I love my Nintendo Switch—I'm a PC gamer first and foremost, but the hybrid console created this entirely new niche in my play habits and rekindled an appreciation for Nintendo games I hadn't really felt since the GameCube/Game Boy Advance era. Sometimes though, I look at wee Paper Mario running across the screen, this sweet totem of my childhood, and think: "Damn, the company that made this ruined a guy's life over 3DS piracy."
Nintendo casting itself as the games industry's own legal Terminator doesn't seem to have impacted its fortunes—it's enjoying one of the greatest hardware successes in its long history with the Switch—but these aggressive legal tactics may hurt the company in time, damaging its reputation in the name of questionable, difficult to quantify ends. Worse, it's hurting videogames in general.
