Dolphin Wii Emulator's Steam Release has been Indefinitely Delayed

To be able to play a lot of N64/Gamecube/Wii games you need to not only buy the original hardware and hope it doesn't fizzle out a few days/weeks after you buy it on ebay but you also need to spend an egregious amount gambling on buying the discs that you hope don't have scratches in vital areas.

This is why game emulation exists as it's quickly become the only way to conserve old games.

Nintendo desperately needs some people working there that are more in touch with reality.
 
When the old people from Nintendo finally leave, hopefully there's a chance they'll embrace the modern age of technology and the internet.
 
To be able to play a lot of N64/Gamecube/Wii games you need to not only buy the original hardware and hope it doesn't fizzle out a few days/weeks after you buy it on ebay but you also need to spend an egregious amount gambling on buying the discs that you hope don't have scratches in vital areas.

This is why game emulation exists as it's quickly become the only way to conserve old games.

Nintendo desperately needs some people working there that are more in touch with reality.

If they were smart. Sony/Nintendo/Sega etc would all make their own inhouse emulators and sell the classic old games. Its a new revenue stream for abandonware or a new refreshed flow of cash for something thats already be created/completed to some extent.

Collectors who want the real nostalgic deal, will pay over asking for devices and discs in order to guarantee premium quality.

But the thing nintendo are doing, is the same thing Fox did with their movies. They do it out of spite, nothing else. Its not about protecting IPs.

Fox intentionally created an awful Fantastic 4 movie in order to criple Marvels chances at the time, and ruin things for them. Nintendo throw out all this cease and desist because someone is creating magic for the people that Nintendo have no control over.
 
If they were smart. Sony/Nintendo/Sega etc would all make their own inhouse emulators and sell the classic old games. Its a new revenue stream for abandonware or a new refreshed flow of cash for something thats already be created/completed to some extent.

Collectors who want the real nostalgic deal, will pay over asking for devices and discs in order to guarantee premium quality.

But the thing nintendo are doing, is the same thing Fox did with their movies. They do it out of spite, nothing else. Its not about protecting IPs.

Fox intentionally created an awful Fantastic 4 movie in order to criple Marvels chances at the time, and ruin things for them. Nintendo throw out all this cease and desist because someone is creating magic for the people that Nintendo have no control over.

The people in charge of these companies aren't well in the head and if they all went the emulation selling route they would do a terrible job at it as they only care about selling the latest shiny thing.

If they brought in people who are mentally competent, Which would be a first for these companies, Then it may work but I highly doubt it would happen as these companies are run by people who I am genuinely convinced are completely insane that show nothing but contempt for their customers.
 
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Bottom line vastly outweighs the customer experience in the gaming industry now.

There are many exceptions of course. The problem is that we have become a race of whining, entitled babies. You cant please us all. Give us the maximum detail and we will complain FPS is bad. Give us high FPS and we will moan that "its only becauase they use NVIDIA DLSS"

If I was a game developer in todays world, I would probably say to myself, that the customer will get what their given. You cant please us all.

Re-read that myself and it strays off the point completely :D but still felt good to say. Hah.


Anyways. Corporations need control. If you let something slide a little, the next group that come along will try to take it further, and so on till you no longer have control over your own investments.

I do like the idea of the big ones like SEGA, Nintendo, Sony taking in the little guys to work on emulators though. These guys do it for love and passion in most cases. And if Dolphin was created into a full working efficient emulator and then marketed to cost money, then I would pay it. The problem then is that we are back to the loss of control on the ISO, Games themselves which would be flooded on the internet for free. Nintendo would have no way to capitalise on that. emulator games are far easier to obtain "crack free" if you want to call it that, than PC games of today.


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And if you made an emulator to only access the classic games of yesterday via the cloud, so that ISOs aren't used. Some new group of hobbyists will come along and modify said emulator, to run on ISO files also. Win Win for the consumer of course.
 
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Why would they put it up on Steam in the first place?! I understand it's just listed as a free tool and they won't make any money by this move, but for how long was their Steam page up now?
 
If they were smart. Sony/Nintendo/Sega etc would all make their own inhouse emulators and sell the classic old games. Its a new revenue stream for abandonware or a new refreshed flow of cash for something thats already be created/completed to some extent.

They already do mate. And have done for a long time, too. The Switch has a ton of their home brew emus on to play SNES and etc, and the DS did before that. The problem is when the DS was outdated? you can't play them any more.

Sega do it too. Their best old games are available through Steam, and have a baked in emulator.
 
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