Nintendo stock for 1.1 billions has been bought by ValueAct and want to make Nintendo as fully digital entertainment Service/ media company EDIT: Add Bloomberg article

[Jumpin]

sethnintendo said:

Jumpin said:

I think digital expansion is one of the smartest things Nintendo can do right now. The less plastic garbage and automobile travel that we can have, the better. Also, as a convenience factor and migrating software to future hardware, digital is vastly superior.

I've personally been all digital since the early 3DS days, and much longer than that if including just PC gaming.

I'm all for reduction in waste but I have one good question for you.  What happens when my Wii U which has my Wii file transfer dies?  My VC, WiiWare games are gone.  Does that sound future proof?

I would say contact Nintendo and ask for them to restore it for you. I personally think the Wii U was terrible, and I bought very little for it, so you’re not going to get me defending it. I don’t like that VC migration was handled so poorly. The one major thing I wanted from the Wii era is a continuation of that virtual console. But Steam and Switch EShop catalogues are recoverable and will likely remain so for the foreseeable future, both companies are attempting a form of permanence for their libraries going forward.