Not necessarily. Take for example, Gabe Newell’s stance on this.
Newell rejected the industry assumption that people pirate games simply because they refuse to pay. Instead, he noted that many pirates are regular consumers—such as people with expensive gaming PCs and internet plans—who turn to illegal downloads because the official options are inconvenient.
You’re missing the point. If the game was officially available on PC, released by Nintendo, then this individual would have no reason to do a tool to port it. Game accessibility is one of the biggest reasons people pirate.
I’m not saying nobody would buy the PC version. I’m saying the kind of person who spends over 10x what it would have cost to buy a Switch 2 and the game, to have AI port it to PC, doesn’t sound like the kind of person who would have bought the PC version if it existed.
If they ported it to PC people like this would just pirate it. There’s no winning.
Not necessarily. Take for example, Gabe Newell’s stance on this.
I don’t think the person who spent thousands of dollars to have AI port a game was concerned about convenience.
You’re missing the point. If the game was officially available on PC, released by Nintendo, then this individual would have no reason to do a tool to port it. Game accessibility is one of the biggest reasons people pirate.
i’ve got some bad news for you about console games, then.
That’s why there are no PC developers then?
I’m not saying nobody would buy the PC version. I’m saying the kind of person who spends over 10x what it would have cost to buy a Switch 2 and the game, to have AI port it to PC, doesn’t sound like the kind of person who would have bought the PC version if it existed.