I’m not saying I or anyone else is entitled to anything. I’m not advocating piracy, emulation, or anything. I’m just saying that Nintendo making an argument that people helping themselves to a back catalog that Nintendo has neglected to do anything with is damaging to their creative process or work rings kind of…

Ok, but what if you never owned a Gamecube or a Wii, then what? They aren’t making sure their developers are getting recognized or compensated for their work. Instead of providing you a first party route to getting the content you want (which would hypothetically pay someone who was involved with the creation of the…

Man what the FUCK

I feel entitled to consume whatever media I want, and if they don’t ALLOW me to pay for it, I’m going to do it for free.

eat shit cuck

I mean they didn’t go after RetroArch that can emulate NES,SNES,N64, and GBA.

I mean when is the last time you saw Disney threaten to sue for someone watching song of the south online?

That’s like arguing that throwing someone in jail isn’t “locking them up” because they’ve remained outside of a cell for their entire life until now...

They were absolutely shutting down any emulators and rom sites they could during that era too. This is far from new for them.

Yeah, and the only time Nintendo had *ANYTHING* to do with making their older IPs available was their short-lived Wii U eshop. Which they closed and abandoned.

It wouldn’t make it any harder than it is now. It was going to be a bit easier in future.

I’ve been saying this a lot lately, Nintendo needs to go through another Wii U/GameCube period, that’s when they are at their most humble.

I’m pretty much always on the side of defending emulation, but that tweet does bring up a very damning point. As far as I’m aware, a lot of the biggest emulation groups over the years have tried very hard to decompile the source code and write their own from scratch for precisely this reason. It’s part of why…

They’re referring to works that are unavailable for sale, which emulators make accessible. For instance, Nintendo will no longer sell you a new copy of Windwaker, having disabled the wiiu eshop. Thus, Nintendo is burying their work, rather than selling it. 

They’re not ‘protecting’ their creativity and work. They’re not even holding it ransom. They’re just burying it in a metaphorical hole and telling the public to f*** off. The social contract around which copyright and IP laws are based is made with understanding that you make your protected works available for public…

Shhh. No logic allowed in frivolous DMCA claims.

Nintendo insists their intellectual property is valuable enough that emulation is this big threat to them.  Simultaneously that same intellectual property isn’t valuable enough to always make available for sale to the general public

Why the poor Nintendo exec who are living in absolute poverty of making only $2 million a year.

Nintendo’s insistence on reselling the same games to us over and over again would be more tolerable if those games were readily available, and close to the same technical state that emulation offers.

I’m right there with most of Nintendo’s argument if it were, say, against Yuzu. But Dolphin primarily allows users to play games that Nintendo is no longer making available for sale. Whose creativity are we protecting, exactly, when these artists are no longer able to be paid for these works in any meaningful sense?