@BirdoDidNothingWrong it's a difficult one for sure. I don't have an obvious fix either, but I think we as consumers at the very minimum need to demand these companies do better at providing long term access and usability for the product they purchased and reducing needless waste as well.
As I said, we've been somewhat fortunate with still having mostly physical copies of games still being a thing, but it's only a matter of time before that changes and kinda already is.
@BirdoDidNothingWrong it's more about longevity and preventing landfill. The only reason my 3DS is still the great device it is, is because of custom firmware and being able to do with it what I please. Sure the 3DS itself still has advantage of physical media, but when consoles eventually go fully online/digital only, one day those devices will be almost useless after their shelf life unless they can be modded and controlled.
Honestly people should be supportive of this if only to be in support of recycling and preventing needless e-waste, therefore the health of the planet.
The only thing more gross than Nintendo's legal aggression are some of people defending the billion dollar company like they are so hard done by. If emulation and modding isn't your thing, well go on with life, you're not affected anyway, but modding and being able to have actual control of the hardware you buy is important so the rest of us will always advocate that. Otherwise these corpos do what they want and the consumer suffers.
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Re: Nintendo Updates Its User Agreement To Crack Down On Emulation
@BirdoDidNothingWrong it's a difficult one for sure. I don't have an obvious fix either, but I think we as consumers at the very minimum need to demand these companies do better at providing long term access and usability for the product they purchased and reducing needless waste as well.
As I said, we've been somewhat fortunate with still having mostly physical copies of games still being a thing, but it's only a matter of time before that changes and kinda already is.
Re: Nintendo Updates Its User Agreement To Crack Down On Emulation
@BirdoDidNothingWrong it's more about longevity and preventing landfill. The only reason my 3DS is still the great device it is, is because of custom firmware and being able to do with it what I please. Sure the 3DS itself still has advantage of physical media, but when consoles eventually go fully online/digital only, one day those devices will be almost useless after their shelf life unless they can be modded and controlled.
Honestly people should be supportive of this if only to be in support of recycling and preventing needless e-waste, therefore the health of the planet.
Re: Nintendo Updates Its User Agreement To Crack Down On Emulation
The only thing more gross than Nintendo's legal aggression are some of people defending the billion dollar company like they are so hard done by.
If emulation and modding isn't your thing, well go on with life, you're not affected anyway, but modding and being able to have actual control of the hardware you buy is important so the rest of us will always advocate that. Otherwise these corpos do what they want and the consumer suffers.