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It’s the biggest market but also 1/3rd of global revenue only.

Revenue by region in $M 2024:

• US - 4,052
• Europe - 2,687
• Japan - 2,401
• Americas (ex. US) - 857
• Other - 1,073

Piracy of what?

In a perfect world that makes everyone happy there’s 5 Apples, 5 Microsofts, 10 open source projects funded by governments and 20 independent open source alternatives, all working same interoperable standards. I wish for a perfect world.

Declining real wages are an issue in the US predominantly, most is just stagnant but it also depends on how dependent you are on energy and how well did your country do to help out citizens with rising energy costs. There are also countries where real wages continued to grow consistently even through the pandemic.

Happy birthday Microsoft, I won’t wish you dead because we need diversity in tech. Just don’t buy any more stuff. 🎊🥳🍾🪩

Thank you, got it. Just different thinking behind how to post those things that got me caught off guard. I was asking to avoid wasting time on something I would have to fact check.

My thinking when posting is that if I post something here I either want to know other people’s opinion on it or to be called out on it being wrong. I usually post sources I trust to be factually correct majority of time, regardless of bias. I don’t flag them for bias since it’s something that’s hard to avoid entirely. Most biased stuff I post is from financial mags that have this neoliberal vampire vibe but you have to love them for how good they are at their jobs due to all the competitiveness in the area.

If you know that the source is tainted beyond being useful then why post it? Not intended to be a rude or combative question, just curious.

Ryujinx got caught in a crossfire. I’m pretty sure Nintendo wouldn’t dare to harass them, similar to Dolphin, if it wasn’t for all the publicity Yuzu was bringing to Switch piracy. Nintendo shouldn’t have done that but here we are and it’s Yuzu that started this by breaking unwritten rules and playing dumb.

Yuzu was a commercial enterprise. The moment you start taking money for this kind of work it’s no longer a hobby project and should bear all of the legal consequences. Yuzu guys were smart, they played a scrappy underdog but if your whole business idea hinges on breaking multiple laws for the purpose of making money (and they made much more than covering current expenses) you’re asking for trouble. They also enjoy a bit of a revenge from the grave with all the people angry over their toys being taken away doing black PR for Nintendo. Everyone is free to do as they please but what I’m seeing is just a hissy fit so there isn’t that much nuance to this.

I accused you of autistic-like behaviour, there’s nothing fascinating about it because it’s so common amongst immature gamers.

How can Nintendo pirate a thing they own?

Tell me you don’t play Nintendo games without playing Nintendo games.

The world doesn’t really revolve around America though so I don’t know why they would treat it special. They’re a business, they exist to make money, not redistribute wealth.

Nintendo couldn’t pirate their own stuff because they own it. They downloaded ROMs because they can’t be arsed to dump them themselves, similar to 99% of population. Kind of hypocritical with all the DRM related laws that they support but at least they recognise they’re unenforceable.

Eh, why fault technology when those people are just children that don’t know anything about running things but they’re deeply convinced they do. Trump is a narcissist with ADHD, doing this kind of scatterbrained but opinionated stuff is very on brand. I sympathise with the condition because I’m similar.

If anything more people should be pointing and ridiculing the formula that was used to derive tariff rates. They padded it with redundant calculation of 4x0.25 hidden away by Greek letters to make it look like something even worth writing down.

I think there are people in the US who wanted tariffs because it could bring some jobs and they are not that concerned with economic consequences because their lives are so bad already.

But the results come from a poll 😅

I’m fairly certain you missed the point.

Development of a cutting edge emulator takes effort because you can’t brute force your way. It has to be efficient and also incredibly complex (all modern emulators are HAL or API reimplementations by necessity). Those emulators you reference didn’t require commercial amount of funding because they were created by the time emulated hardware was obsolete. It was a nice balance where Nintendo didn’t sue anyone. That is until Yuzu/Citra folks decided to enrich themselves in the process, bring Sauron Nintendo gaze and ruin things for everyone.

I meant that in legal sense they pirate stuff. Copyright laws being goofy is another thing entirely but Nintendo works in a legal framework where not defending your trademarks means you can lose them.

Yuzu devs are gone from the scene but the source code is out there. Turns out developing an emulator requires a team of full time employees that you need to fund through Patreon and that’s kinda far beyond a hobby project, no? You’re so anti Nintendo that you started cheering for another company that was outright infringing on their IP by using Nintendo trademarks in their own marketing materials.

Apps make or break those platforms. Lemmy apps are way better than what Mastodon has for example (but I have to tip my hat to Phanpy). We got really lucky that Lemmy exploded in popularity due to Reddit API changes which meant many app developers gave Lemmy a shot. I probably wouldn’t use Lemmy so much if Voyager didn’t fill the hole Apollo left in my heart.