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Gamerace on 13 August 2013
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RolStoppable said:
Gamerace said:

Except people are already playing  classic Nintendo titles on mobile devices (and PCs).  In fact emulating Nintendo games was a sales pitch for Ouya.

So your entire argument lacks merit.  If people want to play Mario Kart (N64) on their tablet, they'll go ahead and do it.  If they want to use a controller they can do it on Ouya or PC.   Classic Nintendo games are already out there.   Yes, maybe that's costing Nintendo some sales of new hardware from people who feel Mario Kart N64 is the same and Mario Kart 8 (and to an extent that's true).   But largely it's rubbish, if people want the new games, they'll buy the new Nintendo hardware to play it on.   It's up to Nintendo to make their new games compelling enough that we don't want to settle for the old ones.

Really Rol, you usually make a solid argument and have shot me down (justifibly) a couple times but this stance is really weak.  I don't believe that you believe selling N64 and earlier games on other platforms would notciably undercut new hardware sales.   And by not selling the games themselves, it's just millions left on a table untouched.      But we've seen Nintendo do that countless times, and I don't see them doing this either.

Why would people pay for Nintendo games when they could emulate them for free? Your argument doesn't make sense in regards to that. It's like saying that each pirated copy of a game equates a lost sale.

I made a solid argument, it's just that you couldn't bothered to address this part at all:

Also, if you ask Nintendo to put their games on smartphones, you might as well ask them to put their games on the PC, Xbox and PlayStation. The principle is the same: More addressable consumers than on Nintendo hardware alone. And if we go further with this, why not ask Sony to put games on Xbox and Microsoft to put games on PlayStation?

Why stop at smartphones? People have been emulating Nintendo games on PCs for decades. Why not lure gamers from Xbox and PlayStation to Nintendo machines by making classic Nintendo games available on those platforms?

This was addressed initially in my post. Simply if given the option some (at all) people would gladly pay.

Re the rest: Obviously not on competing consoles and PC doesn't have the set-up of mobile devices for finding/buying games unless you go through Steam/Origin in which case - sure why not?    PCs and mobile are not directly competing devices and classic games won't compete with current Nintendo games.   In fact by putting them out there to the wider audience new people might discover and fall in love with Nintendo classics and then want to buy the newer games/systems.  

Sony and MS don't have NES/SNES equivelants and MS none for N64.    Sony could and arguably should do the same for PSX titles but considering virtually no if any at all Sony IPs from PSX are still being made now, there would be less benefit to them.  It wouldn't help promote and sell their current Ips the way Nintendo's classics would for Nintendo's new systems.   There has long been rumours that Sony would be releasing older titles via cloud service on all devices.