Dolphin Emulator Gets WRECKED By Nintendo & Valve!

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1. Valve is covering their ass from future lawsuits

2. welll, nintendo is scared because the steam deck will run nintendo games 😀 probably better 😀 so in my opinion they will lose allot of clients

3. My beef with Dolphin on the Steam Store is how easily the devs could decide to monetize it. I'm not saying they would, but I TOTALLY get Valve's and Nintendo's fears even if the two companies weren't currently pals. This is another reason I haven't yet jumped on the Steam Deck train. Valve need to make non-Steam programs easier to get working on the Deck. Hell, I think Sony was in the right to sue over bleem! as it was a paid commercial product, and I HATE Sony. While Nintendo does have excessive paranoia over piracy, people largely end up pushing Nintendo's buttons too hard and exaggerate about them while stanning their competitors out of immaturity and/or for attention. I call out crap wherever it is.

4. OR nintendo could have said "it's cool". What do you mean dont give Nintendo hell? Just a thought

5. Im so happy I lost interest in games a few years back after playing Overwatch

6. This is one of the best informative and most professional takes on the situation that I have ever seen on a news based channel. You had multiple sources and you were able to quote those sources. Great job NP cant wait for the next video.

7. Thaaaanks for the GREAT work dude! Good to know i have another youtuber news nintendo related i can trust ❤

   Have a great week

8. Totally natural from Valve to contact Nintendo about this to maintain good relationships between both companies for potential future businesses.
   And it’s not completely true to say that dolphin emulator isn’t compatible with the steam deck. Yes it isn’t as simple as downloading it from the steam shop. But it’s totally doable 😊

9. i had a mild panic and downloaded the latest beta of dolphin thinking it was going to be like the lockpicker.rcm

10. Dolphin is pretty solid emulator to play stuff like FE path of radiance. Never expected it to go on steam though.

11. FINALLY, an actual good video on the situation.

    Thank you, Nintendo Prime!

12. Finally a video about this with actual proof

13. Nintendo didn't take down the GitHub page so they might just be bluffing

14. This is like a company asking Kmart to sell their product of lockpicks, and Kmart turning around and telling the police.
    The legality of lockpicks is not inherently illegal, but let's not pretend that anything more than 1% of people with lockpicks are using it for good.

15. Everg videi he starts talking about his age and his kids. Why? Why not leave it out? I know you love em but… Is it necessary?

16. What were the dolphin devs thinking when they wanted to release it in steam??? the hell

17. Nintendo trash

18. Go to court and they will loose, Nintendo needs to chill.

19. I can’t believe they are doing this after dropping all support for the systems the US legal system should require continued support and show that the information a company wants to protect should be an active product, if the company abandons all support then that should null and void all legal protection and it should be open market for 3rd parties

20. This would be incredibly interesting to see in court ! What would be very interesting is if Dolphin and/or Valve alone approached Nintendo to get an official stance & go from there, kinda like Lewis Galoob Toys, Inc. v. Nintendo of America, Inc. in 1990, where Lewis Galoob Toys sued Nintendo to get a declaratory judgement so Nintendo couldn't decide to sue them for the Game Genie, kinda like an Action Replay, down the road (Lewis Galoob Toys won).

21. Thanks for the video!

22. Though this information is interesting if you know anything about the inner working of valve you will know they definitely didnt just randomly reach out to nintendo. Valve is a cla corporation they actually support many rom/ems so js this info is somewhat false

23. Another excellent article. Thanks for setting the record straight.

24. Okay but

25. I don't understand why the rush to steal other people's work with all this emulator stuff…

    Y'all lucky Nintendo isn't from Sinaloa, things would be done a lot differently 😂

26. im surprise that valve contacted first instead of nintendo in all of this.

27. Bagels are powerful

28. I mean…. No shit lol

29. 13:00 What if i choose both?

30. Love how you are so informed….loooots of false news out

31. Dude 37 isn't old. I'm 64 and I'm not old. I'm just starting to get old. Enjoy your life and live the best life you can!!!

32. Another banger from Nintendo Prime. have a happy M day ty for your service. Keep up good work mister prime

33. nintendo is a p.o.s company. unfortunately, they make my favorite franchise, legend of zelda.

34. This sucks. Emulation is in big trouble if nintendo finds a way to get rid of dolphin. It's fine to have emulation. I even saved my old GC games so i can play them. Hell, I refuse to update my nintnedo 3ds firmware cause they are trying to have the homebrew get patched away.

35. Got a question, so u never did the 100k subs totk oled and pin set giveaway? Or is this another giveaway?

36. Let the people emulate ! How are we supposed to play games stranded on old ass consoles?

37. Nintendo hates fun.

38. BASED

39. I think it's probably best it stays off of Steam. I'm all for emulation & game preservation, but by releasing the emulator onto a place such as Steam, not only could the developers get shut down by Nintendo, but also Valve themselves.

40. I, despise nintendo so much. Its so hard to avoid them becuase they make some of the best games, but the company itself is pure evil

41. You know Law provided a hole to this emulation. It was the emulators fault on why they got fucked up.

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    BTW – TLDW:

    Nintendo did not file anything with the DMCA. Valve reached out to Nintendo about Dolphin, Nintendo said we don't like it and think it might violate DMCA… can you please remove it, and then Valve said sure thing buddy. Which means Dolphin can't countersue or anything as it's removal wasn't done due to a legal thing, but rather just valve using their TOS that lets them remove anything they want.

    Valve did Nintendo a HUGE favor here, despite holding zero liability over it.