The emulators are already in the iPhone App Store while Nintendo or Sony miss their opportunity
The Apple’s important decision on emulators It is very good for users, who can now download emulators for the iPhone from the App Store, but it is also a warning for some video game companies. Emulators have topped the App Store download list since their launch and it seems that retro games are back in fashion.
It is true that emulators have always been allowed on Android, but there are more than 1 billion active iPhones in the world that can now be downloaded in a really simple way. And that is many millions of people.
Will Nintendo or Sony do something against emulators?
Old console emulators have always lived in a kind of limbo. They are legal in the vast majority of places in the world as long as their development does not violate the intellectual property of the consoles they emulate. However, downloading games is something else.
To play a game on an emulator we must create a copy of our own game to be able to run it, if we want to do it legally. However, this is something that very few users do. Either because they don’t know how to do it or because they are such old games that they haven’t even had or played them at any point. And that’s why they download them from the internet.
There is no doubt that The most popular retro consoles are from Nintendo or Sony, that’s why we have Game Boy and NDS emulators like Delta, RetroArch which also emulates Nintendo 64, NES, SNES and Sony PlayStation or the Sony PSP PPSSPP emulator. They are the games that everyone wants to play.
In the App Store we have several emulators and they are succeeding
Neither Nintendo nor Sony have commented in recent weeks about the arrival of these emulators to the App Store, although There is little they can do to try to ban them.. There’s only one thing I can think of and it may have been a real missed opportunity.
Nintendo and Sony should launch their own “emulators” for the iPhone
Smartphones have become authentic portable consoles, so it would make all the sense in the world for the large video game companies to offer an app from which you can play your classic consoles. The options are many, from charging a small amount for each game to a monthly subscription with access to the entire catalog of a console.
In fact, This is something that Nintendo already does, for example, which allows you to play its classic consoles from Nintendo Switch. This can be done through a monthly or annual subscription that also allows you to play online. If Nintendo released something similar for smartphones, I have no doubt that it would be a real success. It would even encourage many users to buy their new consoles. He tried to launch his own games, like Super Mario Run, but he didn’t take it seriously.
Although this is just a dream for now, the arrival of emulators can change your mind to these video game giants. Its popularity has shown that there is a great demand and there are many users who want to play these classic games and always have them with them on their iPhone. In addition, in this way illegal downloading of games would be avoided.
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