I assume unplugging the USB would notify a central surveillance in their local network, and everything is on camera as well. I wouldn't even try, because I fear alarm would go on and entire room changes to a boss fight with Bowser in real world.
If the only difference is the disc vs no disc, then there is not much of a reason. But I think the discless version comes "probably" as a better deal with 1 or 3 months of Game Pass. Or people think they don't buy discs anymore anyway, and could use the 50 Dollar (or in some regions even more expensive) to buy multiple indie games or a AAA game. No idea, but cheaper is always better for some. Also on Series X lot of games require internet connection anyway, either to activate the game or download it because disc does not contain game. For many its just a mess and not even worth. Just some thoughts to why people lean towards the disc less version.
@@thingsiplayoh man…… no. No one read that and the correct answer is to reject disc less consoles. I haven’t come across one of those games you say require internet on my series x😂😂😂😂
@@Look-at-the-ghost Because you are not aware of does not mean it doesn't exist. Lot of games from Microsoft wouldn't play without activating them through internet. Some games aren't even on the disc or require part to be downloaded to be playable. Halo Infinite comes to my mind, but many other games are too. If you didn't read my reply, why do you answer it then? If you don't care to read, then I don't care reading your replies too, as it is waste of time. Some people also don't want to deal with discs at all. They take room, you have to switch them all the time, and they are inconvenient. Prices aren't often cheaper anyway. There are reasons why people might choose over the cheaper discless version, because they don't care about the disc.
Obviously, but I think people are just pissed cause of Yuzu/Ryujinx being taken down. Can't blame em but eventually Nintendo will stop caring about the Switch and emulation will come back and they won't care to take those emus down.
@@NecroBanana People need to remember what the law says though. Both Yuzu and Ryujinx were guilty of acquiring money for their software, whether through donation, patreon or other means. If you want a legal emulator, DON'T ACCEPT MONEY.
@@NecroBanana Not really taken down just not being updated and shared publicly. Devs were making money they shouldnt have so Nintendo cut that funding supply off.
@@SuperSikarloLmao, this is the easy, copout sentiment. Hilarious how people think the devs behind things like Yuzu is 100% innocent. Think objectively. Yuzu’s devs were providing a way for people to circumvent Nintendo’s DRM and more on top of providing the emulator. As a result, Nintendo was protecting their sales numbers (their legal right to protect their bottom line) by getting rid of explicit infringement of their rights. Had Yuzu not done any of this, the emulator would very likely still exist.
Then they should make all their games available from all generations. If they want privacy to get cut down, make them purchasable either thru the switch or make their own Nintendo PC launcher.
Nintendo has been using emulators in their products for decades... the Museum was not gonna be any different. They clearly don't hate emulation... only who is using the emulator is what they have issue with, "Y'all are dirty thieves... yes even the innocent ones"
Exactly, lets be honest people majority of people who do emulation are going to pirate stuff. I understand people getting angry with Nintendo, but it's just a way of showing people how to access to free stuff. End of the day Nintendo are a business first.
@@ravenebony2267they absolutely hate emulation if they aren't the ones controlling it. People are allowed to use emulation though. Just like you can play roms legally. What's illegal is distributing it for a profit. But if you already own the games but prefer to be digital you have every right to just emulate it. It's how I play switch games. I went as far as selling my switch. I buy the game, copy it with my mig switch, then I put the physical on my shelf and play on my PC or legion go.
Bro not being able to buy Dino Crisis is such a kick in the dick. I could live without the trophies(even though it'd awesome). But I don't care about the subscription service or any other game in it. I want to vote with my wallet and buy the damn game.
@@GM-Shenmue Steam is the only way to buy roms legally and use them in an emulator. There's even DOOM wads on there. You can run those in DOSBox. Nintendo doesn't really use Steam though.
since nintendo museum is located in japan and not in like the us im sure nintendo wasn't so worried about people being thieves or destructive the majority of the time
Doesn’t really happen in USA museums either lol. They just don’t have a reason to put one outside of their country. Not much money to be made with that
@@helixnebulaone I think this whole argument is stupid and overblown like a lot of anti-Nintendo talking points, but that guy kinda has a point: a few years ago, some first-party ROMs on VC had suspicious headers that seemed to point to being cracked/pirated ROMs rather than original untouched files. It wasn't confirmed and it's not fully clear because there isn't enough evidence, but it is a possibility. Plus, other studios have lost their own source code, assets, etc., and have had to rely on online ROMs to create ports and things like that. Interesting how tough preservation is on the inside too, though some studios just straight up destroy their old work once it's done lol.
