Yuzu Creators Will Pay Nintendo $2.4 Million in Damages and End Development of Switch Emulator

Nintendo and Yuzu Emulator developer Tropic Haze have mutually agreed to settle their lawsuit, with the emulation developer paying Nintendo $2.4 million in damages and shutting down development.

[H9]

Holy crap Nintendo, chill for a second will you, they haven't burned your studios

[Neonridr]

they were taking money through their Patreon for software that allowed users to pirate games and play illegally

"chill Nintendo"

[LoveSpuds]

Seems like they got off relatively lightly really. That guy running the ROM site ended up owing something like 10 million dollars if I recall, and he was just a dude not making much money off the site and has no way of paying the awarded amount to Ninty.

[XiNatsuDragnel]

Nintendo this isn't the end of emulators for switch, hydra situation will come and piracy won't end its inevitable L on the Part of people attempting to stop it. Unless the internet can auto delete everything or companies can be more understanding once on the internet it'll never go away.

[PRIMORDUS]

Exactly, piracy will never go away Nintendo will never end it. They are just wasting time and money which would be better spent elsewhere.

[Andrew336]

They just got paid 2.4 million tho, seems like they didn't waste any time

[Rocketisleague]

They can actively and discourage it. Its their right just like.its my right to pirate there software...or...wait what

[XiNatsuDragnel]

Lol exactly it's a war that has no winners or losers it's a pointless struggle. 🤣

[PRIMORDUS]

Ryujinx is available, and I'm sure other Switch emulators will be made. The thing is Nintendo will never stop piracy not now, and not in the future. Where has all this suing got them? Nowhere. There are still ROMs of their games on torrent sites and Usenet for years and nothing can be done about it, and I like it😁. I have a Switch OLED and a PC and buy games to, and yes I download for free as well.

[JL2930]

It got them a two and a half million dollar settlement. Companies should also start prusing the priates with fines and/or jail time.

[autobotdan]

Two in a half million is a very low amount of money. They didnt win much

[JL2930]

And they don't need much, it's Nintendo. 2 1/2 million is what it took to bury the Yuzu team and they succeded in that.
Yuzu profited from that emulator and now they are gone. At the end of the day, that's all that matters for them.

[autobotdan]

They are not gone. Your kidding yourself. Yuzu name is gone. However all their technology no doubt was passed to others days before this settlement.

[JL2930]

Yes, Yuzu as it was is gone. Yuzu doesn't exisit as an entity anymore, it's just a dead emulator name now.

If they form a public group and try to profit again, then they will be sued again. Eventually these companies will turn their eye to the people like you. Believe it.

[Software_Lover]

How much did the lawyers cost?

[Neonridr]

it'll make other companies think twice though, which is the point.

[Vits]

Honestly, I'm still surprised that they were registered in the US. It seems to be one of the worst places to set up any sort of enterprise focused on emulators. The EU would likely provide more protections due to their much more pro-consumer legislation, while the BRICS would likely not care at all about Nintendo and their lawsuit.

Worse than that, it would probably only be Japan itself. That said, this news is very sad. It's not just Yuzu that suffered but also Citra, as they share the same developers.

[Unknown_Gamer5794]

Citra is what I’m sad about. I didn’t care about Yuzu as I don’t emulate modern games that I can easily purchase. With the 3DS eShop gone now though, Citrus was a way to play and access those games.

[-Foxtrot]

Everytime these come about people blab about the emulators and Nintendo finds them

Loose lips sink ships

[gold_drake]

exactly.

[PRIMORDUS]

@JL2930 there will be more emulators, this did not stop anything as I said Nintendo will be wasting time and money in the future .ROMs are up to torrent or Usenet for years and will always be there. They will always lose the battle.

[JL2930]

I never said it would stop emulators or piracy but it did stop them profiting from Yuzu. Nintendo lost nothing, you gain from settlements. No one is stupid enough to take on an entity like Nintendo in court.

