<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>fpgaminer</author><text>Yes, this would be great, but I don&amp;#x27;t see how they could ever achieve it the way you or I envision.  Emulators like Dolphin allow us to play (almost) any game from the associated era.  As far as I know Nintendo can&amp;#x27;t just re-release all the games developed for their consoles; the publishers&amp;#x2F;rights holders would have to do that.  So while yes, Nintendo could release an official emulator for PC (like they do for their consoles) the library of compatible games would be rather small (just like on their console emulators).&lt;p&gt;Alternatively they could of course build an emulator just like Dolphin which plays normal disc&amp;#x2F;cart images, but again what use is that?  The average consumer can&amp;#x27;t rip their own images, and downloading images that you don&amp;#x27;t own the original for is illegal.  So there&amp;#x27;s not much utility to Nintendo&amp;#x27;s target market.  Plus, I believe this could potentially erode the relationship that Nintendo has with publishers.  Publishers demand a platform that will help them maintain control over the IP.  If Nintendo releases an official, unlocked emulator they&amp;#x27;re saying to publishers that Nintendo will protect their IP ... but only for so long.  That&amp;#x27;s in contrast to today where publishers are effectively guaranteed infinite protection.&lt;p&gt;On the bright side, emulation will likely be better for this latest generation of consoles, because they&amp;#x27;ve become increasingly similar to PCs.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mercwear</author><text>Dolphin is great but I wish Nintendo would just get behind &amp;#x2F; build an emulation platform for all of it&amp;#x27;s legacy content and sell it to me for $100 - $150.. The NES Classic is a great example of what they could do (minus the awful shortages).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Dolphin Progress Report: December 2016</title><url>https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2017/01/02/dolphin-progress-report-december-2016/</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>epmaybe</author><text>I&amp;#x27;d easily pay $400+ if there were a Nintendo switch like console that would play all legacy consoles up to and including GameCube. If Wii is too hard to include in that, so be it.</text><parent_chain><item><author>mercwear</author><text>Dolphin is great but I wish Nintendo would just get behind &amp;#x2F; build an emulation platform for all of it&amp;#x27;s legacy content and sell it to me for $100 - $150.. The NES Classic is a great example of what they could do (minus the awful shortages).</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Dolphin Progress Report: December 2016</title><url>https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2017/01/02/dolphin-progress-report-december-2016/</url></story>