Kotaku video openly and intentionally promoting piracy of Metroid Dread/Switch games gets rightfully taken down by Nintendo

So I’m sure you’ve all heard about the Kotaku article that openly promotes a way to pirate Metroid Dread, a game that released LAST WEEK.  They not only promoted pirating the game, they then updated their article attacking and insulting the people who were rightfully calling them out for it.

Well, now the video of the game running on an emulator that they put in their pro-piracy article has been taken down by Nintendo.

And I say GOOD!

I don’t have a problem with emulators/emulation of old systems, the Switch is NOT an old system.

Very VERY few people are using Switch emulators so they can play “games they own” in 4k.

Emulation is supposed to be about game preservation, emulating a brand new Switch game has NOTHING TO DO WITH PRESERVATION.

Kotaku, known for many hilariously bad articles, especially about Nintendo, knows damn well what their readers would get from an article like that.

They know they would see it and think “Hey I don’t have to buy a Switch OR the game? NICE!”

No amount of pathetic excuses or insults directed at people calling them out will change this.

Kotaku knowingly released an article and video explicitly promoting a method of pirating a game that was released DAYS BEFORE.

They know exactly what they did.

And I’m glad Nintendo smacked them down for it, hopefully it’s not the end of action taken against them.

Blacklist them.

If it’s needed taken legal action against them.

And even though there’s no need for a Switch emulator to exist yet, don’t go after the developers. A majority of the time emulator developers are innocent, there are a few that try to directly profit off of it but hopefully no one uses their software.

Go after the pirates, like that rom site owner who was directly profiting off roms, and those that openly promote piracy like Kotaku did.

I’ve been into emulation since the days of shareware SNES emulators that had a piss-yellow color scheme if you didn’t pay (or crack it), but I don’t pirate new games while trying to justify it with some pathetic “Nintendo fucks over their fans” excuse.

And those excuses never have any basis in reality, they just don’t want to pay for the games as some kind of “fuck you” to Nintendo.

And Kotaku just knowingly gave a bunch of people who think like that all the info they needed to never pay for Switch games again.

Destroy them, Nintendo.