The most anticipated work, an overused expression. ‘The Legend of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom’ is one of the few games that fits that modifier.was. There’s still more than a week left before the release, so why is the cool modifier in the past tense? The much-anticipated game had already leaked online two weeks before its release date.
The full-fledged leak controversy began in early May. A picture was uploaded saying that he had obtained the main game package through SNS. A gameplay video followed. In other words, it is a flying get that acquired an item manufactured before the release date through illegal acquisition or leakage at the distribution stage. Other blockbuster games weren’t without leaks either. The causes were misdelivery at the distribution stage, deviations from intermediate wholesalers and retailers or employees secretly stealing items from warehouses. That’s how the pre-release gameplay went online and the game content flooded the community.
The Legend of Zelda gets stuck in the mud here. The leaked game was shared in the form of a ROM file. It’s a game that hasn’t even been released, but it’s already been played illegally on many PCs. In other words, poor device security does not prevent illegal distribution of unreleased games.
In fact, the Nintendo Switch was born with vulnerabilities in security issues from its birth. The problem was Nvidia’s Tegra chip, which Nintendo used as an SoC that integrated CPU and GPU. A vulnerability discovered in the Tegra X1 in 2018 allowed execution of arbitrary command code with a few tricks. Since it is a hardware vulnerability, software follow-up measures like other consoles did not have much effect.. As the chipset was changed, illegal use itself was blocked, but the history of being breached once made it possible to create illegal chipsets that bypassed security. It is still openly sold online and installed by proxy.
Nintendo suffered from piracy long before the switch. This time, Zelda leaked quickly, and they started blocking related posts or videos. Of course, it couldn’t catch up with the speed of content leaks and rom file sharing that spread verbally.
Despite the same Flying Get controversy, unlike other consoles, the Nintendo Switch overlaps with leaks in the form of ROM files. Software security is powerless in the current switch system. New Nintendo Switch with enhanced securityneed will inevitably grow.
Beyond the improved model cycle, the switch has entered the 7th year, a typical device generation cycle. As a result, speculation and analysis of the pro model and the next generation followed, but most of them were just rumors. Each time, an analysis followed that Nintendo did not need to take out a new Switch right away.
Will it be possible to run Switch games that are still selling well with the chipset change? If you can’t run it, you can make a performance gap by emulating it like PS or Xbox. Whether it’s power efficient for a switch that combines the portable nature of post-3DS. Furthermore, there was an analysis that there was no need to release a new console in the normalized distribution situation after overcoming the lack of distribution. CEO Shuntaro Furukawa also expressed his opinion that the performance of switches with different textures is not significantly affected by other portable consoles.
In fact, even if it is broken, the switch is sold in compliance. Despite several leaked controversies, the fandom is large, so the core titles have sold over 10 million copies. However, these explanations are business explanations after all. It’s selling well to users, so can I say it’s okay?
How about the PC game market, which has suffered greatly from piracy issues? Since illegal copying cannot be prevented forever, it has evolved in the direction of being penetrated as late as possible. It is an environment in which piracy is prevented even for a month or even a week, and at least players who have paid for the game can enjoy the game first.
In today’s Nintendo, only players who paid for it enjoy the game late. Not just The Legend of Zelda. Core franchises such as Xenoblade, Super Mario, and Pokémon were not free from prior leaks. Super Robot Wars T is a non-Nintendo third-party game for multi-platform with PS4. However, before the release, the switch ROM file was leaked, and even players on other platforms suffered damage.
For how long should only those who enjoy games within the bounds of the law be harmed for the reason that ‘I’ll buy a genuine product anyway’? Solid security should be a reason to introduce a new device before running exclusive games and improving the performance of the Switch, which is disappointing. Of course, legal action and awareness raising against those who share and use illegal files without hesitation should also be taken.
