No more lawyers
If Nintendo went belly up today, Microsoft would buy them.
That’d be kind of sad.
If Microsoft went belly up today, the retro community and linux community would have a field day.
These days Microsoft are a major contributor to the Linux kernel, though. Sure, they’re trying to hold onto the desktop but on the server they’ve pretty much switched camps.
Considering the difficulties Microsoft had buying up Activision, I don’t think they will be allowed to buy up another game company of any remotely big size.
Now that trumps in charge. Microsoft could buy the Whitehouse and no one would bat an eyelash.
Funny, but aside from that they will also need approval in Europe and some other countries.
If nintendo went bankrupt, their assets and ip would be bought by some other company, and they’d be the ones bringing the lawyers.
Yeah I don’t know about that. A company with that much IP would just sell rights to the highest bidder and stay afloat for ages. If Nintendo sells even just one of their main franchises like Mario, Zelda, Pokémon etc they’re gonna be fine for a long time and someone else is gonna sue the emulator guys all the same.
For example Sega, who went basically belly-up decades ago just sued Memento Mori devs for copyright infringement of in-game mechanics.
Can you imagine a word without lawyers?
shudder
Eh it’s not like they’ve seriously stopped anything. There’s still plenty of forks of all the emulators they took down and there’s still plenty of places to download games. Nintendo is fighting a hydra and it’s likely just costing them more money and sales by fighting these scenes.
They killed yuzu and ryujinx well before Switch 2 launch out of fear of piracy. Even the current switch DRM is insane. I feel like they put their dev team into full security because the OS is still an empty shell glorified game launcher. The DS had more features than this.
Even the yuzu forks can’t exist peacefully online, one them literally requires you to use Tor to access.
Nintendo is insane.
Last time I checked they had no plans for a Switch 2. The sales are still climbing
They plan to announce it before April and have already sent out dev kits:
https://www.polygon.com/nintendo/23899504/nintendo-switch-2-release-date-power-name-games
Copyrights should be max 5 years
I’d argue that having them be 30 or 40 years would even be fine. An author who starts in their 20’s should reasonably expect to keep profiting off of their early work until they retire in their 50’s or 60’s. But the current state of copyright is just asinine, because it is basically written by and for corporations.
They don’t have to stop selling their work after the copyright expires, it’s just they no longer own a legal monopoly on it after they’ve had time to get the first to market purchases. Publishers, streamers, etc all carry works in the public domain currently.
Everyone would freak out at the decades of IP. They’ll no longer have access to. Otherwise, nothing at all would happen.
That means, for the vast majority of 99% of people, nothing will happen.
No, your bullshit religion isn’t real.
Literally had to check to make sure I was in the Nintendo thread when I read your comment.
That being said, what the fuuuuuck are you on about?
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If nintendo cant successfully remove decades of ip from the internet while they are currently an active company, how do you expect them to do so if they have folded? This thread relates to emulation, which is alive and well, and likely not going anywhere.
How would Nintendo be able to remove “decades of IP” if they went out of business?
So, clearly you don’t understand how IP works.
Clearly you don’t understand how game preservation/ piracy works
