Denuvo Needs to Develop Its Anti-Piracy Tech to Nintendo Swap Video games

Notorious anti-piracy supplier Denuvo is able to broaden its expertise to guard Nintendo Switch games from bootlegging. 

On Wednesday, the corporate introduced(Opens in a new window) “Nintendo Swap Emulator Safety,” which is designed to stop unofficial PC ports of Swap video games that may be performed with emulators.  

“Even when a sport is protected towards piracy on its PC model, the launched model on Swap might be emulated from day one and performed on PC, due to this fact bypassing the robust protections provided on the PC model,” Denuvo mentioned within the announcement. “This may occur with any of the quite a few video games accessible on Swap.”

The piracy can result in misplaced gross sales for sport builders. So Denuvo is responding with the Nintendo Swap Emulator Safety system, which it hopes will likely be adopted throughout the trade. The corporate additionally says the anti-piracy expertise might be added to a Swap title with minimal fuss. 

“As with all different Denuvo options, the expertise integrates seamlessly into the construct toolchain with no affect on the gaming expertise. It then permits for the insertion of checks into the code, which blocks gameplay on emulators,” the corporate mentioned.

Nonetheless, customers could cringe on the information. Denuvo’s anti-piracy and anti-cheat expertise has a status within the PC neighborhood for including bloat to video games, which might lead to efficiency hits. The corporate’s digital rights administration system has additionally quickly prevented some PC games from working attributable to glitches in connecting to Denuvo third-party servers.

Players on Twitter have responded to Denuvo’s announcement with scorn. “Oh cool, the software program that makes excessive finish PC’s run like canine**** and would not truly do something to curb piracy is now being carried out on the comically underpowered Nintendo Swap, what a really sensible and clever thought,” wrote(Opens in a new window) one person. 

Denuvo made the announcement in the midst of Gamescom, the online game trade present presently taking place in Germany. So Denuvo’s guardian Irdeto might be advertising and marketing the anti-piracy tech to Swap sport builders on the present. We’ll must see if any of them determine to make use of it.