what makes me sick to my stomach is that is obviously some very carefully prepared statement that reeks of "our lawyers told us to grovel to Nintnedo, kiss their ring and their ass" Akin as if you were some poor sap in North Korea who is saying whatever they need to, to please the dictatorship kinda shit.
Oh, just now they seemingly have a conscious about this?! They knew what they were doing from the start, and then flew too close to the sun. Now we're all getting burned. The dev team is making an ass of themselves with this routine. It's pathetically weak, no backbone. On the other hand, I'm not them, I don't know the details, maybe I'd cave in and fold up like a cheap lawn chair too.
The real people that should be blamed is the literal retards who stream themselves playing games before they even released. Super Mario RPG's remake, the newest Zelda game were some high profile games to get that treatment. They brought a ton of negative attention to the project doing that sort of shit.
But lets quit the theatrics. This will not kill emulation in general, period. This was a mostly unique situation as most emulation projects are done on defunct consoles while this one was still selling like hot cakes. It obviously had far more attention around it as a result. There is still plenty of legal precedent and the fact this never got it's day in court does absolutely nothing to harm, or help, emulation legal precedent. Though, it's pretty clear Nintendo just flexed up like a mobster boss would do. Yuzu lose/pays either way. They go to court, win case, they are paying fees. They lose, they pay fees. Groups with large reserves like Nintendo can just bleed out another group in the legal system.
