It is likely due to age and popularity. At this point PCSX2 is the only widely popular emulator you’ve listed, but is older, in the same way Dolphin is old and less of a concern of harming their limelight. That isn’t to say those other emulators aren’t making waves lately, but there is a window between age and popularity that makes this software a prime target. Especially emulators for current gen, which has been historically very rare, and when it did exist were no where near as good as CEMU, Yuzu, and Ryujinx were.
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josephsh5@lemm.ee 10 months ago
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vinnymac@lemmy.world 10 months ago
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[deleted]bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
And triple their price? I guess the Switch is priced the way it’s priced so people can actually afford buying one.
nek0d3r@lemmy.world 10 months ago
In general I’d agree, although Citra feels like an exception. I’m not quite sure why they targeted that one so hard.
Lesrid@lemm.ee 10 months ago
I’d guess it is because the most popular way to acquire games for Citra was Nintendo’s own servers
vinnymac@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Probably for the same reason Nintendo shuttered the stores for 3DS and Wii U over the last year. They are attempting to consolidate infrastructure, support, user base, and sales.
nek0d3r@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Now that Citra isn’t available, Nintendo knows I have no choice but to buy Samus Returns on my Switch!
LoamImprovement@beehaw.org 10 months ago
Nintendo’s infamously protective of its IP, even to its obvious detriment. I know a lot of people who jumped on the nomoretendo bandwagon after AM2R got DMCA’d, because the smart and morally correct thing to do would have been to hire that person and pull his incredible talent into the next Metroid game, because they clearly had a lot of love and respect for the subject matter and the technical expertise to put it into action. It’s hard to overstate just how fucking good and polished that project was, virtually identical to the Fusion/Zero Mission engine, except in the ways it was more improved. It was certainly better than anything Nintendo had done with Metroid in quite a while.
Juigi@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Nintendo sucks that’s why
ekZepp@lemmy.world 10 months ago
According to what i’ve read around, the Switch 2 will be retro-compatible to the Switch and this may potentially be use to adapt the emulators for the new console very quickly. But so far is just a rumor.
ysjet@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Because none of those emulate current generation systems.
People act weirdly entitled about Nintendo product, then throw shitfits when Nintendo reacts exactly like Sony or Microsoft would to them doing the same thing.