As an eighth-generation console, its primary competitor was Sony's PlayStation Vita. The system features backward compatibility with older Nintendo DS video games. It was announced in March 2010 and unveiled at E3 2010 as the successor to the Nintendo DS. More information on that will appear in the future.The Nintendo 3DS is a handheld game console produced by Nintendo. However, Microsoft is in the process of bringing “safe and legal” emulation onto the Xbox. Since Microsoft considers it safe, it does not plan on changing this any time in the future. You will still be able to use emulators in dev mode. As for why Nintendo has issues with a Microsoft console, you could install Dolphin onto your Xbox Series X or One.

Microsoft only banned emulators in retail mode. To summarize, aside from the legal issues with Nintendo, there is a security risk involved with emulators. The full e-mail is available on Alyanna McKenna’s Twitter as an image.

Though emulating itself is not illegal, players can emulate games “from consoles that are still under copyright protection without permission,” which Nintendo is not happy about. According to the official message, the main reason for the ban has to do with Nintendo. In response to a Twitter user noting that Microsoft blocked emulators in the Xbox store front, Azure Developer Alyanna McKenna has replied with an e-mail from the Xbox QA team.

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