@@ThaexakaMavro Even if they did, so what? It's their own property, they can seize and use illegally created properties if they own the properties. Seriously, stop for a second and think.
@@Kaiser86 "so what" that nintendo has gone and shut down most if not all of those rom sites over the years. There's evidence there that if not for those rom sites, nintendo may have not been able to provide certain games on VC, yet they still go after them as if they were "evil".
I feel like people forget or purposely don't mention how bad pirates are on the Switch, considering that every new game gets leaked a week ahead of time. That's the one major problem that people deliberately avoid talking about. People keep saying they are trying to preserve games, but how are you preserving something that haven't release yet?
I don't agree with pirating recent releases, but Switch is by far Nintendo's most popular console in recent times. I don't think Switch piracy has impacted their growth all that much.
True, but that cpuld apply for many other games. If the Switch didn't have such levels of piracy to begin with, you know Nintendo would still be clamping down just as hard on piracy regardless.
@CarbonMalite If you haven't been aware, almost every game that has come out on switch in the last 2 years has been pirated. It may not affect their sales, but it effects their marketing and we all know that the first publicity on anything can make or break a product regardless of its actual quality.
Dolphin serves all my needs except for one game. We need a modern port of the Rogue squadron trilogy, and hopefully, disney can force them to bring it to PC.
So Eurogamer went and turned off most of the options like Bonus Stars.... then complained that they didn't have the benefits of those options. I know you can't spell ignorance without IGN, but Eurogamer is certainly trying.
I mean, it's kinda thickheaded to not know that Nintendo hasn't developed their own emulators over the years. Now if only they went back to the old ways of the Wii/3DS show where you could, I dunno, buy their classic games outright instead of hiding them behind an online service.
Allegedly, the Virtual Console was highly unprofitable, and that's why they changed it to a suscription. I only remember reading an article about it a few years ago, so no source unfortunately.
I wouldn‘t mind that they only make these classic games available through an online service subscription… if they actually had the same catalogue as Virtual Console. The selection of games on NSO is just so much smaller. As a wise man once said: „Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem.“ If I can‘t play the games I want to play that I played on Virtual Console through their current NSO service and the only other option is paying hundreds of dollars on ebay for a second hand copy (and that money wouldn‘t go to Nintendo anyway), then of course I‘m going to pirate. And it‘s even more of a problem in the digital era now. With the 3DS and WiiU eshop closed, so much digital only content is lost. Even if you buy a second hand copy of a 3DS game you can‘t access its DLC anymore for example.
Nintendo fans take the criticisms too literally. When people say they're "anti emulation" they're referring to COMMUNITY efforts, not the concept itself. They've been after the emulation community hard the last few years and it's made people angry. So yeah they have an anti-emulation stance, and it's ok to say that without needing the PostScript "I know they use emulation themselves"
Okay I'm the first guy who hates it when Nintendo attacks emulators as someone who contributed to emulation, but every single person who says Nintendo is hypocritical are very much just doing hyperbole, we knew since 2017 that Nintendo had the SNES Mini/NSO emulator running on Windows. If you didn't hear about it, it's just because any dev who looked at it were not surprised and because well... it's not important. Check every replay data files in the SNES Mini and you'll find the mention of "Canoe Win32" (Canoe is the name of the SNES emulator). The only reason why people are saying "hypocritical" (aside from clearly not knowing the definition) is just because they want the higher moral ground, they wanna sound more objective, more matter of fact. When Nintendo says they're against emulators, you freaking know very well what they're actually talking about let's not actually dodge that fact. That doesn't make them hypocrites, I dare say it's one of the most consistent things they have in terms of positioning on unofficial emulation. If your problem is just that Nintendo has emulators running on Windows, then stop pretending to know how development and programming works. And I will repeat this because I totally think people do not know how to read: I am against Nintendo attacking unofficial emulation. I literally worked on some of those.
Kinda crazy how they complain about it and call them hypocrites they've always been using emulators most companies do The difference is that they own the fucking ip's and games And you're pirating their shit for free 😭
@@BlazeBluetm35Those people are the vast minority. Most people just download roms, not to mention a lot of these Retro Handhelds come preloaded with roms.
It’s about piracy, not pure emulation. Why do they go after switch emulation then? Well, 99% of the time, it’s used for pirating current games so if they can find a way to do it, they’ll try to shut it down. Are they going after SNES emulators? No, they’ve been available for decades.
