Because from those generations onwards games kinda stopped being largely shit and became something you can sell singularly for a profit instead of having to go "Look! 60000 games you wouldn't want to play anyway, for this low price!"
Nintendo fully knows that they can probably keep making Virtual Console releases until the end of time and they'll always be worth buying, no need to wholesale them like generations before them (whose games are now shovelware-level for a modern gamer).
Disney Vault effect, they are saving the ports for when 1000 gorillion tons of metric shit finally hits the fan… or when they shut down the servers for pokemon bank and you can no longer transfer from previous gens…
I don't think we'll get old games re-released again unless Pokemon makes their own retro service. Mainline games with Home support are too valuable to offer for free on a Nintendo service but selling them individually as ports would be received with some backlash since NSO exists.
>Disney Vault effect
this they are just waiting to re-release them since they know people will pay $60 for a port
I don't think we'll get old games re-released again unless Pokemon makes their own retro service. Mainline games with Home support are too valuable to offer for free on a Nintendo service but selling them individually as ports would be received with some backlash since NSO exists.
>there is no VC equivalent on Switch >Nintendo tied old emulators to NSO >they do not share NSO revenue >they do not upload any IP they don't own the rights to >Game Freak will not release their older games without getting paid >they will also not re-release the oldest games due to EU laws mandating any and all forms of gambling in video games is an automatic 18's rating
If you owned a Switch, you'd understand all of this, including the fact they don't hate free money.
>HGSS used to have a minigame with Smeargle >turned it into shitty ass 50% luck based Voltrob game because it’s Haram
There’s some truth in that, frick Europe
No, they didn't. If you want to sell your shit in the EU, you need to adhere to EU regs. This includes retroactively rating your games higher, due to a change in laws ( VC releases had to be sold at 12's. There is no way they sell Pokémon with an 18's rating. Ever).
>flagrantly ignoring the point
But they won't as they won't release ANY pokémon media with an 18's/AO rating. They did re-release kanto for people. It's called LGPE. If that's not good enough for you, tough shit. Emulators are everywhere.
>>they do not share NSO revenue
Speculation. At the very least they must pay for them in some form since there's plenty of games made by third party developers. >>they do not upload any IP they don't own the rights to
There's tons of games they don't own the rights to on Switch Online, there's even an entire Sega Genesis collection that includes Mega Man and Castlevania. And they've already put up five Pokémon spin-off games despite owning just as much of Puzzle League as they do of the mainline games.
The original games on GB/GBC/GBA depict and simulate gambling. I think they don't know how to go about releasing them in this format.
Game Boy Switch Online is already rated 12. That already covers
No, they didn't. If you want to sell your shit in the EU, you need to adhere to EU regs. This includes retroactively rating your games higher, due to a change in laws ( VC releases had to be sold at 12's. There is no way they sell Pokémon with an 18's rating. Ever).
>Speculation. At the very least they must pay for them in some form
Mo, they don't. Everything up on it is shit Nintendo own in some fashion, right down to the pokémon games, made before TPC was a thing and published by Nintendo directly.
They don't share revenue, that's why there's such a limited selection (where's totally rad and power blade? Because i had them for NES, but they're not Nintendo's)
>afraid of save state abuse >unlike 3DS, this feature is mandatory in the online subscription >too lazy to work around it or make completely separate app
Here’s your answer
iirc some old movies on certain platforms have disclaimers regarding their plot, ex: racism, sexism, violence, etc and that they have left the movie untouched to preserve the writers's intentions but that such actions should never be condoned or whatever. I'm sure Nintendo could hang a disclaimer before booting the Pokemon games regarding gambling IF they are required to do so.
I wish we had Gen 1 and 2 releases with both NSO Stadiums and HOME compatibility but it's just a distant dream of mine. Gen 3 however feels like a better possibility (with HOME support) because they could release it on their NSO Expansion Pack or a standalone; they could even offer Latii, Deoxys and Mew events enabled as a preorder
>I'm sure Nintendo could hang a disclaimer before booting the Pokemon games regarding gambling IF they are required to do so.
