[dogma1138]

About zero.

Emulators and near perfect ones already exist.

Sure they still sell old games on through their retro console but these can be pirated easily on existing consoles.

This wouldn’t affect the bottom line really at all since this will not make piracy easier.

The only possible loss here is due to fines from regulators or law suits from 3rd parties which had their licenses IP exposed but the latter would be a hard thing to prove or estimate it would be hard to claim that 25-30 year old SGI IP would be that valuable to their competitors today especially since SGI is dead and who knows who owns that IP right now.

[ars]

What if a Chinese company decided to make bootleg Nintendo machines using these sources and sell them?

They would probably sell the console and a bunch of games as a single playable kit.

[xigency]

Chinese factories have been doing this for decades already. I bought a 100 Games in One system at my local mall kiosk ten years ago that had an NES on a chip built into a game controller that plugged into the TV.

Given their place in the electronics supply chain, China has an incredible ability to clone hardware.

[dogma1138]

There were clones of NES/SNES when these machines were on the market I had a Famiclone in the 90’s, the games were also mainly bootleg.

Today you have pretty expensive high end SNES clones on the market on top of the 100/1000 games in one HDMI single SoC clones and Nintendo doesn’t seem to care.

[danbolt]

I think this has been discussed in other threads here, but from my understanding Nintendo 64 emulation has been a little shakier than other consoles.