"tHe PrOgReSs hAs bEeN iNsAnE"

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 18 points 22 hours ago* (15 children)

For those of you who feel sorry for Nintendo with this situation, I blamed Nintendo. It's come to the point where they have to realize that PC is a viable platform that they need to utilize instead of avoiding it. When they avoid it and don't do an official release, this is what they get. Your games on PC are inevitable now with or without you. It's a reality. Adopt.

  • source
  • hideshow 15 child comments
  • [–] 5 points 17 hours ago (4 children)

    I don’t feel sorry for Nintendo, I think it will be funny when they inevitably take legal action against this ignorant arrogant child. As is tradition.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
  • [–] 1 point 16 hours ago (3 children)

    For what? They're not emulating the game. They're not providing game files in any capacity. It's a tool to recompile a ROM. There's nothing Nintendo can do about it or they would have done it already.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • [–] 1 point 14 hours ago (2 children)

    Well if he's receiving money from people specifically for this project then at the very least there's some level of copyright infringement going on. Even if they're technically "donations".

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 0 points 12 hours ago

    Then Nintendo should also go after Anthropic and OpenAI. They're making money off the AI tools used to create the port that allows this to happen.

    The problem is that you can't just sue toolmakers. All this 14 year old did is created a tool that allows you to make a PC port. He used an AI tool to do this. If you could sue toolmakers, then you could sue Intel for creating a CPU that is used to generate a PC port of the game. A CPU is just another tool afterall.

    The donations being received are for the development of a tool. That tool doesn't pirate anything, doesn't circumvent anything, doesn't infringe on any Nintendo properties in and of itself. It doesn't hack any Nintendo hardware. It doesn't share copyrighted information.

    Nintendo would have a very hard time trying to bring a lawsuit and have legal standing for this issue.

    The best thing Nintendo could do is to start officially supporting PC. If they had done this from the beginning, many people would gladly pay for the ability to play the game on PC. I would. Take it from Gabe Newell:

    Newell rejected the industry assumption that people pirate games simply because they refuse to pay. Instead, he noted that many pirates are regular consumers—such as people with expensive gaming PCs and internet plans—who turn to illegal downloads because the official options are inconvenient.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 0 points 13 hours ago*

    no there isn't, at least not in the slop port itself. do you think the developers of, say, OpenRA are committing copyright infringement against EA? do you think the developers of OpenMW are committing copyright infringement against bethesda and zenimax? of course you don't.

    the copyright infringement is in the LLM that illegally gobbled up public code despite said code's license. it's the AI company that is committing crimes.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 5 points 20 hours ago* (1 child)

    what did they get? 5 million units in sales in the first week. The vast majority of the Nintendo audience doesn't buy gaming PCs. The real problem for Nintendo is something like an R4 cartridge but for the Switch 2

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 7 points 19 hours ago

    That's not even an issue for them now with checking unique IDs. They're just outright banning entire switch 2 consoles that use duplicate unique cartridge IDs which appear after dumping the game data onto a Migswitch cart. They see the same ID in two places at once? That ID is poisoned now. Any time that ID comes online, it bans a console. The fact that they're doing this and still remaining profitable is a testament to customers blind love for this company's products.

    It has also killed the second hand game market for me regarding switch and switch 2 games.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 2 points 14 hours ago (6 children)

    If they ported it to PC people like this would just pirate it. There's no winning.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 6 child comments
  • [–] 2 points 12 hours ago (2 children)

    Not necessarily. Take for example, Gabe Newell's stance on this.

    Newell rejected the industry assumption that people pirate games simply because they refuse to pay. Instead, he noted that many pirates are regular consumers—such as people with expensive gaming PCs and internet plans—who turn to illegal downloads because the official options are inconvenient.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 1 point 12 hours ago (1 child)

    I don't think the person who spent thousands of dollars to have AI port a game was concerned about convenience.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 2 points 12 hours ago

    You're missing the point. If the game was officially available on PC, released by Nintendo, then this individual would have no reason to do a tool to port it. Game accessibility is one of the biggest reasons people pirate.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 1 point 13 hours ago (1 child)

    That’s why there are no PC developers then?

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 3 points 13 hours ago

    I'm not saying nobody would buy the PC version. I'm saying the kind of person who spends over 10x what it would have cost to buy a Switch 2 and the game, to have AI port it to PC, doesn't sound like the kind of person who would have bought the PC version if it existed.

  • source
  • parent