"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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[–] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 55 points 8 months ago (3 children)

They could have sold 19 million copies though. Won’t someone think of the billion dollar corporations?

[–] PineRune@lemmy.world 42 points 8 months ago (4 children)

I feel like a large number of the people pirating wouldn't have bought the game even if it was their only option. Then there's people who pirated and bought the game both. Unrealized profit is not the same as losing money.

[–] tryptaminev@feddit.de 12 points 8 months ago

But the IP lobby sucessfully got that idea to the courts. In my country if you are caught torrenting a series episode just for 10 seconds, the courts accept the idea, that you spread like a hundred copies of the IP to people who would have definetely bought it otherwise, so you now owe the IP holder 1000 €.

It is complete horseshit

[–] caut_R@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago

I think the majority of these is people just downloading it to see if it works for 2 hours and never touch it again lol

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

Yeah I don't have a switch, and I'm not about to start it when the second one is near us.

[–] dangblingus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 8 months ago

Surely people downloaded BOTW more times than TOTK over the 5+ years Yuzu has been around.

[–] woodgen@lemm.ee 3 points 8 months ago

I wouldn't have bought the stuff I pirated If I couldn't have pirate it.