> On the other hand, it's fucked up people are playing Ocarina of Time for free 2 days after launch.

Yet most of those are not lost sales. They never even want to buy the game to begin with (most of them doesn't even have a Switch 2). Also as easy emulation gets nowadays it's still a "technical hurdle" for most people.

The game sold 5.2m copies in 4 days https://www.nintendo.co.jp/corporate/release/en/2026/261111....

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mahboi 13 hours ago | parent [-]

It's all guessing. My guess is that about half of those are lost sales. The kind of person who does this is obviously interested in the game. Emulating Switch 2 isn't a hacker task but isn't easy, so they were determined to play it. I think they'd buy it if there were no other choice. This emulation also requires a powerful PC, so they have money.

An opposite example would be emulating random NES games, probably only trying them out. And those are still sold on Nintendo's virtual consoles.

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t-3 13 hours ago | parent | next [-]

There's an easy way for Nintendo to shut down most piracy from people who just don't want to buy a switch 2 and pay an arm and a leg for the super-fast cutting edge microSD only compatible (at this time at least) with the switch 2 - just make the games available digitally on every platform. I don't want a bunch of locked-down consoles with different stores when I have fully owned-by-me PCs and handheld systems capable of playing everything already.

	▲	mahboi 13 hours ago \| parent [-]
		They don't want this though, and they're the ones who make it. It'd also cut down on piracy if they made the games very cheap. Like how the music industry cut down on piracy by going from $12 albums (in 1990s money) to pennies per album, because they had no other choice.

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totallygeeky 11 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Just absolutely unfounded guessing here. You're literally just spitballing based on vibes and nothing else.

	▲	mahboi 11 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Yeah, I said so myself. So is the parent.