Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Has Leaked And Is Fully Playable On The Steam Deck

Is it accurate to say that a ROM was made available on Steam? Sounds more likely that it’s running on Yuzu, which last I checked isn’t on Steam. Plus, you aren’t even allowed to talk about piracy on their forums, so I highly doubt they would just make a ROM available.

Well played Nintendo, not only did your game get out early AGAIN but they emulate it days before release. XD

@BloodNinja Would the proper term be dumped and runnable on PC emulators?

I’m so unbelievably excited, why do I have to be panicked about things like this?

If Nintendo put their games on steam natively then this wouldn't have had to happen

@Olliemar28 No problem Thank you for the solid reporting.

@progx I've never had a problem. Fitgirl repacks are installed and ready to go.

@Vincent294 Probably!

@progx Why are you telling me that? lol

Are you serious Nintendo? Come on, you need to start putting an end to this. These incidents have increased in recent times. He also defends in his tweets as if what he did was right. What a joke. I hope Nintendo will take the necessary action in the future and we will not have to face such incidents.

Since july 23 to be exactly.

@progx Nah pirated keys are everywhere. You don't need to own a Switch or that specific game at all.

Unfortunately I wonder if this might be the end for physical game in the near future?

It's also playable on any other PC right now, but NL knows that won't get them clicks and will instead bring up a device that's sold 100k units and isn't mass produced.

Lol

Isn't any Switch game that is simply dumped, playable on the Deck? That's a PC for god's sakes, of course it will emulate anything..

@JokerCK
its hard to really prevent this kind of thing since all it takes is one copy to get out and one person to dump the game online and then it becomes near impossible to contain.

In terms of emulation there's not really much Nintendo can do outside of newer hardware and even then it wont be long before people can emulate that.

whether it be from legit copies, pirated content running on original hardware or emulation it is unfortunate for those trying to avoid spoilers but as mentioned in the other topic its still not going to make much of a dent in Sales, its not a psp situation.

I'm so sick of hearing about the steam deck. What a stupid name for a handheld game system.

This is why we can't have nice things.

Love you Nintendo... but I'm still awaiting the day that you just publish your games on PC and on consoles other than your own. Joycon drift got me this morning in the middle of a match of Apex.

@Exerion76 that's not an excuse to pirate.

I hate pirates. Artists, devs and game publishers should be paid for their work. It took years of their life to develop the game.

I hope Nintendo and all other publishers find a way to deal with scum such as the ones playing the game now while not planning to buy the game later on.

Man, stuff like this sucks. Like, I get that stuff gets leaked and people are impatient, but it's like 4 days.

I just feel bad for the devs. Imagine working on this for years, only for it to leak right at the last hurdle.

@Yosher Was about to comment this, you beat me to it!

I'm really sickened by acts like this. New games don't deserve to get spoiled like this because of leakers. It's super disrespectful to developers who have spent significant time and money into these projects, only for them to get their work stolen. I can understand the desire to port release older properties after enough time has elapsed because of accessibility and preservation of those games. But in no situation is what happened to Xenoblade 3 excusable. Shame on the leakers.

@HamKnight exactly. I also feel bad for the devs who put their love and soul into the game.

@progx "you really need to research Switch emulation"
the irony

I'm not a blind Nintendo fan who just downplays any non-Nintendo hardware, but I've had a chance to use the Steam Deck. It's not bad per se, no, but - how to put it? - it's not really a game console, it's a portable Linux-based, gaming-oriented PC. Valve has never been about the elegance of use of consoles, it has always been about the flexibility of the PC. So, while technically you can emulate the Switch on the Steam Deck and play games with higher resolutions (and maybe framerates?), I would prefer to wait for my pre-order and play it on the original hardware the way it was designed. First, gotta support the creators. Xenoblade games are huge, can't imagine how log it takes to create such detailed worlds, with NPCs and stuff. Second, I seem to be getting too old to care about emulation and all the tweaking and even carrying around the larger Steam Deck. Switch OLED has a lagre enough screen (and is ALMOST too bulky for my taste) and the graphics in most games are sharp enough to enjoy them. Don't get the point of targeting the best graphics no matter what it takes, I've been a console player all my life and always had to put up with technical limitiations of console games compared to PC versions in the technical department. Never felt bad about it.

