Back in March, the plan was announced for a Wii emulator and GameCube Dolphin to launch on Steam, along with some useful Steam features but now that seems unlikely to happen.
Team Dolphin has now announced that their Steam page has been taken down, with Nintendo sending a DMCA takedown notice to Valve about it. Here it is statement released:
With great disappointment we have to announce that the release of Dolphin on Steam has been indefinitely delayed. We have been notified by Valve that Nintendo has issued a cease and desist DMCA inference against the Dolphin Steam page, and has removed Dolphin from Steam until the matter is settled. We are currently examining our options and will have a more in-depth response in the near future.
We appreciate your patience in the meantime.
what a shame.
Why now though? Dolphin has been around since 2003 for the GameCube, adding basic Wii support in 2007, so Dolphin has been around during the time the Wii was still fully supported. Nintendo also only went after the Steam page, not the project as a whole where it can still be found github And Official site. According to a comment from Citra developer on redditdue to Dolphin including decryption keys with the project.
Really, it wouldn’t do much good for Nintendo, they’re even putting Dolphin all over the news, and now more people will know about it and end up using it.
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