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by faeranne 1065 days ago
Exactly. Steam can, and honestly must, block them. People don't seem to realize that, of most of the large tech companies out there, Nintendo has figured out that they can easily outspend anyone in legal fees, and no one will care. Just look at their financials. Their lawyers make more than their board. They don't care what is legal or not, they can simply sue anything they don't like into oblivion. They don't have to win the suit to make it disappear.
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I hate to bring it up for fears it gets taken down, but how does RetroArch survive on Steam in that case? It doesn't come with them, but you can download cores for Nintendo systems directly from RetroArch.
>Nintendo has figured out that they can easily outspend anyone in legal fees

so does Sony, didnt help them one bit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Computer_Entertainment,_I....

Valve/Steam is more than large enough to fund any legal fights it wants to have forever.

Understandably, I don't think Valve has any interest in fighting this battle for Dolphin, but they certainly have the money to do it.