Valve's latest Steam Deck trailer briefly plugs a Nintendo Switch emulator

Post by [deleted] » Sat, Oct 08, 2022, 10:13 PM UTC

EMIRELADERO wrote: post #55

RajT88 wrote: post #51

Oddly enough, the light that Humble Bundles have shone into gaming revenue cycles has made me question our copyright system as a whole. Stay with me. In Europe during the time of Mozart, composers were incentivized to be prolific by only getting royalties off the first public performance of their works. Now that is not fair today because of course we can losslessy reproduce such things infinitely. However, Humble Bun…

> We don't know the revenue Nintendo derives from virtual console sales, but you can be assured that virtually none of it is making it to the creators which is who copyright is designed to protect. I too have many gripples with copyright but this is simply wrong. Copyright is designed to protect the rightsholder . Whether it is a person or a company is irrelevant. This isn't a conspiracy or cynical-type explanation,…

Post by ErneX » Sat, Oct 08, 2022, 10:16 PM UTC

stoplying1 wrote: post #4

IceWreck wrote: post #3

While Valve shouldn't have done this, Yuzu (and emulation) is completely legal. Nintendo cant do anything unless they want to go hard against emulation itself which brings us to the same are APIs copyrightable debate.

Wait, why should Valve not have done this? I know Nintendo likes to bully smaller folks but it's not like Valve is small or that they rely on keeping good terms with Nintendo, right? Edit: I guess I didn't realize Portal was on Switch.

Post by dewey » Sat, Oct 08, 2022, 10:19 PM UTC

squeaky-clean wrote: post #72

dewey wrote: post #18

To the people saying "it's completely legal, what can Nintendo do" it might be worth considering that not everything is about legal / not legal. Companies and people have relationships and it's not always about if something is technically allowed, it's about how it's being understood by the other party and in this case it's pretty clear that Nintendo is not a big fan of emulators.

Nintendo also isn't a big fan of people playing Super Smash Bros competitively. They're allowed to have their opinions but I don't see why anyone needs to respect such silly opinions.

Post by bakugo » Sat, Oct 08, 2022, 10:22 PM UTC

dewey wrote: post #18

To the people saying "it's completely legal, what can Nintendo do" it might be worth considering that not everything is about legal / not legal. Companies and people have relationships and it's not always about if something is technically allowed, it's about how it's being understood by the other party and in this case it's pretty clear that Nintendo is not a big fan of emulators.

Post by squeaky-clean » Sat, Oct 08, 2022, 10:23 PM UTC

dleslie wrote: post #49

oneoff786 wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you play the same game on two devices from the same steam account without hiding offline?

Steam's presence API only supports one playing device at a time. It wouldn't be able to understand multiple active playing games on one account.