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burninmylight on 11 March 2024
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Shtinamin_ said:
burninmylight said:

A lot of publishers choose to go that route with old games that they could have put on NSO: Capcom with Mega Man, Square with Final Fantasy, Konami with Castlevania and so on.

TPC would find it more beneficial to itself to go that route too, so I believe it.

For putting Mainline Pokémon on NSO, let’s agree to disagree. Personally, I think that would be amazing, and a huge reason to get NSO. But wouldn’t be the reality.
If TPC puts their mainline on NSO, how much percentage of income would they receive? If TPC puts their mainline as a physical cartridge, how much income would they make?

TPC is much bigger than all of those companies.

What are we disagreeing about? The profitability for TPC?

I can't answer any questions about how much of a cut it would receive for putting mainline games on NSO. I'd love to know what the breakdown is for it between publishers and Nintendo. I'm sure the NSO apps are collecting data on games played and times playing them, so I wonder if that's factor. If someone has a source where Nintendo or publisher shared details, please share it here.

But the fact is that each console on the NSO app is missing big titles that were retail released on Switch in some shape or fashion. The only Castlevania games Konami has allowed on it are Bloodlines and lol Legends, meanwhile there are two Castlevania Collections containing the NES trilogy, two SNES games and three GBA games. Ditto Contra, except for Hard Corps. The only Mega Man game Castlevania has allowed on it is The Wily Wars. TWW isn't part of the several Mega Man collections containing all of the NES and SNES games. The only mainline Sonic game on it is Sonic 2, but you can get the original quadrilogy in Sonic Origins, to say nothing of other Genesis collections. Square-Enix hasn't released anything with Final Fantasy in the name on it, but you can get the FF Pixel Remasters from the eShop. There are a bunch of SE RPGs that were on the SNES that have gotten eShop releases and collections as well, like Romancing SaGa, Mana and others.

So based on publisher's actions, it seems more profitable to them to release their games themselves then allow them on NSO. TPC is just as much in it for themselves as all of the others. And like you said, someone would have to go out of their way to recode the classic games on NSO not to have a pause and rewind option to prevent duping, so if someone has to go in and touch code, might as well make it a full-blown SKU and release it on eShop or put it in a box in retail.