@Axecon Amen to everything you said, 100% agreed. This is something you just can't justify no matter how hard you try.

They wouldn't in a million years, but if they put it on PC I'd pay the full retail price and be very pleased.

It can run on Steam Deck but i doubt its really playable on this huge handheld is it?

You know which games I emulate? Those you can no longer purchase without paying an arm and a leg for the original game/hardware. This right here is unacceptable. The game isn't even out yet. How many lost sales would this be?I wouldn't be surprised if Nintendo takes into account when considering if they should continue the series. Corporations can be petty too haha.

@progx No you don’t? There’s lots of emulation sites that give you the game for free, and even if you pay the emulation site for the game, why would that benefit Nintendo? If you’re saying you need to buy the game on Switch to emulate it… I think you’re the one who needs to research emulation.

Playable on steam deck, but how playable ?

But nintendo come on, hacking is rampant, you need to release a switch 2 with a robust SoC and anti-cracking measures ! Release it now, I also heard that OLED, nice joycons with hall-effect sensors, DLSS and DDR5 helped fight piracy a LOT, add those !

I don't understand nintendolife promoting illegal play of unreleased game.

Wonder if it runs better on Deck. Doubt Digital foundry will cover it

nintendo needs to join with the times and publish games for pc as well like sony is doing..

Nintendo needs a new hardware ASAP. With a real hacking protection.

Unfortunately the moment Nintendo releases new hardware people are gonna do their darnedest to emulate it as quickly as possible. These stories of Steam Deck emulation aren’t going to go away, as much as I like them too.

Based Steam Deck

@BabyYoda71 from the videos I have seen of Switch emulation, you need a Switch. Those are the ones I have seen. I’m not actively looking to emulate any of my Switch games, so I’m no expert. But, hey, you can get all upset over nothing, right?

@RCGamer People should stop being criminals and buy the game.

@SpaceboyScreams as I mentioned to the other connector, clearly I don’t know much about it. And furthermore, I don’t care. Deleted both my comments.

@Aiodensghost That malarkey ain’t going to happen. Nintendo will NEVER port a game on your PC.

actually i wonder why some retailers have the game more than a week in advance.

any way i hate those steam deck master race idiots... go and buy the game and be happy that we get another xenoblade game, pirating old games is fine but new games sucks... and posing with it on sovial media is just a d*** move...

I remember GBC ROMs used to appear on the net before their appearance in the shops as well, it's hardly a new phenomenon.

@Spagetti69 most games on yuzu run worse just some that are optimized run well. you can check a compatibility list. my guess is that xenoblade runs not very well on steam deck. at least not yet.

Nintendo needs to stop preloading games onto the Switch for pre-orders. I'm once again very disappointed in their inability to prevent leaks and spoilers. Folks, you know which YouTubers to actively avoid.

@sanderev and unicorns and winged horses should exist

I'm not worried as I don't follow that sort of person on social media

@Exerion76
How much did you pay for the game?

@progx If you’re emulating a game to Switch you would (although there’s probably still emulators that could get you the game for free), but this PC emulation of a Switch game, so having a Switch wouldn’t really matter (I don’t think). I don’t know a lot about emulation either, but this is my understanding of it.

@dimi the Steam deck is more comfortable than the Switch for long play sessions. That is my experience so far with it, Switch cramps my hands, so usually detach joy con (still cramps, but lasts longer) or use pro controller. Steam deck is as comfortable for me as the Wii U gamepad, six hours of gaming solid with no issues.
However I don't condone in any way what has happened to new Nintendo games being pirated and emulated.
Steam Deck has been a wonderful device in it's own right, it is so much more than a beefed up Switch.
The fact it can also emulate alot of other hardware actually detracts from the true purpose, which is to actually get more Devs to consider Steam store as a key component of their gaming releases.

@ModdedInkling Actually most if not all switch games that leak early (including this one) come from physical carts sold before release being dumped online so it has nothing to do with preloads, as the digital versions are completely inaccessible until the release date as far as I’m aware. The only solution for Nintendo would be shipping the games to retailers later, but then they run the risk of customers not being able to buy the game at launch.

No don’t worry Nintendo, carry on as you are, stuff like this doesn’t matter. Who you really need to keep pursuing are people making fan games of games you don’t make anymore!

