Nintendo brings this on themselves. The only reason these homebrew hacks become popular is because they provide something that the OEM refuses to support. If Nintendo made every NES, SNES, and Game Cube game available on the Switch Virtual Console, there would be very little reason to use unstable, pirated software.
The Virtual Console is going to make or break this product for me. If they're going to produce a device that is both a home entertainment system and a portable game console, they better make all of their back catalog available on the one device. I won't be purchasing until NES, SNES, N64 and GameCube games are announced. I know that there's no way to get this to Nintendo, but they're most valuable asset is their back catalog, it's insanity that I can't get the entire catalog on one of their products.
@luke88 I completely agree. It takes a certain type of Hubris to say to a developer, this is the direction we're going to go and if you don't like it then don't develop for our platform. What's even better is that they had the Hubris to change that direction on the very next console they released, the GameCube when they went with mini DVDs.
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Maybe we'll finally be able to play NES and SNES games on it now....
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Nintendo brings this on themselves. The only reason these homebrew hacks become popular is because they provide something that the OEM refuses to support. If Nintendo made every NES, SNES, and Game Cube game available on the Switch Virtual Console, there would be very little reason to use unstable, pirated software.
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The Virtual Console is going to make or break this product for me. If they're going to produce a device that is both a home entertainment system and a portable game console, they better make all of their back catalog available on the one device. I won't be purchasing until NES, SNES, N64 and GameCube games are announced. I know that there's no way to get this to Nintendo, but they're most valuable asset is their back catalog, it's insanity that I can't get the entire catalog on one of their products.
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@luke88 I completely agree. It takes a certain type of Hubris to say to a developer, this is the direction we're going to go and if you don't like it then don't develop for our platform. What's even better is that they had the Hubris to change that direction on the very next console they released, the GameCube when they went with mini DVDs.