[gamblor956]

Valve used the Yuzu emulator in some of its Steam Deck initial marketing, and emulating the Switch is one of the most popular uses for the Steam Deck, so there is definitely a measurable impact.

Considering that the Steam Deck is more expensive than the Switch, arguably every SD player using Yuzu is several lost sales for Nintendo.

Nintendo is somewhat bringing this upon itself in my opinion and I don't feel much sympathy for their lost profits, real or imagined.

This is why they are going after Yuzu in the first place...Because Yuzu makes it easy to pirate Switch games and the pirates feel entitled to play those games on a more expensive device than the device they claim is too expensive.

[cheeseomlit]

Yes but the more expensive device is better in every conceivable way, it's a PC instead of a locked down walled garden that only exists as a platform for nintendo products. Just because someone owns a Deck doesn't mean they would otherwise own a switch, I own a Deck and haven't remotely considered buying any nintendo hardware since gamecube. If I couldn't emulate switch games I just wouldn't play them.

[prophesi]

Anecdotally, the friends that I know who have a gaming PC own a Switch as well. The one guy running TotK @ 4K/60FPS on their rig was also the first to preorder the game. But we're all in our 30's with decent salaries.

[mcphage]

> If I couldn't emulate switch games I just wouldn't play them.

Given this discussion started around whether to boycott Nintendo or not, it seems that you're not a Nintendo customer at all. So I'm not really sure what you would be boycotting?

[cheeseomlit]

I'm just chiming in to dispute the 'Deck owner with a switch emulator = lost sales' point that was made, but yes I've already been unconsciously 'boycotting' them for a while now.

[gamblor956]

If I couldn't emulate switch games I just wouldn't play them.

And Nintendo is okay with that. If you're never going to be a paying customer, they don't care what you think.

[Dylan16807]

They didn't say they wouldn't be a paying customer.

Regardless of that particular commenter, many paying customers of Nintendo have the same attitude that they will only emulate switch games.

[mcphage]

> many paying customers of Nintendo have the same attitude that they will only emulate switch games

I think “many” is probably a bit much.