Nintendo or any other devs needs to sue these people for this crap honestly this is unfair for everyone else who have to wait till release date.

@Exerion76
Shhh. Quiet! I am still buying it and playing it at 540p on my switch. Lol
Actually, I already bought it. Nintendo should break street themselves and send it on over! Can't wait!

@ibis_87 I'm pretty much like you and I have a pretty good gaming laptop (it has a 3070 GPU). I rarely use the thing to game. I'm just more of a console person.

I thought that the Steam Deck Zealots said that Nintendo Couldnt do ANYTHING about playing your Switch games on Steam Deck since you had to "LEGITIMATELY" own the game on Switch to play it on Steam Deck...

Oh wait... turns out people just want to pirate games and not pay... What else is new...

@BabyYoda71 LTT showed users how to do it. I’m going off their instructions, along with Gardiner Bryant. They’ve both said, specifically, you need to own a Switch console and the game. Could you pirate the necessary files? I would imagine, but I don’t care since my Deck isn’t going to duplicate my Switch.

I want superior battery life and optimization, my Switch OLED will offer that with ZERO work over my Deck. My Deck is for older PC games and emulation from PS2 back to the NES and Atari. Not wasting space and resources to emulate Switch games on it, especially when my Switch and Xbox Series X are my two platforms with a combined library that dwarfs my Steam one.

@JokerCK It's not like he did anything illegal; from the sounds of it he's already bought the game, so why not play the game early if you can?

I did the same with Pokemon Arceus, bought the digital version and then downloaded the rom so I could play early.

@IronMan30 I don’t blame you. I built a Ryzen 5 3600 box, even upgraded to the 3060… it still sits turned off and collecting dust. My Mac mini and iPad Air 5 handle anything important or productivity wise in my life.

@progx yeah, call me weird or lazy (not that you are, of course lol) but I'm just more accustomed to gaming on consoles. PC is just something I associate more with working.

I had a friend who once tried to argue that anything that can be stored as data should be free since it can be copied infinitely. He's a pretty good guy, and usually pretty smart, but he was also a computer science major. I'm not really sure how he planned to make a living when anything he created was worthless. That was one of those conversations that drove home how people are perfectly willing to twist logic to the breaking point as long as it will allow them to do what they want without feeling bad about it.

@IronMan30 I completely agree. In the early 2000s, I was a bigger supporter of PC gaming (Mac gaming), but the consoles more convenient as we marched past the PS2.

Life gets busy, I want to hop in and play. The Switch and Series X do it flawlessly, my PC works well… but sometimes effort is required and it gets exhausting and doesn’t hold my attention. I know millions more feel the same way.

@Anachronism So your friendship with him ended after that discussion?

So...how do these games get leaked in the first place anyway? Are they review copies?

@sdfkj213 do news outlets promote murder if they report on it?

This sucks. I hope no fans of the game stumble on a spoiler. It's too easy now, even on Youtube.

Nice, now people have the option to play the game on a better system. I wonder if it can be emulated on steam deck then it can be done in PC? That would be huge if so

@YoshiF2 If you want to say that, tell nintendolife to upload the Xenoblade 3 rom link and emulation method altogether. There's no murder if Xenoblade 3 rom spreads.

Brutal!! All that hard work those people did for some sweaty little scruff to pirate it!!

@dimi it’s not only playable. It probably runs better than it does on the switch. Steam Deck is pretty awesome I have one myself and although it may look big, bulky, and uncomfortable- it isn’t. It’s pretty amazing.

Leechers gonna leech. Let’s be real: Even if XB3 was available on Steam day 1 they will still pirate the game because

1. They get early access
2. Free is better then paying full price

Don’t listen to the pirate “justification” for doing this. There is none. The “I want to play on powerful console!” crap some people are saying here is utter nonsense when they want to play free games on games that is not even out now.

Leechers gonna leech and looks like there are several leechers in this comment section

@Friendly Nah. Like I said, he's a good guy overall. We had that talk while he was giving me a ride home. Everyone ignores parts of reality that they consider inconvenient, whether it's things like car crash statistics, pigs being about mentally/emotionally equivalent to dogs, or where all your cheap mass-produced products are coming from. People will happily trade all the logic and morality in the world for an ounce of convenience or comfort as long as they're far enough removed from the consequences. If anything, feeling the need to constantly point that stuff out makes me the weird one.

