According to Nintendo, The Legend of Zelda: Kingdom Tears was illegally downloaded 1 million times in about a week before its actual release, and the publisher claims that the Yuzu Switch emulator played a big role in this as part of the new game . litigation.
Yes, Nintendo is once again sending out its lawyers to try and deal with something that – to be fair, as all major companies do – Tropic Haze, the creator of the Yuzu emulator, has become the target of its legal wrath. In addition to what you’d expect to find in a lawsuit of this nature, there are some interesting allegations made against Grapefruit by Lionel Hutzes, which are related to the plumber and Pink The people behind the blobs are related.
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The lawsuit was filed in the US state of Rhode Island, and an excerpt was shared: Stephen Totilo of Game FilesNintendo said the people behind the emulator, including Yuzu project leader Bunnei, were “fully aware that others were using Yuzu to circumvent and facilitate large-scale piracy.” It believes Yuzu has caused it “enormous and irreparable harm for which there is no adequate remedy at law” and is likely to continue to do so unless the lawsuit succeeds in achieving its objectives.
Of course, there are many reasons cited as the rationale behind the accusations I just outlined above, but the general crux of the whole thing seems to be outlined in the section below on Nintendo’s argument. “With Yuzu, there’s nothing stopping users from obtaining and playing illegal copies of almost any game made for Nintendo Switch,” it said, “all without paying a dime to Nintendo or hundreds of other game developers and publishers. money to make and sell games for the Nintendo Switch.”
Yes, that’s it.
Interestingly, among these other accusations, Nintendo cited Kingdom Tears as a specific example of Yuzu, in the publisher’s view, aiding piracy by making “copies” available for people to play. [of the game that were] In the week and a half before its official release, it was successfully downloaded from pirate sites more than a million times. In case you’re wondering, the “a million times” part is in bold and italics.
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In the lawsuit, Nintendo also accuses Yuzu of contributing to the popularity of TOTK spoilers that circulated on social media before the game was released. It does follow some screenshots of actual tweets from Legend of Zelda fans upset at the idea of seeing spoilers for the game, including one that saw the person not properly capitalizing the letter “I” six times in the post .
Look, I know this is a small thing, but Caps Lock is on any keyboard you use, man.
We’ll have to see what happens with this lawsuit, so be sure to continue to monitor our site to stay informed of any major updates as they emerge.
