Nintendo has been going hard against emulation recently and is trying to set a precedent with its recent actions. So basically some youtuber faggot has been taunting Nintendo for some time, actively streaming pre-released games while making accounts on top of accounts. Now Nintendo is suing the guy for copyright infringement and is trying to get emulation as a whole taken down as a result of the suit. They argument they have is that emulating the consoles custom OS and ripping the tools from owned systems is illegal and is protected under the law. While everyone knows that's bullshit, Nintendo is still trying to set a precedent by having the courts making ripping your legal keys illegal, thus making any console emulation of any 8+ console illegal. While Nintendo has gone after emulators in the past, I don't think they've gone this hard in recent memory. Perhaps it's a result of the Switch successor being a rehash of the Switch but with more powerful hardware, and as a result emulators of the Switch can also run Switch 2 games. Honestly, at this point Nintendo should just release their old games on PC, since there's clearly a demand for their games on PC but Nintendo doesn't want to play ball, which is retarded because they could make a decent amount of money just by making ports with minimal effort, putting them on Steam, and making a shit ton of money as a result of Nintendrones rebuying their games. Releasing these old games on PC would probably stop emulation development in its tracks rather than having people in Russia combining emulation with spyware. Mind you, I'm not even talking about brand new Switch 2 games or whatever they want to put out in the future. I'm talking purely about games that are around three to five years old, that aren't growing significantly in sales and could easily be ported to the PC if desired. It's upsetting since Vanillaware pulled this same shit with Unicorn Overlord for some reason, although the fact that Vanillaware outright BLOCKED the game on PC is insane to me. At least with Nintendo they have dedicated hardware and shit they're trying to push. I think with Vanillaware they're actively a hindrance to themselves, although a few Japanese developers seem to be adverse to the PC market for some reason. In any case, if Nintendo gets their way expect the only way to play games like Xenoblade and Zelda is at a sub 10FPS limit with a shitty brick rather than having the games run at least bearable frame rates. It sucks because developers like Monolith Soft and Good Feel can put out some solid games that are exclusive to the Switch. That being said I doubt Bakeru did that well on Steam due to being released at a terrible time, and with very little fanfare. That being said, I really hope the Judge throws out the case for being a repeat of the Sony vs Bleem case, although with the DRM shit that Nintendo put into the consoles, who knows.