Nintendo Really Is Out of Touch

[aiwass]

One of the most frustrating aspects is every new generation means a completely new frontend eShop, so the ability to acquire their older games is a chore every generation. Back in 2011, they gave you 10 free GBA games, while GBA games were also on Wii U Virtual Console. Now a decade later there are rumors of maybe the original Game Boy coming to the Switch, but you know it's mostly going to be shovelware like most of the other old games they release every few months on NES/SNES Online. One has to wonder if the Switch generation will last long enough for actual GBA games to arrive--then the next generation will start and two years later they'll release mostly forgettable NES games. and the cycle will start all over again. This is all forgetting the solid Virtual Console the original Wii had back in 2006. I really just don't understand their hesitancy in just fucking releasing most of their back library especially since they're so aggressive about piracy. "Teehee... here's a generic SNES sports game no one played or cares about!" Fuck off.

It would really be in their best interest to adapt to a similar model as Sony and Microsoft, like make your backlog available and allow seamless transition to the next generation when it comes. Eventually it will be inexcusable in the modern era to lose everything you had from the previous generation when upgrading. I honestly think one of the main reasons that Xbox was able to survive on life support for so many years was because so many people had bought into "mah ecosystem" and didn't want to lose everything they had bought on their prior Xbox systems. At this point Nintendo is shooting themselves in the foot by allowing for a clean generational break to a competitor that DOES allow for such things if users aren't able to migrate their data anyway.