You really have no idea how intellectual property works do you? The reason they've gone after emulation and rom hosting sites is pretty obvious, they have to protect their IP.

Why they've waited so long only to do it now? I honestly don't have an answer for you on that one, but if I were to guess it's because retro gaming has been going through somewhat of a renaissance as of late due to shitty AAA games and indie devs gaining so much popularity.

The bottom line is Nintendo lost the emulation battle once, and they don't want to lose a second time. They're more experienced and understand the risks of letting emulation replace services like Nintendo switch online, and so do publishers that own intellectual property from retro consoles. It sucks, but that's corporate life, and you can't really get around it without jumping through hoops or doing something illegal.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Your comment is very out of place as a response to mine, but since you brought all this up:

I don't begrudge Nintendo for getting ROM sites shut down. I begrudge them for shutting them down without also making their games legally available for purchase where their customers want to play them. Those old games aren't even legally available for purchase at all, because they want to just rent them to you forever, which is an enormous dick move. Then they further that with the dick move of trying to remove the place where we get those games the way we'd like to enjoy them, and getting them that way is a better experience than using their official solution.

So assuming you didn't get lost and you actually meant to respond to my comment, I can't consider them pro consumer when they're not doing what's in the consumer's best interests.