I mean sure, but if I eg. pirate eg. Pokemon Blue (the original game for the GB, afaik, unavailable on anything that you can buy from nintendo today), and play

I mean sure, but if I eg. pirate eg. Pokemon Blue (the original game for the GB, afaik, unavailable on anything that you can buy from nintendo today), and play that, I pirated it because I wanted to play that exact game (since i'm already pirating, i could pirate something newer for the same price of "free" if I wanted to, but no, I want pokemon blue). Assuming that I would buy (and pay for) whatever the newest pokemon game for switch instead is a stupid assumption. If they want people to buy old games, sell them old games. Put a gamboy emulator on the switch, put a rom-store inside it, and charge a few bucks for a game. There are many other media where you could stay with the old... books for example, there are many more out-of-copyright books than a person could reasonably read in a lifetime, but you still want to read some newest freshest bestsellers, not just the Mysterious Island from jules verne (which is actually available to buy, even if it's out of copyright!)