@sdfkj213 do news outlets tell you where to get a gun or hire a hitman after they report on a murder?

No? Then your arguments are void of logic.

The XB3 rom WILL spread, whether Nintendolife reports on it or not.
Come on, it’s not your first day on the internet.

Everyone who is into pirating well knows WHEN and WHERE to find the roms and emulators.

They don’t need Nintendolife for that. There are other sites.

As a proud owner of a Steam Deck, that has loaded it up with many emulators and such, this is great news to see. I have no interest in Xenoblade Chronicles or I might check it out. I've retired my Switch. I'm playing games portably now such as God of War, Horizon Zero Dawn, Metal Gear Solid 5, Final Fantasy VII Remake, etc. Nintendo will NEVER get triple A titles like these on their platforms, but now I get the best of both worlds on one portable system. Love the Steam Deck.

@BloodNinja Have a Steam Deck myself, in the app section (Discovery) in Desktop mode Yuzu is available to download.

@OldMcGroin Is Yuzu a ROM?

@YoshiF2 Nintendo Life's article actually tells you how to do it, and even the murder article you're talking about regulates it if the crime method is indirectly stated. Just as the media removed articles about murders in New Zealand a few years ago. In this article, the reporter asked what I thought and I just said what I thought about the article. Don't block the comment with the wrong murder story.

@IronMan30 I thought this way too. But thinking about the life of the systems, I started to understand that a PC game will last longer then a console one (Microsoft is doing a outstanding job in this way, I know), so I start to play on PC snd don't regret. The only thing I did to make "less work" was put a second storage and dual boot. Now it's two completely different machines when I turn on each other. It goes too well that I'm thing about have two different machines (one for work, and one for gaming) but I'm still concerned about how to deal with it (I want I Keyboard, one mouse and one set of monitors, the same for them both). Probably I'll make my work machine remoted and use directly the gaming PC

@BloodNinja No, it's an emulator app. It was just an FYI for your original comment. Yuzu is freely available on Steam Deck and after a couple of clicks can be added to the Steam OS. From what I've read some games work right out of the box (so to speak) on it whereas others can be stuttery etc.

But people told me Emulation isn't stealing. It's to preserve games.

It's problematic that the best way to experience Nintendo's best games is to not play them on their own system.

Also, don't pirate games.
Do whatever with stuff you've already paid for.

Nintendo only have themselves to blame when people pirate their older abandoned titles. If they won't serve that obvious marked, they'll serve themselves.

@Friendly I bet they are having fun with it. A lot of fun.

what cracking team supplied and released it? that's what is happening here. this is straight up piracy!!

Pirates don't hurt anything!!! That's what the internet freebie mobs say.. big bad corporate game company should not ever get money!!!!
They should just make games for free.. using robot slaves or whatever to make games

@ketrac total baloney that you don't even believe. Pirates that grab 100 games are gonna be like 'wait bro, I can buy five of these 100 games now for $10 each so I better spend $50 on them five and not buy pizza and beer' 'yeah dude.. ahahahah good one' 'would be great to pirate pizza and beer' 'that would take balls, better to just steal what is eazy'

@OldMcGroin Thing is, my original comment was talking about Steam, and not the Steam-deck. If I go to the Steam website right now, Yuzu doesn't pop up in the search, and probably with good reason. Are you sure you're using an official steam store page? It doesn't seem to make sense that a company that is so against piracy has an emulator for a modern console on it. Unless the Steam Deck uses a different level of curation, and is considered open-source? I dunno, your comment sounds really fishy, honestly.

None of this makes sense.

@BloodNinja Fishy? All I'm saying is if you turn on your Steam Deck, go into desktop mode, go into Discovery (the app store on desktop mode) you will find Yuzu readily available to install. It's then a simple matter of right clicking on Yuzu and selecting Add To Steam and voilà, Yuzu is available in your Steam Deck. Yuzu might not be available on the Steam Store but it is readily available on the Steam Deck, it's how the guy on Twitter has Xenoblade 3 running on it. These are all facts, nothing to be suspicious about

Wow, Eurogamer just sank to a new low! I would never have thought they could leak ROMs of unreleased titles online.😉

Nice bit if free advertising for the illegal version lads.
It's really best not to shine a light on this kinda thing even if it is news.

