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Why would any sane consumer purchase those games when Nintendo has no track record of honoring purchases? Nintendo aggressively cuts off access to consumers pas
by initplus 4y ago
Why would any sane consumer purchase those games when Nintendo has no track record of honoring purchases? Nintendo aggressively cuts off access to consumers past purchases in the hopes that they buy the same retro games again on the new system. Not just by not sharing retro game purchases between systems, but also not even letting consumers still download their purchases on older systems.
It's like buying a book that's set to self-destruct a decade from now - no sane consumer would buy such a product.
- mattl 4y agoI bought a couple of Virtual Console games on the Wii. Those same games were transferred to my Wii U system with an SD card. The same games are now included on the Nintendo Switch Online service and many others too.
- maybeOneDay 4y agoWhich is to say: you had to wait for years for them to come out on Switch, and then pay again. Forever.
- mattl 4y agoNo, I’m pretty sure they were available very early after I bought the Switch console. Maybe within a year? Late 2006 I bought the Wii and then the Wii U in 2014 and now I pay the family plan at maybe $70 a year? Doesn’t seem different to buying songs on iTunes in 2006 and now paying for Apple Music every month now.
- maybeOneDay 4y agoIt was 18 months between launch of the Switch and of NSO, so we can split the difference :) I disagree. You should as far as I'm aware be able to still use those songs
- mattl 4y agoDepending on where you live it’s very possible iTunes songs had DRM in 2006 so you’re limited to playing those everywhere. Does anyone do this as you’d like to see it with software? Maybe Valve?
- maybeOneDay 4y agoI agree that DRM isn't ideal either. Well, it's not that anyone is necessarily perfect. But the other major console players certainly seem better - if I bought a PS4 game a few years ago then I can reasonably expect to still play it on PS6 and probably onwards. X360 games have been brought back to life by MSoft. Steam is generally pretty good yeah but it doesn't have the issue of consecutive consoles to deal with.
- mattl 4y agoI’m not sure if every Microsoft released Xbox or Xbox 360 or Xbox One or Xbox One X game is available on Xbox Series S/X?
- mehlmao 4y agoA fraction of those games are available on the Nintendo Switch Online, and you have to pay monthly for access to something you previously bought. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Virtual_Console_games_for_Wii_(North_America) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Virtual_Console_games_... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nintendo_Switch_Online_games https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nintendo_Switch_Online...
- mattl 4y agoI’m having a hard time finding any NES or SNES games on that list made by Nintendo that aren’t on the NSO service. Plus the article mentions that NSO service has some games that weren’t available elsewhere.
- LukeShu 4y agoNSO is a subscription, not a "purchase". There are good arguments to be made against subscriptions in comparison to purchases, but lots of "sane consumers" do buy in to such subscriptions with volatile content libraries that might have pieces of content self-destruct at any time (Netflix and Hulu). Plus, an NSO subscription is needed for online play, so many consumers have subscribed to NSO to play online with their friends, and access to the NES and SNES libraries is a freebie bonus.