Can’t say why Nintendo didn’t sue Yuzu faster, but the Steam Deck is literally just a computer. A laptop without the hinge, plus a Steam Controller glued on. According to Valve the Steam Deck is for one thing: playing Steam Games, and it comes with a Steam Operating System. Suing Valve for making a portable computer that is possible to run emulators on would be like HBO suing Comcast because people use its internet services to download Game of Thrones. Nintendo has taken down Steam Deck emulation videos before, so it’s clear they don’t like it (It appears my superiority has caused some problems :steam_deck: ) but have no legal precedent, of course. What are you gonna do with this, sue Asus over the ROG Ally? Sue Microsoft for making Windows which Yuzu runs on? They probably figured it’s most productive to attack the software that does the emulating.
I don’t think he was implying that Nintendo was going to go after the Steam Deck, rather that it was the existence of the Steam Deck and other portable PCs that finally spurred them on to start suing Switch emulator developers
Can’t say why Nintendo didn’t sue Yuzu faster, but the Steam Deck is literally just a computer. A laptop without the hinge, plus a Steam Controller glued on. According to Valve the Steam Deck is for one thing: playing Steam Games, and it comes with a Steam Operating System. Suing Valve for making a portable computer that is possible to run emulators on would be like HBO suing Comcast because people use its internet services to download Game of Thrones. Nintendo has taken down Steam Deck emulation videos before, so it’s clear they don’t like it (It appears my superiority has caused some problems :steam_deck: ) but have no legal precedent, of course. What are you gonna do with this, sue Asus over the ROG Ally? Sue Microsoft for making Windows which Yuzu runs on? They probably figured it’s most productive to attack the software that does the emulating.
I don’t think he was implying that Nintendo was going to go after the Steam Deck, rather that it was the existence of the Steam Deck and other portable PCs that finally spurred them on to start suing Switch emulator developers
Ohhhh, I guess so yeah, since the Steam Deck could be seen by consumers as an outright better replacement for the Switch, which it is lmao.
Nintendo of course litigates instead of competing. Free market.