Jason Schreier: Sony's Horizon coming to PC later this year

[Pemalite]

Cerebralbore101 said:

d21lewis said:
Didn't realize it was out so soon. I'll buy it as soon as I finish Xenoblade Chronicles 2. I have a loooong way to go, though.

Pemalite said:

Except you can play pirate Breath of the Wild and Super Mario Odyssey on PC...




At some point all your Nintendo and Playstation games will end up on PC, it's not a matter of if, but when... So why not make some money and port the games over to Steam? It also brings brand recognition to your console platforms from dedicated PC gamers, who then may purchase said console for the living room.

Fixed it for you. 

Emulation isn't piracy... So you didn't fix anything.
Nor do I condone piracy.

Cerebralbore101 said:

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. 

Emulation is not piracy.
Piracy is when you obtain an illegal copy of a game, not when you emulate a game, otherwise the Xbox One emulating Original Xbox or Xbox 360 games can be regarded as piracy or the Playstation 3 running Playstation 1/2 games could be regarded as piracy.

Some regions (like my own) also allow you to legally make backup copies of your games.

Many emulators allow you to drop the disk into your PC's disk drive and run the game straight from there.

Cerebralbore101 said:

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. 

Some games have a LAN multiplayer function, those games regardless if it's a Super Nintendo, Dreamcast, Playstation 4, Xbox 360, Nintendo DS... Can all be played online with some tunneling tricks... For example: XLink Kai which you can use to Play Halo 2 online even on the Original Xbox.

So no, PS+ or Xbox Live is not the cost of playing online if you don't wish to do so, it's also not piracy.

Cerebralbore101 said:

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. 

Breath of the Wild is a last gen-game from a last-gen system though.

Game preservation starts the day a game is released, not 10 years down the track.