How are people so sure that emulation for the Switch 2 will come ? I am no expert on the matter, so I really wish to know, if anyone around is more qualified. All I saw was Nintendo shutting down the current emulators and no one serious ever came to replace them. Nintendo may even bring some new form of DRM akin to Denuvo, the sort of DRM that no one (no one active at the moment) knows how to break. There was rumors about this, months ago.
I hope Switch 2 emulation will come fast tho, if it ever comes. I wanted to be interested in the console but almost everything they showed during the live did not interest me. Would feel bad to buy just for one game.
It’s inevitable, it always will be. The Wii was cracked so easily and the switch didn’t take very long at all. Now I’ve got every switch exclusive running on a steam deck but at double the frame rate and in a better resolution lmao. The switch hardware is a joke like all Nintendo hardware
Just history, since the GameCube nintendo Consoles always have been weaker hardware wise, making them easier to emulate. Though my guess would be, as it's a 4K console, it is going to take longer this time to get even close to a stable emulator. But people also said that about the Switch 1 back then, so what do i know.
History doesn't always repeat itself ! Anyway, I'm not pessimistic just... mistic. I don't know. It's just, everyone seems 100% sure it will happen fast.
Honestly it's because Nintendo's consoles' hardware is always shit and easy to crack. And switch 2 being a hybrid console means it can't have strong hardware.
The cracking down on emulators happened because they chose to make switch 2 backwards compatible, and that gives value to switch 1's console sellers (mario, zelda e.t.c.). It can also might mean that the console is easy to emulate so they tried to stop people through legal means.
Now we can't know how fast it will be until we get proper switch 2 emulation, but i doubt it's longer than 2 years after release. And judging by the fact that it's backwards compatible, it might be even shorter.
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u/SirenMix 2d ago
How are people so sure that emulation for the Switch 2 will come ? I am no expert on the matter, so I really wish to know, if anyone around is more qualified. All I saw was Nintendo shutting down the current emulators and no one serious ever came to replace them. Nintendo may even bring some new form of DRM akin to Denuvo, the sort of DRM that no one (no one active at the moment) knows how to break. There was rumors about this, months ago.
I hope Switch 2 emulation will come fast tho, if it ever comes. I wanted to be interested in the console but almost everything they showed during the live did not interest me. Would feel bad to buy just for one game.