Could Nintendo realistically do this

[zorg1000]

KLXVER said:

zorg1000 said:

There is no contradiction, you’re just misunderstanding.

In general retro games sell to an existing user base, basically nobody is buying a console, PC, tablet or smartphone to play these old games but they might buy some old games on devices they own.

They are “basically worthless” in the sense that people aren’t going to go out and spend a few hundred dollars on a piece of hardware and a few hundred dollars for a subscription over the course of the systems life to play a bunch of games from the 80s/90s. It’s just existing Switch owners/NSO subscribers who would be playing these games so Nintendo isn’t really making any money off them, especially if they are paying hundreds of millions to Capcom/Square/Sega/Konami.

By making these games exclusive to a single platform, you’re not making the platform more valuable, you’re just limiting the amount of people who have access to these games.

That makes sense.

I just thought now that MS is pushing Gamepass to be this great deal with new games, I thought maybe Nintendo could be the place for retro games. I might have overestimated the value of these older games, but I still think theres something they could do with this. Maybe on a smaller scale. Nintendo doesnt seem to be very agressive when it comes to getting the bigger third party support for their online retro console service. If they could somehow make themselves seem like THE place for retro games, I think that could benefit them. Although they probably are one of the biggest already.

There is nothing wrong with them trying to court 3rd parties and get more games on NSO, the issue with your original idea just comes down to them being exclusive to it, I don’t think anybody benefits from that.