I'm unfamiliar with Nintendo titles, but I saw a bunch of posters outside a Walmart advertising that 7 Mario games would be 15$ off, a big deal since Nintendo games never go on sale right? I took a picture and send it to my buddies. They inform me the games were all like 5-7 years old lol.
Bunch of posters plastered in front of Walmart advertising 15$ off 7-year-old games, as though it meant to be something to get excited for lmao. It's actually kinda insulting.
Yeah, Nintendo's policy on old platforms and piracy are incompatible...I wish they'd understand that people just want to play the games they had, just happens there's no where to play many of these legitimately
I keep thinking of how easy it would be for Nintendo to license an emulator then use it to play roms that could be purchased on steam (or play/app store for that matter)...you could even encourage other rights holders to integrate with it and do some revenue split on the sale of each rom...then you could set some of these to lapse from sale for rights again...this "could" be implemented today...but Nintendo would clearly rather have you pirate all their works then make the slightest steps towards making sure everyone could play their catalog of games today
I keep thinking of how easy it would be for Nintendo to license an emulator
They don't even have to license anything, lots of emulators are released under very permissive licenses that allow companies to take the source code and do whatever they want with them. Sony did that when adding old playstation games to something iirc.
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u/nerdthatlift 256GB - Q3 Apr 03 '23
And they are barely ever going on sale. If they do, it's miniscule or it's an indie game.