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Chazore said:
Dulfite said:

Again, I firmly believe the vast majority of the gaming community (hardcore and casual) either do not know how or do not practice emulation for one reason or another. So, for the vast majority of players, gaming on PC will not allow access to Nintendo exclusives.

I've seen teens emulating GBA Pokemon games for years, wtf kind of crack are you smoking?.

I really don't get why you bring up the braindead folks, as if they are some saving grace of beacon of aspiration. 

Not only GBA Pokemon. Many of Nintendo older IPs were experienced trough emulation for the generation who born in the late 90's and 2000's. Piracy is an overlooked factor when people are analyzing the industry. It's like when you have a new manga that was never released in west, but when it gets official release it tops new York times sellers list right out the gate, why? Because there was already an avid pool of customers reading it online, just not paying for them 

I agree games (especially older games) are very easy to emulate. Take as much effort to run them as to install any software and open any file on windows