> It seems odd that Valve would preemptively go and ask Nintendo for their input. Indeed a much more natural way would have been to ask Dolphin for a statement

> It seems odd that Valve would preemptively go and ask Nintendo for their input. Indeed a much more natural way would have been to ask Dolphin for a statement of their lawyers why they think it's legal run it then by your lawyers and maybe bill Dolphin for that, too. Afterward you would have done more then needed wrt. oversight of your platform and can let them fight it out in curt. It makes me believe that either of: - Nintendo pressured Valve (or just payed well) into a NDA agreement to give them a heads up for emulator cases (seems reasonable to assume) - Valve has some undisclosed ongoing cooperation with Nintendo wrt. some future products (unlikely, but there is a surprising overlap and I haven been joking around that both should just Team up for their next handheld hardware and just sell it as a locked-down proprietary OS Nintendo version and a unlocked linux OS Valve version ..., nah probably not) - Valve is somehow dependent on Nintendo, e.g. patents related to handheld gaming consoles or similar - the decisions wasn't fully thought thru (also quite likely)