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Right, but imagine Nintendo right now. Non-paying customers are now playing, and sometimes even streaming, games a week or more ahead of time. Because if you ca
by gjsman-1000 4y ago
Right, but imagine Nintendo right now. Non-paying customers are now playing, and sometimes even streaming, games a week or more ahead of time. Because if you can get a cartridge, you can dump it and publish it.
Also, ~70% of game sales are within the first month, if not higher. It’s why companies pay big for Denuvo - slowing pirates down a month could save tens of millions. For Nintendo, having games dumped before release is embarrassing and at the worst possible time financially for both them and their developer partners.
If we were talking about Switch game dumping after the end of the Switch’s life like the Wii or GameCube it would be a very different discussion.
- bombcar 4y agoYep - and that's why I don't befront Nintendo doing what they are doing; the Switch is a live console and there's a real demand for pirated games.
- lisbon44 4y agoso go after the people actively distributing pirated games - much more reasonable than the mixed case of third-party developers.
- Cloudef 4y agoWhile i agree that the people in the OP thread are highly arrogant. Piracy is really a service problem, and most pirates like in the op thread wouldnt pay for the product anyways (they are most likely kids, poor, or live in region where the service isnt offered). If i could play switch games on pc legally, i would probably buy more switch games. Only reason i own switch is due to it being a great party game system, so its great having around with guests.