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CaptainExplosion said:
Nintendo's piss poor handling of their backlog is only encouraging unlicensed emulation. Giving us GOOD subscription game services is the only real way to cut down on ROM sites. |
The way Nintendo is handling its IP's on older titles is making them big money. They've sold 10's of millions of older titles (from previous generations) on Switch as re-releases/remasters/remakes, and its working for them. They've released NSO+Expansion Pass at the end of this past year with N64/Genesis games. Give them time to expand that library (maybe even to GC and Wii) and it might prove to be a real money spinner and good service for people who like retro games.
They don't need to do anything as drastic as pumping big cash into a service live service like Game Pass. For a Japanese company that is clearly profit driven in all their business decision making, I highly doubt they'd consider a loss leading model and they that they want to involve themselves into that business model - if they can avoid it.
Besides that.. people that are going to use pirated ROMs aren't suddenly going to subscribe to a service to play old games. Same as people who pirate other things.. they're just going to continue doing what they are doing.