@@uncario probably means a refund for the free emulator. lmao. the piracy-defenders will of course claim, it's all about the honorable cause of preservation, which they can't do later, it must be done for the current platform. :P
I do think that this is true. I've only played Ghost of (on PS4). It's got an okay soundtrack. It's only alright, but it's far too forgettable compared to some of Sony's back catalog. There's something lacking in many of these modern OST's, they focus far too much on atmosphere rather than melody. You can't remember/hum more than one or two of them. (These modern game mechanics have a similar problem but it's not as easy to identify or explain).
Sony wants you to buy movie-like games, only. I think they're embarrased about their video game history. They don't want to be seen as a toy company, like Nintendo. Which is ironic.
PS3 & PS Vita stores: "Hi there, it seems you want your buzz for Dino Crisis despite the failings of our modern day storefront. Well you're in luck, we still sell both games over there for under $10. Come one, come all and get your panic horror fix!"
@kennypowers1945 wut? How? Don't project the fact that you didnt learn shit for 13 years, dawg. Also, redundant jobs exist. Sure, you get paid, but that time could be going to something productive.
@@frankpoposojo Time that you get paid isn't being wasted. How old are you? ALso I'd bring something in like a retro handheld or gaming device to play with while sitting in that room.
@@kennypowers1945 so you would rather pay the digital price and rebuy backwards compatible 360 and og xbox games that you already own? the disc drive series x is a no brainer
The guy who worked on Sega Smash Pack for Dreamcast actually included a way to use the emulator to port any Genesis game to Dreamcast. :D What a legend.
what do you expect them to do in the nintendo museum? if they used original hardware, you'd constantly have the exhibit shut down while I.T. guys are blowing into the carts to get them to work again.
What Nintendo didn't go out of their way to buy multiple consoles that haven't been in production for multiple decades in working condition ore repairing broken ones then mess around with hard mods or conversion devices to get them to out put to HDMI and then track down multiple copies of the same game for a museum stand! shock and horror!
I guess they could’ve set up a Wii U or something, but yeah, it’s really silly that people are calling this “embarrassing.” They aren’t going to be using original hardware for this. That’s completely unreasonable.
@@RipVanFish09So, for Nintendo that's unreasonable, but for consumers it isn't? Why is Nintendo taking down RU-vid videos concerning the installation of emulators (Cemu) of consoles they no longer sell? That's why they took down Citra? Because they still sell Nintendo 3DS consoles / games? Why can't they just sell a Nintendo Switch Online Service for PC? Because they want to controll the way people play their games. This isn't about profit, that's why so many people are pissed.
@@nintendoswitchbrit4201 I’m sure they have some of their own Wii U’s lying around, and it’s not hard for them to put their own games onto their own console. But yeah, like I said, I understand what they did. It’s simply easier to just throw down a computer and call it a day.
Nintendo is still issuing DMCAs for wii and wii u content, so it isnt them simply proptecting the current. If i own the disc i can play it however id like. This is why the digital future will ruin gaming
No worse than smooth brain "gamers" claming every game is a 10/10 and anything below an 8/10 must be trash.....Something isn't a "dud" because YOU don't like it and "reviews" are subjective opinion not fact....Its OK to like a game that isn't amazing nor is every game "amazing or a masterpiece" because YOU like it
I'm going to go out on a limb here and ask that you stick to missing PS4 & PS5 game OST. But especially when Parappa The Rapper is a game where the soundtrack is not completely set and you are allowed a modification of the song, to the point that even the computer prompts can change, there's no expectation that such an interactive experience would translate to a concert environment.
@@ChanceyBoi-g4t - I was naturally good at both games, but when I played the remaster of the first game, I wasn’t sure if I just mastered the timing of the latency as a child or if the remaster was just subpar to the OG. I have to find a copy of that to test it out, but I still have my original copy of the sequel.
Nintendo hasn't gotten other emulators shut down, just Ryujinx and Yuzu. I think people need to remember. YOU CAN'T ASK FOR MONEY FOR YOUR EMULATOR. Both either accepted donations or had a patreon. That's the big no no where legally Ninendo had every right to go after them. Either make an emulator in your spare time as a passion project for game preservation and accept nothing in return, or ask for money and get shut down. I don't like it either, but that's what the law says. Don't start whining because they broke the law. Just admit they screwed up and did more harm than good by doing so. They hurt the image of game preservation by not following the laws and being legitimate.
