The most shocking thing to me is that they’re going to feature Nintendo games in the future. I wouldn’t want to jump through all of those hoops just to possibly be rejected or have the content taken down arbitrarily in the future when Nintendo is feeling capricious. That’s a huge investment for very poor expected value.

Probably because a lot of nintendo games are speedrun on emulators. Since it can be difficult to attain region specific hardware and cartridges that are optimal for speedrunning, they resort to emulators so the barrier of entry isn't unreasonable. And we all know how Nintendo feels about emulators. Not to say it explains how it benefits Nintendo. But it explains why they're going this route.

Please stop paying Nintendo to fuck over its own customers.

They literally couldn't care less, people will buy anything with Pokemon or Mario slapped on it anyway. But still, fuck you Nintendo.

Two decades from now, people will talk about how Nintendo managed to ruin itself, from a gaming behemoth to some gacha subsidiary bought for a single yen.

Last Nintendo product I ever bought was in the SNES era. Didn’t care about the 64 and for the Wii I found CEMU.

nintendo wants total, and I mean TOTAL control over their IP. not a smidge must escape their grasp. if they could take down every fanart and every meme with their IP in it, they would

I'm doing my part by never exposing my kid to Nintendo and capturing all my kid's friends before they leave tablet gaming and convincing their parents to look into PC gaming and steam decks. It's an easy sell to their parents once I show steam's parental controls and how every game isn't full price all the time. Plus remote play makes the initial cost low if they have a computer. Their kid can just play my kid's games. I've already converted 6 kids. My kid just started first grade, so I expect to convert a lot more.

I sure fucking hope so but I also doubt it

Doing the Lord's work

As an NES and SNES kid, this makes me incredibly sad

Certainly hasn't hurt their bottom line in the slightest, so it will continue!

> I'm doing my part by (..) capturing all my kid's friends before they leave. (..) I've already converted 6 kids (..) I expect to convert a lot more The cult commends you!

Yeah it almost certainly has. They're still raking in too much to care, though.

Looks like the Nintendo executives should get a visit.. 

glad i dint buy the first switch, knowing that nintendo/masuda enshittfied the console and pokemon games.

mine was the 3ds just before the forced to the SWITCH if you wan to play the new gen pokemon games. homebrew was so fun on it because i was also playing shuffle for a while on it.

as long as they can convince young kids to badger thier parents for the new console they will keep doing it.

yea i saw how they were sitll complaining on the pokemon games, knowing how bad masuda made it for the post-SWSH games, and people said you BOUGHT it.

Their behavior definitely put them out of the running when getting a portable console for my kid's birthday. He got a Steam Deck instead and he absolutely loves it because he can play Minecraft Java edition on it.