They could. But the Yuzu Team did a lot of stuff wrong (like showing off TOTK screenshots before the game was officially released, openly discussing piracy on the Discord server, paywalled releases etc) and attracted too much unwanted attention, whereas Ryujinx has remained in the shadows.

The other thing is, Yuzu was backed by a US company (Tropic Haze LLC) - which made them an easy target. Ryujinx on the other hand is just a group of contributors (mainly based in Brazil I believe so DMCA etc is irrelevant there).

The worst Nintendo could do against Ryujinx I reckon is serve a DMCA notice to the Github repo but that's no big deal, they can easily host it elsewhere.

[–] Dave 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I saw they are supposed to pay millions to Nintendo for Yuzu and Cintra. If they have money, they must have had a business model? Was it just donations?

[–] d3Xt3r 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Donations, but effectively it was like a paid tier since you got early access to feature releases. Apparently they've been earning 30k per month.

[–] Dave 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's crazy they ever thought it was a good idea! Nintendo is notoriously protective of their IP, to rake in cash in a US based company from software built to stop people giving Nintendo money... that's just crazy.

[–] d3Xt3r 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Yep, there were plenty of red flags. No one in the community is surprised about the outcome, what is surprising though is that it took Nintendo this long to take action. Most of us thought it was gonna be all over when they were proudly showing off how they got TOTK working before the game was even out, so I'm surprised they had such a long run.