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[-] wise_pancake@lemmy.ca 53 points 4 months ago

This biggest game launch in years got leaked online, and the discord for yuzu got 50k new users at the same time all asking for the game pre release.

Yuzu even got featured on the steam deck promotional material briefly.

I don't think Nintendo would just sit back on that. The horse was out of the barn and between steam deck and totk Nintendo was never going to sit idly by.

[-] Zanshi@lemmy.world 33 points 4 months ago

I mean they were doomed when they started asking for money in addition to pointing people how to break encryption and stuff so you can play those definitely your copies of TotK that was leaked

[-] yamanii@lemmy.world 9 points 4 months ago

No, money is not a problem, bleem was a commercial product, there are other paid emulators like PPSSPP.

[-] Signtist@lemm.ee 11 points 4 months ago

Well, Bleem went down under the weight of Sony's lawsuits, just like Yuzu did with Nintendo's. Sony didn't even win any of their lawsuites against Bleem in the end, but constant legal trouble is usually too much for small startups to handle. The US's legal system essentially allows any company to duel any other, with legal funds as the weapon of choice, and the bigger weapon wins every time. Legality doesn't matter unless both companies can truly afford to fight the battle to the end, and emulators will likely never have that power. So all we can do as consumers looking for options is to try not to talk about the little guys so much that one of the big guys feels it's necessary to bury them to death with lawsuits.