The State of Emulation topic

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I don't understand the point of doing this now. The Switch is almost EOL. The Switch 2 is probably just as easy to emulate, and will probably get hacked just as quickly, but it's not like that won't stop another group from tackling it. Oh well.

Seems pretty obvious to me — the Switch 1 still has a couple of years left of releases at least, and since the 2 will in all likelihood be backwards compatible, they don't want PCs out there running Switch games at higher resolution/framerates than what the Switch 2 will be able to do. Also, I'm sure the Switch 2 will have an improved encryption/copy protection scheme vs. the original, but if history has shown us anything, it too will be cracked eventually and if the 2 has similar architecture to the Switch, existing emulators may be fairly close to being able to run Switch 2 games which would be even more damaging. It's true that another team(s) will probably take up the mantle, but there are only so many devs with the skills to do this, and most of them have lucrative careers already, so this seems like a pretty effective tactic as much as that sucks.