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Comment by nekusar | Hacker News Reader

Ive only bought 1 thing recently from Nintendo within the last year: a Switch Pro controller.

Why the controller? Cause Switch emulators. They work wonderfully. I dont have to pay a cent for games. I can download the games and their updates. And there's quite a few Switch emulators.

Im not going to pay a company to automate my own abuse.

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I'm confused. So you just completely pirate all your games?

No. Ive bought games, including recently.

I agree with Gabe Newell, that piracy shows a severe service delivery option. And in the case of Nintendo, they have no problem destroying your hardware on a perceived "hack action on your owned hardware". Of course, hacking laws dont apply to companies. And Switch does braindead things like "not permitting to back up save data or back up digitally purchased games"...

So yeah, in cases of Nintendo, I acquire appropriately. They have proved themselves to be an absolute horrible actor here. Fuck'em.

This shouldn't be confusing. Pirating software Is the defacto practice for most of the world, excluding anglo countries and I guess Japan. In places like Russia, China and the global south, many/most non-free games are out of reach for the vast majority. Also most people here don't buy into the moral outrage of piracy, which is effectively propaganda IMO.

> Also most people here don't buy into the moral outrage of piracy, which is effectively propaganda IMO.

Nor do the USA AI companies. They're bulk pirating everything thats not bolted down, and they brought bolt cutters and plasma torches to remove the secured down things.

Worse yet, we have criminal statutes for for-profit piracy. Tell me how many criminal indictments there are for the AI companies versus emulation/jailbreaking hardware.

Oh thats right, the laws only apply to the small people. https://www.ign.com/articles/nintendo-secures-legal-victory-...

What advantage does the Switch Pro controller have over, say, a PS4 controller?

Specifically, emulators work best with the real controller. And feature sets across controllers are not 1:1. Like, a Switch Pro has an accelerometer and is used in Zelda games.

I have a switch pro for switch games.

I have a dualshock ps4 controller for PS/PS2/PS3/PS4/PS5

I have a steam controller as well for non-emulated games with Steam.

PS4 controller also has these features and works out of the box with emulators.

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