Tropical Haze, the developer of open-source Switch emulator Yuzu, has agreed to pay $2.4m in damages to Nintendo and cease all operations in response to the Mario maker’s recent lawsuit.
News of Nintendo’s legal action against Yuzu surfaced last week, with the company claiming the emulator facilitated piracy “at a colossal scale”. By way of example, it said over 1m copies of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom had been illegally downloaded ahead of its official launch – and that “many” pirate websites specified the game file was playable on Yuzu.
“Defendant [Tropic Haze] is thus secondarily liable for the infringement committed by the users to whom it distributes Yuzu”, Nintendo’s lawyers argued, with the lawsuit ultimately seeking damages and demanding the emulator be shut down.
