"NEW: Nintendo is suing the creators of popular Switch emulator Yuzu, saying their tech illegally circumvents Nintendo's software encryption and facilitates piracy. Seeks damages for alleged violations and a shutdown of the emulator.

Notes 1 million copies of Tears of the Kingdom downloaded prior to game's release; says Yuzu's Patreon support doubled during that time. Basically arguing that that is proof that Yuzu's business model helps piracy flourish."

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[–] laughterlaughter@lemmy.world 15 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I've said this before and I'll say it now: I bet most of those 1,000,000 people would have never bought a copy of the game anyway.

[–] dustyData@lemmy.world 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Pretty much, piracy are never lost sales. Either the person is extremely passionate and loving of the product so they'll buy it anyway regardless if they pirated it or not; or they were just tasting the flavor of the week and never intended to buy it under any circumstance; or they are extremely poor/their economy and context doesn't allow them to access the product legitimately, so they wouldn't be capable of buying it even if they wanted; or the product is not legitimately available anymore, so pirating is the only way of accessing it.

Piracy is never a lost sale.

[–] laughterlaughter@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

You were downvoted by a nintendo shill.

[–] otp@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

And some of them probably did buy the game, even

[–] laughterlaughter@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

And many more who were friends of acquaintances of the downloader.

[–] specseaweed@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I bought the game and I still considered emulating it just to run it at higher res.

[–] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 3 points 8 months ago

This is something that makes the Nintendo numbers bullshit. how many of those 1mill downloads were people who already owned/purchased the game? How many of those people don't even have a switch and would have never purchased the game to begin with?

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I'm thinking of it so I can play older patches of the game.

[–] jeeva@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Out of interest, at a high level, why?

Did they patch out interesting exploits/speed run things?

[–] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

There's some easy duplication glitches.