When the Nintendo Switch launched in 2017, its custom NVIDIA Tegra X1 chip was already pretty outdated. Over the past eight years, many Android and x86 gaming handhelds offer more than enough horsepower to emulate even the most graphically intensive Switch games thanks to the likes of Ryujinx and Yuzu. But after years of mostly being quiet, Nintendo went on a DMCA spree last year, taking down the best Switch emulators, and now we know why.
Following the Nintendo Switch 2 Direct, the company published a series of articles and videos titled "Ask the Developers." As it turns out, Nintendo is doing the exact thing that it's trying to stop everyone else from doing — well, not exactly the same thing, but pretty darn close.
