Nintendo is well-known for using emulation in its own products, such as “Virtual Console” releases and the “NES/SNES Classic”. They just don’t like people playing their games in ways they didn’t decide on.
They just don’t like people playing their games in ways that don’t generate profit.
Could it be that they only hate it when others emulate their games? Am I being ridiculous?
I mean, the problem isn’t emulation, it’s unauthorized emulation. They build emulators for older games on their own consoles.
My issue with Nintendo is that it’s not even clear it is illegal to emulate things, authorized or not.
We have some precedent which ruled it’s not, but no real call from an authority.
They use their legal team to bully the world even for emulation which is clearly not even harmful to them.
That’s fine and all. I agree that their actions are absurd. But the aim of this article seems to be to provoke more rage towards Nintendo for something that seems like pretty standard practice and completely misses the point of what people are mad about.
Famed for hating illegal or unlicensed emulation. Well known for using legal, licensed emulation all the time in everything.
