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I'm just not sure how worthwhile it is to hold them up as a particularly immoral player in the industry. Obviously them taking out yuzu and citra is shitty but is that really so aggregious compared to the shit that they and the other major companies pull all the time? The rampant exploitation of workers at the software, hardware, and material levels? Everything to do with Microsoft?

I'm seriously not trying to say that it's stupid to criticize Nintendo or to not buy their products. I do not care what video games you buy or do not buy. I'm not interested whatsoever in convincing you that you should be handing your money to any international corporation. I just think it's maybe worth stepping back a bit to look at the bigger picture.

Does Nintendo have a particularly aggregious record of going after emulation and people that participate in it? Absolutely. But I don't really think that's due to anything other than Nintendo being more heavily impacted by emulation (at least in their own view) than any of the other major publishers, and I don't think that's really the heaviest ethical issue weighing on the industry as a whole, either.

It doesn't seem far-fetched that there would be a drive at Nintendo of America soon, and PR-wise I feel like that could end up being bigger, at least in the games media sphere, than anything else so far.

Part of that is just Nintendo's status as one of the industry's defining giants, but the particular combination of their focus on maintaining a family-friendly image and their notoriously inflexible, heavy-handed business practices makes it seem likely to me that A: management would push back hard against unionization and B: organizers might try to make things as public as possible in order to pressure Nintendo to negotiate to maintain their image.

Obviously this is all conjecture, maybe there isn't a major drive there any time soon, maybe it goes in a totally different direction, but I do feel like there's the potential for it to turn into a pivotal fight that both labour and management are intent on not losing

I haven't played any of them, and they're only loosely connected, but! Xenoblade Chronicles, The Last Story, and Pandora's Tower are three Japanese-developed RPGs published by Nintendo that came out in the twilight years of the Wii. There was a fan campaign to get them localized called "Operation Rainfall", it's disputable to what extent this directly caused their localization.

The reason these games stick in my head despite never having laid hands on any of them is that I was reading about them in Nintendo Power as a kid, when that magazine was also near the end of its run. These games really still hold a mystique in my mind, and I'd love to play through them all one day. Considering I don't have ready access to a Wii and copies of them aren't very easy to come by, I guess that's most likely to happen via Dolphin assuming I at some point have a computer that runs Wii games in Dolphin more smoothly.

That's not going to happen particularly soon, but I figured I'd still bring it up here. They were running through my mind again and I was wondering what kind of relationships people on here have with these games. I know Xenoblade is far and away the most popular of them, but I'd love to hear from folks who have played either of the other two or just have their own weird spot in their head reserved for these late Wii RPGs.

but every time I try playing that game I start haemorrhaging brain cells at a rapid pace and I have to shut it off