Old Nintendo games' availability

[bvrakvs]

Why do Nintendo hide their game archive, why not make them available on everywhere including here? I want my old Mario, Zelda games, even Pokemon games on Steam.

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one

[peppermint hollows]

Nintendo is allergic to people playing their old games for whatever reason, and we've all been wondering for years. They just lack good business sense.

[Azure Fang]

Originally posted by bvræqvete:

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one

Iunno why, but heard that in the A Perfect Circle cover tone and it just felt fitting discussing Nintendo.

[( ( < < <🤖> > > ) )]

missed opportunities... i wonder why....
i used to jump at other retro collections in store...

[Castyles]

They're just elitists gatekeepers who'd rather lose money than pride.

[Adam]

Nintendo will never do this. Ever. Just like they'll never swap around the controller buttons to be the same as the rest of the world.

[Crazy Tiger]

Because Nintendo wants you to buy their hardware.

[Crashed]

Originally posted by Adam:

Nintendo will never do this. Ever. Just like they'll never swap around the controller buttons to be the same as the rest of the world.

So annoying going between Nintendo layouts (press the rightmst face button to accept, bottom to cancel) and everyone else's (press the bottom face button to accept, the rightmost to cancel).

[Crashed]

Originally posted by Crazy Tiger:

Because Nintendo wants you to buy their hardware.

Nintendo actually has a different profit model than the other manufacturers. While they do take a licensing fee like everyone else, they build their systems down to a cost and sell them at a profit too.

[bvrakvs]

Originally posted by Crazy Tiger:

Because Nintendo wants you to buy their hardware.

On which modern device can I play Pokemon Yellow? How does Nintendo get any money from people playing that on emulators or old game boys? None of that get them any money. I am talking about old games, not the most recent ones

[Crazy Tiger]

Originally posted by bvræqvete:

Originally posted by Crazy Tiger:

Because Nintendo wants you to buy their hardware.

On which modern device can I play Pokemon Yellow? How does Nintendo get any money from people playing that on emulators or old game boys? None of that get them any money. I am talking about old games, not the most recent ones

What makes you think Nintendo wants you to play the old games? They want people to purchase the modern hardware and the corresponding games. And any older games they want you to play will end up in the eshop in some way.

[bvrakvs]

Originally posted by Crazy Tiger:

Originally posted by bvræqvete:

On which modern device can I play Pokemon Yellow? How does Nintendo get any money from people playing that on emulators or old game boys? None of that get them any money. I am talking about old games, not the most recent ones

What makes you think Nintendo wants you to play the old games? They want people to purchase the modern hardware and the corresponding games. And any older games they want you to play will end up in the eshop in some way.

That is just silly, players demand those games, Nintendo should offer those in a legit way, and get more money, win-win. Currently it is lose-lose for no obvious reason.

[That guy with the Spoon]

Originally posted by bvræqvete:

Originally posted by Crazy Tiger:

What makes you think Nintendo wants you to play the old games? They want people to purchase the modern hardware and the corresponding games. And any older games they want you to play will end up in the eshop in some way.

That is just silly, players demand those games, Nintendo should offer those in a legit way, and get more money, win-win. Currently it is lose-lose for no obvious reason.

more like win-win-lose coz nintendo doesn't sell them but valve has a huge market on steam deck sales due to emudeck but shhhh don't tell anybody, especially not nintendo.

and there are people who get the deck for retro gaming specifically. i personally don't know how people can play aaa games on the deck unless you hock it up docked with m+kb but that's just me.

so ultimate retro gaming machine it is.

[nullable]

Nintendo is very careful with it's IP. And releasing it everywhere might make some money, but also kind of dilute the value and perception of that IP down. Nintendo has made their IP special, they're not going to do anything to change that.

And I don't think people realize how profitable Nintendo is, so appealing to their avarice "make more money right now" might not be the big brain argument one might think. Nintendo is playing the long game with their IP.

We're still going to be eating up Mario, Zelda and Pokemon games in 2085. People will only know about Sonic, Crash Bandicoot and a lot of other pretty popular IP's from today or yesteryear, in history books.

[Mega Ultra Chicken]

Nintendo hates PC. They don't like it because PC gamers can pirate their PC ports and emulate their games for free. I don't really understand why they can't port older Switch games to PC. I understand keeping newer games exclusive to the Switch. They should just port their original Switch games to PC when the Switch successor has built up a good library. They would still sell well on Steam even if they're older games.

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Originally posted by bvræqvete:

Nintendo pls

Ask the copyright holder directly.