Some "console fans" just accepted that PC is the superior gaming platform.

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Bandorr said:

DonFerrari said:

I think Perma point wasn't of being proud of doing it, just stating that doesn't matter if any of us like it, it will happen.

You could be accurate. There is no tone of facial expressions after all. Constantly talking about it being on the PC and it being "better" certaintly sounds like being proud/bragging about it.

Specially combined with the earlier comment of "I still have a ton of fun emulating some old games from the SNES/PSX era on my PC"

I actually own SNES, PS1, N64 games on their original formats, so from a legal perspective I'm not breaking any laws, nor are they demanding, allowing me to emulate them via my Android TV box so I can have a higher degree of fidelity and still retain a similar experience to the original.

With that said. I'm indifferent to it all. I don't really care if Emulation happens or not. Just that it's going to happen regardless of what any of us think.

DonFerrari said:

Bandorr said:

Yet I doubt anyone talking about "emulating" Uncharted 4 is going to run out and get the game. And since that came is exclusive to the console - the ps4 as well.

That is all kinds of piracy there. That people seem so proud of.

Legally, from what I know... emulating is piracy because it's reverse engineering the system to be duplicated and violating IP on the HW itself and them if you didn't buy the SW itself you are pirating again, but I may be wrong.

 

But I find funny when some guys expend 2000 USD or more on a rig and then pirate a game because they think it's too expensive (at least dirty cheap steam promotion isn't piracy, but I also find it an issue to only buy the games for peanuts and let the developers starve)

The legality of emulation will vary from territory to territory. But emulation itself is actually legal in most western countries.
It's when you start dumping BIOS's, downloading ROM's etc' that you enter into a grey area.

Swordmasterman said:

You mean via Emulation ? This isn't guaranteed since sometimes the emulator run the game worse than the original version.

That is actually a very good point.

With that said, issues like that usually get sorted out in time and as hardware continues to progress.