alt Hacker NewsIronically, this is the type of behavior that will make me STOP buying a company's products.
They're obviously doing this because they think their losing sales - which they probably are on net. But I wish more people would stop buying products from companies that try to ruins people's literal lives over - essentially - a rounding error to the company's bottom line.
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I haven’t bought a Nintendo product in almost a decade. My life is better for it. Previously I avidly bought every MH, every Pokémon, would have bought the Digimon releases on Switch too. A fair portion of the recent Zeldas too. Nowadays I play pirated games on my 3DS and am quite happy, far happier than I had been paying Nintendo only to fuck over the things I enjoy. My impact may be small, but that hardly matters because at least I‘m putting my (lack of) money where my mouth is.
I think this move hurts yourself more than the company. There are more level headed ways to go about it but this one ain’t it
I'm not so sure Switch emulation makes up for a "rounding error"
The truth of the matter is powerful computers are getting cheap and accessible. Emulators can run Switch games better than the Switch itself - I've seen plenty of people who are playing the new Zelda at 60fps while the Switch can barely maintain 30. How many of those people paid for the game? I'd guess very few.
Not to mention Nintendo has had a few cases where their new, major release leaked online a week or 2 before the street release date. So players are now in a situation where you can very easily play games earlier and with better performance thanks to emulators.
There aren't real alternatives to Nintendo games, if you want to play the new Mario or Zelda game, Nintendo is the only one who is offering it. That is to say, these are people who would otherwise be paying customers that aren't giving them any money. I'm sure emulators cost them millions of dollars.