Topic: NSO Games license/ownership, should it be considered as ownership?

@Dogorilla
Yeah i feel like while digital has its flaws it definitely feels safer than purely service based.

looking at some of the comments in the articles regarding the super soccer removal it does feel like there's a lot of misconceptions on why its a problem (things like bringing up PS+/gamepass, saying the game is no big loss or saying digital has the same problems)

As confusing as it was initially presented i do feel like the whole virtual game card thing should hopefully make the idea of digital licencing and offline-play more transparent.

but yeah regarding OPs question while i personally wouldnt consider them part of my collection due to how subscription works vs digital, its up to you overall and whether it feels like they are part of your collection..

@Mgalens on the super soccer removal and the comparison to game pass, i agree that it's a misconception. game pass is a service to essentially allow you to long demo a bunch of modern games. NSO is replacing virtual console, something you really owned, with a subscription model. treating it like game pass where games come and go would be disastrous.

i've come to the conclusion that i'll mark the NSO games as have until they're either taken off or i stop paying for the service. i agree that i don't own them, but i do "have" them, so i'll mark them as such as consider it pseudo ownership. like how you "own" a rental for the weekend

@snichelsticks Physical taking up less space only really applies to Switch games these days. Xbox Series and PS5 use the disc to install to the SSD (the disc transfer speeds are not fast enough to play from the disc anymore) and is really only used as a licence key once the game is installed. It'll be interesting how this is handled with Switch 2 - I guess you'll still be able to play from the cart on most games, but I can see the number of games requiring a download increasing as publishers cheap out on the cart sizes.

@dmcc0 that sounds dreadful. i hope the current system of straight from cart play continues

I don’t consider NSO games as ownership since you are only really renting to play them until your sub runs out or until you cancel your sub. If they did allow purchasing the games, I would consider it owning.

On the site, though, I do add some games I played on NSO to my game collection (that being a few SNES games, the SNES DKC trilogy and some of the N64 games), though only really to show what games I played. Some of the games in my collection I do still own, but some of them I don’t have anymore, but again, the game collection on my profile is mainly used to show the games I have played in the past, including ones I played via a subscription and don’t own. I mark those under “owned,” since I played them in the past but either don’t have them anymore or no longer have access to it.

@snichelsticks To be honest, it's not really even a current gen thing - it's been like that since the PS3/X360 era, although I think the Wii/Wii U still played directly from the disc without an install, mostly due to the fact it had hardly any internal storage.

@dmcc0 well I'm glad i play Nintendo

After my SNES app got updated with the 4 games I scrolled down and saw Super Tennis still there (As of 4/1). However, I didn’t click on the game because I didn’t want to to disappear since it’s supposed to be removed by now.