right after yuzu, fuck this sucks
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I don't really get what's happening. Why now and not 10 years ago?
Previously people would say it wasn't pursued before because emulation itself is just reverse engineering, which is legal.
i think it's because the next console is coming out next year and they want to discourage anyone from trying to crack it
they didn't win a court case, nintendo just threatened to sue and settled on the condition that yuzu (and citra through yuzu) be shut down and pay like 2 million dollars. if nintendo thought they could win they wouldn't have settled, they would have pushed through and won and permanently rendered emulators illegal. but they couldn't do that, so they'll just try and scare everyone off from doing anythign
Also the speculation is that the Switch 2 is basically just an upgraded Switch, so the thought is that with very little effort emulators like Yuzu would be able to play Switch 2 games. Nintendo wants to shut it down ahead of that happening to try to prevent the Switch 2 architecture from being cracked for as long as possible.
That said with Yuzu being open source, Nintendo won't win that fight in the long term. But it will probably delay the Switch 2 emulator development by quite a bit which their bean counters assume is a win.
Definitely someone with a spreadsheet out there who can tell you how much money they'll hypothetically make based on the spread between emulators existing and not existing.
Although, I won't lie, I tried out Yuzu for a few months and mostly just got frustrated with all the hoops I had to jump through to make it work. Ended up buying a Switch just to get a seamless play experience (which, in hindsight, I guess I regret?) I have to wonder how much business they're going to ultimately lose because someone emulated the PS5, got frustrated, and ran off to buy that console instead.
I'm the opposite. I have a switch and I'm trying to get emulators working so that Pokemon Scarlet and Xenoblade 3 don't run like dogshit.