[goosedragons]

It's extremely easy to buy Switch ROMs and is just as easy as buying a game off Steam. Just buy it off Nintendo's website, the eShop or Humble Bundle or wherever.

Dumping the game so you can use it on an emulator isn't as easy but removing the DRM from a Steam title isn't necessarily easy either (especially if it's a new release).

[redox99]

That's not buying a ROM. That's like saying when you "buy" a movie in Prime Video you are buying an mp4.

Buying a ROM would mean buying a ROM. As in, you get the .ROM.

Steam DRM by the way is trivial to bypass. From Steamworks documentation:

> The Steam DRM wrapper by itself is not an anti-piracy solution. The Steam DRM wrapper protects against extremely casual piracy (i.e. copying all game files to another computer) and has some obfuscation, but it is easily removed by a motivated attacker.

Of course some games have third party DRM, and in the store it will tell you that before you buy it.

But the problem is not the DRM here. Your average gamer wouldn't care about a non invasive as long as they could get the same or better experience than they can now using a pirated ROM.

[goosedragons]

What system uses .ROM files? Nothing. Buying a Switch game is literally just as easy as buying a Steam game. In either case I still have to bypass some DRM to use it somewhere else. It's not a service problem because fundamentally they are the same.

While emulation CAN give a better experience it can also give a worse experience. Not every Switch title is playable, many have glitches etc.