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Dustin Bailey

Microsoft says Nintendo had nothing to do with Xbox emulator crackdown

Xbox Series X/S

Update, April 7: After Microsoft began taking action against emulators being run on Xbox consoles, a statement shared on Twitter attributed to a member of the Xbox QA team suggested that the action was being taken due to "legal issues with Nintendo." Now, an official Microsoft statement suggests that's not the case.

"The information currently circulating on Twitter is not accurate," Microsoft tells IGN. "Our actions are based on a long standing policy on content distributed to the Store to ensure alignment with our Microsoft Store Polices [sic]. Per 10.13.10, Products that emulate a game system or game platform are not allowed on any device family."

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