Some videos contain a step-by-step process showing how to visit a website, download a file, and play Nintendo’s The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild on a PC. The content of the videos vary significantly. YouTube video claiming to show users how to download Nintendo Switch emulatorĪ search for “Nintendo Switch emulator” on YouTube yields a variety of results, racking up tens of thousands of views (the most having over 76,000), while others have several hundred views.
Switch emulator videos on YouTube Figure 1. Over the last few weeks, scammers have been trying to dupe users into believing that a software emulator exists for the Nintendo Switch, the company’s newest console that was released on March 3, 2017.
