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Brother.. Nintendo's net income last year was 3.1 BILLION dollars. There is no "fighting Nintendo".
Let's be real homie. Yuzu is done. Downvote me all you want after I post this.
As much as we all love Yuzu, the dev's had to have known this was coming.
I don't want to be one of those dudes that keeps harping on the "Nintendo should be FOR preserving old games". We all know Nintendo will continue to kick down ANYONE so much as glancing in their I.P. 's general direction.
Nintendo does what you Nintendon't want. Always.
Extreme capitalism stifles and suffocates innovation and preservation.
They didn't expect it to happen because of all of the landmark rulings in the past that emulators are inherently not illegal unless they provide bios to the end user. The only reason why Nintendo is acting now instead of years ago when Yuzu first hit the scene is because it's in basically a fully working state now and they somehow verified that 1,000,000 people downloaded TOTK. I suspect far more copies of BOTW and Mario Odyssey were downloaded prior.
I've said this before and I'll say it now: I bet most of those 1,000,000 people would have never bought a copy of the game anyway.
I bought the game and I still considered emulating it just to run it at higher res.
I'm thinking of it so I can play older patches of the game.
Out of interest, at a high level, why?
Did they patch out interesting exploits/speed run things?
There's some easy duplication glitches.
This is something that makes the Nintendo numbers bullshit. how many of those 1mill downloads were people who already owned/purchased the game? How many of those people don't even have a switch and would have never purchased the game to begin with?