BOLD PREDICTION: By the end of NS2 life, all Nintendo games will be GKC

[Cerebralbore101]

Pemalite said:

If Nintendo does that... Then they lose me as a customer.
No skin off my nose to be honest.

Difference between console and PC in the digital space is... If you lose access to your games because the service has shut down, then you can get those same games via other avenues.
On console? Not so much.

For example... Almost 30 years ago I bought a game called "StarCraft" on CD-Rom. -And then about 20 years after release, activated my CD key via battle.net digitally.
That same license has transcended multiple form factors, generations and devices.

I can play that same CD-Rom purchase from 30 years ago on the latest and greatest handheld. No piracy.

I'll attest to buying Sins of a Solar Empire in Walmart and then 15 years later emailing the box art and key to Stardock games. They gave me a free Steam license, no questions asked. Not every company will be this nice, but a lot of them are.