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Re: Preview: Five Takeaways From My Time With Virtual Boy On Nintendo Switch Online

Don

@marandahir
I think back then Microsoft and even Sony had the right and better approach to how the digital downloads are treated. For Xbox, games you downloaded are tied to your account and can be downloaded to a second system you own under the same account and they carried over to the next gen system. Sony had almost similar approach although the PS3 downloads didn’t carry over to PS4 but I think carried over to Vita.

The Wii U upgrade was very anti consumer because on top of paying the upgrade fee (Wii U owners who never bought the same game on the Wii paid the same price as the people who paid on the original Wii and didn’t have to pay anything additional), all the downloads had to be transferred over to the Wii U to not get charged again the full price. I can’t help but feel this was a deliberate tactic and Nintendo could have followed Microsoft and Sony’s approach but chose not to.

I think in this regard it’s better that we got the subscription model, imagine having to transfer everything to Switch, pay another upgrade fee then again to the Switch 2 if they retained the virtual console model.

Re: Fatal Frame 2: Crimson Butterfly Remake Switch 2 Demo And Silent Hill f DLC Collab Announced

Don

@SillyG
After buying a physical copy of Maiden of Black Water and posted my comment here I just realized from reading online that the expensive physical copies are actually Asian imports and the West only received a digital release. The cover art is all in English and fooled me into thinking it was a US release. I’m glad the new remake is getting a physical release outside of Asia.

Re: Nintendo Renews Trademarks For 3DS And Wii U Games

Don

@Grumblevolcano
I ordered the expensive virtual boy replica but feel the games should be included with the accessory. Both the NES and Super NES classic edition sold for less at $60 with 30 games and $80 with 21 games. I miss the era of mini consoles.

Re: Sega Gives Japanese Employees "Peace Of Mind" With Another Salary Raise

Don

@sportymariosonicmixx
Given the choice I take the long hours for job security. Maybe it’s just the grass looks a lot prettier on the other side but when I hear about other countries with much better job security, universal healthcare and college, employment benefits such as longer paid leave and vacation, and much better retirement benefits, it seems the middle class lives better in most other developed countries (At least not having to worry about medical bills or out of control tuition costs). I know the taxes are high in many of these countries with “socialism” but I live in New Jersey and the taxes here are very high. After seeing the middle class being continually worse off, I question whether “socialism” is just a word used by politicians to scare the general public in order to allow the wealthy to deny benefits for services that don’t favor them.