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HoloDust on 05 October 2024
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haxxiy said:
HoloDust said:

Hm, I'm not sure what happened there with Ryujinx - I actually doubt Nintendo could do anything about it legally (aren't those guys from Brazil?), especially since Ryujinx avoided doing anything that is not legal.
So, if Nintendo were clever, they offered them money/job, since it's rather embarrassing having your newest game running better on emulator than on your actual hardware.

They must have done something like this, which is how they approached the 3DS hackers back in the day.

Now, you're right Nintendo couldn't have done anything. Even if they tried, lawyers here are cheap, massive teams don't count for much given the way legal procedures work, and you can't get buried for life in a civil lawsuit.

Still, I can see how a layman could be scared into complying, especially if a little bit of carrot was supplied along with the stick.

I'm just speculating here, but given how all of a sudden they've been cracking down on Switch emulation, I'm tempted to believe that Switch 2 will be fairly similar in its workings to SW1, so they are truing to prevent emulators popping up for SW2 in its first year or so - and current emulator devs are obvious first target.

Thanks for that interesting flowchart, great piece. If Nintendo were smart, they offered them job.