| BasilZero said: Digital games even on Nintendo is fine... |
I agree with your whole post.
I think that the complaints for digital games is landing wrong, the problem is no different than physical games. Physical games are generally less likely to be backward compatible because the only way it works if there is a media change is to have multiple slots (As with the DS) whereas digital doesn't require this.
And, I'm with you on digital, I've been 100% digital for over 10 years now (probably 12 years), since the early 3DS era. Even longer on PC/mobile.
But, either way, I think that the best practice is when companies maintain the previous generations as a part of the new generation, rather than discarding it. Or even as something independent - Steam doesn't have generations, but the hardware Steam is used on does, and those hardware generations don't necessarily make older software cease to function, and if they do, then they port it over to the new hardware - as is the case with the M-series SoCs for modern Macs. Ideally, Switch 2 will integrate everything on the Switch 1 EShop into the Switch 2 - everything you've bought will continue on just like iOS/Steam games do when you buy new generations of hardware.
This is why I say the lack of backwards compatibility feels like a big scam, and it always has to me, ever since the beginning of the 16-bit generation.
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