Nintendo has videos about Switch emulation removed on Steam Deck – Gaming – News

That is selective quoting. The full second sentence again:

The use of an unauthorized system or software, which allows a technical adjustment of the Switch hardware or the software, may lead to this software being unusable.

This is not about using the game on other hardware, but about using, or rather misusing this software to make technical adjustments to your Switch itself or the games. So basically abusing exploits. If you do this, you expose yourself to consequences such as a ban.

That is very different from making a backup of your game (although that is of course subject to other legislation), where you do not adjust the game itself and with which you also do not adjust the Switch itself (although it may again exposed to other legislation, see case Gary Bowser).

So no, their terms don’t say you can’t use the software on other devices. Only that if you use their games in an improper way they reserve the right to limit the use of the game, or any additional services. Fair enough, but that makes playing the game through an emulator neither illegal nor contradicting their terms.

Edit: By the way, I completely understand your approach in that regard, coming back to your first comment It is quite double how natural on the one hand the principle of emulation itself is completely legal and showing emulated software as well. But that the means of getting here are indeed in a deep gray area (in many countries anyway), let alone the intentions of the public. But the way Nintendo tries to bury things is also a pretty gray area in my opinion. In fact, a copyright claim is being made to take something offline that may, or may not, have an illegal basis. They can’t prove the latter, so just stop with such force majeure.

[Reactie gewijzigd door Cid Highwind op 4 maart 2022 13:47]

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