Nintendo, Please Stop Drip-Feeding Virtual Console Games


Jim Sterling made a great video about this, and it's time to share my perspective as well.

It's not news that Nintendo likes to trickle out Virtual Console games over the entirety of a console's lifespan. It's really annoying.

Why do they do this? One reason might be is that they want people to buy them and if only a few are available at a time, people are more likely to buy a game. I understand this logic, but it's hell to the gamer. In fact, I stopped buying games on Virtual Console and started buying actual cartridges for actual systems. So Nintendo, you lost a customer on the Virtual Console front.

Instead, release them all at once. It will be a major selling-point of the console in question. In this case, it will be Nintendo Switch. Imagine if all thirty of the games in the NES Classic Edition were available when Virtual Console launched for NS. Of course, we would have to pay for them separately, but having that many available would be awesome.

Personally, I wouldn't be interested in a Netflix-like subscription-service, but others would be. If the paid service included access to every first-party Nintendo-game ever made right off the bat, people would be more likely to sign up.

Why does Nintendo continue to trickle out Virtual Console games at a snail's pace? Does it really make them that much more money? It is impossible to say, because they have never done it any other way, so an argument cannot be made.

Please, Nintendo, try it Jim Sterling's way for once, and you will reap the benefits.

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