I’m not saying it will never happen but just wait and see where we are in like 5 years. People are acting like they’ll be able to play the new Mario Kart on their computer this time next year
Who knows what kind of nasty DRM they’ve got running this time around even if people can find a way to hack the console and dump games
$500 for a console is one thing, but $80 for games when I just use Nintendo for Pokemon games? And Pokemon has honestly lost me. I even stopped giving a shit about my online storage box with shinies from 2010.
I agree for the most part, getting a cracked copy of a nintendo game still benefits nintendo (piracy has always benefited large publishers). Nintendo can easily create a tug of war situation with the emulator scene where firmware updates and game DRM will be a constant fixture.
Switch 1 emulation was achieved because we got extremely lucky that the switch 1 had a hardware defect on launch day that allowed for jailbreaking. Usually jailbreaking a console is very difficult and requires a mixture of luck and extremely knowledgeable individuals willing to pour hundreds of hours and now that Nintendo has sent its copyright ninjas to copyright safe havens like Brazil I doubt that there’s any motivation to start cracking a new console anytime soon.
Emulation projects are not free labor so you can crack the latest nintendo nostalgia slop.
I dunno, i personally don’t care about playing games the first day, haven’t in a very long time. 5 or more years is actually fine, there’s still a ton from their cracked consoles i haven’t played. If i wait long enough and the games are good enough i figger ill get to play the games eventually and if i don’t, i truly don’t care. I play games on my terms or i don’t play em, that’s my meta
IIRC the only reason a switch emulator appeared so soon after launch was because the creator of the Citra 3DS emulator decided to go for it. Now that nintendo has sent goons to the houses of all emulator devs there’s not as much institutional knowledge nor will for devs to stick their neck out as there was in 2017
On one hand they do seem to be taking extra DRM steps this time with the cartridges only containing a download key.
On the other hand Nintendo also tend to make really trivial mistakes that blow their consoles wide open so my money is on some remote code execution via the stupid webcam accessory.
Still not as bad as Sony and 3 generations of browser exploits in a row. Or tony hawks games
it’ll be a browser exploit. Either they’ll ship a full browser as an app or an embedded one for signing into public WiFi. Either way, it’ll be the first point of entry while other reverse engineering shit gets figured out. Might not give access to encryption keys or enable homebrew but these devices are always broken eventually.
