Ka-pi96 said:
I seriously doubt any of the games on Nintendo's online service will be available on their next console, it will probably start the releases from scratch again, just like every Nintendo console before it. That won't have preserved history at all. |
I think NSO games will carry over to the next console. Nintendo's prior issue is that they didn't have a modern account system that could easily be utilized by future hardware and by extension, software. Now that they do have it in place and are charging you $20+ a year for it, they have an obligation to make sure your content is there day 1...or at least I hope.
I don't think NSO is what we should be worrying about carrying over to the next console though. I'm more worried about Backwards Compatibility.
In terms of preserving history for customers, sure Nintendo isn't the best at it because they have priorities that sometimes take precedence over what some customers want. However we do have emulation, console modding and pretty much every rom or iso you could think of wandering the internet. So the software is well preserved by gaming communities.
Nintendo themselves, as seen in the Giga Leak of 2020, pretty much has everything they've ever developed & published backed up and preserved for when or if they see need to use it. So in that regard, it's preserved but nobody besides them get to use it unless they release it. That does indeed suck but the 2020 Giga Leak was a glimpse into what we've missed.
