WASHINGTON: A piracy company on Monday agreed to pay Nintendo $2.4 million in damages for creating a software that allowed the mass pirating of video games.
Last week Nintendo sued Tropic Haze, registered in the Rhode Island state of the US, which owns and runs Yuzu, a popular video game emulator.
A video game emulator is a software that can be downloaded onto a computer or smartphone to play video games on specific console, such as the PlayStation, Switch or Xbox.
Initially, emulators were created to play games that were no longer released on the latest consoles.
According to a settlement filed on Monday with the US federal court in Rhode Island, the defendant agreed to stop making Yuzu available to the public and provide its programming code to Nintendo.
Nintendo would also take possession of the website where the Yuzu tool was available to download.
The company in the suit said the defendant is fully aware that Yuzu is promoting piracy at a colossal scale.
The Japanese gaming giant had blamed the company of encryption to make Nintendo games available to Yuzu’s users.
According to Nintendo, Yuzu was an important platform not only for playing games but also for those games that were leaked illegally before their release.
The company had argued that Tropic Haze was liable to pay thousands of dollars in damages for violation of each copyright.
