I bet they wouldn’t care as much if a significant portion of their modern business model wasn’t reselling old games.
“Here’s a game that came out in 1987, except we’ve added DRM to it and pulled its new price from a hat.”
Piracy has only one real solution, a better market. I don’t pirate PC games anymore because Steam has done plenty to earn the respect it has acquired. Prices are competitive and in general is a very smooth experience.
The Switch 2 has to be equal or better, in terms of power, to the Steam Deck/Ally. It is a shame that the last Pokemon games are no better than an indie game and the current switch can barely handle the latest Zelda
I’ve always wondered why Nintendo doesn’t try to undercut the reproduction and emulation market by coming in and allowing companies to make direct printed reproductions that are official. Imagine if you could just order an actual N64 cartridge from Nintendo for like $15-20.
Heck IDK why Nintendo doesnt sell new FPGA versions of old consoles
Why make money once when you can get people hooked on a subscription and pay many times the value?
They’ve also locked N64 and GBA behind an extra subscription model on the Switch. I’ve paid a month here and there for online support, I don’t want an entire year AND paying double to play one or two retro games.
I dont mind the subscription for the retro catalogue, but expand the fucking catalogue already. It shouldnt be as limited as it is.
I’d be willing to pay that yearly fee for one game, just to have it on there and play when I want. Meanwhile I’ll be using my PSP, so good for handheld emulation.
Don’t forget Genesis as well! Even though Nintendo certainly has.
Oh dang, I didn’t realize they were also doing subs now. What an absolute sham.
The vast, vast majority of Nintendo’s games are unlikely to ever be on their online store front again. This is them just being litigious dicks.
“Here’s a game that came out in 1987, except we’ve added DRM to it and pulled its new price from a hat.”
If only the execution was similar to the newest Rugrats game…
I’ve been pirating them since 1998. I also loaded them onto my hacked Switch using their own emulators.
A point the video makes is that derivative works (ROM hacks, translations, etc) are made much more difficult to access as well by Nintendo killing the sites entirely. Those hacks are works in progress with many new hacks released even in the present day.
True, although despite Nintendo’s efforts, I’ve never had any trouble finding their roms. It’s certainly easier now than it was 20 years ago!
I didn’t even have issues finding ROMs before the 2000s… Maybe patched/translated ones yeah, but bare ROMs… I don’t think so.
There was just less stuff in general on the internet back then, so it was more a case of less places to find them.
I share every ROM from nes to gamecube, and a few wii and switch roms on soulseek.