They can't. The EU don't frick around. They've been killing gambling references in kid's games for years (it was due to EU laws that Voltorb flip got added to HGSS) and now they've bumped the age rating up to adults, Game Freak aren't going to put that number on the front of any their games. Even if it's just genwun (ESPECIALLY if it's genwun even. The original kiddyshit game that spawned a behemoth empire off the back of selling directly to kids) that's why they made LGPE, a re-rehash of Special Pikachu Edition, but without any troublesome dialogue or features.
Cool. How will that allow Game Freak to re-sell old games as if it's the 90's and video game rating boards don't exist?
Oh yeah, it won't and you're still SOL.
It honestly astounds me that it isn't a norm in this day and age for there to be some centralized platform for virtual console shit of literally all out of print games that follows you on every device. I know damn well that it out to be capable in 2023 for such a thing. I honestly think it has more to do with laziness than it does with money.
they want you to buy their newer games, its not just about money, they want those sale numbers to go up too and if your buying emerald then your taking away numbers from the new thing. its all about the shareholders.
WHAT. FRICKING. SHAREHOLDERS?
Game Freak is owned by Tajiri, Masuda and Sugimori, as they founded it. Creatures is similarly privately owned, with stock options given to Nintendo, to shore up that arm of the franchise from a hostile takeover, TPC is owned evenly byu GF, Creatures and Nintendo and people buying into Nintendo's shares do so for Nintendo's stock market performance, not pokémon's (or else Nintendo stock would have LONG since been A++ "Must buy Yesterday!", because Pokémon grew to be the highest-grossing multimedia IP ever in about 20 years and Ninty's name been on it since Day One). There's no shareholders with a vested interest in this shit, it's been far too profitable from the very start to need to crowdfund rubes to buy pieces of it to generate money.
Because from those generations onwards games kinda stopped being largely shit and became something you can sell singularly for a profit instead of having to go "Look! 60000 games you wouldn't want to play anyway, for this low price!"
Nintendo fully knows that they can probably keep making Virtual Console releases until the end of time and they'll always be worth buying, no need to wholesale them like generations before them (whose games are now shovelware-level for a modern gamer).
It'll come Pokemon Day
Disney Vault effect, they are saving the ports for when 1000 gorillion tons of metric shit finally hits the fan… or when they shut down the servers for pokemon bank and you can no longer transfer from previous gens…
>Disney Vault effect
this they are just waiting to re-release them since they know people will pay $60 for a port
Honestly would have rather a $60 port of Platinum than BDSP
But why wait? I’d pay for a $40 port of Emerald (with the event tickets and whatnot included) right now.
I don't think we'll get old games re-released again unless Pokemon makes their own retro service. Mainline games with Home support are too valuable to offer for free on a Nintendo service but selling them individually as ports would be received with some backlash since NSO exists.
its fricking frustrating
>there is no VC equivalent on Switch
>Nintendo tied old emulators to NSO
>they do not share NSO revenue
>they do not upload any IP they don't own the rights to
>Game Freak will not release their older games without getting paid
>they will also not re-release the oldest games due to EU laws mandating any and all forms of gambling in video games is an automatic 18's rating
If you owned a Switch, you'd understand all of this, including the fact they don't hate free money.
they were able to do the gambling on R/B/Y G/S/C in the 3ds era without any problem im starting to think that claim in a meme
>HGSS used to have a minigame with Smeargle
>turned it into shitty ass 50% luck based Voltrob game because it’s Haram
There’s some truth in that, frick Europe
No, they didn't. If you want to sell your shit in the EU, you need to adhere to EU regs. This includes retroactively rating your games higher, due to a change in laws ( VC releases had to be sold at 12's. There is no way they sell Pokémon with an 18's rating. Ever).
but they still released them so they can do it again
>flagrantly ignoring the point
But they won't as they won't release ANY pokémon media with an 18's/AO rating. They did re-release kanto for people. It's called LGPE. If that's not good enough for you, tough shit. Emulators are everywhere.
no not tough shit they need to preserve their games especially where they first started
yet they are cracking down on emulators which wo wouldn't be a problem in the first place if they preserved their fricking games
My brain turns into mush when I see the 18 symbol because I have three little ones. 25 can frick off though
>>they do not share NSO revenue
Speculation. At the very least they must pay for them in some form since there's plenty of games made by third party developers.
