Pro" and said they hope it "extends the life cycle of the Switch platform for many more years": https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-04/nintendo-plans-switch-model-with-bigger-samsung-oled-display https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-04/nintendo-...
- blonder 6y agoA rumor != Nintendo announcing a "Switch Pro", your quote was from an analyst, not someone from Nintendo.
- hawthornio 6y agoA switch with increased pixel density and some other improvements seems almost certain to me.