Nintendo is the worst offender of this issue. Their emulation problem is completely self-inflicted. Say what you want about Microsoft, but them committing to having simultaneous PC launches of their first party games, making the Series X backwards compatible all the way back to the first Xbox, and promoting hardware agnostic gaming with XCloud is a W for consumers and game preservation. Great video!
Yes, but every Nintendo system has basically flawless emulators, so who gives a fuck. If I wanna play wind waker hd, I can get cemu installed. If I wanna play Tetris the Grandmaster 3 from xbox360, I’m fucked. Nintendo is the least problematic of all three companies and I don’t see how this could be argued otherwise.
I'd say music is the most fragile media in the world. So much is lost with a single person. There are so many demos lost to time, early soundtracks lost to time. However, gaming is second, especially with Nintendo. Remasters arnt the same as the originals. We need the original and a Remaster avaliable. It's really shocking that Nintendo alone don't allow such multiple purchases.
Video summed up my experience with Xenosaga, that was one of the few games i emulated same with older nintendo games or games that never came to the west at all. Personally i don't see a problem with it when games are soo expensive due to simply being lost to time itself but I definitely wouldn't emulate something that released fairly recently
@@BreadBoyWeeb From what I've played before my brother deleted all my files by accident it's alright it's a pretty slow start but I started getting to the point where things started picking up a bit with Ziggy, the combat is quite strange compared to other Jrpgs at least from my experience but overall it was fun.
Agreed. If you cant get the game by legitimate means or the cheapest price for an old game is like 300 dollars, piracy is the only correct option. Nobody should feel bad about pirating with these kind of conditions.
I wish there were regulations stating that if you take a hardware out of circulation, you'd have to provide it's specs for others to fabricate it or emulate it >:
Yeah... that isn't easy: it means that any time you want to sell a new console, you would create direct market adversaries that don't need to pay for inventing the console, but just for the production. I think the only way to do it is, as pointed out as example in the video, to have the companies emulate games in the new consoles... with a lower price and with a exaustive library. But they still see this as a monetary loss...
@@n-icebeam yeah, I know it’s not feasible like this, it was more of a rant from my side xD. Maybe a more realistic approach would be to only make it so the law protects who get games to emulate without being labeled as piracy if the game is no longer produced
@@shinobisparrow I suppose one way to do it would be to apply a time restrcition like: if you don't produce and sell the game and its console, you can emulate it legally after 5 years... or something like that. This way companies are silently obligated to sell the game, at least digitally, so that it can't get lower than its original price, at least.
@@n-icebeamI think today, you can already emulate legally, if you own a copy of the game itself. So yeah, a time constraint for allowing the games to not be piracy after some years seems fair
Guess what? Gabe is 100% right about piracy. Movie and show piracy went down significantly when Netflix was still the only streaming service. Pierates saw no point in downloading movies if they had them for cheap all on one easy to use platform. Now that there's 100 different services and they all have ads, piracy is back in style.
Great video except for the strong condemnation of piracy. There is nothing wrong with piracy years of propaganda of license holders and lobbyist has blown piracy way out of proportion it's negligible in terms of financial impact and like Gabe Newell says a consequence of bad service. Take for example labours of love like the Nightdive studio remakes and enhanced editions. store fronts like GOG not having any DRM and reviving older lost games etc. These people don't care about piracy because they offer the road of least resistance to playing older games in the best way possible. Then there are the guys who care about piracy and you spend half of your video describing how they rip you off.
That's when Pirscy comes to the Rescue!... No FR, is sad companies are doing nothing for game preservation, and we have to don it ourselves... For then said companies say "you can't do that" while also making worse games and demanding more money from us. Sometimes, it feels they also want a second crash.
TLOU 2 on ps5 isn’t a remake, it’s a remaster. It’s unfair to call it a remake and judge it based on that. To be fair it actually has additional content compared to the ps4 version.
@@BreadBoyWeeb it’s a 10 dollar upgrade if you have the OG and you get additional content, a new mode and ps5 features. If anything it’s one of better remasters imo cause it actually includes additional content rather than just higher fps/resolution. Did it need one? No but it’s basically 10 dollar dlc for ps5 owners.
>One of the best Fire Emblem games ever made. True, but not Awakening. Path of Radiance and Radiant Dawn cost as much as a modern "budget" Yugioh deck because of how limited their releases were. Awakening is still hovering around MSRP but exists on a console with wide open firmware that allows you to pirate it easily, same as FE9/10's ability to be played on Dolphin. The difference is the DLC and the buy-in for players who want legit copies. In that regard Awakening is much more accessible. And it's one of the worst FE games lol.
Great video, but I disagree with your point about piracy, it was a necessary evil and as gabe said it will always be a reflection of service problems, besides not everyone on the planet has money to spend on entertainment and when you say that piracy is a crime and it's bad you're taking away the right of poorer people to be able to consume something, not everyone has the luxury of saving money and I'd rather many people choose that "crime" that than sell drugs or rob people on the street.
