Here's a fun fact, about 20 of Nintendo's first party NES titles (Kirby's Adventure included) have an accumulative file size of about 1.5 MB. A decent NES emulator has a file size of about 10 MB. If Nintendo were to just include an NES emulator pre-loaded with these 20 games in their consoles, it would take up less than 12 MB. Assuming internal storage of a minimum at 32 GB (the base model Switch), it would only take up about 0.03%. Even if, for some reason, they felt that each game needs the emulator shell individually, it would still only be 0.6%. The point is, even at a pitiful 32GB instead of a more reasonable 256GB minimum, these games take up next to nothing in terms of storage.
So why exactly do Nintendo insist on either selling these games individually, in tiny collections or stream them for a fee, when by all rights they should be what Solitaire is to Windows?
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Why does Nintendo milk every last penny from their games? Gee I wonder OP.
Bruh why does an old movie not even in color cost more than 3 cents do people even math
>It's tiny and old, therefore should be free
Literally just
>So why exactly do Nintendo insist on either selling these games individually
im assuming this is a rhetorical
if people are dense enough to pay for emulation, then nintendo will be scheisty enough to charge for it
>Solitaire is to Windows?
Solitaire in modern Windows has ads.
And modern windows itself has ads for shit like CandyCrush (which is also preloaded on the OS)
Linux chads keep winning
You're poor, you're still going to pirate, they don't care what you think.
Not OP, but:
It's more like I'm not gay
I ain't buying a Switch in 2024
I have other expenses, also for other silly things
I like my gaming PC, my 55" TV, and my chinkheld
A SteamDeck may be next, but only if I need it
On Sunday I'm gonna make a BBQ with my buddies, drink some beers, fart like animals in the open air
>Braaaaaaap
"Take this, Nintendo!"
>chinkheld
sneed, poorgay :^)
Nobody cares that you're poor. Pirate away.
It's better to be poor than gay
We are the real "normal" people
Normies are just gays with some disposable cash that spend on the gayest things
Nice reddit spacing. Enjoy your BBQ with your butt buddies. Church food pantries are a great resource if you need free hot dog buns.
Of course I emulate, are you from the third world or something? You're awfully defensive about people actually having money.
Wow, you're rich!!!!
Imagine having to flex your "riches" on a forum about emulation
>"I ... I .... I have a lot of original hardware!!! My dad is a dentist!!!!"
Braaaaaap!!!
>"Take this anon!!! My hemorroids said hi!!! (Ouch!)"
(This is a true story, sadly)
So, you are rich, you are here, and yet you don't emulate?
Did you even buy a Switch?
Are you actually .... a.... a homosexual man?
The answer should be obvious. It makes more sense (for Nintendo) to make as much off of each individual game as possible.
The NES Classic and those Game and Watch handhelds were pretty nice, but even then it's hard to justify when Famiclones containing all of the same games and more exist for literally under $20 a piece
hes called mario because he mar, I? oh
Because that would have no influence on someone's decision to purchase a Nintendo console and would rob them of literally thousands of dollars of ROM sales in the cash shop.
this
mario 3 sold over 1 million copies on the virtual console. at $5 a pop, thats 5 million in revenue for no effort
Yeah people around here can't seem to wrap their heads around the fact that rights holders would like to make money off their properties.
So...you can still emulate. That's fine, nobody really cares if you do.
Emulation is easy but most normie gamers would still rather pay 5 bucks, or a small monthly fee(that they're already paying so they can play Mario Kart or Splatoon online) to play these games.
Just get Animal Crossing for gamecube and stop complaining
Because bundling games on the system is a bad idea. Around 2014 every iPhone included a complete U2 (Bono) album. It was impossible to delete or remove from your iPhone library. You could only hide it. It was very annoying seeing it there, because if you didn't have any music on your phone, the default music that was ready to be played was U2.
Steam lets you remove licenses from your library, so if you didn't like a free game or bought one but absolutely hated it, you can remove it.
It's not so much about the space but how it feels like having it there. Imagine Atari giving you 500 games installed, but you only want to play five of them. Makes the system look like trash.
