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The catch is, game preservation touches Nintendo's present day commercial interests, as they fully expanded their offering to "classic" games. Nintendo Online i
by makeitdouble 2y ago
The catch is, game preservation touches Nintendo's present day commercial interests, as they fully expanded their offering to "classic" games. Nintendo Online is already that, but I also wouldn't be surprised if tomorrow a playable GameBoy toothbrush was released from Nintendo.
For people looking for an entry point, Moon Channel has been covering this topic pretty in depth (author is a lawyer, but not in trademark per se I think)
https://youtu.be/7rzWR9JP1WE?si=UOk5TI9iESdAONVB https://youtu.be/7rzWR9JP1WE?si=UOk5TI9iESdAONVB
- djtango 2y agoThis is the Disney play book - they would only release their classic movies on VHS for limited time before removing them from the shelves, look up the Disney Vault. The long backward compatibility we enjoyed as kids was a bug not a feature
- ghssds 2y agoUnsure why you want to make it a "we" thing as lot of us grew playing NES and then SNES, which didn't have backward compatibility.