Citra will get forked and picked up by non-Yuzu devs.
Yuzu team were clowns for stealing code from Ryujinx, incorporating in the USA, trying to launch a paid alternative to Nintendo Online for Yuzu, and hosting a Google Drive full of Switch ROMs for "testing" in their Discord. They were playing with napalm.
If the user providing keys is a DMCA issue for Nintendo emulators, then ROMs will be uploaded as decrypted going forward.
The Google drive is the most insane part to me. Just so reckless, for so little potential upside. Why would you even allow talk like that, let alone participate.
Edit: apparently they actually were linking right to a gdrive with the switch's OS and games (I thought this was just talking about it, not providing it). Fucking idiots.
i think it's because the next console is coming out next year and they want to discourage anyone from trying to crack it
they didn't win a court case, nintendo just threatened to sue and settled on the condition that yuzu (and citra through yuzu) be shut down and pay like 2 million dollars. if nintendo thought they could win they wouldn't have settled, they would have pushed through and won and permanently rendered emulators illegal. but they couldn't do that, so they'll just try and scare everyone off from doing anythign
Also the speculation is that the Switch 2 is basically just an upgraded Switch, so the thought is that with very little effort emulators like Yuzu would be able to play Switch 2 games. Nintendo wants to shut it down ahead of that happening to try to prevent the Switch 2 architecture from being cracked for as long as possible.
That said with Yuzu being open source, Nintendo won't win that fight in the long term. But it will probably delay the Switch 2 emulator development by quite a bit which their bean counters assume is a win.
They're both open source projects. So it will be interesting how much time they'll spend playing whackamole. Either way, it will chill development bc at the very least the main devs will probably not go back. Sad.
Citra going down really hurts because CTGP-7 is such a great project, and I feel like this is going to chill big projects too.
I'm probably the biggest Disney Nintendo Adult who posts here, and even I think this is stupid as hell. I've got a whole fucking shelf of (3)DS games we paid for, but can't play because our 3DS broke and isn't repairable. Citra let us play them.
Never owning a Nintendo and not playing their games is easy. I'd rather not have my hobby risk having someone's life utterly ruined by a capitalist hypergreed corpo but idk maybe it's just me.
Nintendo products are also extremely expensive and niche. Like no wonder people are using illegal copies. If your parents aren't white upper middle class good luck with playing more than like 2 nintendo games a year.
That's if you're even that target demographic, fuck all single adults who live alone I guess?
yuzu settled out of court, but the terms were basically yuzu giving up literally everything and never working on anything similar ever again and also paying nintendo 2.4 million dollars
at least they don't owe nintendo all the money they make for the rest of their lives like happened with that other guy i suppose
It's worse, actually. They must also argue to a judge that:
Developing or distributing software, including Yuzu, that in its ordinary course functions only when cryptographic keys are integrated without authorization, violates the Digital Millennium Copyright Act’s prohibition on trafficking in devices that circumvent effective technological measures, because the software is primarily designed for the purpose of circumventing technological measures.