>It's not so much about the space but how it feels like having it there
Obvious solution: allow users to delete the games, and re-download using the shop for free.
>Makes the system look like trash
Having classic Nintendo games that the company loves and is proud of looks bad? Buying a console without any games bundled is superior to having something? Nothing is better than something? And since we're talking about retro Nintendo games, you're saying that it's better to have nothing at all than these classic hits. Very strange anon. OP mentioned 20 games and you think each one of them would be WORSE than having nothing, yet you're on /vr/ and presumably enjoy old games.
>bruh
Anyone who uses the word bruh, even mockingly, isn't worth reading.
>why does an old movie not even in color cost more than 3 cents do people even math
Most black and white films were made before the 60s, and by this point they belong in the public domain. Also, you're buying a physical Blu-ray of that film. It's incomparable to free digital video games, unless Nintendo is going to manufacture NES and SNES cartridges again and sell them for $50+.
>Because that would have no influence on someone's decision to purchase a Nintendo console
A related concept is why I haven't bought anything since the Wii. The Virtual Console games didn't carry over to later systems and I didn't want to re-pay for a digital purchase; $5 to $10 was already pushing it. If Nintendo released a system with all of their 1st party games from the N64 and before (anything they can legally release) available for free, indefinitely, I would buy it.
>Having classic Nintendo games that the company loves and is proud of looks bad? Buying a console without any games bundled is superior to having something? Nothing is better than something? And since we're talking about retro Nintendo games, you're saying that it's better to have nothing at all than these classic hits. Very strange anon. OP mentioned 20 games and you think each one of them would be WORSE than having nothing, yet you're on /vr/ and presumably enjoy old games.
Correct. It's the difference between going to Golden Corral all you can eat buffet versus a fancy restaurant. Nintendo doesn't want their classics to look like SEGA compilations where they perception is that they're worth pennies. Makes it look like garbage. People tend to value things more if they had to pay for it.
Because mainting for each game there own web presence and individual sell catalog takes up more money, and burning money is what they like to do.
You create something, you have the rights to it, you sell it the way you want to.
I'll never pay for some 40yo rom though, I always have full romsets for nes, snes, genesis and fightcade on my pc and my notebook at all times
>You create something
That's the thing OP will never understand, he never created anything. Throwing a tantrum demanding free stuff and trying to justify it with backwards logic like "small file size therefore should be free" is something only a non creator would do.
Why should I pay 25 cents for s little ball? It should be free! Frick you!
Because modern Tendies are overwhelmingly redditors, zoomers, and worst of all zoomer redditors all of whom are absolutely terrified of emulating, piracy, and anything other than buck broken bending the knee to major corporations. They’ll create petitions and beg posts for years but will nervously shuffle around and look at the floor if you tell them to just emulate.
“Oh I can’t bother with learning that I’m too busy” (spends 30+ hours a week doom scrolling on couch while Netflix/youtube drones in background)
“I just want something easy” (as if the virtual console roms they paid for because they were also too much of a scared baby duck back then weren’t easy, money stolen btw)
“Oh that’s illegal I won’t do illegal things” (speeds, jaywalks)
Behold your typical broke anon who will jump through every hoop imaginable to justify avoiding paying for something.
This niggs pays to rent roms LMFAO
You're still poor, sorry. Maybe get a job.
It's $19.99 a year. That is less than 30 minutes of work. Retroarch takes longer to setup, ergo costs more. Checkmate.
Not if you want to play any game not on it! Luckily for me I decide what I want to play because I’m not a cuck.
Enjoy playing the missing classics like Michael Jordan's Wind City and Wordtris, I guess.
i play almost exclusively romhacks. A subscription wouldn't help with that. i don't have any current consoles because i don't play video g#mes even every month. most of my evenings and weekends are spent away from home
It's not about the money.
Imagine being so gay to flex spending $20 on a social rejects' forum.
The problem is not the money. The problem is that they are sons of prostitutes, and I'm not giving my money to them.
It's ok not wanting to bother with Retroarch (it's easier than it may seem though)
Because modern Nintendo is all israelited up.
>a business should leave money on the table because... reasons
hmm