Metroid Dread, for example, was cracked within a day of release, allowing some to play it on PC for free, instead of purchasing the game. This new tool is not designed to prevent ROMs from being pirated on Nintendo Switches, but prevent their emulation on PC which has become increasingly easy in recent years. These performance concerns, in addition to the kernel level access required by the software (which makes some worried about the security of their PCs), has earned the company a lot of ire in virtually every gaming community it comes into contact with.

This was most notable with TEKKEN 7, in which case the game’s director acknowledged that diminished PC performance was on account of Denuvo’s DRM process. The company has a reputation for extending the time it takes for a given game to be pirated, at the expense of a game’s overall technical performance.

This move, which comes in the wake of Nintendo’s exceptionally punitive court case against Gary Bowser, could make pirating and emulation of Nintendo games more difficult, but is unlikely to stop the practice.ĭenuvo is best known for its DRM (Digital Rights Management) anti-piracy tools, which have thus far been primarily designed for PC games. Anti-piracy company Denuvo announced a new technology designed to make upcoming Nintendo Switch games more difficult to emulate on PC.

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