Is there a reason Sony/PlayStation is so lenient with people pirating there games through emulators on PC?

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Did they even do something against the ones playing and sharing Wolverine?

Probably blew them off and apologized.
Sony needs to step up their game. BE CONFIDENT with your output and don't devalue your IPs on pc

 

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Because Sony tried this twice in the 90s/early 2000s with Sony v Bleem and Sony v Connectix and lost both times
You may as well ask why Microsoft doesn't go after Xbox emulation: its the same reason. Nintendo are outliers in terms of being aggressively litigous, and so far Nintendo hasn't actually brought emulators to court; all of the emulation devs have settled because lol who has money for legal fees. Sony COULD decide to harass the shadps4 people on it, but if the shadps4 people decide to actually go to court, Sony would lose.

There's a very big difference between what Nintendo is doing now and what Sony did in the 90's: Nintendo is using the argument that decrypting its antipiracy protections (which are explicitly encrypted) is a violation of the DMCA.

The big issue is now because Nintendo has largely transitioned into the "buy old parts off the shelf and cobble together a profitable console" strategy, these old parts (like the Nvidia Tegra X1) already have widespread documentation that can be used to figure out not only how to bypass the anti-piracy measures Nintendo implemented, but also to figure out how to emulate the system on PC.

This has led to an unprecedented situation where a currently-selling console is also being emulated quite accurately (usually old consoles and handhelds don't get emulated until they are in their sunset phase at the earliest, and badly at that), to the point where games are leaked online and finished by PC users days before the game is even out for lawful customers. This is very bad news for Nintendo, especially now that we know that they intend on keeping backcompat (and thus will likely not mess around too much with the SoC of Switch 2).

So now Nintendo has both a major motive AND a new legal theory to test on various emulation groups.

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Microsoft doesn't really have much to lose from Emulation.. What are people going to emulate from the 360 era? Bioshock? Mass Effect? Halo? Just play the PC versions and spare yourself the headache. Outlier cases of great 360 games that don't have PC versions (like Lost Odyssey) are super niche cases that don't really merit a look by the Microsoft legal department.