Another Switch emulator is facing closure. Nintendo has reached an agreement with the owners of Ryujinx and has already begun dismantling it – Nintendo Switch

Nintendo continues fight against piracy after the shutdown of the most famous Switch game emulator, Yuzu, due to a lawsuit against the creators in March last year. More than six months later, the big N wants more Nintendo Switch title emulator disappear from the Internetand in this case we are talking about Ryujinx. Although the closure of Ryujinx has not yet been officially announced, after recent events everything points to it.

Discord community member Ryujinx noted that the emulator’s creator, gdkchan, was Contacted Nintendo offer you an agreement to stop working on the project and delete everything related to the program. This was reported by the official Ryujinx X/Twitter account, and they are already predicting that this will most likely lead to the closure of the emulator. At this point, we know that all GitHub uploads and repositories have been deleted, indicating that it will disappear in the next few hours.

“Yesterday gdkchan was contacted by Nintendo and offered to agree to stop working on the project. delete the organization and all associated assets under your control. While we wait to confirm whether you will accept this agreement, the group was liquidatedso I guess We can say with confidence what the result is.. Instead of leaving you to panic and speculate, I decided to write this short message to give you some closure,” he concludes, but not before thanking all the participants, developers and moderators who contributed to the project.

Differences between Ryujinx and Yuzu closures

Although still We just have to wait for confirmation from the creator by RyujinxThe main difference in the Yuzu case is that Nintendo shut down this emulator directly after a direct lawsuit from the company. They then reached an out-of-court agreement that included payment of 2.4 million dollars and the complete transfer of Yuzu’s ownership to Nintendo. It looks like Ryujinx’s fate is sealed, we just have to wait for gdkchan’s official statement.

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