Where did you get those figures from?
What's the point in trying to argue that it's not the case?
"Download an emulator and you can play GBA games for free"
That's what the average person knows about emulators.
Now it'll be playing switch games for free.
Because why would you buy a copy of the game when you can just download it off the internet for free?
It's pathetic the kind of denial emulator proponents have. The developers know they're enabling piracy, it's just a veneer of legitimacy.
I've met plenty of people that have used modchips, R4 cartridges etc to play games for free on consoles.
In fact at the height of the DS pretty much every DS you could see in the wild had a microsd card slot in the cartridge.
And pretty much every person with an expensive pc tells me how they get their games for free .
Many times when I say I buy games I get a "why the fuck would you do that look"
And this is in London, not a country where you could argue games are too expensive.
But then I go online and there's some fantasy world where people.who use emulators only back up their own games and play it .
And then there's arguments for the preservation of games. But like when Dolphin started supporting the Wii at the height of the Wii and now some Switch emulator has come along a couple of years into the switch.
That argument doesn't hold at all.
But I guess to take part in this game where people pretend that 99% of people are owners of the software they're running to make thisnpirscy enabling tool.
The only thing to say is
"Oh wow that's amazing progress, can't wait to try this with my totally legit copy of Mario. Thought I had to buy a switch but not anymore!"
Edit. My point is that whilst emulation is not piaracy, most emulator users are pirates. And it's silly to pretend it's not.
