How is it not? By having a good emulator, one can easily play Switch games without paying. I'm aware emulator devs don't provide game ROMs and usually have certain mechanisms to ensure you have a "legal copy", but these are all very trivial to bypass historically.
(I'm also aware there are claims that piracy does not hurt revenue of copyright holder. I can get behind some points in these claims, but not entirely.)
It simply isn't a threat to their business in any way. Also, that argument leads to a lot of insane consequences once you start arguing that you're not allowed to do things because they're vaguely, potentially a threat to a company.
Go nuts.
IIRC, a significant fraction of the studies of the subject tend to show that it even positively affects revenues of IP rights holders.
I subscribe to Patreon artists frequently. Lots of them, especially Japanese artists, have expressed that they hate piracy (i.e. repost their paid rewards on interweb) simply because it's (in their opinion) wrong. They're fully aware people who pirate is unlikely to pay a single penny regardless, or that piracy actually increases their "exposure".
At the end of the day, in my opinion it's right holder's call, regardless if their decision is based on emotion or rationale.
That's exactly what I mean. At the end of the day, what they believe is what drives their behavior.
> At the end of the day, in my opinion it's right holder's call, regardless if their decision is based on emotion or rationale.
I'm not disputing that here.
Edit: oh, this isn't a response to the comment I though it was. The comment when I'm saying roughly the same as you are and I though was misinterpreted is this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39788265
There's a lot of people who want to play Nintendo games in a higher quality who use emulators for it.
If their device isn't good enough to put itself above others, it is not worth buying. The 1 or maybe 1.5 exclusive they have has zero worth these days. Every console has their exclusives. And among them you will always find something enjoyable. Just stop watching ads/campaigns, who decide for you, and you'll be happy to find many "under the radar" (aka not sold at full price so not marketed) titles.
Tangent - This is a disgusting practice to keep us paying for deprecated electronics. By them and the rest of the console companies. Arm wrestling law makers to vendor lock us is not a business model.
The Switch has been Nintendo's only game hardware since 2017
Say whatever else you will, the "every 2-3 years" argument does not hold water when complaining about Nintendo
Yes the Wii-U was very short lived, but it was partially because it was a massive flop no one was buying anyways
> The 1 or maybe 1.5 exclusive they have has zero worth these days.
Again, this holds no water for Nintendo. The Switch had more than that in exclusives on day one, games that are still exclusive now. I mean really the list is pretty long: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Nintendo_Switch-only_...
Whether or not those are all games you care about or want to play is a wholly separate issue
I'm not trying to fanboy for Nintendo here. I think their litigation tactics are massively awful, but it really seems like you're coming at Nintendo with complaints about Sony and Microsoft. At least make arguments about the stuff they actually are doing badly
There's the people who will never pay a penny to Nintendo anyways and there's the people who just want to run their own games in something better than a choppy 1280x720@30FPS
So you're saying that Nintendo's hard stance on emulation is working?
(I don't think this is the reason, but I can imagine someone in management deducing that from the facts).
Obviously not since this console has the highest quality emulators I've even seen during the console's lifetime. Usually you need to wait 5+ years after the console dies to get anything remotely as good.
So we can confidently say that emulation being available didn't affect the high sales of the console.
[0] https://www.scribd.com/document/709016504/Nintendo-of-Americ...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_Switch
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuzu_(emulator)
[3] https://www.statista.com/statistics/687059/nintendo-switch-u...
I've never seen such a competition of very high quality emulators in the lifetime of a console. Usually you need to wait 5+ years after the console dies to get anything remotely useful.