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PC is the only place where digital purchases are reliable, not only there are DRM free stores, but we won't have a PC 2, making the stores for PC 1 become obsolete and shut down someday.

What we have to hope is that from now on, consoles are standardized, backward compatibility goes forever, and that allows us to always download our games.

@Crono1973 The digital future has issues, but overall, it's not a problem of digital distribution as a concept, it's a problem of bad services, Nintendo is the issue here, for delivering us such a terrible service.

Don't buy anything from Nintendo, I will keep buying digital games only on Steam and GOG too, and avoiding other stores unless there's no other option for the game I want.

@XenoShaun The people at Heritage don't know much about videogames, they pick games that aren't even rare to inflate prices, if only they used games like Earthbound, Panzer Dragoon Saga or Nintendo World Championships, but no, they pick games like Super Mario 64 or Sonic the Hedgehog that have millions of copies around.

@earthinheritor Even if the game was released yesterday, it's not theft.

If you make something, and I take it away from you without your consent, that's theft, you don't have it anymore, if you make something, and I make a copy of it without your consent, you may not like it, but you still have the original, nothing was stolen.

Copyright is about making it illegal to make a copy without consent of the creator, which is not considered theft by law, copyright is important to make sure artists and creators can live, eat and pay their bills, but they need a lot of reforms, and most importantly, reduce the duration.

@blindsquarel You can't just port the whole 3DS library to Switch, not only porting games is hard, but without the source code, which many companies lose, it's pretty much impossible unless it's emulation.

Even if Nintendo made a perfect 3DS emulator that runs all the 3DS games, the next step is legal issues, many games were removed from the store way before this.

Copyright laws need to be reformed, to make it fair use to pirate media that is not available through legal means, or even make the copyright expire.

If a game is only available through piracy, or has physical copies around but they cost a fortune, downloading the game for free should be legal, in cases where the company doesn't even exist anymore and it's hard to find who owns the copyright to them, making all their games public domain should hurt no one.

@gamering Nope, games deserve preservation, even bad ones.

Even games like Superman 64, E.T. and Barbie games cannot be lost forever with all copies destroyed, future generations need to learn from their mistakes.

@Screen I will probably never accept cloud gaming.

If something like this happens, no one was able to download the game files, meaning that putting the files on the internet is not a last resort, the game only exists on a server, and if the server closes, goodbye game, it will become lost media, like many of these movies and shows that all copies were destroyed.

@sanderev You don't get the legal rights, but you get the moral right.

Copyright laws need to be reformed to stop lost media, where things can only be accessible by pirating, or not even that, this is happening for decades with TV shows and movies, and now it's becoming even worse with videogames.

You are not enforcing your copyright, allowing people to get copies of your game = You lose the copyright and sharing your game on the internet for free becomes legal, that's how the law should be, in most of these cases, the companies would be defunct already.

Like I said, the problem is not digital media and digital distribution as a concept, the problem is Nintendo not caring.

Don't buy digital games from Nintendo until they make their digital purchases safe and future-proof, don't buy anything from Switch eShop until they make sure our games will be safe in the future.

And no, being able to re-download the games you bought is not the only issue, it's about not allowing new customers to enjoy games that they didn't buy in time.

@StarPoint For now, you can, you can still download your purchases.

But that still means that hundreds of games will be locked away from new customers, the only way to aquire them is from pirates.

And they can still close the download servers later.

@Dr_Corndog I know, and in many cases, porting the game natively to Switch is impossible, since the source code was lost.

Nintendo could at least make a 3DS emulator for Switch.

NintendoLife, you should make a list of all the games that will be missing, never got ports for other systems, and make a list of the best games missing, like Pushmo.

@Edwirichuu When they switched from Gen II to Gen III, the Game Boy/Game Boy Color games were incompatible with the Game Boy Advance games.

At first, this meant that you could not complete your Pokedex in the GBA games, only in later games that became possible.

Eventually, the original Gen I and Gen II games were released on 3DS, and allowed us to transfer Pokémon to the newer games, but the original cartridges still don't have that option to this day.

For the people who claim that physical media is way better, it's not perfect:

• It can be lost, broken or stolen.
• Even if you take care of it, it does not last forever, cartridges and discs will someday stop working.
• Recent discs and cartridges are not made to last, made with cheap plastic.
• Preserving the software is nothing without the hardware to run it, many classic consoles and computers are breaking down and can't be fixed.
• It takes space, not everyone can have shelves full of games.
• Nowadays, physical media is just a fancy digital purchase, you still need to make a download to play the good or complete version of the game, play online, or just play at all, many games require a download even if you buy physical.

Neither physical or digital media is good for videogame preservation, the only option is piracy.

Is the connection between older Pokémon games finally going to get cut?

You can still catch a Pokémon in a GBA game, and transfer all the way to the Switch, but I am starting to think this connection will finally die since back then, you could make the transfer without internet and a service.