Nah they should be allowed to make money off of it like car shops make money making car mods and working on them. I’m glad more people are fighting Nintendo and don’t care both their lawsuits. They can’t stop everyone that’s for sure and eventually Nintendo will lose and more and more people are emulating/pirating their stuff
not only this, people who use their IPs illegally, doesn't need to sell anything, a hack of Mario even for free is still something they want to avoid, because there can be cases where it damages their own IP because of quality or weird content
Nintendo isn't against emulation, they literally didn't do anything to take down emulators of old gaming systems. They attacked rom sites and emulators that are making tons of money with their IPs.
Nintendo aren't against emulation used in good faith, so I don't get why it's embarrassing. They even have access to Yuzu and Ryujinx and can use them how they see fit going forward. People really try hard to weaponise anything against them, that's what's embarrassing.
This year has been all about laying off employees even when games are successful... how do you prevent layoffs if it still happens when hifi rush wins indie goty and sparking zero breaks sales records?
Did people think Nintendo was going to hook an old NES and/or SNES at their Museum? Also, it's THEIR IP..? They can use them however THEY want. People are goofy, man.
Spawn! Great video. I liked when you added the take a listen at 7:34ish. It added a simple but effective immersive moment for the viewer to mix it up and keep folks engaged. I would love to see more of those moments in your segments. All best!
Shouldn't really be a surprise Nintendo uses emulators with the last many years of emulated games running on Wii, DS and Switch. It's their junk and probably their in house made emulators
I don't see what's wrong with Nintendo using emulators, especially considering they own the IP, it is theirs. But other people are effectively stealing their IP by using them.
The current situation with Bandai Namco EXPLAINS why there hasn't been a *new mainline Digimon Story game* for 7 years. I just hope that whatever projects they "cancelled" doesn't involve the next Digimon Story game that was confirmed by the now-removed Digimon Game Director 'Habu' to be focusing on the *Olympos 12.* :(
@@geoffreytasker2097 They own the IPs but apparently not the ROMs that were in their games... Almost as if they weren't doing the best job at preserving them, huh?
@DanielFerreira-ez8qd ok let's talk about how your argument is stupid. Again, Nintendo owns the IP. Emulation is not illegal so if someone makes a room and Nintendo owns the ip they can use that rom how they see fit. What's anyone going to do? Sue Nintendo for using a room of a game Nintendo owns? Further more i own mario bros in particular on nes, snes, wii, gba, wii u, and switch at this point what else does Nintendo need to do to "preserve" that game? They could have used any of those roms. Because again, they own the ip
@@geoffreytasker2097 My argument is that nintendo sucks at preserving their games. I'm calling them out for it - not for using a rom from a rom site, but for taking those sites down when they're obviously not going to preserve the roms themselves. And of course an ignorant person like you would go "oh I own mario in every console that game doesn't need preserving!" As if that's all nintendo ever published. They can use whatever roms they like, but it's really bad that they keep failing to preserve their games while shutting down anyone that does it for them.
@@vdpt9911 That is not a guarantee that I will like the game, I have ignored reviews for a very long time and just played games that look fun and interesting. Also, basically all game reviewer’s annoy me. It is true what you are saying, if someone needs a review for a game, first find someone that likes the kind of games you enjoy and look at their reviews.
@@PrinsessePeach Fair enough, that's what I do too, though I mostly just buy indie games and occasional Nintendo games these days and this is my main hobby. Is there anything in particular that annoys you about all game reviewers? There's a lot of variance, especially between mainstream and amateur reviewers, where the latter tends to fall in extremes (ex. all discussion in Twitter is reduced to 'peak' vs 'mid' vs 'trash') and the former is more accurately in the middle, between genres, within channels/outlets, etc.
That Eurogamer review was a disaster. They started by implying they don't like Mario Party, then proceeded to complain about everything that is literally how the games work. One of their "problems" was having to wait for everyone to get a turn before playing a minigame.
Lol, crying and complaining that these companies don't bring out their titles now crying and complaining that they don't let you buy them or have trophies and they're being lazy. I'm just thankful that they're actually listening to the playerbase and are giving us the opportunity to play these games and letting you players experience these games as we did back in the 90s and early 2000s
RU-vid is just really inconsistent lately, chapters included, when it comes to certain features. Sometimes there are chapters, sometimes not, and it seems to always work correctly when you view videos on a smartphone from my experience o.O
He does use chapters, RU-vid has just been having issues with them showing recently. If you check the description, the time stamps are still there, which function the same way as the chapters.
