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CGcarmineCG on 01 May 2017
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Bandorr said:
BasilZero said:

 

I dont think Nintendo is worried about anything either. The sales of the games speak for themselves and I honestly think you are still over blowing the situation.

 

I'm currently playing Zelda BotW on my WiiU and will be planning to play it in the future on the emulator as well.

 

You should play or talk about the actual games more and leave all the legal issues to people who actually work in law and with the groups responsible (Nintendo and the developers of the emulator) imo - cause this isnt as serious as you think it is.

Piggybacking off of Svennoj url

"The most pirated Wii game was Super Mario Galaxy 2, with 1.28 million downloads. Mario Sports Mix (1.09 million downloads), Xenoblade Chronicles (950,000 downloads), Lego Pirates of the Caribbean (870,000 downloads) and FIFA 12 (860,000) rounded out the top five most pirated Wii games list"

Those seem like pretty huge numbers imo.

"Specialist site TorrentFreak estimated, using several sources of data, that Crysis 2 was downloaded illegally nearly 4 million times (3.92 million)."

Isn't the main reason the PC has DRM to prevent piracy? I rather not imagine consoles having to use crappy DRM just to prevent people that are "emulating" them.

According to VGC numbers Xenoblade chronicles sold 910000 copies, and was pirated 950000 times, 104% of the copies, more copies pirated than sold. Simply ridicolous especially for a console still on market, there's some more Wii Mini and Wii U in the store to play the game on.

Same for Zelda WiiU i don't know the numbers, but i'm sure the attach rate for the WiiU version sold and downloaded illegally it's pretty huge. A lot try to justify that if you own the game etc... you can play the game where you want, but it's not like this, otherwise Nintendo (or Atlus, Sony, Sega etc...) have released their games on those platforms. It's just an excuse. Maybe a society make a deal for exclusivity, spend money for it to make people buy their hardware.

Emulation it's a whim for the ones that don't wanna spend money and try to justify it, especially for recent games. Many times I have been asking people who emulate the games to let me see pictures of the game and the console, and guess what? No evidence, nothing. "Now i can't" etc...

Emulation it's not piracy, otherwise it would be called piracy, but in reality it's something similar to piracy.