Nintendo n'est apparemment pas impliqué dans la nouvelle initiative Switch DRM

Plus tôt cette semaine à la Gamescom, Denuvo by Iredeto a lancé un “Solution de protection de l'émulateur Nintendo Switch” pour sauvegarder les jeux lancés sur le système hybride.

Essentially, il va être inséré dans les jeux Switch pour tenter d'empêcher leur lecture sur des émulateurs. Dénuvo, comme vous le savez peut-être déjà, n'a pas la meilleure réputation sur PC – avec la technologie souvent accusée de réduire les performances dans les jeux.

Depuis cette annonce, il y a eu des inquiétudes quant à l'éventuelle implication de Nintendo. D'après Kotaku, un porte-parole de Denuvo a précisé que Nintendo n'était pas impliqué dans cette nouvelle initiative Switch DRM. Cette solution répond apparemment à la demande des partenaires éditeurs existants de Denuvo, and it’s also stated how performance won’t be impacted:

“Because of NDAs, we are not allowed to disclose company names, but we can say this solution comes from strong demand from publishing partners. Software publishers and Denuvo take great care to deliver the best gaming experience…The protection is designed not to affect the gamer’s experience, and it does not have any in-game performance impact. It is the same for this new solution when protection is only active in non-performance critical code parts.”

Denuvo also mentioned how the tech for Switch would not require online checks and was a solution designed to be fully offline.

Over the past few days there’s been a lot of speculation from the Switch hacking and modding community about Nintendo’s possible involvement in this new initiative, with all sorts of takes:

@OatmealDome – I do have to question their [Irdeto] claim about Nintendo not being involved, because they must be (at least a little bit). In order to develop software for the Switch, they must have access to the SDK and devkits, and that requires Nintendo to give your company a developer account.

And here’s another from Nintendo Life user and programmer LuigiBlood (via Twitter):

“It may not be obvious, but this anti-emulation system has to be approved and within Nintendo’s requirements because else it’s not going to pass lotcheck. It also cannot be a DRM measure: Nintendo is the only one with DRM control on their systems. It’s only Denuvo by name.”

“…Nintendo is clearly not involved in this. And if Nintendo was to develop anti-piracy/anti-emulator measures… you may as well include these things into a module on their software development kit, not a seperate third party thing.”

Switch emulation platforms have also vowed to continue developing emulation for Nintendo’s hybrid system in response to this announcement:

You can learn more about Denuvo for Switch in our original Nintendo Life story. Que pensez-vous de la protection de l'émulateur Denuvo 'Switch’ venir sur Switch? Dites-nous ci-dessous.