@@__Weasel__How does it give MORE options!? Not only do you lose the ability to play physical Series games but out through the window flies 360 and One games you collected over the years becoming nothing more than coasters? Help me understand your logic here. So you wanna trade the disk drive and your entire 4 generations of physical games for another TB of space in the console?😂
@@UWG3 No one besides physical copy collectors uses the disc drive anymore. Also, how can you call a video game "physical" when all you get from the disc is a copy of the software, the game, itself? Are you nostalgia blinded or what?
@@ThunderTheYellowJolteon So because use of the disk drive has decreased you want to take the choice of having it away from everyone? I don't think you understand the word physical copy?? How it functions in future console generations might change but as of now going back to the 5th gen when you have a physical copy YOU ACTUALLY OWN THE GAME regardless of how much data is on the disk and can be played on an infinite amount of different accounts and consoles! Greedy companies can't take the game away from you like they can on digital storefronts and launchers. Stop capping with your L take.
I too am shocked that Nintendo would use a control that would allow people to disconnect it. Surely they could have developed a SNES control that looked more like the original with a built in cable that has USB on it.
Like fucking Nintendo can use all the emulators they want. But why would they want you to play games for free when they can rerelease games when they want on their emulators? I don't like it. But we can't act smug. It's a business
Then how about they sell a Nintendo Switch Online Service for PC? No, this isn't about profit, this is about Nintendo forcing people how they play their games.
Supporters of emulators should also criticize people that use emulation for piracy. They are also not helping the emulation scene, by braging online how they are playing games before they are even available to the public.
Finally someone gets it. I just want to emulate old generation games that are hard to physically find or acquire, not emulating current generation games before they even come out. Paints everyone who emulates in a bad light. That said emulation isn't that big of a deal for me. It's cool and all but I have no horse in this race really.
Criticize? Who will criticize their own? Literally once you download emulator you already doing piracy... Legal emulation is you made your own Emulators.
@@mkjjoe , ofcourse you will use emulate and download pirated roms so that you can play games for free... Even dum..b people can understand you steal item so that you can consume buy not paying anything, SIMPLE FACT
What Bandai-Namco is using to “push” employees to quit is called a rubber room. It is NOT a traditionally Japanese approach. This was commonly associated with teachers’ and other unions here in the US in the latter half of the twentieth century. It was not a very successful technique-to pay people to sit on their ass, hoping they’d quit.
It's not about emulation. And it's not about piracy either. Nintendo wants control. The legality doesn't matter to Nintendo and never has. They don't want you playing their games unless it's on their terms. Same with RU-vid. They only reluctantly let people start using their games in videos and even then it's not unlimited use.
So, Yuzu's case had an interesting argument. They were arguing that as owner and creator of the IPs they have the right of picking the time and place where they want to publish them. So the question is if these emulators are basically "publishing" these games and Yuzu certainly looks like it is.
Uh no. Me and millions of others prefer than and like them. I like to see what people on their profile have completed and I like to see want I’ve done in game. Without it’s pointless
I don't get the "embarrassing" aspect that people talk about. What's embarrassing about what Nintendo's doing there? Using internally developed emulators on a computer and running them there? Oooooh the horrors ooooooh. Like c'mon people. Nintendo's problem has never been emulation, the problem they've always had is people pirating games that are literally available on their digital storefronts or physical retail shelves, and people profiting off of emulators and promoting piracy, every company including Nintendo uses emulation for when they rerelease older games in digital storefronts, what's the problem with them using a computer to run their own internally developed emulation? You really think that people that claim that they care game preservation REALLY care about preservation? .....no. Most people that do emulation don't, never did, and still don't care about it, they're fakers that lie through their teeth, and just use emulation to commit theft instead of actually buying a game beforehand and then dumping it to a computer. Piracy is still theft just as much as stealing a physical good from any store, and no matter what you think about a corporation whether you love them or despise them so much that they prevent you from sleeping properly at night, you shouldn't steal from them and use emulation for actual good reasons rather than using them for petty theft or malicious intentions like trying to profit from things that you don't own. I totally get pirating something if said product isn't officially available anymore and there's not any official way to access it, but if a product is easily accessible on both physical retailer and digital storefront, then that's where piracy becomes bad.
Even so but it’s still hypocrisy. They tell us not to do it but they’ve been doing it for years. I love Nintendo but they are 100% hypocrites. They would’ve been better off hiring these people making these emulators to integrate them into their consoles instead of blowing their money on lawyers and sending these people to court over games and emulators for consoles they don’t make any money off of anymore
@@lewisgrant7622 they tell you (yes, you. I'm never taking part in this) this because you're doing it in a way that either violates the IP or is actively chipping away at their market share.
