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Nintendo Strikes Down Switch Homebrew Project and Android Emulator

Nintendo struck down the Lockpick homebrew project that many users note is, ironically, the only legal way to emulate Switch games. Meanwhile, Nintendo's actions have already scared the developers of Skyline, an Android Switch emulator, into shutting down development to avoid any potential legal issues. However, PC's Ryujinx isn't shutting down.

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Vits391d ago (Edited 391d ago )

That is a shame Skyline was being developed so fast that we already had many Switch games playable on phones. With a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2 even BOTW was already running at almost fixed 30fps and the much weaker SD 840 was enough for the more light games— even Pokemon was running well on those.

XbladeTeddy390d ago

Yeah but devs didn't make them games as free to play.

Vits390d ago

Literally, nothing stopping you from buying the games. Hell, the tool that Nintendo went after only works if you have the real games and the real hardware.

XbladeTeddy390d ago

Yeah, but they enable you to dumb the keys, which in turn can be shared.

XiNatsuDragnel391d ago

Shame nintendo somebody will come along and reattempt the process nintendo idek if you have legal grounds here.

NecrumOddBoy391d ago

Nintendo doesn’t play around but their legal team feels aggressively anti-Nintendo fan.

blackblades390d ago (Edited 390d ago )

Nintendo is just protecting there brand etc like I wouldnt call them evil as one of those other articles but still they really are being aggressive like ultra plus aggressive. We don't see sony or ms trying to take roms off the internet etc. Only thing I've see and say I've seen was simply patching up there consoles from being hacked.

Furesis390d ago

This is a little different since switch is currently the active console and the emulators work better than the switch console at times so now there is less of a reason to buy a switch for some. For playstation there is no emulator for ps5 or 4 for that matter to cut in on those console sales etc. Old roms aren't that big of a deal since there is barely any money to be made there.

NecrumOddBoy389d ago (Edited 389d ago )

When it comes to piracy, then I won hundred cent agree that Nintendo should be able to protect their assets. But these guys go after fan made content, streamers, who promote Nintendo products, and artist that just enjoy creating additional fiction and Lore.

If Nintendo is not going to release ia new earthbound game, but a really big fan would create another one. Why would Nintendo go after them?

NotoriousWhiz390d ago

None of this would have happened if tears of the kingdom wasn't ripped before release.

jznrpg385d ago

Theft is theft.

You can rationalize anything to yourself but it doesn’t change what it actually is.

Armyofdarkness390d ago

Put the cart in the switch, there you go.

XbladeTeddy390d ago

Thanks for your wisdom Gandhi.

Agent75390d ago

I don't care about Nintendo consoles now. I couldn't care less who makes what console. Just go multi format and sell 50+ million Mario Kart games.

Agent75390d ago

Still, I don't understand the point of Nintendo consoles. As with every company that's out there, Nintendo are in it for the money. More money made making their games available on all formats, including PC, mobiles, tablets and laptops. I have a Switch that's constantly docked, so how about a plug in console that takes cards? I don't want to play games on a small screen.

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Days Gone Director Says Bend's Project Costs Over $250M; Says PS Co-CEO Doesn't Want 2 Zombies Games

Days Gone director claims Sony has already poured in at least a $250M in Bend's project; says Days Gone sold more than Death Stranding.

shinoff21831d 10h ago

Well that sucks. Seems they want more online trash. I'd rather of had the sequel if it was single player

MrNinosan20h ago

What online trash games did PS Studios release last 10 years?

Notellin18h ago

The past has nothing to do with the future. This is such a terrible argument. Everyone knows about their current live service push.

_SilverHawk_16h ago

It's so tragic what happened to days gone. It is such an amazing game but bandwagoners trashed it and it underperformed in it's launch year. Days gone is the best open world zombie game released in the past five years. I was recently playing it on pc and I'm still amazed by it.

Games are very expensive to make and it seems like it's normal for a AAA game to cost over a quarter billion to make so if a quality game like days gone greatly underperforms then people shouldn't be upset when they see a lot of GAAS. I still remember a lot of bandwagoners calling days gone trash but years later it's now amazing when it's considered a failure by sony.

If a game isn't the best thing seen since hats with pockets then a lot of gamers who haven't played it automatically calls it rubbish and whoever made it should be incarcerated

Cacabunga15h ago(Edited 15h ago)

Co CEO prefers gamers to boycott.. so be it. I’ll never buy a gaas.
Just imagine buying a game you cannot replay in some years.. this shit must stop.

Days Gone did zombies in a very original way. The story was also so engaging. You actually only meet Zombie hordes later in the game. There are many more enemy groups to deal with.

MrNinosan14h ago

@Notelin
I am one of the few who bought Days Gone on release day and loved it completely.
However, "more online trash" is phrased like Sony has put out alot of trash online games.
We got what, 2 games? Helldivers 2 and GT7, 2 of the most sold Playstation games where both is loved by millions.

You, me and especially shinoff has no idea if Fairgames, Marathon and Concord will be trash.

Just because we (as in you and me) don't love or support online games, doesn't mean millions of other do.

And we don't know what Bend Studio is working with? We don't know if they're forced to make a online game or another amazing single player experience.

The only thing we do know is that it's not Days Gone, sadly due to poor sales the first 6 months.

shinoff218312h ago(Edited 12h ago)

More online trash wasmt meant how insee it comes across. I should've worded it different I was meaning the focus they currently have on it.

