firebush03 said:
You see, that’s a solid explanation— that makes a lot of sense to me. That said, to maybe fight back a little bit… this would only make sense in the event that Nintendo is no longer running a digital storefront/service which provides games: If Netflix shuts down, for instance, and Netflix no longer runs any form of services to provide you their films and such, then yeah, you’re out of luck. In the case of Nintendo, the equivalent of this would be Nintendo essentially going out of business or completely departing from the gaming industry. So… while you do have a solid point, we’re talking about a highly unlikely hypothetical for the next few decades minimum. |
It's not hypothetical at all, companies get out of bussines constantly. You remember SEGA? Xbox is also in their last moments right now...
But aside of that, you don't need the company to go into bankruptcy, they can simply stop offering the digital storefront to cut costs. Right now digital stores are still relatively young, so we haven't seen it yet, but they are already being shut down systematically. First by removing the features related to purchase, but then comes the download features
I work with software, and let me tell you giving support to 20 year old systems can turn into a real nightmare, specially when the workforce responsible to build the systems are long gone. Sometimes it simply become impractical to keep softwares running then they give you literally get no revenue for more than a decade
