The comments section here is pretty much an echo chamber of people defending Yuzu.
I'm a game dev and I think this case is more ambiguous. Emulators like Yuzu have the potential to make Switch piracy go mainstream.
You don't need to hack anything, you just follow a tutorial and google "yuzu keys", suddenly you can play all Switch games for free. And people don't need to be tech-savvy to do that. Nintendo would be stupid if they would just ignore this.
It doesn't help that the Tegra X1 is old, almost identical with other Nvidia chipsets and therefore easy to emulate on a PC.
They should sue Google, Microsoft and other search engine owners because they're facilitating piracy as well. They lead you to illegal software.
Every single emulator has been like this for more than 20 years. Has it gone mainstream yet?
That's a good point actually. I would argue that most emulators didn't get good enough during the lifetime of the console, and even Yuzu isn't there yet. But you can see the potential, and that's threatening to Nintendo's business model.
I thought Nintendo's business model was going to make the Switch obsolete next year.
Maybe their next console will have a very similar hardware architecture and it will be easy to adapt existing Switch emulators?
The comments section here is pretty much an echo chamber of people defending Yuzu. I'm a game dev and I think this case is more ambiguous. Emulators like Yuzu have the potential to make Switch piracy go mainstream. You don't need to hack anything, you just follow a tutorial and google "yuzu keys", suddenly you can play all Switch games for free. And people don't need to be tech-savvy to do that. Nintendo would be stupid if they would just ignore this. It doesn't help that the Tegra X1 is old, almost identical with other Nvidia chipsets and therefore easy to emulate on a PC.
They should sue Google, Microsoft and other search engine owners because they're facilitating piracy as well. They lead you to illegal software.
Every single emulator has been like this for more than 20 years. Has it gone mainstream yet?
That's a good point actually. I would argue that most emulators didn't get good enough during the lifetime of the console, and even Yuzu isn't there yet. But you can see the potential, and that's threatening to Nintendo's business model.
I thought Nintendo's business model was going to make the Switch obsolete next year.
Maybe their next console will have a very similar hardware architecture and it will be easy to adapt existing Switch emulators?