No more lawyers
Everyone would freak out at the decades of IP. They’ll no longer have access to. Otherwise, nothing at all would happen.
That means, for the vast majority of 99% of people, nothing will happen.
No, your bullshit religion isn’t real.
How would Nintendo be able to remove “decades of IP” if they went out of business?
So, clearly you don’t understand how IP works.
Clearly you don’t understand how game preservation/ piracy works
Literally had to check to make sure I was in the Nintendo thread when I read your comment.
That being said, what the fuuuuuck are you on about?
Congratulations on discovering where you are
If nintendo cant successfully remove decades of ip from the internet while they are currently an active company, how do you expect them to do so if they have folded? This thread relates to emulation, which is alive and well, and likely not going anywhere.
If Nintendo went belly up today, Microsoft would buy them.
That’d be kind of sad.
If Microsoft went belly up today, the retro community and linux community would have a field day.
Oracle or someone worse would buy them. That’s how capitalism works.
If Oracle went belly up the world would unite in peace and harmony.
99% of the world has no idea who that is.
What are you talking about? Java runs on millions of devices!
Pff, millions? How about 3 billions!
Most people dont even know what an OS is, nevermind java. (Insert relevant xkcd here).
Really goes a long way to show how impactful their ceaseistance will be, eh?
These days Microsoft are a major contributor to the Linux kernel, though. Sure, they’re trying to hold onto the desktop but on the server they’ve pretty much switched camps.
Considering the difficulties Microsoft had buying up Activision, I don’t think they will be allowed to buy up another game company of any remotely big size.
Now that trumps in charge. Microsoft could buy the Whitehouse and no one would bat an eyelash.
Yeah I don’t know about that. A company with that much IP would just sell rights to the highest bidder and stay afloat for ages. If Nintendo sells even just one of their main franchises like Mario, Zelda, Pokémon etc they’re gonna be fine for a long time and someone else is gonna sue the emulator guys all the same.
For example Sega, who went basically belly-up decades ago just sued Memento Mori devs for copyright infringement of in-game mechanics.
If nintendo went bankrupt, their assets and ip would be bought by some other company, and they’d be the ones bringing the lawyers.
Eh it’s not like they’ve seriously stopped anything. There’s still plenty of forks of all the emulators they took down and there’s still plenty of places to download games. Nintendo is fighting a hydra and it’s likely just costing them more money and sales by fighting these scenes.
Said it before, I’ll say it again: I wish Nintendo would go the way of Sega. Make video games, get outta the hardware game. They make good games, and while briefly I was enamored by the switch, their track record with consoles is hit and miss. I’m tired of buying new systems for Zelda, it’s basically all I play on Nintendo (though, I’m not a big gamer, so probably not most representative example). Give us Nintendo games on PC, Xbox, PlayStation.
The Switch is fantastic for what it is. Sure, it’s anemic and old, but it’s a creative design that more or less created a whole product category and allows for very creative gameplay.
They did push their luck a bit with BOTW and especially TOTK, regarding performance, sure. But most of the time, you really don’t need incredible processing power to play a Nintendo game. They’re overdue for a Switch 2 (I suspect they planned to release that much earlier but a combination of the pandemic and higher sustained sales than anticipated changed their plans), but I really don’t think most of their consoles can be considered mistakes.
IMO Nintendo brings something different and it’s very much okay that it exists.
What I’m actually doubtful about is Xbox and Sony. Those are just PC-controller combos, made cheap through standardisation, high volumes and loss-leader tactics, essentially. Microsoft and, to a lesser but similar degree, Sony, are the ones I’m not convinced provide the world with much value by making consoles.
Disagree with the consoles bit, with a caveat; their handheld consoles are always the best in the space (gameboy, DS, switch). I’d be up for them focusing on this and releasing their bigger games (i.e. Zelda) on better hardware.
