Those are entirely legal while the article implies there is some legal gray area involved.

I know it’s cool to dunk on Nintendo and sometimes it’s an actual moral obligation but I prefer not to lose sight of facts. There’s lots of bad PR against Nintendo lately, mostly based on unverified claims of anonymous people. It gets tiring that journalists mediaworkers care only about clicks.

Those are good reasons when considering ethics of piracy in general but not legality. For me ethics angle is thrown out of the window the moment profit is involved however and I’m pretty sure that guy was doing videos for ad money.

The problem is the game ROMs on these devices, which are not entirely legal.

In what part are they legal?

how can I get US domestic politics into a post about Roblox

I’m complaining about the state of things.

Link post about this thing an hour earlier - 10 upvotes. Picture with the same news one hour later - 10x more. Average Lemmy user is no longer distinguishable from a Reddit user :(

There’s hardware related info you can get through browser, see https://www.amiunique.org/fingerprint for a demo.

Virtual machines with ever changing hardware config and user agent string connecting through VPN.

Everything is alleged here, including the claim against Nintendo.

His/her story wasn’t really plausible because if it was true parents would be the first to suggest and then do it.

Sell that iPhone and make enough so that your dad doesn’t have to work for the next couple of years.

RIP

If you plan to sell it, yes. This is a DYI project.

Can this business model survive a recession?

IIRC Witcher 2 used eON which is also some sort of translation mechanism. But yeah, native port is not a guarantee of stability. Wine/Proton is a guarantee that you’ll be losing performance on overhead due to those being a reverse engineered reimplementation of Windows libraries. It can be mitigated due to Linux being more performant and/or less bloated with adware. Regardless of all of this, we should be making comparisons to as-is performance because that’s what ultimately matters to end consumer.

It is very common for people to joke about how big their backlog is. I’m not sure we can call buying things you’re never going to play as frugal. I’m on autism spectrum and do both regular and digital hoarding occasionally but I’m a bit more mindful about it ever since I admitted it. Many people seem to be in denial.

Most games on Switch 2 will be bespoke ports while Deck will run Windows versions through a compatibility layer because Proton made devs forgo Linux native versions. Those tests were done in both handheld and docked. For handheld there are pros and cons for both but Switch looks much better, has better battery life (although with more dips below target framerate). Docked Switch simply blows the Deck away but that’s not a real life scenario really as you’ve said.

This is not a one-off, Switch is just newer hardware that’s carried by DLSS too. If you game on a budget you can buy and sell used copies on Switch as well. Not as simple decision as you make it out to be.

Digital hoarding is a mental disorder same as any other form of hoarding.

Probably depends on location. Games are stupid expensive compared to typical income here. I make pretty good money but I wouldn’t be able to justify games at current prices if it wasn’t for second hand market and Game Pass.

They did a healthy mix in 1+2. This is just too little, seems like they opted to cheap out on it.