Nintendo Switch’s Virtual Console Plans Revealed in Leak (www.retronews.com)
from Kain1@lemmy.world to retrogaming@lemmy.world on 13 Jan 09:42
https://lemmy.world/post/24221170

Recent leaks have revealed that Nintendo originally planned to continue the Virtual Console model for the Nintendo Switch before ultimately canceling it due to high costs associated with emulator testing and other challenges.

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dinckelman@lemmy.world on 13 Jan 13:22 next collapse

Saving up all that money to pursue lawsuits instead

refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org on 13 Jan 13:53 next collapse

And yet they did it anyway, but called it something else and are charging an expensive subscription for it.

EarMaster@lemmy.world on 13 Jan 14:08 collapse

Expensive is a hard word for something that gets you a whole year compared to the price of two month everywhere else.

refurbishedrefurbisher@lemmy.sdf.org on 13 Jan 16:24 collapse

I’m comparing it to owning virtual console games on the Wii, Wii U, and 3DS.

AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip on 13 Jan 14:11 collapse

But of course the community somehow does it for free and much better…