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Yuzu agrees to pay Nintendo $2.4 million and will entirely shut down (www.gamingonlinux.com)

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[-] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 26 points 2 years ago

My understanding is they've been making 30k a month from their Patreon.

Which is also the main reason they were vulnerable to a lawsuit, because they've been profiting off of the emulator (which why legal by itself, is only popular enough to make money due to piracy).

[-] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 17 points 2 years ago

$2.4M is 8 years' worth in that case, assuming they were making that much the entire time. And of course a lot of that money was probably for the devs to afford basic living expenses.

[-] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 years ago

6 years and 8 months, but yeah I can't see them having the money, even if they saved everything.

[-] helenslunch@feddit.nl 1 points 2 years ago

I'm just surprised they're able to make so much money developing free software...

[-] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 years ago

The most recent version of Yuzu (which theoretically has the best performance) is semi-locked behind their Patreon.

This was especially important when TotK came out, because they were making a bunch of tweaks to improve performance for that game. So people who wanted to play TotK needed to subscribe to get the best results (or build from source, I'm assuming).

[-] willya@lemmyf.uk -1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Is this your first time venturing on to Patreon? The YouTube channel cold ones makes $84k a month from Patreon and they just get drunk, smash shit, and play video games.

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