I chose the lowest amount listed in the poll.  I have all of Nintendo's previous hardware hooked up in my home if I ever want to play them.  It's nice to also be able to play them out of the house, so that being said, I will upgrade for the N64 and Genesis games.  But, I'm not looking to pay over $100 per year for the service to add more legacy consoles when I already have so many new Switch games that I still need to play and more coming out and adding to that backlog all the time.

I can't see removing subscription services when the switch 2 is launched.  It will be a standard service on nintendo hardware moving forward just like Playstation now.

The Virtual Console and WiiWare were just branding. They’ve evolved and expanded into the EShop where any company can release any of their games, current or classic regardless of previous platform. The EShop on Switch attracted more classic games than any other Nintendo console, and in a variety of different ways.

It’s a lot better this way as companies have more freedom of how they wish to disseminate their content, rather than being pigeonholed into a single method. Some, like Sega, are doing it multiple ways.

Sega does offer their classic games in a wide variety of ways... and their games hold next to no value. Managing brand maintains value, which why Nintendo is doing what they are.

Nintendo could easily sell a classic game for $20, sega cannot.  

Disney has been doing this for decades and like it or not, but it works.

Sarcasm, but you seems a nice guy so I will try to be nice too

Old systems that are not Playstation are incredibly rare in Brazil, many of their games were never released here. All games I've played from GameCube I've played on emulators. Unfortunately your solution would require to be american or japanese to work. Indeed in Japan this is a surprisingly cheap option, as second hand market for older system is titanic. I think the only older systems that are affordable here are DS, 3DS and Wii

I suppose.  I don't get the point in expecting the worse.

If you start expecting them to make decisions that they determine to be in their financial best interest based on their data collection and research, then you will no longer be disappointed. If they haven't made those older platforms and more games available, then there is a reason. There is also a reason they are trickling them out slowly, and only including a small selection for each platform. They aren't mindless fools. They've lasted since the 1800's, are a multi-billion dollar company, and have enough cash reserves to sustain 5-6 Wii U level financial failures before going under. They know what they are doing. For one reason or another, they believe they will make more money off modern games than by pushing older ones (I theorized one possible reason why this could be in an earlier reply to this thread).

That's crazy, I could buy 4 or 5 second hand games per year for that price and I would own those games forever. You'd be willing to pay 120per year to own your games? That's like 6000 dollars for the next 50 years, it sounds crazy to me.

Plenty options for free

Xbox

PC

Laptop

Phones

Tablets

Switch hacked

etc

Of course there's logical reason if you understand anything about business. If you put games for lets say 5 dollars you might get some sales, but if you force people to pay for a subscription then they will keep paying month after month after month, and they they will need to keep paying forever if they want to keep their games, but here's the trick, make online cheap to build a consumer base, and then raise the prices, consumer has 2 choices, pay more in the future or lose all their games.

Im happy that so many people are willing to pay nintendo monthly subscription for old games you could get on any phone these days. I'm happy because the more money Nintendo makes, the more games they will invest in.