I just don't understand people who play things on emulators. If you want games like this to continue being made so you can enjoy them, then BUY them. If everyone did what you all did, then companies would go out of business and there would be no games.

I never knew I wanted a wandering castle in a game until now.  

I purchased a copy on the Switch and while I told myself I wouldn't, I purchased a WiiU version as well so I feel I've paid price of admission.

That said, I don't expect an emulation scene to harm sales: plenty of third party games get a PC version released and yet still get good sales on console.

That and so much more. I'm predicting the BotW modding scene to be pretty active with plenty of Miyazaki references. Hoping to play as Zelda in bikini.

Whoa, talk about a slippery slope there, buddy! Consoles are usually accurately emulated after they are no longer commercialized. Nintendo hardware is often an exception because it's just too weak compared to the others, or based on old hardware which is already propely documented and understood by the time it comes out.

For many, many people, emulation is about preserving games and making them accessible after the consoles and cartridges or discs on which they originally run are long gone. Just think about how every single day that goes by, literally thousands of Playstation, SNES, N64, Xbox consoles etc. and their respective games cease to function. Not every game is going to receive a virtual console (where many titles were actually pulled from the internet, and are the work of people who emulate games) or remaster treatment.

they'll just pirate another game.

Purchasing the game and playing it on an emulator aren't mutually exclusive. Emulation isn't piracy. Although many do pirate a game to play it in an emulator. I bought Zelda for the Switch and playing it, but I'm not averse to the idea, to play it later in CEmu, if there are some mods.

I DO!!! 

So sad to see the master race resort to emulation peasantry.

Nintendo owes me for lack of support they showed the Wii U. I'm gonna emulate the crap out of it and not give a f*ck.

Who says they all didn't buy? If I feel like emulating. I've actually dumped all of my Wii and GC games. To play on Dolphin.