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Denuvo, the infamous company on which game developers rely on to implement DRM to almost every new release nowadays, to varying degrees of performance issues and even worse user experiences, has announced today that their protection technologies are now available and accessible as an authorized Nintendo Switch "middleware" in the Nintendo Developer Portal (NDP).

This means that now developers working on Nintendo Switch titles or ports now have the accessibility and option to add Denuvo's anti-piracy protection, which they titled "Nintendo Switch Emulator Protection". Their goal is to disallow any new game release from running in Nintendo Switch emulators, although this remains yet to be seen and properly tested from the end-user perspective. It is currently unknown how they would check between an emulator and real-hardware, but we can be sure that the current emulator developers (be it Yuzu or Ryujinx) will catch unto it and go into details about it when they find a game that uses it.

Denuvo released a following statement regarding Nintendo Switch games that are released as multi-platform and their emulation on day one in comparison with other consoles/PC:

Even if a game is protected against piracy on its PC version, the version released on Nintendo Switch can be emulated from day one and played on PC, therefore bypassing the strong protections offered on the PC version. This can happen with any of the numerous games available on Nintendo Switch.

By blocking unauthorized emulations on PC, studios are able to increase their revenue during the game launch window, which is the most important period for monetization. The Nintendo Switch Emulator Protection will ensure that anyone wishing to play the game has to buy a legitimate copy.

Alongside this statement, Denuvo claims that "the technology integrates seamlessly into the build toolchain with no impact on the gaming experience", but given almost every release that uses it and comparisons in performance between before and after the removal of Denuvo's DRM from known games, it's doubtful that this will be the case. To close it up, the CEO of Irdeto, Doug Lowther, said the following:

As gamers, we know first-hand how piracy negatively affects the gaming industry. We’re thrilled to be part of the Nintendo Developers Portal, so that we can provide the latest technologies to help fight this issue for Nintendo Switch players and developers.

We witness an increasing need to protect against emulation on PC from game launch, our solution is a must have for publishers to monetize the games fairly on this platform and also not impact PC game sales.

Additionally, it remains to be seen just how this would affect gamer that don't connect their Nintendo Switch to the internet, or only use it for handheld gaming with no internet connection, given how the DRM is known to do its checks with a connection to the internet, as having a hybrid console this means that the system wouldn't always have an internet connection available.

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[JeepX87]

Most likely advertisment for the upcoming console. Probably won't be widly adopted for the current console.

It don’t make sense because next-gen come with new security that where mod chip from Switch cannot be used.

Nintendo would be dumb enough to reuse the security from Switch on next-gen console.

 

[linuxares]

It don’t make sense because next-gen come with new security that where mod chip from Switch cannot be used.

Nintendo would be dumb enough to reuse the security from Switch on next-gen console.

It's up to devs to decide if they wanna use it or not. Not Nintendo itself.

 

[DragonMals]

It's up to devs to decide if they wanna use it or not. Not Nintendo itself.

I hope that they don't put it in their games and realize the mistake that Duenvo is lol.

 

[linuxares]

I hope that they don't put it in their games and realize the mistake that Duenvo is lol.

We don't know how bad it will be or not on said system. Just because Denuvo and PC devs seem to be inept implementing it in a lot of cases.

 

[DragonMals]

We don't know how bad it will be or not on said system. Just because Denuvo and PC devs seem to be inept implementing it in a lot of cases.

We shall see. I hope it doesn't make the performance of Switch games bad, the Switch is.... Kind of underpowered compared to the other consoles to this day. This makes me look forward to Nintendo's Next console though! (This point though, not the Duenvo possibly affecting it)

 

[JeepX87]

It's up to devs to decide if they wanna use it or not. Not Nintendo itself.

Nintendo would have to license this before it can be added to games by third party game companies.

It is moot if Switch 2 is on different security and unhackable, but it became a matter if Switch 2 is hacked after a year.

Piracy is reason that Denuvo exists on PC, but not game consoles.

 

[StrayGuitarist]

Fuck off and die, in that order. This is just Securom shit all over again

 

[ZER-O]

some day this Joke Answer going to become Real

 

[Deleted member 672055]

I truly do hope something bad will happen to the motherfuckers behind Denuvo and they will bankrupt really harshly

for legal reasons: this is a joke