Victor Omega
Member
Nintendo's /SEGA's struggles in providing legacy service is thorned by the rise in retro handhelds, plagued by years of pirating and consumers split between accessibility and illegality.
Devil's advocate
Yes. Part of this is Nintendo's own weakness in their online infrastructure which in turns makes something like NSO Expansion pack a steep cost to consumer.
But a rise in casual consumers more likely to come across retro handhelds online and a hard core consumer with the knowledge of homebrew, emulation and ROMs distribution (which both i and this forum denounce and discouraged), any official service that aims to bring Nintendo's and SEGA's entire gaming collection of Retro titles to an online subscription platform will always seem lacking and or unreasonably price.
Even pirating alone could be the biggest cause in why we haven't seen a big service of Retro titles. In the west we here of sites getting shut down and people getting sued, but thats 1000x more abundant in China and Japan.
Question to you:
Based on the type of consumer you seem yourself, how much are you willing to pay for a service that allows you to play official retro titles from Nintendo and Sega?
Devil's advocate
Yes. Part of this is Nintendo's own weakness in their online infrastructure which in turns makes something like NSO Expansion pack a steep cost to consumer.
But a rise in casual consumers more likely to come across retro handhelds online and a hard core consumer with the knowledge of homebrew, emulation and ROMs distribution (which both i and this forum denounce and discouraged), any official service that aims to bring Nintendo's and SEGA's entire gaming collection of Retro titles to an online subscription platform will always seem lacking and or unreasonably price.
Even pirating alone could be the biggest cause in why we haven't seen a big service of Retro titles. In the west we here of sites getting shut down and people getting sued, but thats 1000x more abundant in China and Japan.
Question to you:
Based on the type of consumer you seem yourself, how much are you willing to pay for a service that allows you to play official retro titles from Nintendo and Sega?