shikamaru317 said:
Really poor analogy. Nobody makes money off of ROM's of 15+ year old out of circulation games, and the publishers lose no money either because those games are no longer available new. Comparing the Emulation of 15+ year old consoles to modern day game piracy just doesn't work. Nintendo just struck a huge blow against game preservation efforts, because they just set a precedent that is causing other ROM sites to close. |
This has nothing to do with game preservation. Nintendo is protecting the rights to their own IPs. And yes, people still do make money off 15+ year old games. See NES Classic, SNES Classic, Flashback Consoles, previous iterations of Virtual Console, etc. Nintendo, and @Games did go through the trouble of making sure they went through the proper licensing channels to put games on those systems for a reason. If the ROM sites were these altruistic, philanthropic entities selflessly concerned only with preserving niches games that aren't available in the wild that you make them out to be; there wouldn't have been any Nintendo IP's on those sites in the first place. And then, Nintendo wouldn't have a case against them.
