the-pi-guy said:
Well technically yes. But really, you don't have to pirate games to play them on PC. |
Emulating current gen games on a PC is piracy, unless you own the system it was meant for, and a legitimate a copy of the game. 90% of people playing BotW or Odyssey on PC have neither.
Buying a Switch is part of the cost of playing Nintendo games. Just like having a PS+ account is part of the cost of playing the online portion of a PS4 game. If I were to find a way to circumvent the PS+ requirement of playing the online portion of a PS4 game, I'd be partially pirating the game. Partially pirating = pirating. So people that play a Switch game on PC, when they don't actually own a Switch are pirating the game.
Yes, there are a few people out there that legitimately just want to play the game at higher frames and resolution. Yes, those people actually own a Switch, and a legit copy of the game. But let's not kid ourselves here. The Switch emulation scene is the piracy scene. Anybody that says otherwise is simply being willfully ignorant, or is misinformed.
And before anybody says anything about game preservation and the like, I'd like to remind them that there's absolutely no reason to try to "preserve" a game on a current gen system. I'd like to also remind them that emulation of last gen games is perfectly fine, especially games that are ten years old or older, and/or hard to find.
