[carlosrg]

>In 2022 Nintendo starting taking down Youtube videos showing Steam Decks running Switch games: https://www.resetera.com/threads/nintendo-started-blocking-v...

What are they supposed to do? Leave videos about piracy of their own IP untouched?

It baffles me how people believe they have a fundamental right to pirate Nintendo software without consequences.

[pmx]

You can just as easily run pirated games on real hardware as you can a steamdeck, and vice-versa. You're conflating emulation and piracy. Emulation does not mean piracy as it is perfectly legal (and moral) to dump a game that you own so that you can play it on your preferred hardware.

[Wowfunhappy]

Running pirated games on real hardware requires tracking down a hackable Switch, which is not completely simple. I've seen torrents floating which contain Switch games alongside pre-setup emulators so you can just download and go.

[skotobaza]

You can legally dump your cart and use it anywhere.

[troupo]

Emulation isn't piracy. It can be used for piracy, but emulation itself isn't.

[widowlark]

I play my switch games on my PC completely legally. All the games I play are owned by me, and all of them were backed up using my own switch and my own prod.keys.

Is that piracy?

[Jevon23]

The majority of HN makes a living from software that by nature can’t be pirated, so they have little sympathy for people who work on software that can be pirated.

[OOPMan]

Nonsense.

Nintendo bring this in themselves with their own policies.

There are so many hardware platforms I can support, and one that hardly ever does sales and refuses to bring their games to other platforms is not that appealing.

I buy games on PC, I buy games on XB, I've even rebought some games between the platforms to play couch co-op with my kid.

Steam and XB have enough sales to make this an option, Nintendo on the other hand is adamant about wringing every last penny from you.

These days I don't have time for Nintendo's nonsense. They want to live in their walled garden, they can have it.

[gremlinunderway]

Won't someone please think of Nintendo? Poor, poor Nintendo?!