> Nintendo have had a conflicted stance about community projects over the years. From threatening UltraHLE (early Nintendo 64 emulator) developers back in the late 90s to largely ignoring the Wii exploits and homebrew scene in the mid-to-late 2000s to attempting to hire private investigators to identify and implicate 3DS homebrew developers in 'illegal' activities.
Ultimately I think if Xecuter did not have their product so closely intertwined with enablement of piracy and distribution of copyrighted content it would leave Nintendo less legal ammo to use against them and potentially make it not worth pursuing.
Important to note the RCM exploit only works for the first revision of Switch units. This does not justify other potential crimes Xecuter may have done but certain previous mod-chips for certain previous consoles have been open-source in a clean-room design not including copyrighted content by the original vendors thus potentially removing issues of copyright infringement. Sad the Switch scene could not be the same.
> Nintendo have had a conflicted stance about community projects over the years. From threatening UltraHLE (early Nintendo 64 emulator) developers back in the late 90s to largely ignoring the Wii exploits and homebrew scene in the mid-to-late 2000s to attempting to hire private investigators to identify and implicate 3DS homebrew developers in 'illegal' activities.
Ultimately I think if Xecuter did not have their product so closely intertwined with enablement of piracy and distribution of copyrighted content it would leave Nintendo less legal ammo to use against them and potentially make it not worth pursuing.
Important to note the RCM exploit only works for the first revision of Switch units. This does not justify other potential crimes Xecuter may have done but certain previous mod-chips for certain previous consoles have been open-source in a clean-room design not including copyrighted content by the original vendors thus potentially removing issues of copyright infringement. Sad the Switch scene could not be the same.