| Cobretti2 said: Nintendo as an examples ties everything to our console hardware. Once the Switch online ends life, if your switch dies so does your game collection. |
Cobretti2 said:
There is a difference, Wii and WiiU online services are dead if both of those die I can't redownload those games onto another WiiU. Hell I can't even use the web browser on the WiU? why not it's installed on there, I have an internet connection. Modern consoles with updates and patches are effectively useless as retro console. |
You wrote "Nintendo as an examples ties everything to our console hardware."
"ties" = present, not the past. They haven't done that for over a decade!
- digital Switch games are bound to your Nintendo account, not to the hardware
- digital Wii U games are bound to your Nintendo account, not to the hardware
- digital 3DS games are bound to your Nintendo account, not to the hardware
You wrote "Once the Switch online ends life, if your switch dies so does your game collection."
Which is wrong, ergo your goal post shift to Wii and Wii U.
You wrote "Wii and WiiU online services are dead if both of those die I can't redownload those games onto another WiiU."
- WiiU online service ain't dead, only the eShop store took WiiU titles off its shelves. You can still redownload your bought WiiU titles.
- 3DS online service also ain't dead, only the eShop store took 3DS titles off its shelves. You can still redownload your bought 3DS titles.
- there are also a lot of delisted games on Steam, which can't be bought anymore. You can still redownload these delisted Steam titles.
The complete shutdown of the Wii and DSi online services and Virtual Console (without the option to redownload bought titles) was a shitty move from Nintendo, no question. Many of us have complained about that.
But that doesn't indicate how Nintendo will handle digital Switch libraries in a few years or even a decade.
Times have changed and digtal games got much more important over the years for Nintendo. There are thousands of Switch games without a retail option.
Nintendo got away with the shutdown of the Wii and DSi online services because they weren't very popular. The shitstorm for shutting down the Switch online services would be much much bigger... probably even bigger as the attempted shutdown of PS3 online services a few years ago.
- You can still redownload and update digital PS3 games although the store is closed.
- You can still redownload and update digital Xbox360 games although the store is closed.
- Nintendo has no "freedom of fools". They will also have to keep the Switch online services alive, as long as it is very important for their customers.
