1. It's not about the hardware being 'great' and never was.Nintendo still makes great games, they haven't made great hardware in over a decade.
Never said they were friends with us.Some of you are a fucking joke
"WON'T SOMEONE PLEASE THINK OF THE BILLIONAIRES?!?!"
Nintendo/Microsoft/Sony would all literally sacrifice the lives of everyone who has posted in this thread if it would raise stock price by one dollar/share and knew they could get away with it with no bad press
They're not your friends, and the only way they're going to fuck you is by funneling money out of your pockets
I really want to act in a way that’s ethical and supports developers who are putting out new content, because otherwise how would we get it? I have the means now and zero excuses, I can say I haven’t pirated anything since I got a steady job straight out of college. But the zealotry you’re showing here is like…dude…And you're delusional.
1. It's not about the hardware being 'great' and never was.
2. The hardware is to fit with how they want their games to play.
You've clearly shown that you don't get their business model. And frankly, we don't need another Playstation or Xbox.
I am amazed that there are already Switch emulators. The system must not be that complex.
Their games likely wouldn't exist then.Their games would be better on more competent hardware with better online infrastructure.
As a fan, that's what matters to me. Their Gunpey Yokoi inspired business model means nothing to me personally.
Breaking characters, I'm playing naive by devil's advocating the discussion.EU study finds piracy doesn’t hurt game sales, may actually help
Results suggest a positive effect, but there's a huge margin of error.arstechnica.com
Either a paid shill or most naive person on this forum.
Their games likely wouldn't exist then.
And clearly lots of people are fine having to play them on Nintendo consoles.You don't think Zelda/Mario/Pokemon wouldn't sell just as good, if not better, on the Sony/Xbox/Steam ecosystems?
Ive loved my Wii, DS, 3ds, WiiU and Switch, but never for the gimmicks each system has. Would so much rather play them on a traditional console
I think Nintendo needs to just start releasing ports for PC officially, while I own a switch 60FPS and no slow down is a god send for games like xenoblade and officially available would purchase it in a heartbeat.
There's no need for any "excuse". As long as someone doesn't openly state he's pirating or advocates for it he's not breaking any rule, anyway.In response to some comments here, look if you want to pirate games, nothing's really going to stop you, but "the hardware is weak" is not a valid excuse, so stop pretending it's justified to do it.
Eh?The genie was already out of the bottle with the N64. This is actually the norm for Nintendo systems.
"Properly accurate" is overrated, most of the time. It doesn't change that people were playing Ocarina of Time on PC days after it releases.Eh?
N64 as in one of the systems that took longest to get properly accurate emulation on account of all manner of weird cart-specific memory mapping and extension tech? That N64?
crazy how PC hardware back then advanced so fast you could get away with emulating the N64 mere years after release"Properly accurate" is overrated, most of the time. It doesn't change that people were playing Ocarina of Time on PC days after it releases.
I'm guessing you meant days?crazy how PC hardware back then advanced so fast you could get away with emulating the N64 mere years after release
imagine seeing that with a PS5
nah years, i would have expected N64 emulation to be good by 2005 not 1998 lmaoI'm guessing you meant days?
And for what is worth the gameboy color was emulated BEFORE the console hit the shelves.
Eh?
N64 as in one of the systems that took longest to get properly accurate emulation on account of all manner of weird cart-specific memory mapping and extension tech? That N64?
That's extrapolating quite a bit beyond my statement.So by your logic, the switch is not emulated as of today since there are a few games, most of them niche, that either have major glitches or don't even boot.
We both know that no one that OP specifically means cares if the emulator is 100% accurate. The people OP talks about only care about if it plays the newest games released.
What you mean are actual people trying to preserve the game and/or archive them, which is not the group of people that are "of interest" in this thread.
That's extrapolating quite a bit beyond my statement.
Emulation was nowhere near as mainstream in the N64 era, and the hardware was totally proprietary. Both of these contributed to it taking a long time to become a truly known quantity.
