Even some of us internet nerds are Nintendo fans who wouldn't go anywhere near emulating. Apart from any of the moral concerns, it's just such a worse experience: I want to use a touch screen, a portable device, a proper gamepad, etc. Nintendo has built up quite a considerable amount of goodwill since the 1980s, and the reward for that is a pretty loyal customer base.

I remember as a child many of my friends getting a PS1 specifically because you could chip it and burn games. Young people love piracy because they have no money to pay

So true. It's dangerous to form world views based on "What HN thinks". This is the best community on the Internet IMHO but we're a very tiny slice of the population. "Real people" tend to not behave like us.

Same thing with GTA 6.

A tiny fraction of people might decide to go through hoops to pirate, but most will either play the normal way or do something else.

I had a thread disagreeing with me when i brought that up.

Has everyone forgotten the PSP already? When I was at school a lot of kids in my class(including myself) had one, and I don't recall anyone getting any actual games for it, I do remember the clerk at the store explaining to my parents that oh this console is very easy to hack and you can just download games online for it, which is exactly what everyone I knew did.

Which seems to be what everyone did everywhere, as the console sold very very well and the software for it sold poorly.

Yeah I think the Switch is popular with parents because it’s locked down and mostly just works.

Like if you want to do zero technical things and provide access to Minecraft without providing access to TikTok.

all it takes is 1 TikTok trend