The Nintendo Switch is Denuvo’s next DRM target
by Emma Roth from The Verge - All Posts on (#62VXQ)
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Denuvo, an anti-cheat and DRM (digital rights management) software that has become synonymous with performance issues, is coming to Nintendo Switch games in an attempt to block users from emulating games on PC. The service claims the new software has no impact on the gaming experience."
Denuvo's software currently comes bundled with a number of games on PC, including Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy, FIFA 22, Deathloop, and many, many more. The software has a history of affecting performance on the games it's included with, and when its servers go down, all the games it supports go down with it. Fans even pleaded with the developers of Humankind to remove it - which the studio ended up doing.
Denuvo's implementation on the Switch is...