I totally bought stardew valley and recommened this game a bunch of times to people after “trying” it. In fact, I have bought it twice on PC, once on Switch, and on iOS.
I would also like to add that piracy does not equate to a loss in sales.
There are plenty of things I would never spend money on, but I would check/try them out of they were free.
For example, a VR headset. I will never buy one since I get dizzy too easily generally. But, if there was one that I could try for free I’d try it.
So, If im using one at a library, it does not mean that a sale was lost. It just means I find the value of this thing to be less than what you are charging for it.
FWIW, the Switch is a fucking amazing console. Don’t let the “but it isn’t as powerful as my PS5” bros convince you otherwise. There are top notch games on Switch.
Mario + rabbids, pokemon legends, zelda:BOTW/TOTK (pick one they’re both pretty similar and have their pros/cons), Mario Wonder, Mario Odyssey, Pikmin 4, Cadence of Hyrule (zelda spin-off of crypt of the necrodancer), zelda:links awakening remake, Mario rpg remake, and Bayonetta 2 (can also play on wii u emulator, 3 isn’t as good)
I’ve been playing Mario Wonder and Mario RPG both are great and run very well. I tried BOTW but I think the framerate was capped at 30 and I couldn’t figure out how to increase it
The comments section here is pretty much an echo chamber of people defending Yuzu. I’m a game dev and I think this case is more ambiguous. Emulators like Yuzu have the potential to make Switch piracy go mainstream. You don’t need to hack anything, you just follow a tutorial and google “yuzu keys”, suddenly you can play all Switch games for free. And people don’t need to be tech-savvy to do that. Nintendo would be stupid if they would just ignore this. It doesn’t help that the Tegra X1 is old, almost identical with other Nvidia chipsets and therefore easy to emulate on a PC.
That’s a good point actually. I would argue that most emulators didn’t get good enough during the lifetime of the console, and even Yuzu isn’t there yet. But you can see the potential, and that’s threatening to Nintendo’s business model.
You don’t need to hack anything, you just follow a tutorial and google “yuzu keys”,
That isn’t a tutorial from Yuzu’s developers, however. The instructions that they give you tell you to get your prod.keys from your own Switch.
Further, how else would you do Switch emulation? I’ve set up a lot of emulators, and I can tell you that Yuzu is far and away more complicated than most of them.
Considering that the keys are not unique per console, it’s kind of weird keeping the Switch around just for Yuzu. I mean you can get key dumps online and those work the same since they’re all identical.
Only real reason to do it is because Yuzu devs said so, and that’s not a great reason because they don’t have any authority to say so, nor any way of knowing if people are actually doing that.
You can usually find it by googling or searching for “prod.keys for yuzu” and you’ll find links. Beware of scams though, only download the prod.keys and title.keys, don’t use pre-packaged emulators from these sources, only use the official ones with the keys from them.
I got a link from a friend here on lemmy that looks to contain everything needed to use Yuzu (emulator/keys/firmware and mod stuff). Haven’t had a chance to test it out yet, but it looks to be complete.
Ah, the pains of emulation. It took a long time for Dolphin(Gamecube) to be usable. I always thought modern consoles had less hardware quirks and were more “plug and play” than consoles of yesteryear. And that emulating them would be easier. I guess I was wrong.
I have a Ryzen 5600G (with Radeon Graphics built in) and 16 GiB of RAM, and it runs fine (with a few hiccups during cutscenes). I’m also running Linux, though.
Yeah? Such a dick about it, Nintendo. Your platform is not special and people will run software however they please.
Emulation is legal. Emulation will remain legal. If you can’t deal with it except through courtroom bullying, may devs should look into SLAPP defenses.
Devs have to give up, companies have limitless funding for these things while people don’t
They have anti-piracy measures in the emulator though and it’s not like it’s any more difficult to play pirated games on the Switch. So this is sad to see