Well if they will give knifes to children then what do you expect.

I don't care what people do, buy it or don't. I just don't want to hear any more smug comments about emulation or righteous comments about buying things, as if either of these things were hard to do or deserve commendation. Doubly so for long diatribes on either side. Because people are going to do what they want regardless.

I like modding when it's used to improve games or to preserve gaming history but when stuff like this happens it pisses me off.

Why the Steam Deck tho?

...you're gonna say that someone finished Xenoblade 3, in a full dedicated news article, ain't it. And if not, you will blur an image, I guarantee it. Probably.

How does something like this even happen? Can't Nintendo afford better security? Either way, screw whomever leaked this. I'll still be buying the legit version when it comes out proper.

@diwdiws Pirating "for the lulz" is one of the stupidest reasons I've ever heard. Nintendo's artificial scarcity crap is well documented and their resistance to re-releasing old games is legendary. I've downloaded a number of ROMs in the past for these very reasons. They're not selling the games anyway, so they're not losing anything. Pirating a brand new game that's still commercially available just makes you [insert the vulgar term for human behind that got auto-censored by the website].

I don't understand why people are too worked up for this leak. You sound as if you were nintendo investors. XD

@fenlix Because it's unethical. Believe it or not, games are made by actual people with actual feelings. Artists, composers, animators, SFX designers, writers, programmers... These people spent years of their lives working on something every single day and just as they're about to finally share it with the world, someone steals it from them.

If you still don't get it, there's clearly something wrong with you.

@diwdiws weird sense of humor.

And too cheap to just ditch out a couple of bucks towards the people who earned it.

@Ursaking It's not like people werent going to play the game when it is officially released because some dude are playing it on emulators .-.

emulators to a dis-service to the game developer not Nintendo. What you did is steal their blood/sweat that created the game. Pirating/Emulators not paying for the game should be banned from Steam/GOG or have their deck banned. Maybe then we will see real gamers gaming for the right reasons.

This is theft.

@GrailUK
Depends, the one copy of the game that got out in the wild. If the person that got it payed for it then it's all above board. If they did steal it then yes, it's theft.
As for anyone downloading the rom, that's a bit more murky. Most of those people would never buy the game anyways. Nor a switch. They are just downloading this to piss off nintendo fans right now. So no money lost there.
You'll also have a some that will enjoy the game and end up buying it legit for the online features. Media always downplays this when talking about piracy...

In the end the devs will still make lots of money on this game, same with Nintendo. Piracy is such a small number but they love to blow it out of proportions, then they do have something to blame for bad games, movies, music etc when they don't sell.

@JokerCK who are you,the police?

@diwdiws you hate corporations or something?

@Gelantious I admire your no harm no foul attitude...but it's still theft lol

Why do you release news like this?

As for Steam Deck who cares. Goddamn pirate machine. Some people here glorify pirating and want Nintendo go bankrupt. I just have this to say: go away. We don't want you here. You hate Nintendo and still keep on posting crap on this site. It's nothing more than trolling at this point.

Nintendo only have themselves to blame for emulation. Releasing such a low powered console opens u up to being emulated. Yes u need a beefy pc to emulate switch properly but had nintendo put in a little bit more power emulation woulfnt be doable for years to come. Its like the guys at nintendo domt even consider piracy when they build consoles. U cant blame people for taking the free option in todays climate.

With obligatory "emulation doesn't equal piracy" comments under the tweet, because it's much easier to picture someone grabbing a street-broken copy almost a week before the release and running home to... dump it ASAP.😅

Seriously, though, I can fully understand emulating stuff like PS3 on a Steam Deck, but Switch??? Even disregarding the latter's nonpareil flexibility, I have personally sailed too many high seas in the past 17 years to believe that emulation of a current gen platform can provide a superior or even matching experience regardless of hardware involved. No, Linkle and Shrek don't count as such.

@Djgoa so Nintendo should have aimed for a kidney-priced battery eater to thwart piracy of all reasons? That's a new one even by fandom standards.😅

This is why I don't feel bad when Nintendo targets and takes down thieves, pirates, and hackers.

