Never heard of that, I assume it’s an emulator. Emulation is different from running a game natively. Yeah, Nintendo probably could get AMD hardware to work as a replacement for Nvidia hardware, but I would guess either compatibility would be imperfect, there would be a performance hit, or both.

There is the used games market, if you are willing to engage with it, though that does need you to be really patient.

Backwards compatibility means they might not be able to talk to AMD unfortunately, depending on how the software is set up I’d assume.

That would work if serial numbers weren’t visible without even opening the box the device came in, and I’m they are even included on the receipt for the device. Scalpers would absolutely have a ton of serial numbers just lying around from unsold devices, or even devices they sold and just hope the owner of won’t bother attempting a purchase of the thing they are scalping.

That’s a fine solution long term I guess, but things take time to be made.

Can you think of a better way to keep it mostly out of the hands of scalpers?

I suspect it’s more that the time people can and do spend playing phone games has just about zero overlap with PC games. You play phone games while on the bus or on the toilet, you play PC games while at home behind your desk.