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Moonhero on 13 October 2015

Just a bunch of thieves who were never going to purchase the system will use it. Shouldn't do anything to sales, or lack thereof... :



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vivster on 13 October 2015

Will certainly not affect Nintendo or the sales in any meaningful way.



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Platina on 13 October 2015

Don't think it would affect them much since it's still really primitive

Things like homebrew would affect Nintendo more



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Ultrashroomz on 13 October 2015

I don't see the emulator picking up enough traction in a relatively short span of time.

By the time it gets some recognition, Wii U will probably be yesterday's news.



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Danman27 on 13 October 2015
jigokutamago said:
Yeah, it was struggling to run NES Remix and would not be a viable way to play Wii U games for a few years.

No surprise. Emulation is really hard to do, especially with anything less than a decade old. My PC might destroy a wiiU in raw power, but it's not gonna emulate a wiiU very well. 



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Mike321 on 13 October 2015

It won´t affect nintendo



                                                                                     

LemonSlice on 13 October 2015

Can it load the WiiU BluRays?

Anyway, the emulator will do f*** all to affect sales by it's competence in running the games, but I know there will always be stupid people who go "eh? there's an emulator??? I don't need to buy the system when I can play the games on PC!!!!"



episteme on 13 October 2015

The Wii U will probably be discontinued when it can run games at full speed.

The recently released USB loader may boost the sales a little when it gets as good as the ones for the Wii, but not in a meaningful way.



JRPGfan on 13 October 2015
Moonhero said:
Just a bunch of thieves who were never going to purchase the system will use it. Shouldn't do anything to sales, or lack thereof... :

4+ years from now, when its ready to play most games semi decently..... it wont matter, because nintendo wont be selling the Wii U anymore.

 

I think people blow things out of proportions when it comes to emulation.

Doubt it really hurts sales much of anything, when its always a gen or 2 behinde what the actual consoles have out.



alabtrosMyster on 13 October 2015

You'll need to update your PC A LOT to run this emulator near full speed... it's like 8 to 24fps :-/ and does not seem close to be complete... yet, it could change that, I recall the first time I tried a SNES emulator on a 486, it showed only a few sprites, no background! but we were amazed by it, and a few years later we had near perfect emulation for this machine (on faster machines obviously).