Steam Deck Does What Nintendon't?

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Leynos said:

IcaroRibeiro said:

I'm sure if someone owns a physical copy then the software is their to use whatever they want as long they are not exploiting it commercially. Whatever issues Nintendo (or any developer) had to make it it's not my concern, they were already paid for the software they made

For digital I think you don't really have the ownership of your software there is only have a license for using it as long the publisher revoke it, although I don't know if this license is hardware-specific. I guess it's not

I don't buy for a second most people emulating modern games actually own them. It's just piracy. If you want to emulate Wolf Fang on Bulk Slash on SEGA Saturn. Run Saber on SNES, Ranger X on Genesis then I get it. Those games are stuck on consoles from 20+ years ago. Even PSP I get as Sony is not re-releasing those games.

I know right? Suddenly everyone is into emulating games. Piracy issues aside, Nintendo, as a first party developer, would have taken less risks with their games and green-lit less projects if they were just another third party publisher, or might not have existed at all because they wouldn't be as well-managed as they are today. Naturally, you are more likely to push ahead with risky projects just to sell more hardware. So, "I am going to emulate Switch games on X hardware" wouldn't sit well with me if I was Nintendo, especially that the Switch is strategically weaker than the competition, but that makes its exclusives the only ones emulatable right out of the gate.