Quoting: ElectricPrismI get the sense Nintendo is in financial trouble again due to them lashing out.

I totally agree with all of your other points, but on this one, I think that it's something else. Reason being, the Switch is the world's third-best-selling console of all time (and is the all-time number one in France [External Link] and Japan [External Link] ) and is still selling gangbusters - their financials are rosy.

However, if current reports are to be believed, its successor isn't likely to do something new. We all know how the follow-ups to the best-selling consoles of all time pretty much never do as well. I think that it's more likely they're lashing out in advance of this, personally!

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Quoting: M@GOidThere are a lot of emulators and even commercial products for previous Nintendo consoles, and I don't see Nintendo going after those.

Nintendo went after Citra as part of this, too - the Nintendo 3DS has been out-of-production since September 2020, repair-services for it ended in March 2021 (which was earlier than originally intended - they ran out of parts early, apparently), and the digital-download eShop was closed in March 2023, which led to numerous digital-only games locked to this console being lost to time.

They also recently went after Dolphin, which covers the GameCube and Wii, which went out of production in 2009 and 2013 respectively.

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Quoting: BrokattManufacturing of Nintendo 3DS stopped over 4 years ago. After last year the Nintendo eShop is completely shut down so even customers who have original hardware cannot purchase digital games. So Nintendo makes no money from neither hardware nor software but they still went after Citra. This is a serious blow to game preservation.

You know why I think this is, and what I think's going to happen?

My guess is that they went after Yuzu now because, if current reports and suggestions from parts-manufacturers are to be believed, the Switch's successor will be revealed sometime within the next year, and will use an SoC in the same Nvidia family as the current hardware uses - had Yuzu continued, we'd probably have seen day-one emulation of it (same as happened with the Game Boy Advance).

I reckon they've gone after Citra as well, and will go after Dolphin again next, because they'll be adding GameCube, Wii, and 3DS games to their online subscription service as part of the hype-cycle for the "Switch 2". (Even though, as always, it'll be a teeny-tiny drip-feed that doesn't even come close to covering what was actually available for all of those machines.)

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Quoting: KuJoCall me Jesus ;) :D

God-Jesus, robotic be thy name. :tongue:

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Sadly inevitable, but seemingly not as dire as the fate of Gary Bowser [External Link]. And I suppose it does spare us from any dangerous precedents that could be set by a lawsuit, that could've potentially done harm to other projects that've done Linux-gaming a lot of good.

Still, if anyone's after any Nintendo-style gaming minus Nintendo that can be played on Linux, please swing by the forum and contribute to the game-list (shameless plug, I know, but I think it's worth proving that this particular brand of all-ages gaming can be done without them). :wink:

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I've got 42 games on my wishlist, but 11 of them are marked as Coming Soon (some of them have been marked as such for a couple of years, now; Did we ever hear more about Covert Critter, on that note?), but my taste in games tends to most often not line up with the various Steam events and sales (and the Discovery Queue is usually utterly hopeless at dealing with me, too).

Since there's no Platformer Fest or Maze Fest, I've already had my slim pickings in the very pro-dinosaur (at least for the genres I enjoy) Dinos vs. Robots Fest. :tongue: I'm always left hoping that what I'm interested in will end up in the more general big sales, so I'll just be over in my corner waiting for those!

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What were you playing this weekend?

I was revisiting Super Bomberman R [External Link] (Proton) properly for the first time since it got fully fixed up in Proton last year, since it was the 7th anniversary of its launch on Sunday March 3rd. It's still a bit crashy in places (usually when calling pre-boss or post-boss FMVs), but that's not a Proton issue - the PC port is just a bit unstable, unfortunately, and they fixed it for the games that came after it. SBR is still a great game seven years on, and I love it and its wholesome bright optimism even more now than I did then. :grin:

I also played through the considerably more melancholy Orebody: Binder's Tale [External Link] (Proton) and was caught a bit off-guard by it having a sad ending. Also a great experience, but since the Steam release is actually an emulator-wrapped NES game made in the style of the time [External Link], its difficulty might be offputting to some folks out there.

Freedom isn't going to bring itself to the galaxy.

Well, Bomberman's job is to bring peace to the entire universe, so there's a bit of "dinosaur who eats forcefield dogs [External Link]"-style one-upmanship for you! :tongue:

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Quoting: pleasereadthemanualLate, but I'm uh, quite a bit younger than that. Which is why I find it interesting to ask users like Purple Library Guy about history, because I wasn't there for most of it.

I honestly never would have guessed. :smile:

Quoting: EikeGlad to hear that, I got the impression that Linux desktop is nearly exclusive to us old far...

Hahahahaha! :grin: :tongue:

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Quoting: StoneColdSpiderThats going to be the screenshot for the weekend thread....... :smile:

As it should be - it's just as brilliant as Science Wesker! :grin:

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Quoting: StoneColdSpiderIve started RE3: Nemesis and im not liking it that much at all..... I can tell its been rushed and the writing is very sub par so far.......

"Nothing especially strange here.", as Jill looks at a massive pile-up surrounded by bloody corpses in an apocalyptic city. :tongue: Classic!

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