{"id":129937,"date":"2022-11-22T03:05:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-22T03:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-141476"},"modified":"2022-11-22T03:05:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-22T03:05:00","slug":"nintendo-isnt-happy-about-switch-game-images-on-steam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/11\/22\/nintendo-isnt-happy-about-switch-game-images-on-steam\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Isn&#8217;t Happy About Switch Game Images On Steam"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/aa7d7de22975d\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/aa7d7de22975d\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Pokemon Scarlet and Violet\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/aa7d7de22975d\/pokemon-scarlet-and-violet.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCA5MDAgNTA2Ij48L3N2Zz4=\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/aa7d7de22975d\/pokemon-scarlet-and-violet.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Pokemon Scarlet and Violet\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Image: The Pok\u00e9mon Company<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Switch emulation is a <em>thing<\/em>, and it&#8217;s something Nintendo obviously isn&#8217;t happy about &#8211; with a lot of first-party releases often leaking ahead of official street dates, and in most cases, running on <em>other<\/em> devices at much higher resolutions and frame rates.<\/p>\n<p>Nintendo&#8217;s taken action in the past against piracy and emulation, and most recently it&#8217;s gone on another DMCA spree. Following the leak of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pokemon_scarlet_and_violet\">Pok\u00e9mon Scarlet &amp; Violet<\/a>, Nintendo is now targeting images of Switch games being published on the website <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.steamgriddb.com\/\">SteamGridDB<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The takedowns targeting this website hone in on images from six Nintendo Switch games &#8211; including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pokemon_scarlet_and_violet\">Pok\u00e9mon Scarlet<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/pokemon_scarlet_and_violet\">Pok\u00e9mon Violet<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/splatoon_3\">Splatoon 3<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/xenoblade_chronicles_3\">Xenoblade Chronicles 3<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/super_mario_odyssey\">Super Mario Odyssey<\/a> and the launch title <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/legend_of_zelda_breath_of_the_wild\">The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>SteamGridDB allows users to upload custom images of games to display in their Steam library, and it seems this function could be getting some use alongside the Steam Deck and a certain emulator.<\/p>\n<p>According to a report on <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesradar.com\/nintendo-doesnt-even-want-you-to-have-pictures-of-emulated-switch-games\/\">GamesRadar+<\/a>, some users are already attempting to re-upload these official Switch game images. Notably, there are many other Nintendo-related images on SteamGridDB, but the Japanese company is only targeting the above-mentioned titles at this point in time.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#8217;t the first time Nintendo has set its sights on content linked to Steam or the Steam Deck before:<\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/nintendolife.com.ssl\/nintendo-switch\/related-articles:138865,128133 @ 2022-11-22T06:57:36+00:00 --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"block object-related\"> <\/aside>\n<p><em>If we hear about any further developments, we&#8217;ll let you know.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: The Pok\u00e9mon Company Switch emulation is a thing, and it&#8217;s something Nintendo obviously isn&#8217;t happy about &#8211; with a lot of first-party releases often leaking ahead of official street dates, and in most cases, running on other devices at much higher resolutions and frame rates. Nintendo&#8217;s taken action in the past against piracy and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}