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>In 2022 Nintendo starting taking down Youtube videos showing Steam Decks running Switch games: https://www.resetera.com/threads/nintendo-started-blocking-v htt

>In 2022 Nintendo starting taking down Youtube videos showing Steam Decks running Switch games: https://www.resetera.com/threads/nintendo-started-blocking-v https://www.resetera.com/threads/nintendo-started-blocking-v... What are they supposed to do? Leave videos about piracy of their own IP untouched? It baffles me how people believe they have a fundamental right to pirate Nintendo software without consequences.

widowlark 3y ago
I play my switch games on my PC completely legally. All the games I play are owned by me, and all of them were backed up using my own switch and my own prod.keys. Is that piracy?
skotobaza 3y ago
You can legally dump your cart and use it anywhere.
troupo 3y ago
Emulation isn't piracy. It can be used for piracy, but emulation itself isn't.
pmx 3y ago
You can just as easily run pirated games on real hardware as you can a steamdeck, and vice-versa. You're conflating emulation and piracy. Emulation does not mean piracy as it is perfectly legal (and moral) to dump a game that you own so that you can play it on your preferred hardware.
- Wowfunhappy 3y ago
  Running pirated games on real hardware requires tracking down a hackable Switch, which is not completely simple. I've seen torrents floating which contain Switch games alongside pre-setup emulators so you can just download and go.
gremlinunderway 3y ago
Won't someone please think of Nintendo? Poor, poor Nintendo?!
Jevon23 3y ago
The majority of HN makes a living from software that by nature can’t be pirated, so they have little sympathy for people who work on software that can be pirated.
- OOPMan 3y ago
  Nonsense. Nintendo bring this in themselves with their own policies. There are so many hardware platforms I can support, and one that hardly ever does sales and refuses to bring their games to other platforms is not that appealing. I buy games on PC, I buy games on XB, I've even rebought some games between the platforms to play couch co-op with my kid. Steam and XB have enough sales to make this an option, Nintendo on the other hand is adamant about wringing every last penny from you. These days I don't have time for Nintendo's nonsense. They want to live in their walled garden, they can have it.
  - Jevon23 3y ago
    >These days I don't have time for Nintendo's nonsense. But you have time to play their games, apparently?

widowlark 3y ago

I play my switch games on my PC completely legally. All the games I play are owned by me, and all of them were backed up using my own switch and my own prod.keys. Is that piracy?

skotobaza 3y ago

You can legally dump your cart and use it anywhere.

troupo 3y ago

Emulation isn't piracy. It can be used for piracy, but emulation itself isn't.

pmx 3y ago

You can just as easily run pirated games on real hardware as you can a steamdeck, and vice-versa. You're conflating emulation and piracy. Emulation does not mean piracy as it is perfectly legal (and moral) to dump a game that you own so that you can play it on your preferred hardware.

Wowfunhappy 3y ago
Running pirated games on real hardware requires tracking down a hackable Switch, which is not completely simple. I've seen torrents floating which contain Switch games alongside pre-setup emulators so you can just download and go.

gremlinunderway 3y ago

Won't someone please think of Nintendo? Poor, poor Nintendo?!

Jevon23 3y ago

The majority of HN makes a living from software that by nature can’t be pirated, so they have little sympathy for people who work on software that can be pirated.

OOPMan 3y ago
Nonsense. Nintendo bring this in themselves with their own policies. There are so many hardware platforms I can support, and one that hardly ever does sales and refuses to bring their games to other platforms is not that appealing. I buy games on PC, I buy games on XB, I've even rebought some games between the platforms to play couch co-op with my kid. Steam and XB have enough sales to make this an option, Nintendo on the other hand is adamant about wringing every last penny from you. These days I don't have time for Nintendo's nonsense. They want to live in their walled garden, they can have it.
- Jevon23 3y ago
  >These days I don't have time for Nintendo's nonsense. But you have time to play their games, apparently?