Anything online is online trash to me. How long did naughty dog spend on that dumba last of us multiplayer, how about Concord, or even the other couple we hear about. I fk with Sony because rpgs and their 1st party single player games. Been like that for years. I hate seeing them waste time, money, and talent on trash. I understand bot every game is gonna be for me but this focus they've seem to had on multiplayer is extremely disheartening. Even at the state of play the only things I was really feeling were Astrobot and silent hill 2 and I'm content with that, not everything is for me. It's just the online focus I hate. Ms bought up 3 to 4 wrpgs developers, Sony just ignores rpgs 1st party wise.

And a days gone 2 would've been much better then whatever online sht bend is working on. I do know sometimes I get very idk emotional. I do need to work on toning that down a bit lol

SimpleDad2h ago

Ammm let's see... That All-stars, Foamstars, Babilon 5 wass gaas...
Concord... can wait to play that...Marathon uuuu... Last of them gaas... U
Horizon Zero dawn has a project that leaked as a Fortnite lookalike.

They bought Destiny that is a dead gaas...people love ti.

Helldivers 2 was luck.

Jimbo was all in and pushed Sony single player games 5 years behind.

Spiderman gaas was cancelled... I mean every 1st party studio was doing gaas.

Bend had to pitch a gaas game... Open world coop something

I can't remember more... Of that crap.

tay87011h ago

@simpledad. Destiny 2 isn't a dead game. Its the number 5 most played game on steam. I dont play it, but alot of people do.

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-Foxtrot1d 10h ago

It would be a shame if it was true that Hermen never gave the franchise a chance simply because he didn't like it and they already had a "Zombie" game with TLOU.

NaughtyDog are most likely moving onto a new IP next so it would have been the perfect time to do it.

ThinkThink1d 2h ago

Here's where xbox steps in and releases state of decay 3 day and date on ps5.

shinoff218312h ago

I mean it's not out of the realm of possibility at this point.

Grilla19h ago

Days gone 2 was canceled before Herman was in charge. That happened like 4 years ago.

vfl52319h ago

4 years ago he was head of Playstation Studios. He would've probably had a hand in the cancelation.

Notellin18h ago

Man two seconds of research could have saved you from this comment. Amazing work Grilla you fit in with the uniformed N4G community who speaks before verifying anything that they say.

Redemption-6416h ago

Maybe encourage people to buy the game at full price and not when it's heavily discounted or go on plus. If this game had sold well when it was full priced a sequel would have been in the works. They made a single-player game that most people didn't support until they dropped the price.

Cacabunga15h ago

The guy’s just a moron.. he should have stayed within game development. His choices will have a terrible impact on the brand in the long run.

tay87015h ago(Edited 5h ago)

Dude is pretty pathetic. Sounds like a guy who's girl left him for someone better. Always talking about days gone sequel that never was, even though he is no longer at bend and hasnt been for a while. I for one am not upset about the lack of a sequel. It is one of the worst 1st party games in recent memory. Completely jank, played like an xbox game. The only redeeming quality was the hordes.

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excaliburps20h ago

Yep. Kind of weird since it wasn't a sales flop, no?

I know we have to take what Ross says with a grain of salt since we're hearing just one side of the story, but even so, the game wasn't bad at all. Heck, it's my brother's favorite last-gen game from what I recall.

The amount of zombies on screen, imagine that with the PS5 and SSD? That would be insanely fun!

Grilla19h ago

Most copies were sold on sale. Not enough ppl bought it at full price. I paid 20$ for it 6 -7 months after release.

Notellin18h ago(Edited 18h ago)

Yeah we should never believe the creators side until we hear the corporate/big business side as history has shown we should always believe billion dollar corporations.

What a bootlicker statement.

derek13h ago

@Notellin, of course you'll believe an embittered ex-employee with an axe to grind because it's evil Sony he's complaining about. You guys act like days gone was this huge success and somehow Sony hates easy money a sequel would have generated. The game was mid and so was the response to it. They're still supporting the developer who is making a new ip that could be great.

shinoff218312h ago

Days gone was fantastic. I bought day one but didn't get around to it for months. When I finally did I was pissed at myself for waiting so long lol

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P_Bomb20h ago

Well I don’t want 10 live service games, but they have no problem doing that lol. Ugh.

CrimsonWing6919h ago(Edited 19h ago)

Oh great so we only get what the big wigs want… y’know, the people that really have their fingers on the pulse of what their consumers want. Faaaaantastic!

rippermcrip16h ago

Well consider they know the sales... they do know what the consumer wants.

It sold shit.

-Foxtrot11h ago(Edited 11h ago)

But if it’s true what this guy says it sold better than Death Stranding

Yet that got a sequel and Kojima aside out of them both DS didn’t really NEED a sequel compared to Days Gone which ended on such a cliff hanger twist.

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Greetings from the newly minted CEO - Shams Jorjani

Operating under the username BigKahuna_AGS, Jorjani created a lengthy thread on the Helldivers subreddit to introduce himself to the community following his appointment as CEO in early May.

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Frostpunk 2 Dev Talks Creative Risks, Supply and Demand, and More

Game Rant speaks with Frostpunk 2 co-game director and design director Jakub Stokalski about everything 11 bit poured into the sequel.

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