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> and you're absolutely kidding yourself if you think any meaningful percentage own the game. respectfully disagree. nintendo has fought hard to capture the ca

by Liquix 3y ago

> and you're absolutely kidding yourself if you think any meaningful percentage own the game. respectfully disagree. nintendo has fought hard to capture the casual/normie demographic and they have consistently sold more switches than M$ has sold xbox ones every month since launch. switch emulation is alive and well but doesn't jeopardize their position as the non-techie's console of choice. therefore they have taken to only pursuing legal action when an emulator is being packaged up for the masses to one-click install on steam

NamTaf 3y ago
The GP meant that they postulate a meaningful percentage within the scope of people who emulate don’t own the game they emulate.
- chii 3y ago
  and the implied assumption is that all those who did use the emulator without buying would've bought them.
  - joemi 3y ago
    Surely not all would have, but similarly not zero either. I think this is the real implied assumption.
johnnyanmac 3y ago
Is "well they sold a lot I can just take it" ever a good defense? >they have taken to only pursuing legal action when an emulator is being packaged up for the masses to one-click install on steam Well, this breaks that trend. AFAIK Yuzu has none of that. Their general argument is that it made too much patreon money over Tears of the Kingdom.
dt3ft 3y ago
Normie here. I will not be buying any more switch games now that I heard about this emulation thing.
- yungporko 3y ago
  if you own a pc that can run emulated switch games and you can use it well enough to actually do it, you aren't a normie.
  - theshackleford 3y ago
    Or maybe your understanding of what common users are capable of are wildly out of date. Switch games are available as one click installers now, compete with game and emulator.
    - yungporko 3y ago
      it isn't. the average person doesn't even own a computer, ease of installation doesn't matter when you still have to own a computer powerful enough to run the emulator and also find roms.
      - theshackleford 3y ago
        I know plenty of normies who own computers. What are you talking about? It's not 1996 my dude. Also pro tip, plenty of people emulate on their other devices as well and equally have no problem finding either emulators, or roms. I was doing this stuff when I was a child, i'm in my late 30's now. None of this is rocket science and it hasnt been for a long time.

by Liquix 3y ago

NamTaf 3y ago

The GP meant that they postulate a meaningful percentage within the scope of people who emulate don’t own the game they emulate.

chii 3y ago
and the implied assumption is that all those who did use the emulator without buying would've bought them.
- joemi 3y ago
  Surely not all would have, but similarly not zero either. I think this is the real implied assumption.

johnnyanmac 3y ago

Is "well they sold a lot I can just take it" ever a good defense? >they have taken to only pursuing legal action when an emulator is being packaged up for the masses to one-click install on steam Well, this breaks that trend. AFAIK Yuzu has none of that. Their general argument is that it made too much patreon money over Tears of the Kingdom.

dt3ft 3y ago

Normie here. I will not be buying any more switch games now that I heard about this emulation thing.

yungporko 3y ago
if you own a pc that can run emulated switch games and you can use it well enough to actually do it, you aren't a normie.
- theshackleford 3y ago
  Or maybe your understanding of what common users are capable of are wildly out of date. Switch games are available as one click installers now, compete with game and emulator.
  - yungporko 3y ago
    it isn't. the average person doesn't even own a computer, ease of installation doesn't matter when you still have to own a computer powerful enough to run the emulator and also find roms.
    - theshackleford 3y ago
      I know plenty of normies who own computers. What are you talking about? It's not 1996 my dude. Also pro tip, plenty of people emulate on their other devices as well and equally have no problem finding either emulators, or roms. I was doing this stuff when I was a child, i'm in my late 30's now. None of this is rocket science and it hasnt been for a long time.