>>they do not upload any IP they don't own the rights to
There's tons of games they don't own the rights to on Switch Online, there's even an entire Sega Genesis collection that includes Mega Man and Castlevania. And they've already put up five Pokémon spin-off games despite owning just as much of Puzzle League as they do of the mainline games.
Game Boy Switch Online is already rated 12. That already covers
>Speculation. At the very least they must pay for them in some form
Mo, they don't. Everything up on it is shit Nintendo own in some fashion, right down to the pokémon games, made before TPC was a thing and published by Nintendo directly.
They don't share revenue, that's why there's such a limited selection (where's totally rad and power blade? Because i had them for NES, but they're not Nintendo's)
>afraid of save state abuse
>unlike 3DS, this feature is mandatory in the online subscription
>too lazy to work around it or make completely separate app
Here’s your answer
The original games on GB/GBC/GBA depict and simulate gambling. I think they don't know how to go about releasing them in this format.
they should romhack voltorb flip into them
iirc some old movies on certain platforms have disclaimers regarding their plot, ex: racism, sexism, violence, etc and that they have left the movie untouched to preserve the writers's intentions but that such actions should never be condoned or whatever. I'm sure Nintendo could hang a disclaimer before booting the Pokemon games regarding gambling IF they are required to do so.
I wish we had Gen 1 and 2 releases with both NSO Stadiums and HOME compatibility but it's just a distant dream of mine. Gen 3 however feels like a better possibility (with HOME support) because they could release it on their NSO Expansion Pack or a standalone; they could even offer Latii, Deoxys and Mew events enabled as a preorder
>I'm sure Nintendo could hang a disclaimer before booting the Pokemon games regarding gambling IF they are required to do so.
They can't. The EU don't frick around. They've been killing gambling references in kid's games for years (it was due to EU laws that Voltorb flip got added to HGSS) and now they've bumped the age rating up to adults, Game Freak aren't going to put that number on the front of any their games. Even if it's just genwun (ESPECIALLY if it's genwun even. The original kiddyshit game that spawned a behemoth empire off the back of selling directly to kids) that's why they made LGPE, a re-rehash of Special Pikachu Edition, but without any troublesome dialogue or features.
The EU can suck my dick
Cool. How will that allow Game Freak to re-sell old games as if it's the 90's and video game rating boards don't exist?
Oh yeah, it won't and you're still SOL.
How would an NSO version handle the dual release and trades?
I don't understand really
They can easily make more shekels again by offering the Virtual Console on the Switch
3DS Ambassadors get a one time chance to move all of their game data to the Switch for free since they paypigged when the 3DS was in beta test
It honestly astounds me that it isn't a norm in this day and age for there to be some centralized platform for virtual console shit of literally all out of print games that follows you on every device. I know damn well that it out to be capable in 2023 for such a thing. I honestly think it has more to do with laziness than it does with money.
*ought to be
There is centralized game storage, just unofficial. For example: romsgames net.
they want you to buy their newer games, its not just about money, they want those sale numbers to go up too and if your buying emerald then your taking away numbers from the new thing. its all about the shareholders.
WHAT. FRICKING. SHAREHOLDERS?
Game Freak is owned by Tajiri, Masuda and Sugimori, as they founded it. Creatures is similarly privately owned, with stock options given to Nintendo, to shore up that arm of the franchise from a hostile takeover, TPC is owned evenly byu GF, Creatures and Nintendo and people buying into Nintendo's shares do so for Nintendo's stock market performance, not pokémon's (or else Nintendo stock would have LONG since been A++ "Must buy Yesterday!", because Pokémon grew to be the highest-grossing multimedia IP ever in about 20 years and Ninty's name been on it since Day One). There's no shareholders with a vested interest in this shit, it's been far too profitable from the very start to need to crowdfund rubes to buy pieces of it to generate money.
They'll announce it in February
I just own the original games and consoles
I don't need to buy what I already have.
>Walks into a restaurant
>"Why are you all trying to order food? I'm already full"
based moron