alt Hacker NewsI'm glad another person has common sense. I love retro games so use emulators a lot. Even owning and collecting old games, the hardware breaks, so like you said, game preservation is amazing.
However, pirating brand new games sucks. The game industry itself and people's jobs rely on companies making a profit from the games they create.
Yes, Nintendo has a lot of money and is a huge company, they also have shitty legal practices, but they make great games and deserve to continue to make a profit on the huge investments they make in games.
Games are cheap compared to how expensive everything else has gotten. Just buy the damn games. There are so many other shitty companies you can pirate from, but most game companies aren't it.
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Can we start worrying about the money for Nintendo when it's actually a problem? They made a remake of an existing title they already got money from and already owned the story/assets and sold extra 5.2M copies in 4 days, for at least $60 each... They'll be fine and the optimal amount of fraud is non-zero.
>However, pirating brand new games sucks.
You should consider who it is, that is pirating these games. It's basically entirely one of 2 categories of people
1. people who don't have the money to buy the game. And consider this too: maybe they had to make the choice between this game or another game. Either way, they only buy one game, and not both. There's no sale lost.
2. people who just decided that nintendo doesn't deserve their money for some moral reason and if they didn't have an emulator, they just wouldn't by the game anyways. Again, there's no sale lost.
OoT is still selling like hot cakes.