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I'm shocked a company with as good of a track record as a reliable gaming company to have in your living room & backpack would make such an incredibly shortsigh
by rektide 4y ago
I'm shocked a company with as good of a track record as a reliable gaming company to have in your living room & backpack would make such an incredibly shortsighted & negative a frackas as this. This is such a huge unforced error.
Nintendo has such a huge cash reserve, & can easily own this for another couple decades, at minimal cost. However they failed to materialize the internal will to do the obviously right & easy thing, to let their own past works burn, is a huge error that will greatly injure Nintendo's name for decades.
- mrguyorama 4y agoNintendo's openly stated position, since like the 80s, is that current american law is wrong and you don't have a right to a backup copy of games you buy. If Nintendo could suck memories of super mario out of the brains of people who didn't pay a yearly licensing fee, none of us would remember the 90s and Nintendo fans would STILL preorder everything they touch.
- jamesgeck0 4y agoDo you have a reference for this?
- mrguyorama 4y agohttps://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/55888/kw/roms#s2q7 https://en-americas-support.nintendo.com/app/answers/detail/... They say that video games should not be covered under the exemption for backup copies and that they are not "software only".
- widowlark 4y agoThat is an aggressively hostile interpretation of fair use on their part. For shame.
- toast0 4y agoThey already shut down the Wii shop, I think with about $4 of my credit on it too. If I had a Wii U, I think there was a way to migrate content and credit, but I don't have a Wii U; thankfully, they've moved away from the Flooz model of buy credits in fixed amounts before you buy content with the credits that many of the consoles were doing. That they're keeping the store online for redownloads is a nice touch though, but for how long?