Yuzu also helped develop 3DS emulator Citra, and has immediately pulled their support of that. With immediate effect, they took down the GitHub, took down the downloads of the emulator and the Yuzu installer no longer works.
What killed them is the fact that they make 30k USD off their Patreon means Nintendo can argue they’re profiting off of piracy, and their lawyers most likely told them it’s not worth trying to fight said lawsuit.
It sounds like they had something particularly damning behind their Patreon if they settled for 2.4 million. They must have faced getting super buttfucked if 2.4 million is the lesser of two evils.
They paywalled the Early Access version of Yuzu through their Patreon, and apparently they released a patch to allow TOTK to work before the game officially came out.
The TotK thing is almost certainly what motivated Nintendo to throw everything at them here.
The game came out to middling reviews and sales for a flagship AAA IP, and the multi-week early access the Emulator provided probably played a huge part in that (or at least enough for a Corporate Entity to blame it).
That's the problem with operating on a gray legal business. You gotta tiptoe around pissing them off enough to actually attack.
Apparently, on their Patreon they were bragging about being able to play specific Nintendo games that haven’t even been released. They fucked up big time.
Hopefully others will pick up where they left off and not advertise the ability to pirate games.
Yuzu also helped develop 3DS emulator Citra, and has immediately pulled their support of that. With immediate effect, they took down the GitHub, took down the downloads of the emulator and the Yuzu installer no longer works.
What killed them is the fact that they make 30k USD off their Patreon means Nintendo can argue they’re profiting off of piracy, and their lawyers most likely told them it’s not worth trying to fight said lawsuit.
It sounds like they had something particularly damning behind their Patreon if they settled for 2.4 million. They must have faced getting super buttfucked if 2.4 million is the lesser of two evils.
They paywalled the Early Access version of Yuzu through their Patreon, and apparently they released a patch to allow TOTK to work before the game officially came out.
The TotK thing is almost certainly what motivated Nintendo to throw everything at them here.
The game came out to middling reviews and sales for a flagship AAA IP, and the multi-week early access the Emulator provided probably played a huge part in that (or at least enough for a Corporate Entity to blame it).
That's the problem with operating on a gray legal business. You gotta tiptoe around pissing them off enough to actually attack.
Whoever hires lawyers first wins. Whoever can afford better lawyers can win any case they want to.
Apparently, on their Patreon they were bragging about being able to play specific Nintendo games that haven’t even been released. They fucked up big time.
Hopefully others will pick up where they left off and not advertise the ability to pirate games.