Oooo I can play early then with my legit copy, and with bonus upcaled resolution to boot.

@Gelantious With all due respect, piracy is NOT a tiny issue that gets blown out of proportion by the media. If anything, it's severely underdocumented in mainstream media.

And how do I know this, you ask? Because I used to live in a country that was notorious for being a place where you could only sell two legitimate copies of a game (or ANY software). Because by the time you sold the second copy, the first one had already been cracked and distributed illegally throughout the entire country. The whole damn country used pirated software for literally everything. Millions of 1990s dollars lost to piracy every year in one very small country.

Now, picture China.

@ChakraStomps What exactly does your rant change? Nothing.
You're free to provide better solutions and contribute

Paying for your own stuff is a status symbol.

@Ursaking I mean I agree with @fenlix, the outrage on this site on every article like this just comes across as obnoxious. Nobody is arguing that it is not unethical, but people getting bent out of shape over things like this is some combination of sad and ridiculous.

@nhSnork Not all, but most games on the Switch can be emulated by most PCs that have at least an RTX 1000 series Nvidia GPU or and Vega based AMD GPU.
I bought the collector's edition of Rune Factory 5 and was hugely disappointed in how bad the game ran on Switch. Even with an adaptive resolution, which dropped the game to 540p-ish resolution, the game dropped into the low teens for framerates constantly. On my PC I was able to upscale the game to 1440p and it ran at a perfectly locked 60 fps and all this was done before they announced a native PC version of Rune Factory 5

So Switch emulation is very good right now, with many people claiming it's just the best way to play most Switch games since you get a lot of performance boosts and don't need to use the drifting joy cons.

(To anyone who might complain, I do have a first gen hacked Switch that I used to acquire all the necessary files from my legally purchased products.)

@Tejan even setting the required specs aside (I just looked up laptops with RTX 1000, and the local prices are unsurprisingly well north of "a couple Switches" zone), emulation is not measured by resolutions and framerates alone. Stable replication of the whole software experience, from lack of random glitches to adequate implementation of all modes and controls, plays a big part, and few rigs, even gaming ones, are assembled with all of that in mind. Plus the whimsical nature of even longrunning emulators (Dolphin is renowned for a reason, but still retains an odd tendency of axing savestate compatibility between different builds), and... press X to doubt. Like I said, my many years of dealing with that stuff have too much accumulated skepticism to uproot with mere hearsay. And that's coming from someone who still remains a relative emulation enthusiast, mind you.

As for "the best way to play Switch games", I can only picture it coming from people who never really had a stake in everything a genuine hybrid console means, at least as long as they still enjoy their school/college years or blissfully lenient work schedules. Not the circumstance to be reproached for, but certainly one to weigh aforesaid claims against. Not to mention that the performance of Switch games themselves constantly proves heavily entrenched in YMMV grounds - your very RF5 experience here sounds starkly different from mine (the game stutters here and there, but nowhere as often or seemingly close to single digits as people often accuse it of), and it's just the umpteenth example following dozens like Bloodstained, Burnout, Xenoblade 2, The Outer Worlds, MTaP... so if emulation fixes someone's personal woes, cheers - but it's hardly a general argument in its favour of the genuine, accessibly priced and relatively quite available original hardware.

Like I said above, Steam Deck (after a Windows installed, of course, inferior performance be damned) looks like a portable elysium for stuff like PS2 and PS3 a lot of whose libraries are still stuck on the original platforms because the related people either lack the required licenses or don't see a port/remaster profitable because a cloud version of something current gen would sell on Switch so much more.[/fanbrainedsaltysarcasm]. Switch games belong on Switch for the visible future, warts and all.

This is the kind of website where I expected no less then a 10/10 so will definitely not be putting all my hopes in this basket.

@Ursaking it's pretty simple the game has been ready for a while stores already have the game.its not that hard to believe.

such is life!!! does it matter?

@fenlix People who worked on the game have the right to unveil it themselves. Not have some douche take it and give it away. How would you feel if you spent years working on something and just as you're ready to drop it, someone takes it and steals your limelight? Still think this whole thing is okay? Then I severely question your morals, or lack of thereof.

