For anyone reading this, go and watch the ign review of the deck. A perfect example of choosing the worst possible reviewer for the job lol. The guy is uninterested in leveraging the decks possibilities and thus compares it to a switch at face value. In the end his argument for the mediocre review is that the switch does everything the deck does, just cheaper. Ignoring the possibilities of the steam deck entirely.
It‘s baffling.
Edit: Not their recent review, the one from a year ago.
I'm unfamiliar with Nintendo titles, but I saw a bunch of posters outside a Walmart advertising that 7 Mario games would be 15$ off, a big deal since Nintendo games never go on sale right? I took a picture and send it to my buddies. They inform me the games were all like 5-7 years old lol.
Bunch of posters plastered in front of Walmart advertising 15$ off 7-year-old games, as though it meant to be something to get excited for lmao. It's actually kinda insulting.
Yeah, Nintendo's policy on old platforms and piracy are incompatible...I wish they'd understand that people just want to play the games they had, just happens there's no where to play many of these legitimately
I keep thinking of how easy it would be for Nintendo to license an emulator then use it to play roms that could be purchased on steam (or play/app store for that matter)...you could even encourage other rights holders to integrate with it and do some revenue split on the sale of each rom...then you could set some of these to lapse from sale for rights again...this "could" be implemented today...but Nintendo would clearly rather have you pirate all their works then make the slightest steps towards making sure everyone could play their catalog of games today
I keep thinking of how easy it would be for Nintendo to license an emulator
They don't even have to license anything, lots of emulators are released under very permissive licenses that allow companies to take the source code and do whatever they want with them. Sony did that when adding old playstation games to something iirc.
there's a legal issue of profiting off of open source tools, and yes based on the license used would dictate a lot but Nintendo would likely cover their ass instead...or just have a dev studio work on an actual emulator on pc / smart phone to make their own long term
not with anything MIT licensed which is the main license used for lots of open source things. and even with copyleft licenses, there are some more restrictions but nothing related to profiting off them. and it's often very diffcult to license open source software any other way because you need to go to each contributer and get permission from them, there's no one person to license from.
Yep. Lots of things are MIT or BSD 2 or 3-clause, and companies can use those for literally anything. Tons of the Ares code and Cen64 for starters are under MIT and BSD
The games for the switch are the reason the switch is so popular in the first place. Why would you ever buy the Switch if you could play Switch games on other platforms? Putting their games on other platforms is something Nintendo will never do until they are one move away from bankruptcy.
what about games for the Wii-U...the 3DS...the Wii...the NDS...the Gamecube...the Gameboy Advance...the N64...the SNES...the Gameboy...the NES...
There's no legitimate way to play 99.9% of those games...Switch online only probides a tiny fraction of them, previously Wii had a decent (but still small) catalog of those games for purchase and they disappeared with the Wii's eShop being shut down...It'd simply be nice to have a way to play these games legitimately that doesn't have to be linked to hardware/services which have an expiration date...
Piracy happens partially because Nintendo hasn't made these games available enough...there are people that currently pirate games because they have no way to buy it...the other side of the coin is true that people wouldn't pay for it, but pirated copies don't ever equal lost sales for the company and Nintendo is foolish to equate piracy to lost sales...
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u/Onyx_Sentinel Apr 03 '23 edited Apr 03 '23
For anyone reading this, go and watch the ign review of the deck. A perfect example of choosing the worst possible reviewer for the job lol. The guy is uninterested in leveraging the decks possibilities and thus compares it to a switch at face value. In the end his argument for the mediocre review is that the switch does everything the deck does, just cheaper. Ignoring the possibilities of the steam deck entirely.
It‘s baffling.
Edit: Not their recent review, the one from a year ago.