Wouldn't it be funny if it's revealed that Nintendo not only created their own emulators from scratch, but also personally dumped every single one of their own games themselves?
That PoS really just went to the Nintendo museum to mess with and potentially break the disply and interaction media, just for a potential gotcha. Yea of course they use an emulator for the retro game kiosk. Theyve been using emulators since before the wii. Not only is it convenient, theres lesss risk of people breaking and messing with the original hardware (like the idiot in that video), and it has to interact with the museum passes that give guests access to the various activities including the kiosks.
With inflation, the PSX launched at more than $600 in today's money and the Saturn at over $800, then a year later the N64 released at $400 in today's dollars
Nintendo fanbois in the comment section are protecting nintendo like they pay them. Nintendo doesn't care about you. Stop getting triggered over any criticism they get.
Nintendo is using emulation???!!! OMG!!! this is major news!!!11!1 🤔 i wonder how the retro titles on NSO or the NES and SNES Mini work?? Surely not emulation.
@@Enigma75614 Yes, which use or copy Nintendo owned properties, whether they are software or hardware. This is their own musem. It really isn't that hard.
@@Kaiser86doesn’t matter, THEY SELL IT TO ME, ITS MINE. Don’t care if Nintendo owns the ip lol also they can’t use other people’s emulators even for their own game. They gone get sued
To be fair that videor really put in the effort to barely unplug it. And also, its not a big deal that nintendo emulates their own stuff. It IS their stuff. And they technically have their own built in emulation for their systems from wii to switch. And developer software is on pcs. So sure without seeing the true behind the scenes it just seems like its on a pc, but i doubt theyre using open source emulators vs their own in house.
Another issue with GameCube on NSO is how NSO works. NSO doesn't work like Capcom Arcade Stadium, where you just download the hub and then whatever games you want to play. No, you download every game available with the app. It's a package deal. You can't really do that with GameCube games because the file size is too big, especially for the Switch's paltry default size.
Even though I'm not into emulation (because I'm becoming a indie game developer), I'm not surprised with Nintendo taking down emulators over PC at museum. That's a shame that BANDAI Namco canceled a bunch of projects, including the Nintendo ones.
It’s Nintendo’s IP. The problem they have with unlicensed emulators is that they tend to be distributed without legal permissions, and tend to distribute Nintendo IP illegally. Nintendo can do what they like with their own IP. Why is this so hard to understand?
Trophies and achievements are so important, I always played GTA4 on 360 but replayed on PS3 recently just to get trophies, makes it feel like it’s the first time again
We have to remind ourselves that these people that are saying the emulator is "embarrassing for Nintendo" are also like 12-year-old children. No one with a fully developed adult brain is seriously making these comments.
Ah, the downsizing room; also known as a "Japanese Promotion". Something that even the best in Japan have experienced. Word on the street for years was that Gunpei Yokoi received a "promotion" before leaving to work for Bandai.
Nintendo is not against emulators (otherwise they would go against all emulators). Nintendo is only against piracy. While emulation is not piracy, it makes piracy very easy. If Nintendo can stop emulation of current gen, then they would get rid of huge chunk of piracy as well. Before I get accused again, no, I don't own a Nintendo console anymore. I play all Nintendo games from 80s to todays Switch on emulators and I pirate them. Just this year alone I started and finished both Zelda games on Yuzu. But I recognize that Nintendo is just against piracy and not emulators in general. People in the comment section and communities making up so many wrong statements, because they don't understand the situation or blinded by hate.
Nintendo doesnt even care about old nintendo games like n64, gamecube etc. Only the switch and wii u, but wii u was already shutdown so they won't care now.
You know trophies are pretty dumb, nfl2k5 would give you a pad and when you would complete the achievements you could use those achievement points to purchase things to put in your pad. That was 20 years ago and was better and showed more effort than trophies.
If Nintendo weren't awful people and the prices weren't this high too. I would probably buy a Switch. But the way Nintendo is fighting against their own community (like attacking RU-vidrs or game mods) and while maintaining those high prices, I won't pay them money. If Nintendo allows me to play Switch games on emulators, then I'll happily buy a Switch and games to play them the way I want. But if that is no longer legally possible, then I will do it illegally. It's Nintendo's own fault.
I really hate how they make games locked behind subscription without any option to buy the game separately. Nintendo did this with their classics on the Switch and now Sony is following suit. Subscription should be optional, not a requirement!
