Well, technically you are renting them from Sony. Once you stop paying you no longer own them.

That results % lol

That legendary catalogue generally isn't worth half of what they charge for it on VC and even then, people are desparate for it. I think people would have been more than happy if paid online gave you 4-6 VC games each month. I would have been down for it Day 1.

Should be put in the dictionary.

I have to disagree on principle OP. Nintendo has done a mediocre job with their Virtual Console, where you HAVE To buy items. They don't even have the vast majority of their former titles available to purchase. I can't imagine they're making THAT much from selling roms on the virtual store.

I do think marketing with something like "Buy our system and you'll already have Mario 64 and Metroid Prime installed!" or something like that would actually be very helpful.

Make no mistake- there are free games on certain online platforms because it WORKS to get people using the platform. To suggest otherwise, or that it is detrimental is just silly.

unless you seriously are making a complaint about people feeling entitled? no offense but when Nintendo is trying to sell accessories for the Switch at insane prices (80$, 70$, ec.) then the reality is the least they could do is give people more incentive to invest in the system by giving more to the consumers in a system package. And it costs them NOTHING now practically to put a few of the popular oldies on there for free. They've milked the likes of Super Mario 64 and Super Mario Kart far and away enough by now

I'm flabbergasted at what I'm reading. No it is not good deal. Want to tolerate it? Fine, but please be honest with yourself and really ask if games given away at part of the cost of an online service is a bad thing compared to JUST paying for it.

Yeah, the industry is doing the 'free' games stuff because it hurts them.

Except for those games aren't really free. You're paying a subscription for them. The subscription isn't just for online multiplayer, it's for everything's that's included with the subscription, including the games. In some cases (PS+), you aren't really even paying money to own the games, you're quite literally renting them.