On the other hand, Switch shares architectural similarities with past Nintendo hardware - as did the Wii U and Wii before it, and various mobile hardware that uses SoCs from the same manufacturer - and has a much larger base of hobbyists looking to crack it open and figure out how it works. Enthusiast developers run successful Patreon accounts off the back of emulator development and BotW modding.
So, in the context of someone wondering if Switch hardware is simple and easy to figure out, N64 is a poor example that resides on the other end of the Nintendo tech spectrum. Specialized hacks to get high-profile games emulating early only solves for the software, not the hardware.
Do you really think they deserve free games?Do you really think a pirate would buy the game if it wasn't leaked/cracked/
My point is that each pirated download doesn't mean 1 lost sale.Do you really think they deserve free games?
UltraHLE wasn't accurate (neither PJ64 or mupen) but it was good enough to play some games. The N64 was a far more popular system to emulate in 1999/early 00s compared to the PS1/SAT because it's games, being ROM carts, were far smaller and easier to download with 56k speeds.Eh?
N64 as in one of the systems that took longest to get properly accurate emulation on account of all manner of weird cart-specific memory mapping and extension tech? That N64?
If they want their games to be played with that bad IQ that various games have then they are morons.1. It's not about the hardware being 'great' and never was.
2. The hardware is to fit with how they want their games to play.
You've clearly shown that you don't get their business model. And frankly, we don't need another Playstation or Xbox.
I don't think you actually like gaming.If they want their games to be played with that bad IQ that various games have then they are morons.
Not the same guy, but the hardware is fit for how they want the console to be affordable.I don't think you actually like gaming.
Not the same guy, but the hardware is fit for how they want the console to be affordable.
You gonna tell me that they wouldn't have made the switch capable of 4k/120 with Ray tracing if it was the same price?
Give me a fucking break
I like gaming where i can see and play the game properly.I don't think you actually like gaming.
So the hardware isn't fit to how they want it to be played, it's fit to what is affordable.If the price were the same for the hardware and to make games at that level, yes, of course.
But it isn't.
Tell us why there's a dock then. Tell us why the JoyCons can be detached and have their own shoulder buttons then. Tell us why it has a battery then. Tell us why the JoyCons have accelerometers and gyroscopes then (which, if you didn't know, Xbox controllers don't have).So the hardware isn't fit to how they want it to be played, it's fit to what is affordable.
Those aren't the same things lol, they're doing the absolute fucking bare minimum to keep the hardware viable.
Of course people are going to wish they could play it elsewhere, where it looks multitudes better... Wanting to play A+ software on anything but C- hardware doesn't mean they don't like games
Because gimmicks are cheaper.Tell us why there's a dock then. Tell us why the JoyCons can be detached and have their own shoulder buttons then. Tell us why it has a battery then. Tell us why the JoyCons have accelerometers and gyroscopes then (which, if you didn't know, Xbox controllers don't have).
Yeah, I don't bother with that.Make your consoles backwards compatible and I will not emulate roms anymore. Respect is a two way street. Having me buy the same game from the Wii Store, and then the Wii U store, and then offer these classic games as a subscription is a massive insult to the customer.
'Half'. Lol, what a lazy get out clause.Because gimmicks are cheaper.
Half the shit you mentioned is half baked and not used regularly by the majority of owners lol
You sound upset my child'Half'. Lol, what a lazy get out clause.
People use it docked. People use it handheld. People share it (perhaps something alien to you). Accelerometer and gyro controllers are as close as you can get to a mouse with a controller.
Just go play any of the deluge of other games on other platforms, or even emulate Switch ones in uber duber 4k 120fps if you really want to. Salty cunt.
when there are other consoles to play and ways to play Nintendo games nothing.You sound upset my child
nothing about Nintendo and their strategy is pretty irrelevant.
Yes, stupidity and selfishness upsets me so.You sound upset my child
Ahh so you agree that wanting Nintendo games not to be enjoyed on higher spec platforms is stupid and selfish, I am proud of you for maturing so quickly my child.Yes, stupidity and selfishness upsets me so.