>>55797212Personally, I think Nintendo is mainly afraid that their revenue becomes 0.
Take a moment: like you said, you can buy NES games on Steam. Want something better? You can get NES games for free, if you download the ROMs in specific sites. My brother managed to save all NES games, including those homebrew games that saw very limited market reception, or coming from 3rd party companies that wanted some gaming pie, but never truly dipped into it.
I think he found around 700 games? Those are a lot, and even more when you add Gameboy, Super Nintendo, Gameboy Color, Gameboy Advance, and Nintendo 64!
I assure you that many of the games that were revolutionary yesterday now fit in a decent size USB, including emulator.
While is true Nintendo tries to sell these games at full retail price, with their own device (remember the mini series), those games no longer (or actually, shouldn't) give Nintendo a decent revenue. They are good games, but they are from a past era. And they are still clinging on the IPs because they want to drain every possible penny, even if those pennies only show how lazy the company became.
I know Nintendo was a toy company first, and gaming second, but now the rules have changed. And even IP no longer will cover your expenses. Too big to fail, sure, but every giant has fallen before. Is just a question of "when".
