Nintendo is going after emulators now because new switch coming soon - but emulation already provided a better experience (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 months ago by CaptDust@sh.itjust.works to c/showerthoughts@sh.itjust.works

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Nintendo had 6 years, why now? Can't have free software upstaging new hardware.

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[-] RangerJosie@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

Emulation has always provided a better experience.

[-] Chozo@fedia.io 15 points 2 months ago

"Always" is a bit of a stretch, IMO. It's only been within about the last decade or so that we've had a 100% accurate SNES emulator. To the best of my knowledge, we still don't have 100% accurate emulation for any 5th-gen consoles or later.

[-] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

How so? Citra took like 3 years to boot a game, I'd say yuzu wasn't a better experience until 2019ish when audio finally stabilized? There's no PS4 emulator offering a better experience than the hardware.

But the switch is basically solved and I assume nintendo won't change the new system significantly, to keep compatibility.

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