> Let's say you bought a cartridge, dumped it and grabbed an emulator. You bought the game but "stole" the console sale.

Let's stop assuming stuff.

I own a switch 1, I own Zelda Breath Of The Wild, yet I have been playing it on Yuzu on my computer. First when the switch stopped working and needed a new battery, then I realized I could run it at better resolution on my computer, in any room with larger screen on my laptop thanks to moonlight and I don't have to actually look for it and find it abandonned and discharged by my daughters or that the joycons started drifting again and in need of a repair.

Did Nintendo lose a sale? No.