Comment by well_ackshually
8 hours ago
>What's everyone's take on the gamers cheering against the Nintendo?
Nintendo is a scourge on the gaming industry. Gary Bowser is going to spend the rest of his life paying them, they illegally send DMCA takedowns on emulators, threaten developers by sending goons directly to their homes, takes away your ownership of games with their game code carts, tries to control and destroy the second hand market. Nintendo can burn.
>Who's going to create this generation's own franchises like Nintendo did?
Nintendo created zero franchises in this generation. Splatoon, maybe ? They're already creatively dry.
> What will be their incentives to invest time and effort in any new IP?
Piracy and emulation have been present for the past twenty years. Does it look like no new IPs came out in those twenty years ? Hell, for the recent recomp projects, it has been people _begging_ to be able to play games on another platform, they would have paid for it. Bloodborne has gotten a decomp that people have been screaming for for years.
Companies that believe they can get you stuck on their platforms are going to crash and burn, and we'll all be better off for it.
(Also intellectual property as a whole is a farce and has made the world worse)
> takes away your ownership of games with their game code carts, tries to control and destroy the second hand market.
That's wrong. The game key-cards are just a proof of ownership. You can sell the key-cards or buy used ones without any problem.
The only difference between a key-card and regular game cartridge is that key-cards will require you to download the game.
Nintendo is much better than their competition (Sony) in this aspect
The Nintendo Store goes down in ten years, and you're shit out of luck.
People on this thread are talking about playing Super Mario 64 because they own their game. Nintendo has been ensuring you will not pass down your games to your children.
No first-party game is a Game Key Card and without them, the rest of them would just be digital without a store-release. No store has yet shut down, you can still download bought games from the Wii Shop from 20 years ago. And GKC aren't tied to the eShop infrastructure. Nintendo did the least damaging thing while still giving gamers the option.
The entire video game industry does this now, and Nintendo didn't start it, in fact they're one of the last hold-outs
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Nintendo remains a treasured memory of many 90s childhoods. They took great risks to innovate both on hardware and software side for ~2 decades, I'm not defending what they did since.
I'm also not arguing for intellectual property or copyright enforcement. I'm asking what comes next, I'm genuinely curious here.