I couldn't care less about preservation of every damn 40-50 year old game that most people already forgot about and half the people who played it back then already are already dead. Only the most relevant and influential games from the 70s and 80s are worth a damn nowadays, proven even more by how most people reacted to all of those irrelevant NES games that Nintendo added to NSO that most people never heard of. Nobody cares about those games.
Most of those 670 lost games no one would have ever played again or cared about anyway if some archive still had a copy.
Throwing out game code is stupid obviously, since then publishers can't just rerelease games like SE is doing right now with many of their 90s games. But it's in no way the publisher's obligation to preserve their games. It's just smarter to do that, because it can make them money decades down the line.
I don't get the obsession with playing original versions of certain games if remasters and remakes are almost always better in most ways. Nostalgia plays a big role but sometimes it's just unreasonable.
That all said, Nintendo is already is preserving all of their games and most of them might end up seeing the light of day eventually... or not.
Last edited by Kakadu18 - on 28 April 2022
