So when Nintendo servers shut down, that’s it.
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Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I am not in the market for a conope (my last one was the Sega Mega Drive which was abandoned after we got a Pentium 1 PC and dialup), but I “love” Nintendo’s pricing policy.
It’s almost as if they are taking the piss and want to what extent their fans are gluttons for punishment.
One possible complicating factor for those games? While they’re physical releases, they use Nintendo’s new Game-Key Card format, which attempts to split the difference between true physical copies of a game and download codes. Each cartridge includes a key for the game, but no actual game content—the game itself is downloaded to your system at first launch. But despite holding no game content, the key card must be inserted each time you launch the game, just like any other physical cartridge.
This is full on corporate regressiveness.
Nintendo will also use some Switch 2 Edition upgrades as a carrot to entice people to the more expensive $50-per-year tier of the Nintendo Switch Online service. The company has already announced that the upgrade packs for Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom will be offered for free to Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion Pack subscribers. The list of extra benefits for that service now includes additional emulated consoles (Game Boy, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo 64, and now Gamecube) and paid DLC for both Animal Crossing: New Horizons and Mario Kart 8.
Wait so you have to subscribe to get access to emulators (which are all open source Inak assuming)?
Sixtyforce@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Kelly@programming.dev 1 day ago
Their emulators have always been proprietary. The waters were a little muddied by the NES/SNES Classic consoles using a Linux OS but the emulators were their own code.
Their FOSS code is made available when required and is published here:
Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I see. I am surprised they didn’t simply take existing open source code and go with that.
PrinzKasper@feddit.org 1 day ago
They likely want to avoid legitimising those existing emulators.
Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Oh wow, that cartridge thing is actually just the worst of both worlds. I’m similar to you, my last console was a Mega Drive but I did get a Switch for my wife and played a couple of games on it which was fun. Not really keen on giving Nintendo more money though.
whodrankarnoldpalmer@startrek.website 1 day ago
So does this kill used game sales?
XiberKernel@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I think it kills game leaks before the street date. Even if the data isn’t in the carriage (which is stupid), you would still be able to sell the cartage assuming the online service is still active.
Sucks for game preservation though. I’m personally hoping there’s some flaw in the gen 1 hardware that can be exploited for archive purchases.
Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I am assuming you can re-sell the “Game Key”.
wuzzlewoggle@feddit.org 1 day ago
The key card thing is seriously infuriating, both from a consumer standpoint and from an archivists standpoint.
Basically you own a game cartridge, but as soon as Nintendo shuts down their servers for whatever reason it becomes a useless piece of plastic. They really don’t want us to own anything anymore.