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    Its not that much of a loss given you can still launch Dolphin from steam anyway. It just won’t be on the storefront.

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    TLDR

    Because Valve asked Nintendo if it was allowed, and Nintendo said it shouldn’t (pretty please), so Valve asked Dolphin to ask Nintendo if they could. Dolphin’s team finds of obviously impossible to accomplish.

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      I think it’s smart on Valve’s part. With how litigation-happy Nintendo is, I don’t think Valve really wants to go to bat for a program that isn’t even their own, and isn’t even needed on Steam anyway.

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        Valve is lawsuit averse. They sacked NFT games and AI generated games for similar reasons.

        By the same extent, Valve is so based.

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        Plus it helps leave the door open for a potential partnership if Nintendo ever decides to bring some of their games to PC. I think it will happen at some point because there is both a growing frustration with having to re-buy your library with every new Nintendo system and a lot of profit to be made on PC if you approach it like Sony has.

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          That growing frustration ain’t doing shit to stop people from rebuying. Even if we get to the point where there’s 10 pissed off fans for every 1 buyer, it’s pretty much free money for Nintendo.

          I hope I’m wrong but I think we’re several generations away from that. I think what’s more likely is game licensing getting tied to your Nintendo Home account (or whatever it’s called, I don’t have a Switch) and being accessible on new consoles…for a fee, of course.

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            Yeah I think PC only happens when potential PC sales eclipse those rebuys and not one second before. Might be several generations away tbh.

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    With Nintendo, it’s always a double-edged sword. On one hand, they create really good games, but on the other hand, they are a shitbag company.

    I don’t mind that Dolphin is not staying on steam for whatever reason - they do have an auto updater and I can use any other cloud service to synchronize my saves - but seriously, just let them be, Nintendo…

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      Yeah, let them be, or release your games on PC. They would make so much money it’s ridiculous. I would quite possibly rebuy all of my favorite Nintendo games if they released on PC

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    it’s a bit of a tangent on this story, but it’s been super disappointing that the wii/gc emulation layers they built for the mario collection hasn’t really materialized in anything else. I feel crazy for thinking we would start getting ports of gc/wii games that feel lost to time

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      You’d think Nintendo want’s people to play their games, but you’d be wrong. Nintendo wants people to buy their games. Whether they play it or not is irrelevant. While some producers and creatives might still have fun and the user first mindset, current Nintendo is only interested on profit. New releases will always make way more money than supporting old releases via emulation. They don’t care that people can’t legally purchase or play their old games. They think of them as marketing to leverage nostalgia for new releases. They place no value in their library of past games.

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        I’ve never thought about it like that, but this is so true. I’ve thought about how easy it would be for Nintendo to port for example gen 1 Pokemon to phones and charge $5 or $10 and make a boatload of cash. Easy money. But as you imply, that would devalue new releasesand reduce sales if people would rather spend time playing old games.

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        You’d think Nintendo want’s people to play their games, but you’d be wrong. Nintendo wants people to buy their games.

        Ford doesn’t want you to drive their cars, they want you to buy their cars.
        Apple doesn’t want you to use their computers/phones, they want you to buy their computers/phones.
        My town doesn’t want me to use water, it wants me to pay for that water.

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          I don’t think the Ford and Apple examples apply, as these companies make primarily physical products. Both of these companies really do want you to use their products for two reasons:

          • Most of their marketing is literally just people seeing their products being used.

          • Cars wear out with usage, as do computers, so the more you use their products, the sooner you’ll buy a new one.

          Digital media is unique in that it’s not highly visible and using it more doesn’t make it degrade.

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            Digital media is unique in that it’s not highly visible and using it more doesn’t make it degrade.

            I’m not sure what they has to do with whether the business involved in funding and creating the media wants to be paid for that work. But I’ll provide more examples if that helps.

            Disney doesn’t want you to watch their movies, they want you to pay to watch their movies.
            Netflix doesn’t want you to watch their shows, they want you to pay for a subscription.
            Sony doesn’t want you to play their games, they want you to buy their games.
            Apple doesn’t want you to listen to music, they want you to pay to listen to music.

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              I agree with your examples, all of which have been heavily criticized for anti-consumer behavior, particularly Disney and Netflix, so I’m really not sure what point you’re trying to make. Just because Netflix does it, doesn’t make it okay for Nintendo to do it. Digital media companies have strong incentive to practice anti-consumer behavior, so public outcry is important to counterbalance that.

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        Old Nintendo was only interested in profit as well, they just didn’t have the reputation to act quite as greedy.

        Current Nintendo is the capitalist wet dream

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          Just Nintendo though.

          Sony, Microsoft, Sega, Activision-Blizzard, Rockstar, etc all just care about producing quality games for people to enjoy and don’t really care about being paid for them.

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      They’re not lost, although they would be if Nintendo ever got their way. They have conclusively proven they’re not up to the challenge of preserving stuff, and luckily people have done so anyway - despite Nintendo’s attempts at fucking with it. The bummer is that you have no legal recourse.

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        So there’s two thoughts on this, yes the games are preserved thankfully. But also, they are culturally lost. If people don’t have easy access to creative works, those creative works become lost to all but the few who 1, even know they exist and 2, have the ability to aquire them

        So yeah you and me, we can go grab images and emulators. I have a hacked wii and a retrotink. But that doesn’t mean the games aren’t lost to the vast vast majority

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      FWIW I believe Mario Galaxy was recompiled for Switch with only some parts being handled via emulation, so it likely isn’t just a broad drop-in solution for any game. Though I do wonder if they did something similar for Pikmin and Metroid Prime

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    Dolphin is also available as a core on RetroArch, which is on Steam (though I greatly prefer the non-Steam version)

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      The core is quite buggy and outdated IME. It’s also not included in the Steam release you have to manually install it.

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        I hear RetroArch doesn’t have the best and latest emulation cores in general, though I don’t keep up closely enough to know why.

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          Retroarch often forks projects to modify them to be loadable cores. Upstream Dolphin isn’t interested in maintaining this. So it has to be manually updated every time.

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    As much as I hate Nintendo, I fucking hate them for their stance on emulation. You would think they would have the sense to preserve their heritage outside of their own platforms since they do such an absolute dog shit of a job of providing access to the library and catalogue of games. Either make your games available (as widely as they are via emulation) or move the fuck outta the way.

    Edit: I meant to say “as much as I love them”, but going to leave my double hate up there because of how idiotic their decision is to crack down on emulation.

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      Nintendo loves emulation, they’ve been emulating their games for at least 15 years when they started doing it on the wii, it lets them sell you the same game over and over again on new platforms. They just don’t like it when anyone else does it because they don’t make any money off it.

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    Adding it to Steam would do shit anyways. It would just add another layer between the user and the program.

    The only positive would have been that saves could have been synced but there’s other (cloud) platforms that let you do that as well.

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        Dolphin is open source, add a better updater.

        I was only saying my opinion and in my opinion people are making way too much of a fuss about this, as if the world ended. This outcome should seriously have been expected in my opinion.

        Anywas we’re not missing out on anything, if it doesn’t go on Steam, except of course slightly more comfort and functions that can be fulfilled by other programs as well.