Death of emu is the death of gaming.90% plus of Nintendo history is not legally or commercially available to play and Nintendo will never fix that. People's lives and art literally getting lost to time because of greed. Emu does not take their normie sales. Families will still drop $900 on two switches, four joycons, and multiple copies of Mario.
Core gamers would not even need emu for their current stuff if Nintendo played ball. I can buy Far Cry 4 on a digital sale for $5, Witcher 3 with every dlc for $10, Tekken 7 with all its season passes for $12. A few weeks ago I bought a bundle of two JRPGs (witch and the hundred knight series) which used would cost me $100 for $11
By comparison, you want Mario Kart 8 deluxe, a 7 year old switch game which is a no frills port of a 10 year old Wii U game which was am incremental upgrade of a 14 year old 3ds game? That'll be $60, $45 if you are lucky ;) and when Nintendo closes down eshop for that console, you own nothing. Meanwhile Sony, Microsoft and steam purchases I made two decades ago are all there, ready to download.
That is my biggest issue. I have a 3ds. The e shop is DEAD. Games are no longer sold in stores. Consoles are no longer even repaired by Nintendo. So why GO after citra now? Why go after the people who keep the device playable way past its lifetime?
Death of emu is the death of gaming.90% plus of Nintendo history is not legally or commercially available to play and Nintendo will never fix that. People's lives and art literally getting lost to time because of greed. Emu does not take their normie sales. Families will still drop $900 on two switches, four joycons, and multiple copies of Mario.
Core gamers would not even need emu for their current stuff if Nintendo played ball. I can buy Far Cry 4 on a digital sale for $5, Witcher 3 with every dlc for $10, Tekken 7 with all its season passes for $12. A few weeks ago I bought a bundle of two JRPGs (witch and the hundred knight series) which used would cost me $100 for $11
By comparison, you want Mario Kart 8 deluxe, a 7 year old switch game which is a no frills port of a 10 year old Wii U game which was am incremental upgrade of a 14 year old 3ds game? That'll be $60, $45 if you are lucky ;) and when Nintendo closes down eshop for that console, you own nothing. Meanwhile Sony, Microsoft and steam purchases I made two decades ago are all there, ready to download.
That is my biggest issue. I have a 3ds. The e shop is DEAD. Games are no longer sold in stores. Consoles are no longer even repaired by Nintendo. So why GO after citra now? Why go after the people who keep the device playable way past its lifetime?
I don't disagree.
But I'm talking about the games they create, in which they don't follow the fads, not how they go about protecting their ips.