But the Nintendo Switch 2, coming later this year, may change that value proposition. Not only will it continue to be the ...
Nintendo lawyer Koji Nishiura describes what may make an emulator illegal, according to Nintendo. If an emulator directly gives away Nintendo's own software, it could cross legal grounds.
A 58-year-old man from Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan, was arrested for selling modified Nintendo Switch consoles designed to play pirated games. According to Japanese media, this marks ...
Hong Kong-based BBoHK has shared a video and images of a handheld emulator they designed with ... It can almost be mistaken for a Nintendo Switch thanks to compatibility with actual Joy-Cons.
However, when you play the same game on your own PC or phone, using an emulator that Nintendo doesn’t own ... not even be a market for retro gaming handhelds. They could definitely have been ...
Nintendo’s war on emulators has raged for decades, yet the emulation community continues to thrive. In late 2024, the company dealt a blow by targeting Ryujinx, one of the popular Switch emulators.
After shutting down several popular emulators over the years, Nintendo's top IP lawyer just admitted that emulators are legal.
2024 was a big year for Nintendo's emulator takedowns, with the likes of Yuzu and Ryujinx both biting the dust after facing the company's wrath. Now, at a recent lecture hosted by Japan’s ...
In the past year alone, Nintendo has reportedly cracked down on YouTube emulator channels that featured the company's games and played detective to locate and identify an alleged Switch pirate.
Seven years after its initial release on March 3, 2017, the Nintendo Switch announced its successor, the Switch 2. This has ...
Despite Nintendo's actions against popular emulators, the company's patent attorney and deputy general manager of Nintendo's intellectual property department, Koji Nishiura, said at the Tokyo ...