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

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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).

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

$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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months 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).

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months 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.