Denuvo responds to concerns about its new Switch DRM initiative
Denuovo announced new DRM plans for Switch earlier this week, and a spokesperson has now followed up by responding to some of the concerns people have raised.
First, the company says that the program came about due to “strong demand from publishing partners”, though Nintendo has had no involvement. It’s also claimed that in-game performance will not be impacted.
The spokesperson said:
“Because of NDAs, we are not allowed to disclose company names, but we can say this solution comes from strong demand from publishing partners. Software publishers and Denuvo take great care to deliver the best gaming experience. The protection is designed not to affect the gamer’s experience, and it does not have any in-game performance impact. It is the same for this new solution when protection is only active in non-performance critical code parts.”
Denuvo also noted that DRM won’t ask players for online checks:
“We are aware that the Nintendo Switch is a mobile console and therefore has limited online capabilities, so we designed our solution to be fully offline, no online checks required.”
One area that will be impacted is emulation. According to Denuvo, its DRM will restrict use of legally purchased games with Switch emulators on PC.
“As you know, dumping your bought game for backup purposes is a long-standing argument from pirates that is simply used to justify piracy. The majority of players use emulators with ROMs from pirate sources and are not self-dumped. And if they dump it themselves, they will require a jailbroken console to do that.”
You can read more from this week’s announcement regarding Denuvo on Switch here.
