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Nor I them. If they want to curb piracy, they can offer a better product than you'd get if you stole it. At this point, that means making their games available on PC. Likewise, when their back catalog is only legally available to rent and not purchase, I don't know how they expect anything other than piracy to result from that.
This is a great example of entitlement to other people’s work. Do you know those evil companies that you crave entertainment from also employ people who create this entertainment? You show complete and utter disrespect to the work that those people do.
It's interesting that you assume I pirate Switch games just because I can see why people pirate. I probably booted up Yuzu at some point to just see it running, but I only actually played Switch games on an actual Switch. My preferred method of playing Switch games these days is to not play them at all.
The ROMs I've got for their old platforms are games I've mostly bought before, and the rest are those that can't be purchased digitally at all. I just organize them and play them my way, which is better than Nintendo has ever made them available. If they have people they need to pay, then maybe they ought to sell me those old ROMs rather than sue the people who make them available.
I don’t understand why are you participating in this discussion on what are you talking about specifically then. Nobody ought to sell you anything if they don’t want to.
You brought up your interpretation of why people pirate Nintendo games. I think it's pretty clear that if stealing is better, people have an incentive to steal it. It's also a harder sell to say that those poor creators need to get paid when the way they made it available is not how their customers want it. All of this is relevant to the discussion of the diminishing role consoles play these days compared to the old days.