You think video game piracy is untouchable until they pass laws like they did for film and music and people start going to jail, torrent sites are virtual ghost towns because of those crackdowns.

[WolfSeed]

Are you kidding me?! I hope piracy reigns down on Nintendo like no other time has before.

[GoodGuy09]

Well damn there goes another one and a really big one. Emulation will always be a thing though, another will just pop up. However, I do agree that Yuzu did need to be shut down as they were using profit for the Early Access which was just stupid.

[blacktiger]

They never lost, it's just settled

[fsfsxii]

And bozos still support nintendo

[DefaultComment]

I don't but techically speaking they have the right to defend their IPs and patents just like any other company.
Thing is this is a gray area, it's not exactly clear what can or can't do the company that made Yuzu and so NIntendo has a threshold of their own.

[Neonridr]

Imagine a company not wanting another company to profit off of software that allows people to play Nintendo games outside of their hardware.

monsters I tell ya.

[Profchaos]

Yeah they've given us Mario Zelda and built the childhood of millions along with restoring the entire gaming industry from the crash in the 80s

So yeah I guess everyone here is a bozo by that logic

[VariantAEC]

I haven't purchased anything from Nintendo at all since the 3DS days. I don't pirate their crap either. Nintendo is just meh in my personal opinion though if they're still around and for some reason I decide to settle down and have kids I might invest in whatever they make down the line. The thing is you are the bozo for loving their stuff enough to steal their s••• and then cry foul when you can't just download an emulator Nintendo destroyed. Grow up pony up the cash for their s••• that you clearly want and support them with your cash. If you don't they might just cease existing.

I know your brain is a bit too underdeveloped to comprehend the fact that if Nintendo disappears due to financial troubles from theft. Morons like you will blame Nintendo for not making new games instead of yourselves for stealing their games. Companies don't exist to relieve you of boredom. If Nintendo isn't compensated they will decide or be forced to close up shop. That is only a net neutral issue if you don't care about Nintendo and their IP. If Nintendo disappeared today, I wouldn't care, but you would.

[gold_drake]

surprising, since its legal to develope emulators.

[CoNn3rB]

I'm not an expert on this so take this with a grain of salt but I've been told that the legal issue wasn't specifically that they were developing an emulator or even profiting off it but it was more to do with how these emulators allowed access to the source code of games which is why Nintendo has been having issues with a lot of their games having their source code leaked and the emulation circumvents DRM which they tracked it back to Yuzu and the other one (Citrus or something like that) which is why they were able to sue

[gold_drake]

yeh I thought they did profit from it but i wasnt sure, this changes things of course

[FinalFantasyFanatic]

I always thought it was grey area and difficult to sue or stop emulation, maybe the patreon account and earning money had something to do with it.

[Neonridr]

I think it was more that Yuzu was taking money for their software, thus profiting off of it.

[terrorofdeath]

I didn't even know Switch emulators existed lol

[Stonilein]

L Nintendo

[VincentVanBro]

They better not come after Dolphin or CEMU

[Unknown_Gamer5794]

To the surprise of no one. It was already risky business for Yuzu to emulate modern games. They should have kept a low profile and refrained from profiting from it. Also, Nintendo is probably the worst bear to poke.

[contra157]

Who didn’t see this one coming lol

[mastershredder]

Wow yeah, welcome to adult-land. Go down looking like a complete tool with no foresight, preparation, care or respect for real world business. If you are snuggling up to these clown shoes, you belong in them.

[WolfSeed]

Nintendo kills one, two more arise! Applause to the community!
New names are : Nuzu & Suyu

[Profchaos]

They were making 30,000 USD per month they painted the target on their own back.

Most people complaining were not using Yuzu to play homebrew switch software it was being used as a tool to pirate new games on a system that is still in production and being sold.

I'm all for emulation as a form of preservation when a system or game is no longer on the market but this was absolutely harming developers and impacting game sales. In then harming the industry and the justification people seem to have for it is simple I hate Nintendo cause f them

[SonOfOsiris]

Nintendo wins