Imagine if they never listened to the fans, went "Haters gonna hate" on the people who disliked the original Sonic design that was ugly like a hellspawn, insulted their own customers and kept Sonic like that in the final product.

The movie would probably fail, and no sequel, no TV series, Hollywood needs to stop going the "The complainer is always wrong" route.

Remember that at least for now, you can still download your games, and even when the stores shut down, you can still play the games you downloaded since they have no DRM, you just can't download them again.

Nintendo is still a terrible company for allowing this so soon.

@UltimateOtaku91 We need security, laws that allow us to keep our games even if the service closes, and companies need to work to make sure their stores will remain online.

All that Nintendo had to do, is make sure 3DS and Wii U games could run on Switch, at least the digital copies.

@shinesprites It's Nintendo we are talking about, it's different.

Not only fans are much more submissive, but even if the complaints were double the size, it probably wouldn't work.

@ActionNineNews Physical media is dying, because in many cases, your physical media is just a fancy digital purchase.

Since many games require downloads to get DLC, updates and patches, you can't have the good version of the game without internet, if the servers close, you will have the bad or incomplete version of the game, especially thanks to so many games that come broken and unplayable at launch and are fixed later with patches, and even worse, many games require a download to be playable even if you buy physical.

Now comes the people saying how digital downloads suck and we shouldn't trust them, physical media is safer.

But in reality, Nintendo is the one to blame for offering us such a terrible service, with no option to download our games on Switch.

I still buy games on Steam because the service is way more trustworthy, and there's not going to be a PC 2 that will require the store for PC 1 to be closed, but I refuse to buy more Nintendo games on digital downloads unless from now on, Nintendo makes a centralized service where all purchases will be available on future Switch models.

Can't wait for the toys to make spoilers for the story.

Fun fact, Zorro is now a public domain character in many countries, meaning that he is just like Pinocchio, Dracula, Snow White and Sherlock Holmes, anyone can use him any way they want.

Although since this game is based on a cartoon, they still need permission to use content from that specific cartoon.

Again, people are still complaining that they ripped off Smash Bros.? It's called a genre, you can't own a genre, it's just like all those FPS games, all of them took from Wolfenstein 3D and Doom.

Imagine if id Software patented FPS games after releasing Doom in 1993? We wouldn't have Duke Nukem 3D, GoldenEye, Half-Life, Unreal, Halo, Call of Duty, Battlefield, Bioshock...

Imagine if Chuck Berry patented Rock and Roll? We wouldn't have Elvis, The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith, AC/DC, Queen, Deep Purple...

The problem is that this one just looks bad, the Nickelodeon game wasn't very good since it was made on a budget, but they tried.

After this game sold so much, they could easily have given us this as free DLC, they could change gaming by making a bunch of free DLC supported entirely by the sales of the base game by $60, it keeps showing up on Top 10s but they still charge more.

But yeah, paid DLC is still better than no DLC, and the illusion that you're getting a better deal with microtransactions that in theory you can unlock the content for free by grinding for 500 hours.

Also, Mario Kart 8 is the best in the series, no need for Mario Kart 9.

@victordamazio Also, even if Nintendo decides to change their minds and add their soundtracks to YouTube and Spotify, expect a poor service, many games missing, many tracks missing, and having those unused tracks that people find buried in the code and are added in the soundtracks provided by fans, will be a pipe dream.

Legally, Nintendo did nothing wrong, they own the copyright to their games and their soundtracks, they have the right to do this, you can't just grab the work someone else made and put on the internet for free.

Morally, Nintendo is not in a position to complain when they don't do much to make sure people can listen to videogame soundtracks on services like Spotify and YouTube, most of their games never got an official soundtrack, and when they did, it's those old CDs that people don't care anymore.

People keep talking about how emulation and piracy is bad, we need to support developers, but you want people to do what if the arcade never got a faithful home port? Buy those arcade machines that cost a fortune and find room in their homes to place them? Some arcade machines were made in very limited quantity and there's like 1000 or 100 units of them around.

Legally, pirating them is still wrong, but copyright laws need to be reworked to allow distribution or even copyright expiration of works that common people can't just buy, and the copyright holder is not putting any effort in bringing it back.

@the_beaver Depending on the game, it is, but I was referring to third-party games.

A new character for Smash is more important than those factory-produced Ubisoft games.

Without a Smash reveal, this won't be the same thing.

This will get a lot of views, but without a potential new Smash Bros. Fighter being revealed, it won't have the same hype, a new character for Smash generates even more hype than the reveal of new AAA games.

NFTs in videogames are only going to work when games that use them, have people who play them for love, because they actually like the game, and buy those NFT items because they want the items for themselves, not in hopes of reselling them for a bigger fool.

And if we don't get the promises like being able to use the NFTs in another game, NFTs in videogames are for the most part, just a solution to a problem that does not exist.

