“In effect, Yuzu turns general computing devices into tools for massive intellectual property infringement of Nintendo and others’ copyrighted works.”

So, what’s the point of the Switch then? If all these devices can play any Switch game, yet Nintendo refuses to allow people to buy and run them on these devices, then it sounds to me like they’ve done this to themselves. I empathise for all the work developers have put into their games, but I have no sympathy for the executives who decide to make their games exclusive to an overpriced irrelevant piece of technology.

Unfortunately, like it or not, capitalism requires competition to work. I say this as a communist that would happily upend the system if given an option.

But as it is exclusive are the only thing keeping console makers at bay. The last thing we want is one unified box for them to shove their crap out on. There would be zero incentive in making better games than the competitor.

What are you talking about? The pc is basically one big box that thousands of game makers only release their games on, but there’s plenty of competition in the indie game scene and the steam marketplace. If anything, it’s taken power away from large publishers because a lot of people would rather pay $30 for a passion filled well thought out game than $80 for the latest unoptimized garbage heap. Game makers would still have to compete if there were no console exclusives. In fact they’d have to compete more, because instead of only being able to afford one console and being stuck with whatever games are on it, people would have the option of whatever games they wanted.

I think at the moment it’s pretty much agreed upon that the best games that are coming out right now are coming from First Party Studios, Sans Microsoft who’s having their own fumbling right now.

They are outputting the best games and traditionally always have because there is more at stake in getting those games made.