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Nintendo's claim that emulation 'stifles innovation' isn't just absurd—it's hypocritical
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I wonder how much money they'd make if they just put all of there old games on the eShop, like, I cannot think of a good resource my self to just not have access to most though official means, it's just loss sales, and it also hurts your customers
The crazy thing is they did that for a while with the Wii virtual console, and I think they also had a Wii U Virtual Console and a 3DS one as well. The problem is the titles never transferred over, so you had to keep buying them over and over (though this is still preferable to the current NES/SNES/GBC Virtual Consoles in the NSO subscription). One of the things I think Microsoft actually does well is their Backwards Compatibility. If you buy an old game on from an old console, it'll still carry over (though my understanding is this is only possible due to having a PC-like architecture across all their consoles, so it's easier to achieve)
Easier to achieve? I routinely play nes, GB, SNES, DS, as well as master system, Genesis, wonderswan, and even TurboGrafx games on my 3DS. It's plenty easy. It's just not what they want to do.