2nd, 3rd and 4th generation: Arcades that cheat, games you can't beat without a guide

5th and 6th generation: Expansion Packs

7th generation: DLC, Season Passes

8th generation: Microtransactions, Loot Boxes, Battle Passes

9th generation: NFTs

@SaturnHero They are using the same artstyle from the 1987 series.

@fishbujin Never realized this, maybe I thought it was random.

@MarinaKat Yes, those people act like Nintendo never copied an idea, ever.

Many of Nintendo's innovative ideas that everyone copied, weren't even original in the first place, Nintendo just made them successful and made the template that everyone uses after them, there are instances where Nintendo did copy an idea that was already successful like when amiibos copied Skylanders.

@SpaceboyScreams Even getting the basic concepts and just swapping the Nintendo and third-party characters with your own characters, is still legal and should be morally acceptable, because you can't own those basic concepts.

This game done very little to create innovations to the genre, but they added a few, I don't remember a game where a projectile instead of pushing your target away from you, brings them closer to you, like Helga's slingshot does.

People are still complaining that games like Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl and MultiVersus are clones of Super Smash Bros.? It's called a genre, you can't own a genre, it's just like all those FPS games, all of them took from Wolfenstein 3D and Doom.

Imagine if id Software patented FPS games after releasing Doom in 1993? We wouldn't have Duke Nukem 3D, GoldenEye, Half-Life, Unreal, Halo, Call of Duty, Battlefield, Bioshock...

Imagine if Chuck Berry patented Rock and Roll? We wouldn't have Elvis, The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, Aerosmith, AC/DC, Queen, Deep Purple...

@SwitchForce And my point stands, copyright infringement is illegal, Nintendo owns the copyright to their games, but copyright infringement is not theft.

@SwitchForce https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/principles-of-cybercrime/criminal-copyright-infringement/A4D0944E489FFE46A0103CE55593A4C2

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copyright_infringement#%22Theft%22

In copyright law, infringement does not refer to theft of physical objects that take away the owner's possession, but an instance where a person exercises one of the exclusive rights of the copyright holder without authorization.

"interference with copyright does not easily equate with theft, conversion, or fraud. The Copyright Act even employs a separate term of art to define one who misappropriates a copyright: '[...] an infringer of the copyright.'"

Legally, Nintendo did nothing wrong, they own the copyright to their games, and that includes the soundtrack, you can't just upload other people's work on the internet, even if you are not getting money from this.

Morally, Nintendo is not in a position to complain when the soundtrack to their games is not on services like Spotify, sometimes their games get soundtrack CDs, but people don't care about those anymore, and those CDs often don't have the whole soundtrack, plus, these YouTubers are giving free advertisement to Nintendo's games so they could just ignore as long as they don't start sharing the actual games instead of just the soundtrack.

@Dirty0814 Copying is not theft, if you make something, and I take it away from you without your consent, you don't have it anymore, that's theft, but if you make something, and I make a copy of it, you still have the original, nothing was stolen.

Copyright is a protection to make it illegal to make and share copies, but copyright infringement is still not theft.

Copyright laws are important to reward the artist, but they need to be changed, have more fair use, less restrictions, and a shorter duration to make it 100% legal to copy and share music, books, movies and games made decades ago.

Even if Nintendo decided to upload their own soundtracks on YouTube and Spotify, we would probably get low quality sound, incomplete soundtracks, and having those unused tracks that fans find by ripping would be a dream.

It's so easy to be happy when your favorite company buys another big company, it's so easy to shrug everyone complaining about this as jealous fanboys that should cope.

Until you are living in a cyberpunk dystopia where corporations have more power than the government, compete against each other with bullets, and are screwing us more than they are already.

Remember that currently, the movie and TV industry is already controlled by 5 companies: Disney, Warner, Universal, Viacom and Sony.

Since none of these 5 companies are really competitors, constantly borrowing their characters for cameos, this leads to the movie industry being so out of creativity, constantly making sequels, remakes, reboots and adaptations of popular franchises, almost never bothering to make a movie that is completely original, not based on anything, or creating a movie based on something few people know.

Even if Nintendo decides to put their music on streaming services, expect an incomplete collection, low quality, and not having the unused tracks that are found thanks to rips.

While we can't just accept the horrible graphics, worse than PS2 and Dreamcast games, at least the game is good where it's most important: Gameplay.

And it's also innovative, unlike the mainline series that is being criticized for being always the same thing.

@Cyrox The worst screenshot from Pokémon Arceus should be better than any screenshot from Shemnue 2.

@Troll_Decimator

And I told you already, being on a portable is not an excuse, the Nintendo Switch is still more powerful than a Dreamcast or PS2, it's also more powerful than a PS3 or Xbox 360.

Edit. I won't accept the excuse of cherrypicking, the worst screenshot of Pokémon Arceus should be better than any screenshot of Shenmue 2.