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Jumpin on 07 July 2019
Barkley said:
DreadPirateRoberts said:

The people with hacked Switches represent a negligible share of Switch owners.  Also, to be blunt, the majority of those people were never going to pay for legacy games in the first place.  

That's not my point. My point is that people can get retro games running on every device under the sun, sometimes in a matter of days. It should be a doddle for Nintendo yet they don't do it. Neither did Sony with PS1 on PS4. I understand third party games would require contracts/agreements or whatever but their first party games should have been up ages ago.

Don't know what takes these companies so long.

Snes, GBA, GB, GBC and N64 games are all playable on the Switch with emulators, why can't Nintendo themselves do it?

Those people also often see that hardware bricked as a result of shoddy porting and emulation.

The quality is often not up to par.

Nintendo can never risk that sort of thing, they need QA.



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Barkley on 08 July 2019
Jumpin said:
Barkley said:

That's not my point. My point is that people can get retro games running on every device under the sun, sometimes in a matter of days. It should be a doddle for Nintendo yet they don't do it. Neither did Sony with PS1 on PS4. I understand third party games would require contracts/agreements or whatever but their first party games should have been up ages ago.

Don't know what takes these companies so long.

Snes, GBA, GB, GBC and N64 games are all playable on the Switch with emulators, why can't Nintendo themselves do it?

Those people also often see that hardware bricked as a result of shoddy porting and emulation.

The quality is often not up to par.

Nintendo can never risk that sort of thing, they need QA.

No they don't, I've never heard of a case of a homebrew emulator bricking a device. Nintendo can have QA doesn't mean it takes over 2 years to get SNES games running.



Darashiva on 08 July 2019

And yet Nintendo continues the ridiculous dripfeed of games going for their online shop. They should have literally had every single first party NES, SNES and Gameboy game available for purchase since day one, but instead its maybe 1 or 2 games a week if we're lucky, most of which are either games I wouldn't spend more than five minutes on or games I've already played dozens of times on several different platforms.



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JRPGfan on 08 July 2019

Talk is cheap.... nintendo could easily get emulators running their "past" games on the Switch, its just their too lazy, or dont actually want to allow it.

So its easy to say the PR friendly thing, but actions speak louder.
Switch is still missing the virtual console.



Chrkeller on 08 July 2019

I don't think Nintendo will ever sell their legacy titles again. At best Nintendo will rent than via online subscription.



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Summerset on 08 July 2019

Read a lengthy article about that...can't remember where, but the jist was, that Nintendo seems to be afraid, that their retro catalogue would cannibalize the indie releases, which kinda makes sense.

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mysteryman on 08 July 2019
RolStoppable said:
Doesn't it look obvious that Nintendo plans to make more old games available in chronological order of past consoles? The longterm plan is to have a consistent revenue stream from subscriptions, so SNES games won't come until NES games are nearing their end and so on.

You can also expect the subscription fee to increase in price once more classic console games are available.

The subscription model works for Nintendo as well, because it doesn't inherently devalue the IP. You can pay for timed access (monthly, yearly etc.) but you are never paying peanuts to buy their IP.



Barkley on 08 July 2019
curl-6 said:

Meanwhile the Nvidia Shield TV, also running on a Tegra X1, has official 1080p Nintendo ports of Mario Galaxy, Twilight Princess, and Donkey Kong Country Returns... only in China.

Yep, I remember when Super Mario Galaxy was released for the Shield thinking it basically confirmed that it was also coming to Switch. It's the same hardware that's in the Switch so not putting it on the Switch would be silly. Yet a year later and still nothing.



TruckOSaurus on 08 July 2019
Darashiva said:
And yet Nintendo continues the ridiculous dripfeed of games going for their online shop. They should have literally had every single first party NES, SNES and Gameboy game available for purchase since day one, but instead its maybe 1 or 2 games a week if we're lucky, most of which are either games I wouldn't spend more than five minutes on or games I've already played dozens of times on several different platforms.

I was actually 3 games per month then it dropped to 2 games, then back to 3 so you were generous with your 1 or 2 games a week.

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Wman1996 on 08 July 2019

Nintendo is sitting on an embarrassment of riches, the greatest 1st-party backlog of all-time. Imagine NES, GB, SNES, N64, GBC, GBA, GCN, and Wii games. That's not even mentioning competitor's platforms like MS, GEN/MD, GG, SAT, DC, TG-16, Neo Geo, etc.

Nintendo clearly has some kind of plan to ring some money out of legacy titles, because I don't know why they wouldn't.



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