Emulation is theft. Flat out. There is no way to justify it. If you want to do it that's fine. I do it with stuff that isn't around anymore. But I don't lie that it isn't theft and it makes me a thief and if someone stopped me or sued me over it they would be in the right and I would be in the wrong. That the PC gaming community has earned a reputation of theft, cheating, and complaining about not being treated special along with the worst gamer toxicity out there makes me sad. But it is entirely true, was earned over decades, and has gotten much worse.
It's not theft, as you not actually stealing anything, when you buy a game, you buying the right to play the game, you dont own the code. This applies digitally and physically. It is copyright infringement.
PC likely does have higher rates of infringement over native console, but switch's have been compromised, it does happen in console land as well. Typically the extra sales on PC I would expect to override any losses due to infringement. I think cheating is a "so what" in offline games, let people play it as they want.
As for Nintendo's reason I think they just in that mind trap where they wont tolerate any kind of free use of their content, so hence the crack down on emulation, and the first party hardware only rule for their games. It has benefits as when just concentrating on one platform the quality can be higher, as an example using unique abilities of the platform, not just performance optimisation.
But yeah I think you need to give PC a second thought, as modding and "cheating" are not necessarily bad things. Cheating for some people is the only way they can tolerate a game, maybe because the balance is wrong for them, they have limited time to play games, that sort of thing, they could also be disabled. Modding has proven to be very good for the gaming industry.
Indie titles, holiday discounts and massive giveaways would like to have a word.
