No more lawyers
If nintendo went bankrupt, their assets and ip would be bought by some other company, and they’d be the ones bringing the lawyers.
Said it before, I’ll say it again: I wish Nintendo would go the way of Sega. Make video games, get outta the hardware game. They make good games, and while briefly I was enamored by the switch, their track record with consoles is hit and miss. I’m tired of buying new systems for Zelda, it’s basically all I play on Nintendo (though, I’m not a big gamer, so probably not most representative example). Give us Nintendo games on PC, Xbox, PlayStation.
Disagree with the consoles bit, with a caveat; their handheld consoles are always the best in the space (gameboy, DS, switch). I’d be up for them focusing on this and releasing their bigger games (i.e. Zelda) on better hardware.
Eh it’s not like they’ve seriously stopped anything. There’s still plenty of forks of all the emulators they took down and there’s still plenty of places to download games. Nintendo is fighting a hydra and it’s likely just costing them more money and sales by fighting these scenes.
Yeah I don’t know about that. A company with that much IP would just sell rights to the highest bidder and stay afloat for ages. If Nintendo sells even just one of their main franchises like Mario, Zelda, Pokémon etc they’re gonna be fine for a long time and someone else is gonna sue the emulator guys all the same.
For example Sega, who went basically belly-up decades ago just sued Memento Mori devs for copyright infringement of in-game mechanics.
If Nintendo went belly up today, Microsoft would buy them.
That’d be kind of sad.
Considering the difficulties Microsoft had buying up Activision, I don’t think they will be allowed to buy up another game company of any remotely big size.
Now that trumps in charge. Microsoft could buy the Whitehouse and no one would bat an eyelash.
If Microsoft went belly up today, the retro community and linux community would have a field day.
These days Microsoft are a major contributor to the Linux kernel, though. Sure, they’re trying to hold onto the desktop but on the server they’ve pretty much switched camps.
Oracle or someone worse would buy them. That’s how capitalism works.
If Oracle went belly up the world would unite in peace and harmony.
99% of the world has no idea who that is.
What are you talking about? Java runs on millions of devices!
Pff, millions? How about 3 billions!
Really goes a long way to show how impactful their ceaseistance will be, eh?
Everyone would freak out at the decades of IP. They’ll no longer have access to. Otherwise, nothing at all would happen.
That means, for the vast majority of 99% of people, nothing will happen.
No, your bullshit religion isn’t real.
If nintendo cant successfully remove decades of ip from the internet while they are currently an active company, how do you expect them to do so if they have folded? This thread relates to emulation, which is alive and well, and likely not going anywhere.
Literally had to check to make sure I was in the Nintendo thread when I read your comment.
That being said, what the fuuuuuck are you on about?
Congratulations on discovering where you are
How would Nintendo be able to remove “decades of IP” if they went out of business?
So, clearly you don’t understand how IP works.
Clearly you don’t understand how game preservation/ piracy works
