Explore Nintendo's latest actions and the clash between IP rights and gaming creativity in the retro gaming community.

Nintendo has been actively taking down YouTube videos that feature its games being emulated or modded, which has sparked significant discussion and concern within the gaming community.

  • dan@upvote.auEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    Nintendo could try make up something like “it’s not computer software since the Switch is a console, not a computer” or something like that. Not a great argument, but they have good lawyers and could probably convince a court that it’s true.

    • phx@lemmy.caEnglish
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      3 hours ago

      But the game is running on a computer with the emulator which still strongly lends to it being software

      • helpmyusernamewontfi@lemmy.todayEnglish
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        2 hours ago

        I think I somewhat recall during the peak Wii U disaster era, during shareholder meetings Nintendo would call the games for the system “Software”. So, that’d definitely backfire on them I’m sure