Nintendo only filed a lawsuit against the developers of the popular Yuzu emulator at the end of February because the company felt its intellectual property had been damaged in connection with the Nintendo Switch. According to a report from Golem, it initially looked like a lengthy legal dispute, but Nintendo and the group Tropic Haze, which is apparently behind Yuzu, settled the legal dispute in favor of Nintendo a few days after it became known.
Accordingly, Tropic Haze has agreed to remove Yuzu from the Internet as much as possible and hand over all domains. In addition, around $2.4 million will be paid to Nintendo in compensation. According to the report, the Yuzu group, which was financed primarily by user donations, had almost 8,000 members who collectively transferred almost $30,000 per month, while additional income may have been generated through advertising, among other things.
Nintendo: Success against emulators
A final document for the case has already been published online, which still lacks the signature of the responsible judge, but according to Golem it is probably just a mere formality. In addition to Yuzu, further support for the slightly older Nintendo 3DS emulator Citra from the same makers will also be discontinued, as a developer explained according to The Verge.
Nintendo has thus achieved another victory over emulator providers who make their own and exclusive games usable on other platforms. Last year, for example, Nintendo successfully prevented the Dolphin emulator, intended for Gamecube and Wii games, from being published on Steam.