@Fazermint Don't get me wrong, I couldn't care less whether some billion dollar corporation makes slightly less money. I just feel really bad for the actual people who made the game.

@GrailUK
At the very least the existence of the steam deck and the switch keeping up its momentum does make me hope that a Switch 2 is definitely viable.

@Mgalens Oh, I reckon Nintendo and NVidia's partnership is going to make an amazing next console.

@JokerCK You act like this is some personal shame on Nintendo and that it's causing you direct harm. People are going to pirate every game that ever exists. Who cares if they pirate it a few days early? Ultimately, what difference does it make if it's today or a week from now?

@SwitchForce The pirating isn't happening on Steam. It's on a Steam.. Deck. Which is just a PC. One of the main reasons PCs even exist is because people want a platform where they can do what they want. I'm not advocating for piracy, but I am advocating against companies policing your every action on your personal computer.

@Lyricana Pirating is pirating no excuses. If you emulate a pirated game/ROM you should pay the developers whom created the game. Then we can talk about emulating. PC exist for database works not gaming that came at later date. When you pirate a game on your computer/DEck that is Pirating. Especially when it wasn't released for the platform.

@SwitchForce I honestly have no idea what your point is. You seemingly gave me an arbitrary anti-piracy PSA when that wasn't what the discussion was about. It literally has no relevance to what was being said. I said, QUITE CLEARLY, that I wasn't advocating piracy. You said in your previous post, which is what I was replying to, "Pirating/Emulators not paying for the game should be banned from Steam/GOG or have their deck banned."

I made one point and one point alone. Piracy isn't happening on STEAM. Valve controls and runs STEAM. If someone has a PERSONAL COMPUTER with illegal ROMs on them, that isn't up to STEAM OR VALVE to monitor and police. They realistically can't. Steam is no more responsible than Microsoft or the company that owns any other program running on your personal computer. The Steam Deck isn't a console. It isn't a closed environment that is monitored by a console manufacturer. It's a personal computer that can be used for whatever you want. To do these things, many people are uninstalling SteamOS and just installing Windows. Valve has ABSOLUTELY NO CONTROL OVER THAT. They aren't legally, morally or ethically responsible for someone downloading ANYTHING on their personal computer.

No one was EVER debating what IS or ISN'T pirating.

Again, my only point is that VALVE/STEAM aren't and cannot be the pirate police for who downloads illegal ROMs on their personal computers. The only people realistically who can monitor that sort of activity are the internet service providers (and they really can't do anything anyway) and the government.

@Lyricana ISPs can and will do stuff about it but usually only when it's pirated media they own. I've seen people get their internet cut off and ISPs with certain set ups can look at what you download and absolutely track that if they want.

On the main topic most Switch games that are considered playable on PC are in a horrible state and even the emulators are very early in development. Click bait again.

@SwitchForce Even if the game is long out of print, along with the company?

@Lyricana For some to think privacy doesn't happen on Steam/GOG is living in Alice in wonderland. And if doesn't think those sites police that then they clearly are part of the issue. Have yourself a good day when one gets Banned from those site platforms.

Emulation is awesome, spoiling the plot because you played it via emulation first is not awesome.

Emulation of XC3 is pirating not real Gamers. Why don't those that do this pay the Developers whom spent blood/sweat to create these games. Then one can talk about emulation all they want. Spoilers show game items but not real gaming everyone plays differently.

Steam Deck emulation is really starting to become a nuisance to Nintendo fans on Twitter, ain't it?

@Leu10antFalcon lol I'm just PC locked, but I'll admit that everything runs better on PC because of OPTIMIZATION, which after Pokémon Scarlet and Violet it sounds like Nintendo doesn't optimize their games even for their own consoles. If you aren't going to optimize your game to run at the slightest a stable 30FPS it's unplayable, let the players take over and optimize it using mods. Skyrim took this path and it's still being played despite being a 12 year old game (and a rather buggy game, at that).

It's sad that a piece of software on a computer can run a game better than the console it was originally meant to be played on, especially when said console can STILL be easily aquired.

@SwitchForce I'm one of those that buy the game then dump the cartridge I own to use in an emulator. That is how emulators where originally meant to be used, that is honestly the best way to go if you have the hardware to do it.

@Aiodensghost You lack support.