Sony is definitely more open with their desire to be digital only. However Microsoft have been working on it since last generate. Both companies are now relying on cross-generation games, we won’t know their last-gen support until a year or two away.

To the non-gamers, I assume their response is “wut?”

We transitioned from people complaining of handful of big magazine sold out to the publishers, so tens of thousands of websites were created in their place. Then these websites lived long enough to be the villains, so millions of video influencers took their place.

Nintendo do indeed use emulator and emulation itself is indeed legal. However, that depends on what you are emulating and how you are accomplishing it.

There is indeed nothing illegal about the development of emulators, usage is in the grey area. However, when money is involved of its usage, it’s no longer in the grey area.

When fans encourage contestants to poke the bear, who have decades of history mauling people to protect their IP, then that’s some very very stupid fans.

I assume Nintendo really want people to buy newer consoles to play newer games, so continuous support had to end sometime. Even Microsoft ended support for Windows 7 a while back.

I get their point, if I want to play some old GBA game, honestly, it’s faster, easier, and cheaper to find an emulator to than a working GBA with the game I want. However, when you run a tournament that involves money, that’s where they broke not terms of services.

I am not big into Smash tournament, mainly because without the items and even Final Smash, the game is incredibly boring to watch. That goes double with Melee, since you only see the same 6 characters using the same technique for years.

Not necessarily. Nintendo have always been at the top of protecting their IP at all cost, that’s why Kotaku regularly have articles on fan games getting shutdown.

On the flip side, the other part of this article mentioned this whole thing started because the tournament was using emulator, something they know Nintendo doesn’t support.

To be fair, do you really expect Nintendo, or any other platform holders to encourage the use of emulator? After someone financially encouraged the Splatoon players to escalate the fights, disrespecting didn’t only came from one side.  

Wasn’t there someone offering financial incentive for the Splatoon teams to name themselves after the Smash tournament, thus led to escalation of things on both sides?  

I would also like to add Operation Rainfall to the story of Monolith. Xenoblade was a masterpiece for sure, however, due to the dying genre of JRPG in the west, the title was never meant to be seem by people outside of Japan.

I would take back every joke I made about Georgia and Georgians if they flip blue.

Don’t have much care for Control, but I am down with RE 3.

Thanks to Lionsgate not being part of Movies Anywhere, I had already bought John Wick series on both Google Play and Vudu. As much as I love the series, not really looking to buy the series again just so I can watch it on Amazon.

Thanks to Lionsgate not being part of Movies Anywhere, I had already bought John Wick series on both Google Play and…

Duh, it’s called fighting fire with fire. Have you never watched Resident Evil film series?

Didn’t Funko Pop just recently closed?

For those who doesn’t think this is an issue, just want until China think what you care about is also national security concern. Early on when the virus first spread across China, the mentioning of Wuhan and flu were censored. Led to most people not knowing something is going on or don’t believe there was a viral…