zero129 said:
Best thing is always when someone says its illegal to play your own games in whatever way you want. They can never give an example of how its illegal just the "Well i think its illegal so it is" line. |
I understand not using emulation because of the hurdle of extracting the files and creating roms (I believe it's easier if you use Switch SSD cards, because you can copy the files to your computer, but I'm not sure if they run on emulators because I never used them)
But there is a quite big difference between laborious and illegal
The only reason why this is barely discussed online is because console makers controll the narrative and shut downs any website that try to teach how run games legally on emulators
The obvious endgame is to resell old games on newer hardware. If everyone just have learned how to upload their games on their PCs and connect their controllers to play said games console makers would be in serious jeopardy as:
- No more overpriced remasters to sell and shorten software droughts due to high development costs in money and time
- No more double dipping and upgrading hardware would be completely down to personal will instead of market pressure
- Even less reason to buy their middling functional hardware
- Thereafter, third parties will largely prioritize PC releases over consoles, as anybody would be playing on PCs anyway, with many skipping consoles entirely
It's good for console makers to customers to be as ignorant as possible. What makes me perplex is some people still purposefully choosing to not acknowledge this. Well, that's on them
