They don't even "lose money" in either scenario. They just don't make new money.
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Businesses consider those the same thing unfortunately :/
I'd argue they consider not making new money worse, losing money means tax write offs.
The argument is the suppression of titles is to control the brand. Its indirect nonsense.
They don’t even lose money, they just don’t earn any.
Nintendo is the Disney of video games.
They want to take their content and squirrel it away in their vault, so for like 10 minutes you can buy the emulated recreation of some obscure title on some future platform where it's digitally tied to the device and the online Nintendo store you bought it from, so when the console inevitably breaks or the store is shut down, you lose access.
All of this for a premium cost for a decades old game of dubious quality that only has value because of your nostalgia.
So stop emulating games so Nintendo can decide when they will gift you with the privilege of paying far too much for a game they didn't make, which has a life expectancy, which will expire when they want it to.
Also piracy is bad! So stop it.
This is why pirating games that aren't available to be bought anymore is never wrong
big imo: pirating AAA games at all is never wrong
Yeah, say I want an old need for speed game, either buy a disk for a high price that I can't put in my disk drive-less PC or pirate it...
Hmm I wonder which one I will choose
Agreed. Really though, the ultimate goal should be to enact legal protections for older video games, same as any other historically significant cultural artefacts.
You’re supposed to wait until they re-release it on a new console with the same graphics for $70, then pay for it then, dummy.
Todd Howard, is that you?
Pirating as an alternative to paying as often as one can, even when the product is on offer by Nintendo or whoever, is usually very easy. It's the least we can all do in terms of class struggle.
That's why Steam's business mindset is to get you the game as easily as possible. If it's easier to buy than to not most people will buy it.
Copyright in Japan seems to be even more of a nightmare as it already is in the west.
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The real pain is that several sources seem to say that the Thousand Year Door is arguably the best Paper Mario. I missed out on it when it came out, so the only choice I have if I want to play it is to Monkey D. Luffy it. Which to be honest, I'll probably do.
For a company who brags about not going to have issue even if they're not making even a penny for years to come, they sure trying their best to get every penny they can.
I'm almost convinced Nintendo wants to erase the legacy of PM:TYD. Like it's definitely the game that took the most chances with the Mario universe, and in the Japanese version especially, it pushed the limits of what was acceptable in media at the time, and would probably be a difficult game to navigate rereleasing in today's climate. Probably the same reasons we likely won't see an official Mother 3 localization either.
Can you educate me on what the differences were with the Japanese version that made it push the limits?
Aside from the dialogue being darker than the US localization, Vivi is trans in the Japanese PMTYD. I go into detail on what roadblocks nintendo faces rereleasing it and Mother 3 in a reply to @testfactor
No company sits atop a horde of wasted potential free money quite like Nintendo
Nintendo can get fucked
Big Ninten doesn't want you to play Paper Mario TTYD. You should be playing Origami King, it's new and exciting while TTYD is old and obsolete. They are both Paper Mario, they are basically the same game anyway but only until we want to suggest it's a brand new upgrade to the previous game
There’s a flip side to this that I’ve found; until recently I have never had any desire to buy a Switch, ‘There’s Mario Kart and that’s all’ is what I thought. Then I obtained a few Switch games to play on an emulator and ooh boy is the temptation real now. I’ve been playing Zelda (the newest one and my first Zelda game), Luigi’s Mansion and of course Mario Kart. Piracy has me sweating every time I see a Switch on sale.
It really is a great intro to how good the switch is. Even though I have a switch lite and it's been good. Emulating the games I have on the steam deck with its slightly bigger screen has made me yearn for an OLED switch. Just imagining how much better Zelda and some other titles will look on it. It's tempting and I wouldn't have gotten there had I not been emulating
The games aren't being sold anymore and so it's not affecting Nintendo. Hence what's the point?
I only bought a switch because my hip was broken and so was my gaming PC. I wanted something to do while I was laid up on the couch.
I have already had my pro controller die on me forcing me to use just the switch controllers it came with. That’s really annoying. I’m paying way over market price already for a proprietary game device since I thought Nintendo has really good quality. The quality in my experience doesn’t justify the price of the controller.
I don’t feel bad at all if they lose a little bit of money as a result of any of their crappy businesses decisions. You can argue the games are great and they are but it doesn’t justify how the company behaves and if I could go back I wouldn’t have given them any money at all.
You could say...
NintenDON'T wanna see you playing old stuff
More like "You'll spend your money when we tell you to"