Yuzu will shut down the business
Nintendo wins $2.4 million in lawsuit & Destroy Yuzu Switch Emulator
Makers of Nintendo Switch emulator Yuzu owe Nintendo $2.4 million after reaching a settlement with the Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom developer, following a lawsuit over the open source emulator just last week. Both Nintendo and Tropic Haze, the company behind Yuzu, sought a final judgment and permanent injunction on Monday, according to court documents, after Nintendo accused the Yuzu makers of copyright infringement, circumventing Nintendo's Switch protections and selling these circumventing technologies as Yuzu inter alia.
However, the settlement is pending a judge's approval.
Yuzu is a free Nintendo Switch emulator that was released in 2018 months after Nintendo launched the Nintendo Switch. It's software that lets people play Nintendo Switch games on their computers or phones — including Tears of the Kingdom, which Nintendo cited in its lawsuit saying Yuzu let people play leaked copies of the game early on. Specifically, Nintendo said that more than 1 million people played the game before the release date due to the leaked copies. Yuzu doesn't offer pirated or leaked games themselves, but Nintendo targeted the company because the emulator is one of the few ways to play those games.
