Citra will also be shutting down :(
This sucks hard. They likely knew they could not overcome Nintendo’s infinite money for legal proceedings, and if they lost they could have been on the hook for far more than this settlement amount.
The upside is this has no legal impact, but the downside is they were the best-positioned group to take this to trial.
Now Nintendo is going to start going after the smaller guys, who definitely can’t afford to fight.
@t3rmit3 @chloyster The message is clear: Do not touch anything Nintendo.
For me that includes games as well. Greedy §$"%!$
Yep, I’m not getting any Nintendo systems or games, but I will continue to enjoy fan-made ROM-hack games, played on emulators. :)
Nintendon’t get any more of my money.
Yeah home-brew seemed like the obvious point at this for the whole “only used for pirating” argument.
I have switch emulators for older/other consoles… homebrew projects definitely exist. I think Yuzu just didn’t want to fight the fight. They likely had/have some really good arguments to put Nintendo down…
Now Nintendo is going to start going after the smaller guys, who definitely can’t afford to fight.
The plus side is Ryujinx is Free Open Source Software so a million forks can begun being made right now. Yuzu had closed source aspects, which was its downfall in replication from this point forward. Ryujinx will likely have thousands of clone repositories made after today alone.
Speaking of, here’s a full backup of the Ryujinx repo, including commit history.
Well this isn’t the news I wanted to hear from this…
This is the first mention I’ve seen of Citra also shutting down…
Fucking hell… Makes sense though, they earned 30k a year, 200k ain’t enough to challenge the bankroll potential of Nintendo.
this is beyond awful, especially to us with broken switches who want to play the games we own in these times, and everyone who can’t/ won’t afford their shit.
This is the bullshit that deserves shouting and death threats, not people making a subpar decision for a game or a bad one.
I wanted to see the case on court tho
Considering they were making enough to agree to pay 2.4 million to Nintendo, they were making bank of the emulator.
If it went to court, this would’ve been much much higher.
Over on Hackernews, a dev from a German emulator project that Nintendo shut down was saying that their settlement included a similarly large sum of money, but it was only actually to be paid if the other conditions of the settlement weren’t met, and that if they were, the “debt” was dropped after x years, basically insurance to ensure compliance.
i havent read the documents but i assume this would be in japanese courts, where it pretty much a guaranteed loss on yuzu’s part.
It is actually in the US court. The documents are quite interesting to read.